Connecticut western news., 1874-06-12
NEWS OF THE DAY.

nouncement of the intended candidacy of German prince for the throne of Spain. It is said that Don Carlos has sent Gen. Ello to Versailles to inform the French Government in regard to the movement. ..... .Wm. Bliss, or Beal, reported to be prominent liquor mer- chant of San Francisco on route for the East, became insane, and when near Omaha threw his money out of the car window, and jumped from the train. He was taken in charge by the Sheriff . A hearing in the case of the cru saders arrested in Pittsburgh was had in the Common Pleas Court. Judge Stowe gave his decision reversing the judgment of the Acting Mayor, and ordered the fines to be refunded. The three County Commissioners of Barnwen county, s. O., convicted of corruption, have been sentenced respectively to ten years, to nine years, and to thirteen months in the peni- tentiary . At Grider's Landing, Mississippi River, while the steamer Phil Allen was lying there, Henry Burgett and another planter named Griders, exchanged some eight or ten shots with guns. Burgett after having received five shots, was finally shot through the region of the heart, and expired soon afterward. This is the fourth brother who has been killed in combats with neighbors. .. .. The machine shops of the St. Louis and Southeastern Rail- road, Mount Vernon, Mo-, were burned with three locomotives and two passenger coaches. Loss, $100, 900 uninsured. ... The Rhode Island Legislature has passed Prohibitory law. The funeral of the Hon. Davld B. Mellish, late M. O., of New York city, took place at Auburn, Mass ..... Jaspar Meyers, farmer, living about three miles from Madison, Iowa, excavated 8 vault containing number of skeletons larger and heavier boned than the present human frame. Men of science, who have visited the place and obtained specimens, say they belong to. the race known as the Mound Builders. .. In the New Jersey Epis- copar Convention, Ritualism was freely dis cussed, several resolutions being offered. A set offered by Dr. Garrison, of Camden, was adopted. They embrace the sentiment of the pastoral letter of the bishops issued three years ago, viz: First, that ritualism is matter of taste until it becomes the expression of doc urine; second, that whatever encourages Flu charistic adoration is unwarranted in adminis- tering the Holy Communion. The resolutions close by expressing confidence that whatever action the General Convention may take, it will proceed upon the principle indicated by the utterance of the upper house ..... The most important event that has occurred in the United States Presbyterian General Assembly was the reception and adoption of an overture from the Old School Synod, of Missouri. ... Samuel Morton, a seaman of the ship Republic, aged 45 years, was blown from the maintop- mast at sea and fell to the deck. He was instantly killed.
 The Northwestern States complain of grass hopper plague. The grasshopper country, '' as it is called in Minnesota, is supplied at this season with immense focks of pigeons, black birds and so on, which feed almost entirely on grasshoppers. e. s. B. Heath, an express messenger, while on his way from Chicago by train, was assaulted while asserting his pack ages by two rufians, who had attained entrance to the car. MT. Heath was knocked down, but he quickly drew his revolver and shot his assailant dead. The other rufian seized $2, 700 in money in packages and jumped from the train when in full motion. He must have sustained serious if not fatal injuries. The dead robber was unloaded at Niles .. If the bill for the reorganization of the U. s. army in it's present shape becomes law, the present graduating class at the Military Academy, at West Point, will have to go home without assignment, and consequently be out of the service. ... In quarrel over game of base ball in Clark county, Ga, Pink Price struck Luther Thrasher or the head with bat killing
 him instantly. Price has fled. Both were un- der 20 years of age. .... A duel was fought on Metairie Ridge, La., between two Creoles,
 named A. Guillotte and Pezeros. The weapons were pistols, distance ten paces, fire at will, ] and advance. Guillotte fired at the word com mand, shooting Pezeros through the side, near the heart. ... A young Hollander named Yer
 Dorn, resident in Paterson, New Jersey, while
 attempting to make room on the seat of his
 wagon Tor g friend, slipped off and struck head first on the ground, breaking his neck. ,. The
 administrators of William Barkley, who was
 killed in Passaic, N. J., in December last by
 Speers building falling upon him, sued Speer
 for $100,0OO damages. A similar suit is to be
 brought by the executors of George Mclean,
 who was also killed at the same time. Speer is
 on trial for manslaughter for McLeans death, and is afterward to be tried on 8 simila,
 indictment for Barkley's death, the ground be. | ing that Speer is responsible for the alleged
 criminal weakness of the building.