Connecticut western news., 1874-11-13
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be overlooked; Turkey must mete out speedy justice to the perpetrators and make repara- tion for their crimes. The great powers have advised Porte to take this course. ... Angus McTavish, an old resident of Dunwich, Ont, met with horrible death. In attempting to head off steer, the animal attacked him furiously, carried him some distance on his horns, and dashed him to the ground. He died shortly after, suffering great pain..... John Roach has over two thousand men en- ployed in Chester, Pa. The keels of three iron ships are now laid there. They are all designed for the Pacific Mail Steamship Con- pany. The Ottumwa express on the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad, consisting of nine full passenger cars, was wrecked at Whitefield, Iowa. The whole train was ditched. Nineteen passengers were fatally injured and several killed outright. Information re- ceived from Southwestern Nebraska shows that thousands of people are in 8 starving condi- tion. Many for weeks have had nothing to eat but baked squash and pumpkin and salt, and others live on baked flour and water, one meal day, for weeks. Ten thousand people will need aid sufficient to keep them from starvation and cold during the winter. Hun dreds of people are naked and on the verge of starvation, and without means to leave the State.
 The Oregon Legislature has passed strin- gent act against gambling, one of the clauses of which provides that 8 person losing money at the gaming table shall have the right to re- cover by law to the value of twice the amount of his loss. ... David Klugmau, convicted for contempt of court in attempting to bribe & juror in the Phelps case, was sentenced to thirty days imprisonment in the county jail, at Albany. N. Y, and to pay fine of $25O. The court in passing sentence spoke of the offence as very serious, and said that the pres ent proceeding would be no bar to indictment for attempting to bribe juror, which is 8 felony. .... Germany has just launched her seventh iron clad. Another is to be launched in April. Twelve armored corvettes of 5000 tons each for harbor defence are in process of construction. The Hon. Wm. M. Evarts and Judge Porter, of New York, have been definitely engaged to defend the Rev. Henry Ward Beecher .. Willie Carter, of Atlanta, Ga., while intoxicated, shot himself dead at 8 social circle, and in the presence of his wife.
 
 Massachusetts jurist died in Boston. e. A cotton mill in Over, County of Chester, Eng land, was burned. Ten of the operatives were unable to escape and perished. ... The British Foreign Office is advised that Sir Hercules Robinson has established provincial govern ment in the Feejee islands. The annual revenue from the islands is estimated at $175,- GOO.
 gang of highway robbers were captured in Lower California, and $9, 900 of their ill-gotten gains recovered. The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the First Congregational Church at Worcester, Mass., was celebrated in appropriate fashion. .... .Dockray, the Ameri- can, is in prison in Spain and ironed. He was sentenced to death, but the sentence was com muted to ten years Imprisonment. .. Two men were fatally injured while blasting rock at White Mountain Notch. The crops through out India are reported to be in 8 most prom ising condition, as the monsoons have begun with copious showers of rain. All fears of & continuance of tho famine are now dis sipated, and the number receiving government relief in Bengal has already fallen below 250- 900. ... It is now believed that nearly one thousand persons perished by the typhoon in Japan.
 Late advices from Central Asia report that the instruction in Khokand has been SUD- pressed. A dispatch to the London Times says that the Governor of Syria has been ordered to suppress all the Protestant schools in his province. |. Three grain vessels were wrecked on the lakes near Buffalo, in the severe storm recently. John Parcell, of Englewood, N. J., was out with dogs in the neighborhood of Sneden's Landing, near En- glewood, hunting for coons. The dogs man. aged to get down on the lower slope at the foot of the palisades and treed coon. Parcell went close to the edge of the precipice, and. the edge giving away, he fell distance of sixty feet, and was picked up dead.
 -~~ William H. Gary, an influential builder of Troy, IN. r., hanged himself in his barn. .... |. A girl in a Lowell, Mass, cloth factory had her arm torn from it's socket by 6 belt, and died almost immediately. .... large number of workmen were discharged from the Ports mouth Navy Yard, work in the constructing department being suspended. LA young man named Benjamin Haight was shot about two miles from Elmira, N. Y., while ste aling turkeys from the premises of the Hon. Ed mund Miller. The shooting was done by . son of MT. Miller. Haight died " The action of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in St. Louis cannot well result in anything but 8 general strike. They will resist any reduction of wages, and two or three of the Western railroads have already declared their intention of opposition. If strike does come of it will be hotly contested, the Brother hood being among the strongest corporations. ..... Burglars entered the dwelling of Jacob Tell, at Pittsburg, Pa., and after carrying away the slverware and other articles of value, set fire to the house. MT. Tell awoke the family, and all escaped by jumping from upper win dows, except his son Joseph, and 8 servant named Margaret Lynch. Joseph rushed down the stairway through the flames and was seri- ously burned, while the servant was suffo located in the third story, and her body, blackened and disfgured, was found after the fire was extinguished. The citizens of Boston heartily indorse the plan of the Philadelpeia Centen- nial and it is proposed to carry it out
 A general strike of the Clay county, Indiana, coal miners went into effect, which promises to be protracted, as both operators and miners are firm. The Mark Lane Express says "The wheat trade in England is again getting in & fix. The damp atmosphere is probably the cause. Occasionally there has been a shilling rise, but more markets show an equal decline. Wheat remains the worsr paid grain grown this season." ..... There was tremen- dous explosion of powder at Hounslow, Eng land. Four persons were instantly killed During an electlon row in New York, John Nc Kenna was shot and killed. .. Joseph A. Hamilton, who murdered E. W. Hallock about three years ago. was hanged at Bethany, Harrison county, Mo. ......A serious riot oc cured at one of the polls in Eufaula, Ala. on election day. Several negroes were killed