Connecticut western news., 1886-04-07
NEWS OFTHEDAY.
GENERAL ITEMS.

"A young Wn1te DOy WnO 19 Wltn rerOulHOs band says his nan1e is McKim.
 A boy while kitefying in New Haven was mangled by bloodhound.
 Destructive floods are repo ted from Ala bama, especially on the Warrior River.
 A negro and his wife. named Stevens. were shot to death near NatoEitoches, La. Geronimo and twenty of his bucks es- raped from the custody of Lieutenant Maus. "A young farm hand was blown to pieces by . giant powder cHtridge. near Candor, N. '. The New York Assembly passed the bill providing for opening the public museums on Sunday.
 proposed changes in tlfsifrur ance laws of that State.
 Jeff Wilson, col0red, was hanged at Lex isg,oD, Mo, for d'e murder of Jennie San John E. Sullivan, an ex,arofession.l base ball player, committed suicid6at Grand Rapids, Mich.
 An Italian in Mississippi who criminally assaulted little girl was taken out of jail and hanged.
 -Three members of an organized gang of burglars were captured in Boston after they had broken open safe.
 John H. McMahon. a popular attorney Of Kingston, Ont, has fled to the States-a de- faulter.
 The damage done by the late rains and freshets in Georgia is estimated al over two million dollars.
 Mrs Hurley and her daughter May, aged fifteen years. were burLed to death during . fire at Bronson, Mich.
 John A. Bailey. farmer of Owen Sound, Ont. and his hired man were brutAly mur- dered by parties unknown.
 The thu ough rate of fare from Chicago to San Francisco IS only Sl6 through the war be- tween the transcontinental lines.
 The estimates for municipal appropria- tons in Boston for the coming fiscal year have been cut down more than S4, ,OO0, 0eO The damage by the fire at Key West will reach g., ,0.0, 000, and so many are homeless and destitute that aid is requested for the sufferers.
 The largest brewery in Western Massa- chusetts was seized by United States officers on . charge of using beer stamps . second time.
 At Key West relief for the sufferers by the recent fire is coming in from all direction. Three hundred Cuban workmen left for their homes in Havana.
 An entire family were found poisoned by coal gas from stove in Erie, Pa. The parents are very low, but the three children are out of danger.
 Two negroes, named weakley Ridley and Tobe Williams, charged with murder, were taken from the jail at Alamo, Tenn, by . mob and hanged.
 The Browne house at flusnlng, L. l., erected in 1861 by John Browne. and near which George Fox preached in 1872, was sold at auction.
 Two miners named Parry and Moey were buried under fall of coal at Morgsntowp, Pa The former was instantly killed, the lat ter fatally injured.
 The bodies of Captain Riggan and one of his crew, lost on the wrecked schooner Anthea Godfrey, have been recovered near Lynhaven Bay and inferred there.
 A terrible explosion occurred in the Cue- bra section of the Isthmus. Fifteen thousand kilograms of powder exploded, killing ten men and seriously wounding forty.
 George W. Neal, one of the keepers Of the Newark, N. J., deg pound, is believed to be dying of hydrophobia. He WAS bitten twice by white spitz dog at the pound on January 19. The iron steamship Europa, of the Carr hne, from Hamburg, went ashore near Quogue, l.. l. Tn captain and crew were rescued. The captain fears the vessel will be total wreck
 -Despatches from BentonvilIe, Ark, re- port fight between . sherihs posse and party of horse thieves near that place, in which one of ths latter WAS killed and dep uty mortally wounded A cyclone swept across a portion of Bull lock county, Ala, and in the path struck ne gro church, in which . funeral was going on. The church was blown down and four persons were killed and ten badly injured.
 Reports of drowning in various portions Of the State of Alabama during the floods foot up 20 persons, all colo,ed but one. Four of these were woman ani three children iu cabin on the Cahaba River, it floating off with them-
 and Mira. Ella c. Ward, wife of Ferdinand Ward, filed exceptions to the judgment for over S1, 400, 900, entered on the report nf Hamilton C. Cole, the referee in the suit of George c. Holt. -Ia,N.w York city Ex-Adermen Pearson and Kifk were a:raign in General SessioIs eand I1Caded not guilty tu the charg' of briberJ. Ex-A dermsn Waite wa' accepted ss witness for the prosecution, and will escape the penalty attached to the offence. Both Pear son and Kirk were admit ed to bail in the sum of S25.O0O which they readily found. Kirk is worth S5OO.OO0.
 The steamship G If of Akaba, Captain Walls sail, d from Huelva on the Sth of March with cargo of 2,O0O tons of iron ore, c,m- signed to John Parsons & Co.,, of New York. She has not arrived and has l'een given up lest. She was in command of Captain A. Walls, and she had 8 crew of about thir V five men on board She was worth S15O, 900 Her cargo Is valued at ST, 900.
 -J. P. 2. -Cottrill, the once eminent lawyer of Milwaukee, Is incurably insane. More that thirty yeAxs ago, when he was Sophomore in the UniS6' sity of Vermont, while assisting to hsze new student, he received . blow OF the head, from which he never fully recovered, aud which finally develop ed softening of the brain and hop'ess insauity-a terrible testi- mony against the barbarism of hazing.
 -Ex- Alderman Waite arrived in New York City from Essex, near Lake Champlaln, and made statement to the District Attorney, on which warrants for the arrest of other '64 Aldermen are supposed to be based. Elk President William P. Kirk was arrested on . warrant charging him with bribery. The a. fair created much excitement, As 1t is known that other arrests of Aldermen and ex-Alder- men will be made.
 The mercantile agency of R. c. Dun : Co reports that the business failures in the United States for the past quarter numbered 3,203, with liabilities slightly over $29 COG, ; 000. The number of failures for the first quarter in 1885 was 658, with liabil ties oi S46, DOG. 900. The liabi ities for the quarter juss ended are l ss tSan tn se in any rimllar period since 1873, the decline in the Middle States being very marked.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 The bill sppropriating $500, 900 for th erection of . monument to Abraham Lincoh in Washington was passed by the Senate.
 The debt statement shows that the de crease of the public debt during the month o March was S14, OS7, Ss4, and the total cash il the treasury is s495, s97, 771.63.
 The collections of internal revenue fo the nrst eiRnt months or the nScal year en0 ing June 30 1SS6 amount to 476, 15a, 200, al increase of S2,4l6. 3SS over the receipts for tn corresponding period of the last fiscal year.
 MT. Woiford, of Kentucky, introduced bill in the House directing the Secretary O the Interior to furnish artificial limbs or thei equivalent in money to Confederate soldier or sailors who lost legs or arms in the war.
 Senator Fair introduced the Morro, Chinese bill in the Senate, with au amend ment changing from twenty years to te years the period during which the entrance c Chinese laborers into the United States sha be prohibited
 A very full canvass of the House va