Connecticut western news., 1890-01-01
GENERAL NEWS.

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 The salaries of the Superintendents of Streets and Public Buildings of Boston have been increased to S5OO0 each, and the salary of Inspector of Buildings to $4OOO.
 A serious freshet on the Los Angeles River, California. The railways suffer severely. The rainfall Is said to be 25 inches.
 New Workers in favor of ballot reform law are making extraordinary efforts to secure it's passage.
 Two brakemen were recently killed on the New York md New England Road.
 The Wabash Manufacturing Company of Chicago has failed for $20O,O
 It is said that the rubber supply from Para has fallen of so largely that the rubber man. ufactories in this country may be compelled to shut down for time.
 The Lowell Aldermen have authorized the establishment of the single trolley electric system on one of the street railway routes of that city.
 The New York Southern Society has adopt ed formal resolutions of sorrow at the death of Henry w. Grady.
 The later report from the Angels Camp disaster in California is that there are at least IT, and probably 19, men buried in the mine.
 A great meeting was held at Atlanta re- gently in memory of Henry W. Grady. Mayor Glenn presided. Leading citizens were on the platform, and addresses were made by Hon. Patrick Walsh, Hon. Benjamin Hill, Gov. Gordon and others.
 At Dewitt, near Syracuse, N. Y., two old ladies named Sarah Demerett, aged 80, and Charlotte Thompson, aged 70, who lived by themselves, were found the other day as- phyxiated by coal gas. Early the other morning the boiler in Neff Bros.' mill, seven miles east of Edmore Mich., blew up. killing the foreman, F. K. Stedman, seriously injuring Engineer John Welch and Charles Saunders, and slightly in- Intelligence was recently received at Nash vile, Tenn, of trouble in Clarksvie between officers and colored mob, two members of which were shot, one being fatally and the otfer seriously wounded.
 A British ship run down and sunk on the Columbia river by q Union Pacific steamer and two lives lost.
 Alexander Beck < Son of Philadelphia. | carpet manufacturers, have failed. Liabili- ties about $l30,00O. A fendsh attempt to smother an entire | family in Brooklyn Saturday night, Dec. 27, was frustrated, and the would-be murderer | was arrested. q Cold weather and sleighing at St. Paul. l Mrs. Robert Tyler, who married the eldest son of President Tyler, and resided at the | White House during the first three years of l fFeSluent lyIeT'S AumlnlSCratlOn, uled at Montgomery, Ala, Dec. 20. | The Government Commiss toners have with drawn the offer of July 3l made to the Chero- kees of ,2a per acre for the so-caled Chero- kee outlet, 1 Nine men were horribly and some fatally burned by g shower of molten metal from an exploding mold at the Mosher Machine Com pany's factory at Dallas, Texas, on Saturday, Dec. p.
 I 1},of town and Ogdensburg Railroad at Oswego is at a standstill on account of La Grippe. l Vincenzo Perfelto, New York physician was assassinated on Grand street, Saturday night, Dec. 27.
 River near Los Angeles changes it's course and does great damage to fruit lands,
 Natural gas and oil discovered in West Vir. ginia.
 Ten people killed and % injured by an ac. cident on the Chesapeake & Ohio road al White Sulphur Springs, w. Va.
 First genuine blizzard of the season in Min neSOta.
 Ocean steamers are having hard passages across the Atlantic.
 Warehouse, 5000 bales of cotton and sever freight cars burned ut Yazoo City, Miss; loss $a50 ,000,
 The (nfluenza spreading all over the ooun try; New York city said to have 30, ,O0O cases opinions of leading Gotham doctors about thu malady.
 Bodies of three victims of the Johnstowr flood have just been recovered from tn | COnemausE.
 Business men of the country believe tha the year 1890 will be Q most successful on for trade of all kinds; interviews with tinan ciers of New York,
 Foreign,
 It is said that the Russian Government i preparing to build great railway througl Siberia.
 The University at Odessa has been closed owing to the discovery of the fact that number of the students were Nihilists, an' were actively engaged in spreading their pro paganda.
 The town of Aci Reale, in Sicily, wa shaken by an earthquake recently. Severs
 houses collapsed and many persons wer
 buried under the ruins. Portugal, Germany and Italy will shortl
 send collective note to the Provisional Gov ernment of Brazil protesting again the Gov ernment's scheme in regard to the naturaliza
 tion of foreigners residing in Brazil.
 Ex-Empress of Brazil is dead at Oporte Portugal.
 Influenza still spreading in Europe; colde
 weather will probably have no effect; BOG, ,OO new cases reported; about 75O 900 European afflicted.
 There is scheme to regulate the fares i the cabs of Paris and prevent downright rot
 bery OH the part of "cabbies.' The property in Brazil belonging to Dor
 Pedro and his family has not been confs cated.
 : During fog on the River Clyde, Dec. 2e
 the steamer Ovington came into collision wit
 the steamer Queen Victoria, and the forme sank. Five persons were drowned. An international Prison Congress is to , held i'll St. Petersburg, and the Russian Min
 ister pays George Kennan the high cOmp
 ment to request that he may not be sent as delegate to represent the United States.