Connecticut western news., 1886-01-27
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS

Sote hdrslSll, were urOWEel Wlll6 skating on the Youshogheny River, near Pitts, burg, Pa.
 Mrs. Annie Reid, colored, and her two children, aged respectively eight and six years, were burned to death at their home at Boone vile, Mo.
 A boy, aged faur years. the child of Mrs. Gaskell, residing near Maysville, Mo, WAS burned to death.
 The Grand Jury at Worcester, Mass, have found bills of indictment against Charles H. Veo and Dr. F. N. Nelson for participation ip the Lancaster Bank frauds.
 The superintendent of tue Board of Health of Montreal reports that there is not single case of smallpox in thu city or suburbs.
 The striking Hungarian coke workers of Mount Pleasant had another conflict with the police. Many arrests were made.
 A great storm of wind and ra'n has pre- vailed on the Pacif, coast. San Francisco suffered severely.
 A disastrous wreck occurred on the Ss Joseph and Des Moines branch of the Burling- ton and Quincy system, about four miles east of Albany, Mo-. by which one man was killed and several others badly injured.
 At the meeting of the Pennsylvania Dem ocratic State Committee Mir. Hensel was elected chairman.
 Four men robbed jewelry store in Chi cago of property worth l5OO, Two seized
 
 held him while the others selected the valu- ables.
 Governor Hill nominated es-Weigher George H. Sterling for Port Warden of New York.
 -"Billy" Porter and "Sheeny" Mike the professional burglars who have been arrested for robbing jewelry store in Troy, N. Y. are said to have in bank upward of s10O,0O and to have other property.
 The British steamer Crystal came into New York with fire in her hold that hal been burning for ten days. The fire wss drowned out.
 Charles Kaufman, of Franklin, N. J., who was bitten ty mad dog and went to Paris for treatment by M. Pasteur, returned. He feels assured that he need not fear hydrophobia.
 -Chiuamen were driven from their house, near Chihalls, w. T., by hoodlums.
 George Foster, 8 notorious burglar was killed by an officer at Cleveland, Ohio.
 -J. Hobbs, awaiting sentence for poisoning the Cram family at South Boston, cat his throat with a razor in Suffolk county (Mass prison.
 General Lew Wallace reiterates his charges of treachery to General Grant on the part of General Halleck.
 Austin Sheldon, the Pike county, Pa,
 The volcano of Colima is again in crap ton.
 e A band of nine cowboys from Indian Ter ritory rode into Burlington, Texas and i'm medIately began csrousing. In the fight four of the boys were killed by the marshall and his party.
 Parties of Mexcans are raiding the Texas frontier, killing cattle men, and stealing cattle.
 Candidates for the Presidency of Chila are in the field.
 England has recognized the new govern ment of Peru.
 The rumors of an uprising of Canadian Indians are attributed to designing trader.
 Thomas F. Gault, a railway mail clerk, has teen arrested at Chicago, ILL, charged with robbing the mails.
 The war between the Baltimore and Ohio and the other trunk lines continues withou; material change. No compromise has been proposed by either side.
 The Supreme Court of Illinois afirms tie validity of the new State Election law.
 The vote for United States Senator in the Maryland Legislature resulted:-In the Senate For A. P. German (dem ), 21 votes; for Louis E. hfeComas (rep.), votes In the Honse-For A. P. German (dem.) 70 votes; for Louis E. McComas (rep.), 10 votes.
 Ten thousand plague stricken hogs have died in the vicinity of Beloit Wis, during the last few months
 Rev. Dr. Pershine, president of female college at Pittsburg, Pa. has been put upon trial before 8 board of ministers.
 William Eldridge, of Livingston, Tenn, aged fourteen years, saw his sister abused by her husband and killed the latter with an axe. Nine thouss nd cigarmakers are out of em- pioyment in New York. Seven thousand were locked out Tuesday evening and two thousand struck few days ago. The two thousand are tenement house workers. The cause of the trnr,hlo i'd fha rof1aal nf fha ci0Nrmakara unions to accept . new schedule of prices.
 Mrs. John Condin aged fifty-three years, WAS burned to death ar her home in Walling- ford, Conn.
 Dr. s. A. Richmond, the man who swim dled the newspapers 30 unmercifuliy, of s. Joseph, Mo, has mysteriously disappeare ed from home. He is believed to have been men, tally dersn9ed.
 The National Bricklayers' Union has de cided to adopt ths nine hour system, com mencing the lst of May next.
 Professor Dwight's election to the presi- dency of Yale College is said to be assured.
 Three prominent Mormons were convicted of polygamy at Salt Lake and sent to prison.
 The Ruby Trust cabin at Mount Sneffies. Col, was carried away by snow slide, whcl buried six men. A relief party WAS immeat au ly formed and the bodies of ths men wert soon recovered. Two of the men-Martin Pearson and Andrew Peterson = were dead when found, but the others were rescued alive, although badly injured.
 General satisfaction is expressed with the appointments 10 public office made by the Government of Peru, and hope is.felt tha, the country is returning to her former state O; order and progress.
 Two boys who robbed lady in Lewiston, Me, Of 9l 100, and fled West to become cow boys, and We're arrested in Chicago, were taken to Lewiston and given over to the authorities
 Governor Hill commuted the sentence of Giuseppe Guidi l. sentenced March 1o, 1884 In Kings county, for murder in the first de gree, to be hanged ca January e2, 1886. The sentence IS cornmu.ed to Imprisonment in the Sing Sing piison for life.
 The quantity of deals and lumber shipped last season from 1t, ntreal to the United King. dom was 90,0OO.0o0 feet, and for the season before 55, 000,G0 feet. The shipments from Montreal and the lower ST. Lawrence to in. River Platte were 32, O0O, GOO feet, to the west coast of South America 400, 900 feet, and lc Australia 100000 feet.
 A train conveying military company was completely wrecked at VaIdivia, South Ameri- ca. Thirty soldiers, including eleven officers, were killed.
 A frisht!ul loss of life took place during the late storms in the West. It IS known that over thirty persons froze to death.
 The military guard at Gen. Grants tom, will not he removed. Such an order was ex pected and the soldiers had packed up in an ticipation os it, but at midnight on Friday Capt. Weir, in command, received Q telegram from Gen. Hancock saving that the Secretary of War hsd sent instructions that the guard should be continued until Jnne 30.
 The much dreaded pluro- pneumonia i, playing sad havoc it!ng the cattle of some Pennsylvania conut; In York county twS herds wc. 0 entirely sS erminated receniI, by crt.er of the & ts .u I,orities and at ottieJ points valuoabi.. cattle nave been kiled
 A dynamite explosion took place at Toms River, N. J., doing serious damage.
 A dynamite explosion on the fine of the New 1osk aques,ucs made los of SiO ,OGC besides stirrins Up :h whole corntry aboai with the leiief that an earthquake had taken rlace.
 The total amount of the fish products of Gloucester for 1885 WAS: Cndfish 52 aoo aeI