Connecticut western news., 1886-02-24
THE NEWS.
1EI.EGRAPuIC REPORTS OF WHAT Is TRANSPiRtNG OF IMPORTANCE IN THIS COUNTRY AND EISENYHERE.
GENERAL, ITEMS.

West Shore and Buffalo Railroad Company for s20. 900 for personal injuries. The plaln- tiff accepted $lO,000 as compromise.
 An engine and seven loaded coal cars were derailed and wrecked on the Lehigh and Hudson River Railroad. Head brakeman Terry was killed.
 Mrs. Coughsn, resident of Pana, Ill.,, was burned to death by her clothes taking fire while preparing dinner at her home in that place.
 All the Chinese at Nicholas Cal, forty four in number, were driven out by a masked mob.
 The annual report of the Commissioners of Immigration shows that 291 900 alien i'm migrants arrived in New York last year falling off of nearly 5o,OOO compared with 1884, and of 114, S43 compared with 1883.
 The National Agricultural and Dairy ESQ., ciation, in session in New York, denounced the manufacturers of oleomargarine and favored legislation to prevent its sale or i'm pose tax on it.
 A woman addicted to drink was caught in the act of attempting to murder her two chil- dren in Chicago.
 A sleeping woman ill Chicago has been aroused from nap lasting l92 hours without break.
 An organization has been formed in Nor ristown, Pa, to raise funds to erect & monu- ment to Gen. Hancock.
 A special from..Ssnta Fe. N. M., says;-. s'Eight sheep herders on tho ranch of Solo mon Luna, in Valencia county, New Mexico, near the Arizona line, had . fight with Apa- ches. during which all the herders wero killed The Luna brothrs, with two forces of mounted men, have gone to the scene of the fight"
 One of the students of the Indian school at Carlisle died of nasty consumption in Chi- cago while homeward bound.
 Mir. Cantor's bill requiring that street railroad franchises be sold to the highest bid der, passed in the New York Assembly by . very strong vote.
 The Boston Lancers were the lions of Charleston, 8. O., which they visited. Noth- ing in town was too good for them.
 The ice crop on the Hudson is an sbund- ant one.
 The prohibitionsts of Delaware are out as politicians regardless of party affiliations.
 A Chinaman was found in a Waterbury (Conn9 laundry suffering from leprosy.
 The Instructions of six buildings by fire at St. George, Ont, was accompanied by the loss of two lives and injuries to several persons by burning, leapins from windows or buried under falling wall.
 Eleven persons lost their lives near Bar negat on the Jersey coast during the gale. Of these eight were part of the crew of the Aus trian bark kraljevitks, Captain Swertjuga, from Msrseilles for New York, with u cargo of salt, which stranded on the beach The other three belonged to the crew of the Forked River Life Saving Station, who put off in their boat to the rescue of the bark. The story of tho loss of these sailors is unsurpassed in sadness in the annals of shipwreck.
 Tho Poles in Chicago have called a mass meeting 10 protest against the outrage on humanity contained in Bismarck'S expulsion of Poles from that DOT, ion of their native land within the German boundary hne.
 The Canadian government havo expended e40.0O0 in relieving distressed settlers and half-breeds in the Northwest Territory.
 It Is learned that D number Of the Alder men of New York city, for 1884. the year the Broadway franchise was given, have since that time been large purchasers of real estate.
 A terrible accident occurred on the Ohio Central road, near Point Pleasant, w. Va. One passenger coach jumped the track and ran into the kauawiIa river, and several pas sengers were drowned and one man, name l E kins, killed. Half dozen others were seri- ously hurt.
 A strike of great magnitude was begun in the Amoskeag Mills, in Manchester, N. H., which resulted in lockout of more than 5000 operatives and the stoppase of I'll, ,096 spindles aud 6, PIG looms. The trouble began when the weavers of No. 9 mill informed the company that they were dissatisfied with the advance promised, and sEould stop work un- less the pay was still further iEcro ased.
 Sarah Landfair, aged twelve yearr, was shot and seriously wounded at New Haven Conn, by the accidental discharge of Q gun In the hands of boy of thirteen.
 A druggist of Hays City, Kan. named Fellows, shot and killed his wife while insane from whiskey and morphine.
 Domingo Flores. on learning that Isidors Moncavia was the betrsyer of his sister, re- paired to the residence of the latter, near Laredo, Texas. called him to the door and shot him dead.
  in breaking up some shrewd games of lottery sharps in Chic ago.
 John Halforl and family, comprising seven persons, lost their way in s snow storm in Izard county, Ark When discovered they were almost frozen to death.
 Thomas Casey, driver of the stage from which the treasure box was stolen containing 8, TOO for the payment of the troops stationed at Fort Robinson, has been arrested for the crime.
 Canadian fishermen on the Gulf of St. Lawrence are ralding stores and seizing pro visions
 Ex-Governor Dewey, of Wisconsin, is hon of 1, h years.
 -Jo. n B. Cough was stricken with apoplexy while featuring at Frankford, Pa.
 A fire at Flagstaff, A. T., has laid the business portion of the town in ruins. One man perished in the flames. Loss $1O0,OOO
 Timothy Whelen, ag,d 23 years, struck his father on tine head with an axe at San Francisco, Cal, killing him ins' antly. He then stabbed himself, probably fatally.
 Two men, whi'e crossing the track at Cleveland, Ohio, iu & buggy, were struck by locomotive, and botiI were killed.
 The defalcation by the secretary of the American Ring Company at Waterbury, Ct, turns out to be much larger than at frst re ported
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