Connecticut western news., 1874-04-24
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
 seven-tenths of the ticket which drew the capital prize in the Louisville Library Lottery was held in Memphis. A fire broke out at Millerstown, Butler County, Penn, in the Central Hotel, by which seven persons were burned to death. The bodies were recovered ......Wm. s. Schofeld, convicted of embez- zling money-letters from the Boston Post Office, has been sentenced to three years in the State Prison.
 The U. s. House Committee on Territories by vote of to 1, have agreed to recommend the passage of bill for the admission of New Mexico as 8 State 1n the Union. .. A London Neeos special from India says that incendiary fires were alarmingly frequent in the neighbor- hood of Steetamow, in the Gwalior district. Two large villages have been entirely destroyed. Large numbers of inhabitants are emigrating from Nepaul in consequence of the famine. =. At Middletown, Wis, while exercises were be- ing held in the school house, 8 lamp exploded which set fire to the building. About 300 per sons were present and became panic-stricken. In the rush for the doors about forty persons
 
 about half an hour and was then extinguished by two plucky women, who smothered it with overcoats and carpets. The U. s. Senate having agreed to issue $46 000, ,000 additional national bank currency, the aggregate volume of that currency will be $4OO,0O0,000 The vote having fixed the legal tender circulation at $400, GOO, GOO, the entire volume of currency will be $500, 100000. This is the amount sug- gested by MT. Ferry, of Michigan, on the fourth day of December, in the proposition for fnan- cial relief he then offered. ... Christopher Reckstein, of Austin, New, had been for along time jealous of his wife on account of the and they had frequent quarrels about him. One Osterhaus went to Reckstein's house, and receiving no response to his demands for admission, broke open the door. On the floor lay the naked body of Mrs. Reckstein cut to pieces, with the head split open. At her feet were the bodies of their two little girls, the heads nearly sever- ed from the bodies, and near by were the bodies of Reckstein and young Norton, grap- pied as in death struggle. Reckstein grasped in his right hand large bowie knife covered 2 dragoon pistol, two chambers of which were discharged. All were dead and there is no liv- ing witness to the affair. EE
 Two conductors in the service of the Penn- sylvania Railroad pleaded guilty to the charge of stealing from the company, and were sen- fenced to fine of $500 each. Philip Jones. an old farmer, tried to make peace between 8 party of roughs who were quarreling over game of billiards in the only drinking saloon that has not yielded to the women's movement in Bluffton, Ind. One of the rowdies struck Jones on the head with billiard cue crushing his skull. He kicked him in the face when down, and then fled. Jones died soon after. The excitement over the affair is intense. ..... As seven men were loading barge with sand at Fort Pickering, at the southern boundary of Memphis, about quarter of an acre of bluff fell upon them, burying the barge, and Dave Tracy, Dud We've, and another, name unknown beneath the slide in 100 feet of water The other four men barely escaped the whirlpool formed by the huge mass of earth falling in | the water. .... The proceedings in bankruptcy against the A. & W. Sprague Manufacturing Company by the National Bank of Commerce
 
 making legal assignment of all their property % Aaeharlah Chaffee, who has acted as trustee lnder the trust deed executed four months lgo. The assignment will bring the Spragues lnder the State bankruptcy laws and is satis- actory to the bank. The Commissioners of Charities and Correc- ion of New York, have rescinded the order emoving William M. Tweed sleeping quarters o the Penitentiary Hospital, and instructed he Warden to permit him to occupy his room ntn further. orders. .... In the new Capital ayestigation at Albany, it was shown that in 872 some 5000 barrels of cement were sur- cautiously made away with. It was also hown that bricklaying has cost $36 thou and, while builders generally charge 14.75 housand. The Mississippi river arose one nch above high water mark of 1871. The sonnett- Carre crevasse is 125 feet wide and 15 eet deep. The water is pouring through, and an be heard for miles ... The King of Ishantee has signed the treaty with England ent to him by Sir Garnet Wolseley, but has iven no guarantees that he will execute it's rovisions. A fight between Indians and minute men in Brown county, Texas, has esulted ln killing ten redskins ... Murat ialstead of the Cincinnati Commercial was rrested for printing @ gift concert advertise lent in that paper ... Judge Wright of Lan- aster, Ohio, has sentenced Hugh Dougherty, onvicted of the murder of Schleich, to be | anged July 31. ... .Advices from Pedro ,banto, Spain, says that Marshal Serrano had Jade proposals for 3 asettlement through Gen. 'lio, which the Carlists have defnitively re- ected. .... It is announced in the Official , tazette of Havana, that all slaves furnished to le Government in accordance with the degree t sued during the administration of Captain . reneral Joveller shall be organized as soldiers , nder white officers. They are to serve five ( oars, and at the expiration of their term will | 8 declared free. Their compensation will be lesame as that of the regular troops. Free t olored persons who enter the, Government ' 9rvice will be assigned to transport duty. E
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