Connecticut western news., 1886-05-26
NEWS OFTHEDAY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

A V A -A -A c GENERAL ITEMS.
 The New Yo State Legislature adjourned on Thursday May 20th.
 Julia Colby, nineteen years old, was suffo- cated by gas in Baltimore, Md.
 Tho widow of Louis Riel is dying of 8 broken heart at St. Vital, Man.
 Tho Prohibition State Convention of Maine has been called for June 16 and 17.
 The Milwaukee Saengerfest in July will not be postponed on account of the recent labor troubles.
 Louis willett, the young murderer of Ed win Kelland, his employer, was hanged at Kingston, N. r., on Friday.
 -ssBiW' Pigeon, an outlaw shut a deputy marshal and three assistants who hoped to capture him in Indian Territory.
 William Johnson, aged seventy-one years was caught by revolving belt ill machine works at East Walpole, Mass, and killed.
 Col. John B. Folsom, grandfather of Miss rfankie Folsom, President Cleyeland's fiancee, died at his country seat in Folsomdale, Erie county, N. Y.
 An aged lady hanged herself in Water bury, Conn.,, because she was insane; an old man in Milford, Mass, because he was poor and dependent.
 Arthur Quartley, N. A., one of the most distinguished of American marine painters, died at his residence, on South Washington Square, New York
 A collision occurred on the Syracuse Di- vision of the Del, Lac. & w. R.. R., between two sections of circus train, and several per sons were severely in ured. An east bound passenger train on the Northern Pacific was derailed by an expansion of the rails near Fort Ellis; one man was killed and two others inj jured. Johann Most has formulated the platform of the anarchists, the features of which are:- No masters, no servants, no rulers, no Church, nA Sfotn and y,r1ni ishn ,arot fnr
 Mrs. Phillips George was waylaid by two neighbor women near her home at Kingstown, Pa, and beaten so severely that her death and that of her unborn babe are greatly feared. Four children were burned to death at their home near Akron, Ohio. The family were asleep at the time. Tho mother of the little ones was badly burned in saving an in- fant child.
 An explosion followed by fire occurred in Ia boratory in Hoboken, N. J., and three men before they could escape by windows, were badly burned. Two of them will probably die of their injuries.
 Ten negroes and two white men convicted at the recent session of court on various crimi- l nal charges were publicly punished at the whipping post and pillory in the jail yard at | New Castle, Delaware.
 The disaster at Wellsville, Ohio occa- | sioned by fire breaking out in a hall when an exhibition was going on, was serious. Of the | injured two died and dozen others, mostly women and children, arc seriously hurt. Two young lovers e.oped from Ireland be- | cause their parents would not consent to their | marriage, the girl being Protestant and her lover Catholic She was baptized at Castle | Garden and immediately married to the man | of her choice.
 | John Darby, a young burglar, who has robbed several cottages at Highlands, Nave | sink, Elberon, and Long Branch, and who | pleaded guilty to nine indictments, was sen | fenced to ten years hard labor In State prison | on each indictment.
 | President Cleveland will review the G. A. l R. parade in Brooklyn in the forenoon of | Decoration Day and will attend the exercises | at the Academy of Music in New York in the evening" where Postmaster-General Villas will | deliver the oration.
 | A dispatch announces the death at sea of Vice-Admiral Don Patricio Lynch, of the | Chilean Navy. He was on his way from | Spain, where he was Minister. .Plenipotentiary, to take the post of Minister to Peru. His body was landed at Teneriffe.
 A party of five young men went out for sail Sunday from Bath Beach, New Utrecht, | l.. l., in the cat rigged yacht Ada D.. Late in the afternoon the yacht was returning, and, | when within about 6 mile of the shore, be- came entangled in some fishermen's nets, cap sized and two were lost
 The present membership of Ohio Odd Eel | low lodges is reported as 48, 545. During the year $157. .614 was paid out for relief and $226,- | 814 for current expenses. Rebekah degree in creased in 1885 from {, 947 to 6,e57. There is a membership in the State of Pennsylvania of 80,82I. The number of working lodges is were paid for relief. The working expenses were $221, ,612.24, aud the excess oi receipts over all expenses was S103, 923.64. | A dispatch from Little Rock, Ark, says that the people of Coal Hill, Ark, are excited over ths discovery that 8 mine of the Quita | Is operated exclusively by convicts. Appeals have been made 10 the Governor to have the convicts removed and the work given to the licensed miners. It is feared that unless some decisive action shall be taken by him soon the miners will attempt to drive the convicts away by force and that bloodshed and loss of life will follow.
 A despatch from Fl Paso Tex, says tha, reports from the Sta.e of Sonora, Mexico gives truthful account of the terrible atro cities of Geronimo and his band of Apaches iI Sonora and southern Arizona. They asser that the Indians seem encouraged and art moro bloodthirsty than for several months and Mexicans and their families as well 6! Americans are indiscrimnately butcheret when found. Three surveyors who recent. went into the mountains have disappeared
 and no trace of them can be found. There i
 uo doubt they were butchered.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 Senator Blair introduced bill to restor to officers of the army and their widows ant minor children the rate of pensions they re
 ceived prlor to July 25, 1885, at which dat , certain classes of pensions Were reduced. Senator Manderson reported favorably tn
 bill which recently passed the House appro priating $780, % for the construction of ad ' dltonal quarters at the Soldiers homo a
 Hampton, Milwaukee and Loavenworth. , Senator Edmunds introduced in the Sen
 ate bill appropriating $25, 5,O00, to be paid t
 the proper authorities of the State of Ver
 mont in aid of the establishment and mainte
 nance of the proposed home for volunteer dis
 sbled soldiers iu that State.
 Congressman Nicholas Muller, chairma
 of the House Committee on Militia, has n
 doubt the House will pass the bill recently re
 ported by his committee to increase the ar
 nual appropriation to provide arms and equiv ments for the militia from $200, 900 to $400 00t
 A Washington dispatch says there is n
 prospect of any difficulty between this countr
 and England over the subject of Cauadia
 fisheries. The British authorities do not 1T
 tend to sustain the Canadian officials in thei seizures of the schoopers that visited Digb
 simply for the purpose of buying bait.
 At the meeting of the House Committe
 on Territories an informal agreement wa
 reached that the Senate bill providing for tn admission of Southern Dakota as & Stat
 should go upon the House calendar adverse , ly reported, and that the Springer bill provio
 ing an enabling act for the entire Territor
 should go upon the calendar as favorably It 1 ported.
 The United States steamer Nipsic, Con | 1or r ol