Connecticut western news., 1886-02-17
NEWS OF THE DAY
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negat on the Jersey coast during the gale. Of these eight were part of the crew of the Aus from Marseilles for New York, with a cargo of salt, which stranded on the beach. The other three belonged to the crew of the Forked River Life Saving Station, who put of in their boat to the rescus of the bark. The story of the loss of these sailors is unsurpassed in sadness in the annals of shipwreck.
 The Poles in Chicago have called . mass meeting to protest against tho outrage on humanity contained in Bismarck's expulsion of Poles from that portion of their native land within the German boundary hne.
 The Canadian government have expended $40, 900 in relieving distressed settlers and hah-breeds in the Northwest Territory.
 A blast of giant powder prenaturely e1- ploded at Webb City, Mo. killing two men.
 Charles Hermann, who killed his wife in Buffalo last November, made a bitter scaffold speech, accusing Christian Ziegler with being the cause of the crime.
 Minnie Shaefer was declared not guilty of perjury in Trenton, N. J., and Laverty, the keeper will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
 Gen. Hancock left no property. Ills friends arc raising fund for tho benefit of Mrs Hancock.
 Mrs. Albert E. Brockaway vas shot by her husband in their home at Troy, N. Y., and probably fatally wounded The set is attrib uted to insanity.
 In . night encounter between Sheriff Browns posse and mob, near Illinois Court House, l. T., one man was killed and several wounded Among the latter the Sheriff himself.
 James McDermott, aged twelve years, in she course of . snowballing quarrel at Hazel ton, Pa, struck Robert NcNair, aged fourteen, on the head, inhic ting fatal wound. Portland, Oregon, Is city of s5, 900 peo- pie, of whom 8, coo are Chinese. It is deter mined to drive the latter out Tho people say: i've don't want to commit any violence, but we do intend to have the Chiness leave Port land. The way we intend to remove the Chi nese is to remove their goods and chattels and themselves to the wharf, put them on board steamer sailing for San Francisco and say to them, God bless you. You are not wanted here. Depart in peaoe.'
 Two section hands, overtaken by an extra train on an Ohio railroad, were knocked from trestle and killed.
 By the stupidity and brutality of two St. Louis policemen ss fire ffty-eight horses were burned to death.
 A married man. perssting in his efforts to ruin young Arkansas girl, was filed with huckshos from her stepfather's gun
 The exhumation of the body of woman in Central New York revealed . murder in stead of . death by disease of the heart
 Two Scranton mon, on 6 visit to Carbon
 
 train they had travelled by. One was crushed between two coal cars; the other jumped in front of passing locomotive.
 The suit for the title to land in Hot Spring., Ark. has been decided in favor of the claimants.
 The bursting of boiler in Oshkosh, Wis, wrecked 6 mill, killed two men and seriously injured several persons
 A grocer's clerk in Troy died of blood poisoning from the effects of dogs bite.
 A man named Doran cut bis wife's throat in Boston and is repoetei to have caught her blood in . cup in order a drink it.
 A young girl at North Adams, Mass, pro- hibited from seeing be lover, shot herself. The wound was not serious, but resulted in the summoning of the young man and An i'm mediate marriage.
 The question of who died first in . case of double murder-the husband or the wife-in terferes with the settlement of an estate in Illinois.
 The county building in the city of Chicago is 90 wretchedly constructed that it is falling down piecemsal
 ice gorge at St. Louis was blown up by dyna- mite but not killed ; The steamer Cambsidge-Boston and Bangor ine-struc1 on Old Mans Ledge, near Monhegan, on the Maine coast, and will prove a total loss. Passengers and crew saved A report has reaciled Norfolk of the loss of a schooner supposed to be the Altbea God frey, with the captain, his wife, five daughters and the entire crew.
 Preparations are in progress by railroad corporations to grasp the lands in Indian Territory s soou as they are thrown open to settlers.
 Mrs. Slater, her babe (eight months old) and nurse girl were drowned in pond near their home at Nunnelly, Tenn.
 "A revenue officer named John l.. Coch- rane was ambushed by moonshiners and riddled with shot in Newton county, Ga.
 The President of Ecuador was attacked by conspirators at Guayaqal and one of his aids was killed.
 An exciting sceue occurred in the Ken lucky Legislature, one of the members defy L,g the Speaker and carrying his point.
 The ministers of Chicago arc about to take decided steps to overthrow socialistic ideas by means of Gospel truth
 Sam Jones, the eccentric revivalist, Is about to establish . series of meetings in Chi . cago.
 The fancy for building snow houses by the boys of Chicago received . sudden check by the burial and death of promising little boy in one such structure.
 Joseph Bork, ex-City Treasurer of Buf- falo, convicted of embedding e400. 1000, has teen pardoned by Gov Hin, of New ! ork.
 "A mob of North Caroinians crossed the - S1rg1nl8 State nn6 ana QunR mul6 bOl6I near Patrick Henry Court House.
 The Chinese riot at Seattle, Oregon. was { serious affair. The guards were compelled tc fine on the mob and four mon fell, one oi them being killed and three wounded. An. other man was fatally wounded, being shot through the head The regular troops were then called out and the disturbance quelled.
 Garrett, Texas murderer, though suffer ing from wounds, was taken from . jail by q lawless mob and hanged
 Horses examined by expert veternarians at Kearney, Neb are reported to have died while others are still suffering, from hydro phobia-
 "A poverty-stricke German tried to drowr bis child and himself in Chicago.
 The Law and Order League, of Cincin 2 na.i, Ohio, have succeeded In suppressing Sun day theatrical and variety performances il that city.
 A Hungarian laborer fell into one of the crushers of a coal breaker at the Hollenbacl mines near WIlkesbarre, Pa, and was in. stantly killed.
 George Martin, hermit, seventy-seve1 years of age, was found frozen to death in e hovel near Allentown, Pa.
 Mary Hoar, aged twenty-two years, and her sister Minnie, aged seventeen, were trutally assaulted by hired man at thei Eome in Northfield, Ohio, Minnie receiving in juries which will probably prove fatal
 A leading carriage manufacturer il Springfield, Ohio, was killed in an encounter with burglars
 President Cannon's various residence were raided at Salt Lake, and subpDnea served on his numerous wives. Apostle Snow conviction has been sustained on appeal alsl that of Brigham Young Hampton.
 Scott, the Canadian forger captured il Mexico, will not be returned through United States territory.
 The shooting of the young men name. Taylor, in Tennessee, under the belief tha they were burglars, Is now giving rise to fear that their murderers will be hanged withou trial
 Fifty men engaged in the fisheries hsv been lost from Gloucester since Christmas Pour vessels with crews of 28 men are nov