Connecticut western news., 1874-10-23

..... The loss occasioned by the late typhoon
 at Hong Kong is estimated at $5, 000, 900. The shore for miles around IS strewed with tie "wrecks Of vessels that were destroyed by the
 typhoon. The Porte of Turkey has sent
 26, 900 bushels of corn to relieve the famine.
 distressed people of Asia Minor, and Ii, ,OOO oxen to Eplow the fields 5. Ths Liondon
 Gtobe says; aA telegram from Shanghai says
 that war has been declared between China and Japan. We are not able to confirm the report, :"
 ......The Grand Jury at Salt Lake indicted one of their own number, Thomas E. Bieks, for lascivious cohabitation. He ia charged
 with having five wives, three of whom he mar ried since 1862.s Hiso daughter is one of the principal witnesses against him. :. North Carolina newspapers are demanding a law for the protechon of insect-destroying birds. :. :.
 Railrohd train Employees in Neveda, from the conductor to the fremen, go armed for the purpose of putting gamblers and other thieves oil. Amos Chapman and Dixon, two scouts
 with htwo citizens, 8 sergeant and one enlisted man, with Gen. Miles command, lay in sand hole surrounded aud attacked by 15O Indians defended themselves for whole day, one of them, the sergeant being killed and all the others being badly wounded.
 The greatest distress prevails among the quarrymen in the neighborhood of Bangor, in Wales. About 5000 men employed in the slate quarries of Lord Penrhyn struck for higher wsges some weeks since. Lord Penrhyn refused then to aocede to their demand, and has just declined to submit to an arbitration. a proposition which had been made on behalf of the quarrymen. A branch of the Massa- chusetts State Labor Reform party nominated the following State. ticket; For Governor, J. w. Andrews, of Danvers; Lieutenant Gov ernor, Caleb Hammond, of New Bedford Secretary of State, R. Hinchcleff, of Lawrence; Attorney General, Patrick Quincy Treasurer, George Clarke; Auditor, Charles J. Goodwin, of Lowell..... A truck driver was recently gored to death in the streets of New York by & Texas steer. .... The New York State sculling race was won by John Biglin, over James Ten Eyck, in the excellent time of three miles in twenty three minutes . There is an effort on foot to revive the franking privilege
 at the forthcoming session of the U. s. Con-
 gress ... The commission appointed to in
 quire into the recent shooting of friendly
 Osages by Kansas militia report that the act was unprovoked and utterly unjustifable. ... The Berlin National Gazette declares that the arrest of Count Won Arnim is not connected with politics, but is simply criminal pro- cedure. a '--
 The Carlists shot nineteen natives of Na- varre, who were serving in::the insurgent army, tor insubordination An explosion occurred in building at Aspeitia, Spain, used for the manufacture of cartridges for the, Carlists, causing. the instant death of eighteen persons.
 ..... .The complications between Denmark and the German Empire in regard to the Danish inhabitants of schleswig will probably be submitted to the Queen of England for arbitration.. .. The Democrats of New York city nominated W. H. Wickham for Mayor. man in Salt Lake has just been convicted of murder committed fourteen years ago ..... Weston. on his last attempt to walk 800 miles in six days, failed, accomplishing but 346. ... Augustus W. Cutler was nominated for Con- gress by the New Jersey Fifth District Demo- cratic Convention. A disastrous fire broke out in Paris, destroying the piano manufactory of NJ. Hertz. An immense stock of material was | burned, the loss being 1,25o 1000 francs. The position of Grand Master of the Free | Masons of Ireland has been offered te the l Duke of Abercorn, and it is understood that | the position will be accepted