Connecticut western news., 1874-04-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
 During the months of January and Februar, |! SOFIA persons were lodged in the station
 houses of New York, of which nnmber 22, 56| were habituals, leaving 8,2l4 casuals. . Johl R. Mclean, one of the proprietors of tn, Cincinnati Enquirer, was sent to jail by Judg' Marchant, for persisting in refusing to answe questions asked him in libel suit . Tn, appearance of the face of Senator Sumner as
 the body lay in the coffin was natural Int
 body was attired in an ordinary black coat
 vest and pants. The right hand lay across
 the breast, partly concealed beneath the vest
 in the position in which he usually held il
 when addressing the Senate. .... The testi
 mony at the coroner's inquest concerning the
 Binghamton boiler explosion goes to show that
 it was caused by imperfect connection between
 the two boilsrs, both of them being we'll made
 of good ron. . Swiss travellers in France
 can now dispense with passports. ... The new Atlantic cable will not leave London before
 June .... In the life salvage case of the
 steamship Atlantic, there was awarded 1,5OC
 to the fishermen of Prospect, who secured the
 passengers salvage, to be distributed in sums
 varying from $t5o to $50 each among sixteen persons. AETL.}f'f '-|
 The lower houses of the Legislature of Iowa and Michigan have declared in favor of amend ing the constitutions of these States so as to extend the suffrage to women. . The IrisE societies, of New York and Brooklyn had a grand procession in honor of St. Patrick The Legislatures of Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin have now passed laws, similar to thatof Illinois, for the regulation of railroad freight rates and passenger fares. .. The 1outsanding national bank circulation in the United States is $34S, ,334, ,3Ss The following 1 are the balances in the Treasury of the United States Currency, $s.O02, ,629; special deposits of legal tenders for the redemption of certif- cates of deposit, $51, 97O,o00; coin, $86, ,240, 743, including coin certificates $40, ,627, 800 |; outstanding legal tenders $382, ,00O, 900. ..... When Gov. Davis,~ of Minnesota, heard that the Senate had passed bill increasing his salary from $3, 900 to 4,0O0, he sent message to that body asking that this action be recon sidered, as the increase was inserted in the General Appropriation bill, which it would be | impossible for him to veto at so late day of the session. The Senate did it ... Great de- precision continues to mark the iron manufac- lures of the United States, and leading journal is told there are but faint prospects of speedy improvemtnt.
 Wages with the girls in some of the New England mills vary from $6 to $16 per week. Fair weavers can earn about $7.50 per week B.. The Zion's Herald states the entire num- Der of pupils in all the Methodist Sunday schools in the world to be 5000, ,OOO. At the commencement of the Woman's Medical College of Philadelphia sixteen females gradu- ated as Doctors of Medicine. :. .Garnier won the first prize at the Boston billiard tourna- ment. .....T There is prospect of an immense fruit crop in the central portion of Illinois. Mermons are making converts in Michigan, and will take many families to Utah this sea- son. Some of the converts are wealthy
 The emigration from Great Britain was greater last year than in any year since 1854. .12 900 people day have eaten at the New York soup houses. "A passenger train going West on the Central Pacific R. R., between Toano and Wells, was thrown from the track by broken rail and went over an embankme nt, falling 8 distance of thirty feet, many passengers be- ing killed or injured.
 The jury in the case of John Ortner, street contractor of Buffalo, tried for swearing to accounts for repairing sewers, which work was never performed returned verdict of guilty. The account rendered went into details of labor and materials used, and was approved by the Street Commissioner. ... In accordance with instructions received from her Majesty's Gov. ernment, an inquiry will shortly be held in re- spect to the relatives of those British subjects who were captured on board the steamer Vir- ginius and shot by order of Gen. Burriel at Santiago de Cuba. It is surmised that this in- quiry is with view to securing compensation from the Spanish Government In the British Parliament the question of Home Rule was under discussion. Dr. Butt spoke in favor of the principle, and Mir. Gladstone opposed it. On division 51 votes were cast in it's favor. Earthquake phenomena at Bald Mountain, N. G., have caused great terror among the in- habitants. ..... Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, declined the invitation to attend the Congreea- tionaI Conference.
 Over one hundred of the leading business men of New York city, including many presi- dents of banks, insurance companies and trust companies, ask of the Legislature an investiga- tion into the condition and management of the city finances. =. .Highwaymen in Ohio are be- coming as bold as in the far West. They not only shot and robbed wealthy merchant, but piundered his coachman. . The Voz de Cuba has information of the killing of the insurgent Colonel Belaserio Peralta and sixteen of his mon by the Spanish troops. .. ... A jury in the Parker House case. for violating the Liquor law in Boston, were discharged, they standing six to.six, with no prospect of agreeing upon verdict :... The temperance crusade is, s,rapidly spreading throughout the State of Michigan, and is being very generally successful in the smaller towns. ... .: Mrs. Ann Sconce of Scott Co.,, Ky, wife of 8 wel-known farmer, recently inflicted frightful wounds with razor upon two of her children, aged nine and two years, and then cut her own throat. Mrs. sconce is dead but the children may recover She was laboring under fit of mysteries at the time .. .. While mine car, containing ten men, was de- scending the slope of Lloyd Glover & Co.'s coIliery, at Phoenix Park, Pa., the rope broke and the car fell, instantly killing John McCabe, John Davis and Archie McAIichael. The others received injuries not thought to be serious.