Connecticut western news., 1889-10-23
GENERAL NEWS,

GENERAL NEWS.
 The Atlas Iron Co.,, San Francisco, is en- iargtng its works, and the building of steam schooners will form part of its business.
 The recent rich discoveries made in the Silver King mine on Groom creek. Colorado, have given that district quite a boom.
 Amos J. Cummings has been nominated Tor congress by the Tammany convention Of the ninth district, formerly represented by the late s. s. Cox.
 c. Fl. Ring, aged AS, manager of the New ark, N. J., office of the U. s. Express Co.,, is missing. He has been with the company 25 years and enjoyed the full confidence of its officials. Cashier Sanford of the company says he does not believe Ring is an embez- zler.
 The steamship City of Alexandria, from Mexico and Havana, brought as passengers the crew of eight men of the barque Barbara, Capt. Staundt, wrecked near Falmouth; the crew of eight men of the brig Alpha (Br.), Capt. Howe, wrecked at Laguna, and the crew of nine men of the brig Brodrene (Dan.), Capt. Beaumont, from Laguna.
 The export of machinery from this country to Mexico has been increasing very rapidly of late years. From less than S5000 in value in 1881 the export had arisen to S4 4.000,- 900 in 1887, and is expected to reach S6,OOO,- 009 in 1889.
 It is estimated that 3.125,OOO pounds of wool are annually exported from South and ter goes to Bombay and the rest to Busrah, where it Is cleaned and mixed with superior sorts from Bagdad, and thence shipped to France, England and America.
 The stockholders of the Reading, Pa., Iron Co. in voting to increase the indebtedness of the &f00 O{)O fip1 Sueh movement t0 be necessary in order to make improve ments and to purchase two additional fur naces. The present indebtedness is over &500, 0,000. It is thought that the plant of the new company, with the upward rise in the iron market, will represent value of nearly $2,500 900.
 The steel oil tank steamship building by the Columbian Iron Works of Baltimore, Md, for the Standard Oil Co.,, will be 240 1t. long, 69 fl. beam and g 1-2 feet deep in the hold. Mayor Hunt of sandusky City, O., has tel egraphed in regard to smallpox ravages at Peaee Island, the famous fishing resort in Lake Erie. The despatch says the widest excitement exists, over 100 cases of small pox having developed there within the last four days. The island has about 1000 popu- lation, every one of whom, it is feared, will contract the disease.
 Robert Berrier, young white man who last week murdered his mother-in-law at Lexington, N. C., was taken from jail there by masked mob and lynched. He was taken to an oak tree at the outskirts of the town to & limb of which rope was adjusted, Berrier placed on & horse and the rope tied about his neck. After making request that his child should be looked after, the horse was snatch ed from under him and his body left hanging between heaven and earth.
 Lawyer W. E. Murray of New York was committed by Surrogate Ransom for contempt nf ennrf- MnrrAv somewhat intoxicated and called the surrogate ''an infamous and corrupt judge" The lawyer declined to make an apology and was sent to Ludlow Street Jail for 10 days.
 c. W. Laster, colored, 19 years old, walked into the station house at Tacony, suburb of Philadelphia, and related that he poisoned W. H. Giddings at 50 Burlington street, near Jackson avenue, Providence, R. l., in April, 1885, by putting arsenic in his tea, and wanted to give himself up. The chief of detectives dence authorities, and Laster will be held pending reply.
 Prof. A. Agassiz, of the Museum of Con- parative Zoology, Cambridge, Mass, recently wrote to the treasury department in regard to certain proposed notifications of it's in- Structions of July 8, last, relative to the free entry of books and other articles imported for educational societies. Assistant-secretary Tichenor declines to modify the instructions.
 The annual meeting of Pullman's Palace Car Co. was held in Chicago the other day, over S17, 800 900 of capital stock being repre- elected: G. M. Pullman, John Crerar, Mar shal Field, J. w. Doane, Norman Williams, O. s. A. Sprague of Chicago and Fl. c. Hull bert of New York. The usual quarterly div idend of g per share from net earnings was declared, payable Nov. 15 to stockholders of record at close of business, Nov. 1.
 The Richmond Terminal, Georgia Gen. fral East TepnPSSep Huntsville & Nashville Southern Pacific and other Southern and Southwestern railroads, and the Plant sys- tenn of railroads and steamships, have united in . movement to make Tampa, Fla, the shipping point for all freight handled on those lines, large part of which now goes via New York and Boston.
 An officer of one of the leading banks in Washington has offered $39 for a check for 89 cents bearing the signature of Benjamin Harrison, which is in circulation. A check for 30 cents, carrying the same signature, re- gently passed through one of the local banks.
 About 400 cases of fever and 40 deaths have occurred among the 1 200 workmen of the N. Y. Central R. R. at West Albany during the past few months. The epidemic is att tributed to defective drainage.
 In bis forthcoming book Cardinal Gibbons argues for the prompt execution of criminals after the sentence of death has been pro nounced, and deprecates the increasing delays that are made in criminal cases in the hands of the law.
 The scaffold erected at the Bethlehem Pa.) Water Works by Mckee & Milson, boiler makers, fell carrying with 1t nine men, who were at the height of AS feet. George Wor- man, foreman, was killed; George Murphy and Cornelius McGettigan fatally injured, and six others seriously.
 A messenger from Bishop Bosse of the Labrador coast has arrived at Quebec with The news thai the fisheries have altogether failed at Esquimaux Point, and that over 100 families are starving. The local government authorities will send sufficient food to relieve their immediate wants.
 Atchison and St. Paul officials request a denial of the rumored consolidation of the Atchison, St. Paul, Southern Pacific, Missou- ri Pacific, Wabash, Denver & Rio Grande and Denver & Rio Grande Western, publish ed in the Tribune. They declare there is not aparticle of truth in the report.
 A movement that promises to be national In its character, and which has already att tained large dimensions, was inaugurated by W. D. Matthews of Washington, in recent tentiou to the discrimination practised against negroes In this country, contrasting it with the treatment accorded the writer in the countries of Europe, and urged the forma- ton of 8 national Afro-American league, such as had been broached by T. Thomas Fortune of New York, of which the object would be to secure the protection and pro- motion of all interests pertaining to the dig. nifty and welfare of the Afro-American."
 Extensive prairie fires have been raging ir the ditch country southwest of Fort Wayne Ind, for several days, resulting in great damage. Hundreds of acres have beer burned over, and the prairie lands that have been reclaimed by drainage have beer burned down to depth of four feet.