Connecticut western news., 1874-05-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

A bill has been prepared and will be intro duced in the United States. Senate at an early day restoring the income tax. All salaries and incomes over $5, 900 are to be taxed five per cent, and those over $10,000 ten per cent. This measure, it is claimed can be put through without difficulty. It will be absolutely nsces- sary to increase taxation. Judge Donohue has ordered the NY. Benevolent Society of Masons to reinstate James Doyle, and make him eligible to benefits. The society, charging that he had worked for less than wages, had denied him a weeks payment for sickness, and dropped his name from the rolls. At wedding in East Hampton two boys, named John Peters and Wm Mitchell, tried to get at the cake in the pantry through window, which they wedged open with an axe. Hearing some one approaching Peters dropped under the window, and Mitchell in his fright let the axe fall, and it dropped upon Peter's head, cutting fearful gash, and infiicting fatal injuries. Forty Brooklyn Sabbath breakers were arrested at Flatbush, where they had gone to play ball ..... Michael Finn, charged with assaulting his wife with intent to kill on the 9th of November at Thorold village, Ontario, was found guilty of murder in legal sense at the
 
 O'Rielly, the 4th of July being the day fixed for the execution. .... Simon Pierce, of Neosho, Kansas. whose son was hanged by vigilantes for killing & man named Amend, has under taken to bring the lynohers to account. He has caused the arrest of a number of prominent | and leading men, but whether 8 Kansas jury will sustain the law remains to be seen.
 The U. s. Secretary of War has directed the issue of 20, 0eO rations daily for twenty-five days, and also proper supply of army clothing for the use of the destitute people in the over- flowed region about the Mississippi. The cost to the Government for these issues will be l $9O, ,O00 and the House Committee on Appro- priations agreed to report bill appropriating | that amount. .. Forty idlers who were ar rested in Brooklyn on a Sunday were fined $5 each. Thirteen boys who were playing ball at the sams rlace were fined $2 each. .. It is said the French Government intends sending to Spain two agents who will report upon the advisabiity of recognizing the Carlists as bel igerents. .... A Frenchman named Paulin was murdered in Caraguet, Canada, by his wife'f paramour. The murderer, whose name if Gallian, followed his victim into the woods where he was getting fence rails and killed hin with an axe. Gallian and Paulin's wife have been arrested. .....W. s. Donnan, prominent merchant of Richmond, Va, five members o1 his family, two guests, one well-known clergy man, and three servants were poisoned after eating custard which it was supposed contained arsenic. partial examination made by ar analytic chemist failed to discover any arsenic for which the examination was made. . Car l nf hos ofpo RN q horse to trot three for $20, 900; three-mile heats, best three in five two miles and repeat aud three miles and repeat all three races tc be taken together, against any horse, mare, ol gelding in the United States all the races ir harness. The winner of two races to take the $40, ,000. The horse and owner to be named when the deposit is put up. =. Six membert of the freshman and sophomore classes of the University of Michigan have been suspended for hazing .... The Khedive of Egypt tool military possession Of the Suez Canal before M. de Lesseps yielded to the decision of the International Tonnage Commission. .. The members of the Patchogue Methodist Churct have decided to abolish wine from the commu nien table and use water instead. . An oyster pungy was capsized off Thomas Point, Md
 by sudden squall. Capt. John Maith (white) and three colored hands, named James Hand John Lock, and William Reed, were drowned coo. "whisky crusade was inaugurated il Manchester, England Several signatures tc the pledge were obtained.
 The Sheriff of Morgan county, Utah, has captured Katie Bender, the she-devil of tha family of murderers. Katie fought desperately before she was captured. In her pocket wal found photograph, which was recognized a. that of Mrs. Bender. The capture of tht others is but matter of time . Fredericl Douglass, President of the Freedman's Saving, Bank, says that depositors need not give them selves any uneasiness and should not dispose of their claims at 8 sacrifice. Those employed at the bank assure him that if depositors vii be patient for 8 short time the bank and iti branches will be able to pay dollar for dolla
 ......T Three buildings in Newgate street, Lon don, fell in ruins. Several persons were crush ed in the ruins. The U. s. House Committet on Appropriations have completed the Pensio1 bill, appropriating $29, GOO, GOO. " The fol lowing resolution was passed by the Easter1 Pennsylvania Banking Association :-ss This as sociation favors 8 modification of the Nationa Currency act so as to authorize free banking under reasonable restrictions, allowing circu lating notes equal to the current market value of bonds, pledged for their redemption, no exceeding their face value and such change ir the law relating to reserves as will render tho same flexible, and available for use in times o1 great stringency." ..... The French Steamship Company have lost another vessel, the Nil which sunk off Cape Idsu, with supposed loss of 150 lives.