Connecticut western news., 1874-08-28
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 The Kentucky Library Lottery drawing ha
 again been postponed until November. An'
 the postponement at least will be necessary t.
 dispose of sufficient tickets to secure q draWin,
 ..... The Tribune correspondent with Gen
 Custer writes that gold has been found il
 paying quantities on the surface ill the Blacl
 Hills country, and that the miners hope to dis
 cover good quartz lode. .... More than lift.
 bodies in all of the victims of the steamboa
 Pat Rogers disaster have been recovered.
 The grasshoppers have literally devouret
 everything in Northern and Southwestern
 Kansas and Nebraska. The damage inflicted
 on vegetation is far greater than in 1866. Th' corn crop throughout all this region is totall..
 destroyed. .. The Right Rev. Henry J Whitehouse, Bishop of the Protestant Episco pal Diocese of Illinois, died at his residence il
 Chicago after an illness of three days. He hat been twenty years at the head of the church il Illinois. A carriage containing five person.
 was run into by railroad train as it was cross ing the track at Newark, Del. Sallie Simon aged seventeen, was killed, MT. Norris had { leg broken, Miss Keely had both legs manglet below the knees, and the other occupants were 1 badly bruised. -. Two of the victims of the riot at Somerville, Tenn, have died, and two will probably survive. .... During two weeks nearly one thousand children under the age o1 | two years died in New York. .. The German Minister at Paris has informed the French Minister of Foreign Affairs that Germany intends to recognize the Spanish Republic. The Arapahoes, Cheyennes, and Sioux are re- l ,koI kol l,c J~, fo,,r Ni,,41 Infantry has left Omaha for Fort Laramie. A clerk in the New York Post Office, who was suspected of robbing the mails, had $40 un- opened letters on his person when caught. The Rev. John Cowan, once Chaplain of the Sixth New York Heavy Artillery, is held to answer q charge of consplring to defraud the United States of $1, GOO. Cowan recently wrote to the State Department that on the 21st of July last he fell from street car and his wallet was crushed. He enclosed fragment of 8 $1, 900 bond saying that that was all that was saved from his wallet. An examiner found on the fragment that the Rev. Mir. Cowan had en- closed to the Treasurer tho words {" Prest De La" showing that it was 3 bond of one of the South American republics. A deeoy letter was sent, requesting Cowan to call with his witnesses to the Sub-Treasury. MT. Cowan responded and when he entered. the building, was arrested. :. Another horror has come to light in St. Louis. Mme. Fortimeyer, mid wife, was arrested on charge of procuring an abortion. The dead body of young girl named Lena Miller was found in the house, and another young woman, name unknown, was found lying very sick and in great pain. The skeleton of an infant was also found in the house, and the partially burned bones of 8 foetus were discovered in the stove' It is stated that Mme. Fortimeyer has practised abortion several years that 8 number of in fants or focuses have been >cremated by her, and that several highly respectable persons in the city are involved in the matter.
 Thomas Libby went to the house of Hattie Rolfe, at Portland, Me.,l who had discarded fired pistol shot into her chamber window, but missed her. He was arrested. He had his bedroom door bsrricaded, and 8 pistol lay beside him on the bed. He was asleep .. :. :. At Creton, Iowa, J. F. Burnett entered the bedroom of bis stepson and cut the latters throat from ear to ear. The murderer then fled, The cause of the act has not been ascer- tained. ..... On July 23, batch of lockout farm laborers from the district of Newmarket, Sarmatian. The laborers took with them their wives and families, the total number of emi- grants being about 15o. They go out under the arrangements made by Mr. Joseph Arch with the Canadian Government Articles of agreement have been signed by J. B. John son, the champion swimmer of England, and Andrew Trautz the champion swimmer of the United States, for an international swimming match for the championship of the world and $1,OOO. Both men are in daily training in the ocean. A tornado did much damage at Dixon, Ill.,, to crops and property. =. The Democrats of the Sixth Ohio District nomi- mated the Hon. Frank Hurd for Congress. .. =. Eighty persons formerly connected with the Commune, have been arrested in Marseilles. Among them is M. Esquiros, an ex-Perfect of the Department. q. $.A steam boiler at the mines of the Illinois Central Coal Mining Com pany, at St. John, nL, exploded killing three men. Gen. Pope telegraphs Lieut.-Gen Sheridan that the Indians who have been
 
 to the borders Of the Llano Estaeado, coun- try filled with game, and that they have abun- dance of ammunition. The three columns of troops now operating will converge on the section named. -,. ..tSs --- Nf
 The Republicans of the Fifth District in Louisiana renominated the Hon. Frank Morey for Congress. 70. The Hon. Bion Bradbury was nominated by the Democrats of the First Congressional District of Maine The depu- tation of the Montreal City Council. lately sent to England, has placed the new loan of $s,- GOO, 900 thirty years five per cent. bonds at 90 cents. Tho action is approved by the Council ...... Mary Williams, domestic, employed at Cozzen's Hotel, on the Hudson, fell over 8 precipice 140 feet high. She struck 8 saplng in her descent, which broke her fall, and she escaped instant death. She was terribly in- jured, and lay all night unable to help herself, and was only discovered late the next morning ...... The Brooklyn tower of the East river bridge is to be finished by the time snow falls ..... In the prize fight between Edwards and Collyer, on the ninth round both men were badly beaten and bruised, and then foul was declared it being asserted that Edwards trainer had put an ointment on his hands with the intention of binding Collyer. Collyer's trainer would not let the fight go on.... The escape of Marshal Bazaine caused much excitement in France. The apartments oc- cupied by Marshal Bazaine opened upon a terrace, which was built upon lofty and pre-. cipitous cliff overhanging the sea. sentry was posted on the terrace with orders to watch the prisoners every movement. On Sunday, evening the Marshal walked upon the terrace with Col. Villette, his .aid-de-camp. At 10 o'clock he retired as usual, apparently to sleep, but before daybreak he had escaped. He must have crossed the terrace in tha dead of