Connecticut western news., 1886-10-06
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GENERAL ITEMS.

The Dominion government are aiding the destitute fishermen of the Gulf of St. Law renee.
 Mrs. Mary Wagner and her four-year-old | daughter were run over by train at Bingen Station, Pa., and instantly killed. Daniel Driscoll was found guilty of the
 murder of Bridget Garrity, at No. 163 Hester | street, New York, on June 26 last. John Allen, regularly appointed cons- table, deputed to seize some rice to satisfy 8 | judgement in Plaquemine county, La., was murdered by the planter. A. L. Gage X Co.,, Chicago, wholesale and retail millinery and fancy goods dealers, made
 mostly to Eastern firms. Assets estimated at S65O, ,0OO
 Captain Mike Hennessy, a well known de- tective of Houston. Texas, has been made the victim of midnight assassin, having been shot down in the street on his way home from the theatre.
 At Pittsfeld N H.. Almon Blake and A. J. Twombly, who had been fast friends from boyhood, quarreled, and the latter threw & stone, which struck Blake on the forehead, in- fiicting probably fatal injury. In New York Mr. deBensuade the husband of Mis-, Violet Cameron, was arre, tied on com- plaint of Lord Lonsdale, that he had written & letter to Miss Cameron demanding money and threatening to shoot her if she did not comply with the request. A terrific explosion blew up tEe Dittmar Power works and packing house in Baychester, N.Y.and killed four men. The shock was so''great that earthquake terrors were revived 1n the country around. The shock was felt at Nyack and in Connectic as far as New Haven. In the yacht race the Sachem beat the Mi randa and the Thetis the Stranger. The work of rebuilding is carried on ener- getically in Charleston despite the continuation of slight shocks of earthOuake Mrs Christopher Yeakle jumped from 8 vehicle at Harrisonburg, Va., and, falling on
 her head, was instantly killed. A dispatch from Reading, Pa, says: Hog cholera has made it's appearance in the eastern frontier of that county and is proving un- | usually fatal.
 Two Mexican officers chased a fugitive over the Rio Grande into Fl Paso, Texas, and, after shooting and wounding him, kidnapped | him back into Mexico. The fatal outbreak among the cattle at | Akron, Ohio, is found to be anthrax. A grand ovation was given to General Nelson A. Miles at Albuquerque, N. M. | Pine timber to the amount of $50, COG, coo | feet was transferred in single sale in Mime sota.
 | Several trains were wrecked in Texas ow- | ing to the displacement of rails by heavy | rains.
 l A telegraph line repairer in Detroit was
 killed by the current from an electric light I wire.
 | The cattle plague has broken out in Vir. | ginia, having been directly communicated 1 from Chicago.
 | Harmony, Me-, and neighboring towns | are terribly excited in consequence of many incendiary fires. l A confession of murder found in coat al ! pawnshop led to the arrest of a colored man | in Boston for crime committed in Cincinnati ] four years ago.
 | A divorced husband in Metropolis, Ill., I being tantalized by the individual who occu | pied his old position replied with shotgun
 emptying both barrels into his successful ri
 vals body.
 | pr. Aveling, the English socialist, ii l warned not to tamper with public sentiment | in Chicago, and the Times of that city danglef ! a moose before his eyes. The Dr. was notified to leave a club in New York city, where he had been introduced. "A burglar has robbed the house of George | Bancroft, the historian, at Newport. Three children, while at play near Mont gomery, Ala, were fatally bitten by rattle- snake.
 The celebrated Emma Bond case has re- suited in the pecuniary ruin of all the &C., | accused.
 | Cotton planters are endeavoring to break
 up the monopoly known as the Cotton Oil | 1luSt OOIupdny.
 l The coal agents in Chicago are preparing | to act with the principals in New York in put
 ting up the prices of hard coal. l A local aeronaut in New Orleans offered
 seats in his balloon at S10 each to all those
 who wish to avoid Wiggins earthquake. l An old farmer in Kansas was shot in { broad day light in his own fields by masked
 robbers. The culprits are under arrest | A report of the New York State Assessors | I1 orv %o 4l,o N
 for reduction in the State equalizatiln l An English woman claims to be the first | wife of Henry B. Courtney, the deceased | matchmaker millionaire and asks dover.
 Hog cholera is spreading in Northwestern | Virginia, and there are fears of an accompany
 ing epidemic of fever among the people. | -Aparty of negroes created a sensation in
 a Kansas Sunday school by exchanging pistol
 shots. One old man was killed during the | melee.
 Two boys not yet fourteen years old have | been arrested as the murderers of poor { Mexican shepherd on Texan rancho about | three months ago.
 The Rev. Mir. Bristor of Rockland Co.,, N.
 r., sued the Methodist trustees at Spring | Valley for ejecting him from the parsonage,
 but the jury could not agree.
 James Brodhead, aged twenty-three years
 has been arrested on the charge of poisoning | the drinking water of the family of Lucas K
 Bash, residing near the village of Nepanoch | N. '.
 The parlor car and rear coach of the Rock | ford and Rock Falls train on the Chicago Bur
 inston and Quincy road, was derailed and l thrown down an embankment near the latter place. lady passenger was killed and thirty
 others moro or less injured.
 -Dr. Seth R. Smith, seventy years of age
 Tell from an apple tree at Normanstown, Pa.
 ana was killed.
 Full details of the loss of the British
 schooner Mary Ann, with four lives, are giver
 by our correspondent.
 | The corner stone of new building for tn,
 Institute of St. Patrick in Newburg was lait
 with impressive ceremonies.
 Serious damage has been done to the cot | ton crop Tn certain portions of Texas by ex
 cessiye rains and the rayages of worms.
 Four colcred and two white convicts un
 derwent the punishment of the whipping pos
 at Newcastle, Del, in the presence of two hun
 dred people.
 | A slight shock of earthquake was felt il
 Patrick and Henry counties, Va., Saturday
 Persons were aroused from their slumbers, bu,
 no damage ensued.
 While Illustrating the duel scene in a pop
 ular play, at 8 Lowell (Mass.) factory, ont
 workman plunged 8 knife accidently into
 fellow workman's body.
 ] Legal prohibition in Ohio is to be opposed
 by State organization of temperance advo
 cates who rely on moral suasion to check the
 evils of dram drinking.
 Jesse Phillips and his son Comb, of sharI
 county, Texas, have been placed under bonds
 of S2, 900 each on charge of having thrown
 poison into we'll on neighboring farm.
 The Nevada Republican State Convention
 nominated c. c. Stevenson for Governor, H o. Davis for Lieutenant Governor and T. D
 Edwards for Judge of the Supreme Court.
 Will Perry was shot and instantly killed b.
 the accidental discharge of his friend John R
 Rechman's fouling piece while squirrel hnnt
 ing in the woods near their home at Ripley N. I.
 A staging in factory at Wallingford
 Conn.,, gave way, precipitating several men tt
 the ground, distance of forty feet. John | Mccormack was instantly killed and Fritz