Connecticut western news., 1874-11-20
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 The smallpox prevails to an alarming extent in Montreal. .Simeon M. P. for South Norfolk, Canada has been unseated for bribery and corruption . There is strike among the stone-cutters on the Wellard Canal Ontario. Three men, claiming to be Ameri can fishermen, were arrested by the Spanish authorities at Bacurano, near Havana. The men claim that they went ashore to purchase provisions, their stock being exhausted. ..... dispatch from Hendaye says peremptory orders have been received from Paris for the expulsion of all Spaniards from the frontier towns. .. Yakoob Khan, son of the Ameer of Afghanstan has rebelled against his father, and has raised an army to fight him.
 The New Jersey Board of Education reports the number of children in the State between the ages of five and eighteen years as 29S,000. There are 1,493 school buildings, and tho number of teachers employed is 2,835. The number of pupils enrolled as ill attendance is 1S6 392, the increase of children within the ages mentioned being Il 1,557. The statistics show that there was Ill eos who do not attend the State schools " An accident occurred on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, in which one passenger was killed and fifteen injured =. It was discovered that woman has been buried alive in Montreal. The ap- pearance of the corpse on opening the coffin was narrowing. Tho affair has been hushed up and the viotim's name not given. .... The McCune-Hogan or Hoagland suit, involving $5, 900, 900 worth of land in Tioga county, Pa., is entered at Caldwell Ohio. ... While firing a salute at Madison, Ohio, a cannon burst, in- stantly killing young man named George F. Martin.
 Ex-Senator Doolittle, in & speech, said that ex-President Johnson saved $50, ,000 of his salary, and gives this as reason why the salary of the office should be reduced. w Careful estimates put the yield of the precious metals this year in Utah at $10, 100000. This is against $5 GOO, 900 last year. ....T The famine ill Asia Minor, which is now recognized by the Turkish government as having assumed very serious proportions, is occupying the attention of the Grand Vizier, who has determined to transport thither 8 large amount of provisions in the hopes of being yet in time to save many lives, and to enable the peasants to SOW their fields, proceeding which at present he finds has been dangerously retarded from want of seed corn and beasts of the blow. . Near Osceola, Ark, Jack Phillips, negro, outraged tho wife of 8 planter, and she died. The negro was arrested and taken to Osceola, where the citizens, both white and black, formed court, and after hearing evidence, took tho prisoner out and shot him dead.
 The charge against George 0. Harding, editor of the Indianapolis Herald, for attempting to kill Sol Moritz, for the seduction of his daughter, was dismissed by the criminal court, the prosecuting attorney recommending aolle proseq,ti .... Allen county, Ind, is excited by the abduction of three children of John Martin, few weeks ago, by two men and three women. The party were traced to Illinois, but have not been heard from since. Tho children were aged respectively ten, thirteen, and fifteen years.
 Balances in the United States Treasury {: Currency, $15, AGO, 1o1 special deposits of legal tenders for the redemption of certificates of deposit, $53, 165, 900; coin, 1884, ,093 000 in- cluding $21 ,067,00O in coin certificates out standing legal tenders. 1882, ,0OO, ,OOO . Miss Charlotte Cushman bade farewell to the stage at BooSh's Theater, New York. Mir. William Cullen Bryant presented the distinguished actress with laurel wreath and MT. Roberts read poem by R. H. Stoddard, after which there was & serenade at the Fifth Avenue Hotel.... United States Marshal Selye and Lieutenant Hodgson, U. s. A., were sent to prison for ten days at Vienna, La., for con- tempt of court. .... The murderer of Mf. Haber, the German Consul to Japan, has been beheaded. .Dr. J. c. Aver was burned in effigy in the town of Aver, Mass, which WAS named after him. In condemnation thereof numerously- attended citizens meeting was held, when deprecatory resolutions were passed. Dr. Aver is the well-known patent medicine man who was an unsuccessful candi- date for Congress. co. While the funeral of MT. Lapauge was being held at Pawpaw, Mich, a little son of the deceased wandered to the river near the house and was drowned.
 Edward Mcclure shot and instantly killed his wife in San Francisco. Jealousy is said to have prompted him to commit the deed. Archie Powell colored, of Little Rock, Ark, shot his wife in the neck, and then shot him. self in the mouth T.; both mortally wounded. Jealousy was the cause of the deed. .
 Jeremiah O'Sullivan, who was in tho Hudson county, N. J., jail awaiting transportation to State prison to serve five years sentence, committed suicide by cutting his throat with razor ...... A hurricane passed over the ieland of Jamaica and caused considerable damage. In that harbor there are few small wrecks and several lives lost. The storm is believed to be most severe in Barbadoes, Santa Lucia, and Hayti and the north side of Jamaica. There has been no intercourse since between Kingston ard either of the sister islands men, toned, or northern Jamaica. .. Hartridge's majority for Congress in the First Alabama District is 4,211, and Smiths majority in tho Second District is 2,154. Wm. Walter Phelps, for M. 0. in New Jersey, is beaten by five votes. .... N. s. Stevens has been elected Delegate to Congress from Arizona by about 200 majority. .... Tho official count of the Congressional votes in the Fourth Massachu- setts District gives the election to Frost by small majority .. The Pennsylvania Senate stards 20 Democrats and 30 Republicans; the House 107 Democrats and 94 Republicans. Democratic majority on joint ballet, 3.... Justice Hogan will contest E. R. Meades elec- ton in the 9th New York District.
 A package of Danish butter was received at the Butter and Cheese Exchange in Now York, which was packed in & tin case more than seventeen years ago.. .....A. Yeatman Zachos, a florist of Now York, was married at II o'clock in the morning, and shot himself fatally the same evening. IA scene was enacted during the services at the Methodist Episcopal Mis- sion Church in Washington which will never be forgotten by the witnesses thereto The clergyman, Rev. MT. Hysore, while preaching, suddenly remarked Brethern, feel very sick" and, clasping his right hand to his fore