Connecticut western news., 1874-05-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.

The coal miners of Durham have yielded to tn terms of the employers and the strike has ended ..... :. Bill Kelly was hanged at Nash vile, Tenn, for murder. He denied his guilt to the last. .... By the explosion of boiler at the Keystone Mill, Philadelphia, Engineer Hugh Sweeney and 8 lad named Isaac Dubois were injured, but not fatally. ... Over 1000 tourists visited Florida last winter . It is proposed by the trustee and committee of Jay Cooke & Co.,, who have just paid a dividend of 5 per cent, to make further cash dividend of 10 per cent as soon as it can be realized from the remaining assets, thus settling with the creditors in full. Upon this being carried out, the creditors will receive 15 per cent. in cash and 85 per cen in securities. .. The Anchor line steamer Ethiopia broke shaft at sea, and returned to Glasgow. Many of her passengers were transferred to other vessels .. In 8 severe fight in Arkansas several men were killed or wounded on both sides . The strike of the canalmen at St. Catherines, Ont. ], has ended. They resumed work, having agreed to accept $1.37 per day.. The Boston Herald has been sued for $50, ,0O0 damages, alleged to have been sustained by c. o. Gott, of Fitchburg, by an article in that paper pur- porting to be a history of the Cardiff Giant The plaintiff claims that the allegations in the article were untrue, and the defendant contends that the charges therein made were authentic, and that the publication was made without malice.
 The Glasgow ironmasters have decided not to relight their fires until the men intimate their willingness to resume work at reduction of forty per cent. They also resolved not to meet the men in conference. Destructive fires are reported as raging in the woods on the lines of several railroads in Minnesota. The Carlists are gradually abandoning their cause in northern Spain, although Don Carlos and General Elio are reported to be at Du- rango, thirteen miles southeast of Bilbao. It is announced that the Court of Inquiry in the case of General O. o. Howard has failed to find any charges against him .. Hiram Craig, 8 farmer of Augusta, Me-, possessing property valued at $4o,Ooo or $5o,00o, hanged himself in his barn with a traoe-chain. He was aged seventy, and was one of the founders of the Baptist Church in Augusta. .... The damage done by the ice at Quebec on one day recently will amount to loss of $500, ,000. . The Pennsylvania Legislature unanimously adopted a resolution asking the President to appoint g board to re-examine the proceedings in the case of Fitz John Porter. .. Charles H. Jones (coloredD, convicted of murder, was sentenced in the Criminal Court of Baltimore to be hanged ......A dispatch from Tucson says thirty ot Cochise's Indians are on raid into Mexico | They had killed two men, and captured stock near Sarranta.
 Captain General Concha has issued decree | permitting members of the Militia of Cuba who pay $1,00O into the Treasury to remain 8 home Many persons are availing themselves of this permission. In a skirmish neal Little Rock, quite a number are reported tt have been killed and wounded on Brooks side while Baxter admits that he had only one mar wounded. The Baxter forces claim that at th' time of the interference by the United State troops they had the Brooks forces surrounded and would have captured the whole party. ....
 Weston, who has been walking in New York accomplished one hundred and fifteen mile
 within twenty-four h ours .... William Lauten
 an American, who acts as Vice-Consul for Grea
 Britain and Germany at Manzanilo, has beel | ordered to leave the Island of Cuba within tel
 days, in consequence of having had oommuni
 cation with the insurgents. .....At the Mint