Connecticut western news., 1890-03-12
GENERAL NEWS.

GENEkAI NEWS, A smasnup occurred on the Lake Shore Road, near Hamburg, N. Y. It is reported | that seven were killed and thirteen wounded. | Among the wounded are several persons | from Boston and vicinity. The Belgian steamer De Ruyter went ashore of Lighthouse Point, Scituate, during | the heavy snow storm; m The crew Of a 7. men men are valued at about half million dollars, and are insured. She was consigned to Gill & Lootz of Boston. Ex-President Cleveland was one of the speakers at 8 meeting in New York in the ln- terest of the Free Circulating Library. The New York wholesale sugar dealers have formed combination for mutual pro- lection.
 The New York police raided several bucket shops making Al arrests. A domestic employed at Plain6eld, N. J., attempted to suffocate the entire family in re- venge for 8 rebuke administered by her mis- tress.
 2 Chinamen are being smuggled across the border at Detroit from Canada. Four Chinamen bound for Charlestown, Mass., were captured in Detroit.
 An attempt is being maze to secure the pardon of Harper, the noted bank wrecker, now serving ten years sentence in the Ohio Penitentiary.
 It is rumored that the Louisiana Lottery Company has secured footho.d in the Choc- Jaw Nation.
 Gold has been discovered in a gravel bed just east of Sioux Falls, s. D., and the find has occasioned much excitement, as samples have been assayed and leave no doubt as to its quality.
 Superintendent Fuller of the Pacific Ex Ifess Company and the father of F. H. Wal 1&Rs tho oh mo a Texas. and have secured a package containing $16,940. Walton left this package in woman's charge when he ran away. This, with the $SO0O given up by the absconder in New Brunswick, makes $24 $40 of the original $35 ,O00 stolen.
 Dispatches from Sternoway, Island of Lewes, on the Scotch coast, state that the crofters are in . desperate condition. They have resolved to repossess the Park deer forest, of which they were dispossessed, and mean to cultivate without delay. They are organized and provided with tents and bag gage for long campaign. Serious trouble IS anticipated.
 Jacob s. Rosenthal, who recently returned from London, whore he placed the "City of Baltimore Breweries, Limited,' is actively engaged perfecting plans of large English syndllns to obtain . controlling interest in the cannir and packing houses of Balti- more.
 The return of Wm. Fl. Fursman, the noted 4200ooO forger of deeds and mortgages, to Pouk54c, III. his old home, caused great ex- citement there.
 The largest deposit of lead ore ever dis covered in this vicinity was struck recently on the Randall Farm, southwest of Dubuque, Iowa. There Is now in sight in the mine one great sheet of lead over 30 feet high and IA Inches thick. Experienced miners say there Is over 100000 pounds of galena in sight, and that 100, coo pounds Can be mined in three days.
 In Minneapolis recently prominent photographer was arrested and heavily fined fofReling . dozen photographs in his pos session to a saloon-keeper, who used them to decorate the walls of his saloon. The udge decided that such proceedings was a gross breach of contract on the part of the photographer.
 It is reported that the Pope is again indis- posed.
 Within four years 555 fiouring mills have been started in the Southern States.
 A heavy flow of gas was recently struck at Cherryyale, Kan., at 8 depth of oSo feet.
 souix City is building mammoth stove works, with a capital of $25O,OOO, that will employ 400 men.
 Ten men with electric drills can take out as much ore, or tunnel as far, as 100 men with ordinary tools and blasting materials.
 The total production of copper in this country, including that produced from im- ported ores, in 1889 was 241, ,S30,OOO pounds. The Pennsylvania Steel Company will in- crease their works at Sparrow Point, Md, by the addition of plant for the construction of iron and steel steamships.
 The mild winter has given boom to the business of manufacturing artificial Ice, and new factories are springing up in all sections except the extreme north.
 The Hazelton Tripod Boiler Company of <l,a rl-ot kn.1 which they claim entirely consumes the smoke of slack coal, with which they can be run at one-third the cost of natural gas.
 The greatest natural gas we'll struck in Ohio IS on the Hudson farm, between Stuarts- vile and Van Buren. The gauge shows over 35, ,OO0, 900 feet of gas per day. This does not look like exhaustion of the supply.
 A colony of quakers are soon to settle near Tuscumbia, Ala.
 More than S1 900 900 worth of logs were swept down the Columbia River in Oregon and cut to sea by the recent floods.
 During the late blockade in California newspapers were taken into Lake County on horseback and sold for 50 cents apiece.
 In field near CircleyiIle, Ohio, containing 200 shocks of corn over 1000 mice and S9 hawks were killed last week. Done to satisfy bet.
 The damage by the recent storms in Cali fornia was 80 great that it will be month before through trains can run between San Francisco and Portland.
 The present season has been remarkably good one for southern cotton growers, and they are much better off than they have been at any time since the war.
 Squire Massie Bearey, who lives at Aber. deen, Ky, has tied the marriage knot fol 4,076 runaway couples in nineteen years His fees have ranged from "Thank ye" tc $50.
 The private banking firm of Belloc Frere. of San Francisco has suspended. Liabilities about half 6 million.
 The crusade against illegal liquor selling 1T New Hampshire, is becoming non-parrisar one.
 Two freight trains collided on the Northern Division of the Boston & Maine Railroad 21. miles above Grafton Centre, N. H., badly wrecking both locomotives and several cars and completely blockading the line. The mer on the engines and trains jumped, fortunate y escaping injury.
 About q, 900 900 worth of stolen Govern ment timber has recently been seized ir Southern Alabama.
 Four lives were lost at Evansville, Ind, b, the explosion of dust.
 A deadlock in the Rhode Island Legislatur, on an appropriation bill prevents the pay ment of bills that are due immediately.
 Three children were badly burned in tenement house at the North End, Boston.
 Foreix
 The State railways in Italy, according t. official animation, increased $34, ,0O0, ,000 il their yalae during the last two years.
 A great show of canary birds was held re gently in the Crystal Palace, London, and WAS as popular as Q cattle show.
 There are now, according to the new direct