Connecticut western news., 1874-07-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

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 In Ripley, Ohio, John Coslett and his son Taylor were shot, the latter killed, by Charles Swisher, who was visiting Coslett's daughter against her fathers wishes. An altercation ensued in Coslett's house, and ending in Swisher shooting him in the thigh. Swishe1 fled, accompanied by Coslett's daughter, when they met Taylor Coslett and another brother on the street, who pursued to bring back the girl, knowing nothing of the affray at home. swisher fired at his pursuers, striking Taylor n the abdomen, causing death in an hour. .... A burglar entered the house of the Hon. Wm Chase, Providence R. I. After the family had retired the burglar entered the room of Abbott Eddy, brother of Mrs. Chase. On hear ing the burglar MT. Eddy raised an outcry, when he was attacked and badly hurt Mrs. Chase heard the outcry, and, being greatly alarmed, died immediately, either from rupture of blood vessel or disease of the heart. She was daughter of the late James Eddy, and aged 71 years. The burglar escaped, leaving behind him his hat and boots Gen. o. O. Howard has been given the command of the l Department of Columbia. .... The Carlist General Tristany has been dismissed from his command for failing to defend the line of the Ebro. Gen. Zabala has assumed command of the Republican Army of the North. The Car lists have invested Bilbao. =. A diminutive little black insect, known among the farmers as the " oats bug" has been great annoyance in sections of Illinois, by the tickling sensation it produces when it alights on the face or hands. The atmosphere has been literally | filled with the little pests. ... A meeting of the friends of Arthur Orton, alias Sir Roger Tichborne, was held in Leeds, Yorkshire. It was resolved to memorabilia Parliament to recommend Her Majesty to grant the convict a l free pardon. - .t~.... ......-'t -. ,, .., dispatch from Pembina says that 8 party of Sioux Indians attacked the settlement of St. Joseph and killed four persons. Several children are missing. A company of soldiers have started for the scene of the massacre, and volunteer company is being organized ... Vincenzo Beaugamori was stabbed and killed ia New York by Joseph Biaciairi in a dis pute about two cents. .. .. Sebastian Schneider, brewer, while walking in his sleep fell through the hatchway in Brooklyn brewery and was fatally injured. ... Thomas Kemp, an employee in a factory at New Brunswick, N. J., took his three children out with him to the | upper lock of the canal. There he threw them into the water, and jnmped in himself. The | children screamed, and soon crowd collected and rescued two of the children, but the eldest, & girl of thirteen. was drowned. Kemp was taken out exhausted. Kemp is said to be assigned as the cause which prompted him to commit the deed. =. The different steamship lines are taking back to Europe many more steerage passengers than usual at this time ill | the year, some of them say more than ever be- fore. This they attribute to two causes-the cheapness of the passage and the scarcity of work through the country Among the | 1 ,127 steerage passengers on the Idaho to the | United States were about 600 Mormons. A noticeable feature of the company was the large proportion of good-looking, buxom young women, who seemed somewhat ashamed of their position, avoiding the glances of strangers as much as possible. ... A Chinaman named Chen Cheon, who in April, 1867, formally de- | clared his intention to become citizen of the United States, and has since fully complied with the naturalization laws, was refused the privilege of voting in Washington Territory ...... Austin, Texas, has a jail or black-hole, IA by 16, in which forty-two prisoners have been confined at once, the average number being thirty. The Grand Jury found some
 the prisoners almost naked, the smell unbear
 able, and the jail-room very dark. co. Margaret Sullivan was blind, paralytic, and bedridden for five years in Kansas City, when, the other day, she found that starvation was likely to be the culmination of her troubles. She groped around until she found her husbands razor, and cut her throat with it.
 When nearly three thousand persons were gathered in Washington square, New York, to see the fireworks, which the rain prevented from sending of on the Fourth, a rocket struck among pile of Roman candles and rockets, and in moment the head was in ablaze. The rockets flew in all directions, the candles scattered, and the whole mass of in fammable materials exploded with loud re- port. Many persons were seriously injured
 The disaster to the Shore Line R. R. by which one passenger was killed and one hun- dred injured, was caused by the switchman's carelessness. It seems that the switchman, while the train was passing over his swich, be- came impatient and shifted the switch before the last car had passed. This threw the real car of, and the drag was so heavy that all the other cars of the train were pulled from the track and thrown over upon the marshy ground at the foot of the embankment, all the cars up setting The long strike of the Union Goa Miners at New Straitsville, Ohio, is ended by the miners returning to work in body...... The Orangemen of New York city, concluded not to have public parade this year.