Connecticut western news., 1874-05-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.

In Denmark it has been made illegal to manu- facture matches other than those wbich will ignite only on specially prepared surfaces.
 Three laborers, employees of the Morgan Iron Works, N. T., were drowned off Ninth street. They were carrying sheet of iron over gang plank from the pier to the. steamship Ocean Queen. The gang plank broke and they fell into the river. An unsuccessful effort was made to rescue them. The trial of the de- tective, Patrick Leahy, for killing an unoffend- Ing laborer named McNamara on his own hearthstone in New York, resulted in 8 verdict of not guilty. The detective misteok his victim for desperate. .... There is bill before the Massachusetts Legislature to compel all rail- road corporations to provide 8 uniform and distinguishing badge for all their employees whose duties relate to the immediate trans portation of passengers or their luggage. . The Baroness Meyer de Rothschild is about to establish a house for consumptives as a me- morial to her husband, the deceased banker ..... Nine of the largest cotton parishes of Louisiana are inundated, and 250, ,000 acres of cotton and 100, 900 acres of corn are destroyed, without counting small farms ahd gardens. Twelve parishes, producing annually 30,000 hogsheads of sugar. are also overfowed. Twenty-Five thousand people are already suf- fering for food, and the number is rapidly in creasing. Crops are also washed out in the uplands by rain At Shawnee, Ohio, an un- licensed dentist administered to 8 Miss Sullivan eighty grains of bromide of chloral. She died in few minutes. The dentist fled and has not been arrested. >. .Ex-President Johnson says he would not be candidate for the lower House of Congress, but does not disguise the fact that under proper and fitting circumstances he will be a candidate for the United States Senate, and favors an expression at the polls from the people on the Senatorial question.
 Intelligence has been received that famine prevails in Asia Minor, and that many persons are starving. It is stated that in the town of Angora alone one hundred persons die daily from starvation. The river Tigris is again swollen by heavy rains, and further floods are apprehended. ... .Caspar Trust, German baker, about fifty years of age, committed sui eide by hanging himself in New York. He formerly owned bakery, but became reduced in circumstances, and for few years had been working as foreman. During the winter he was hardly able to support his large family, and giving himself up to despondency at length re- solved upon suicide. Trust leaves wife and nine children destitute. .... Ernest Strube, of New York, not finding his supper ready when he went home, attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the fourth story window. He was seriously injured. The United States House Judiciary Committee agreed to an inn portant amendment to the Geneva Award bill, to the effect that payment will be made to the mutual insurance companies for all losses sus- tained by the vessels for whose depredations we made claim against Great Britain, provided no member of mutual insurance company shall recover for any war premiums paid to such company for risks. In other words, they will be paid for all losses, and cut of from war pre- miums. The amendment further provides that they shall distribute the money 80 paid them among their members who contributed to pay the losses. .... The Pope sent letter of con- graduation to the wife of Don Carlos on her confinement. He addressed her as Cher Majesty" and some of the papers allude, to this as an act implying recognition of he legitimacy of Don Carlos as King Charles VII.