Connecticut western news., 1875-05-28

 taking poison. She repented of the act before she expired, and begged doctor to save her life, but he was unable to. do 30 .. A. fire at the Millennial camp meeting grounds, near Hebron, Mass, destroyed nine cottages, with residence and barn :. .. E! Weston, the pedes- trian, walked one hundred miles without stop ping .... . Later advices swell the number of lives lost on the steamer Cadiz to sixty-two. The Cadiz was out of her course in consequence of 8 misreckoning of her captain. She struck & rock and sank almost immediately. ... The Rev. Dr. Geo. Webber, of Kent Hill, Me-, committed suicide by hanging. f @ @i''- 's .>i'
 President Grant has sent letter of con- graduation to the President of the republic of Honduras on his election. .. The American Tract Society received $652, 2.s5 last year and expended $551, ,545. 56.. ..: : The republic of Guatamala has recognized the independence of the republic of Cuba, and esta blished official relations between the countries. .... deputa- tion of Good Templars has arrived at Quebec from Great Britain, on visit to the lodges of Canada and the United States =. The Russian government has signed convention with Japan by which the Japanese part of the
 
 The town of Calamar, on the Magdalena river, was almost entirely destroyed by fire on the evening of April 30. Some eighty or ninety houses were destroyed and two women and one child burned to death. The value of the property lost is unknown ...... A dispatch from Berlin states that 8 crowd of women mobbed an Old Catholic schoolhouse in Konig- shute, Silesia, declaring they would never per init their children to become Old Catholics. The military cleared the streets, arresting some twenty persons. .... By fire in Boyentown, Bucks, county, Pa., five dwellings, one church and three stables were destroyed. .. Harvard college has changed it colors from magenta to crimson. ... :. The. board of managers of the Adams Express Company has voted $1, ,0O0 gold to messenger Price, who killed the robber on his car on the Pittsburgh and Fort Wayne road. A man named Rielly has been arrested and held for trial in Newark N. J., for selling liquor to boy of sixteen years, who was found intoxicated. =. The Roman Catholic bishops of Prussia have decided to dissolve even the religious orders which the state tolerates, being unwilling to see them sub- jected to governmental supervision.
 
 Bible Society, it was announced that in the ffty-nine years of the society's existence, it has distributed 3 ,893, 332 Bibles. The youth OConnor, who attempted to shoot the Queen on the occasion of thanksgiving for the Prince of Wales recovery from sickness, has been again arrested having been found standing near the palace in the same spot from whence he aimed the pistol preyiouslya He has been sent to an insane asylum. ' Treasury statistics show that during April 1t, ,851 passengers by. ocean steamers arrived in New York and of these 13, ,354 were ssteerage passengers. .. The Pope replied with feeling to the congratula- tions of the Germans on his birthday, and in his remarks praised the German clergy and exhorted them to stand firm. .. A troupe of Chicago female cancan dancers were ordered 1 outof Toronto by the police. ..Sarina Thomas, daughter of a Steuben county (N. Y. clergy man, ran away with married man named John Ferris, who subsequently stole her watch and money. She had him arrested and he was sentenced to prison for six months The dis grace of the position so preyed upon her mind that she threw herself before freight train at Watkins and was instantly killed. =. . The Toledo Blade, in carefully compiled acconnt, shows that of the winter wheat in the United States, at least one-third was destroyed, which was counterbalanced by the number of acres sown, so that the crop will be up to the aver l age. The amount of corn put in this year greatly exceeds that of last year . John; Siney, president of the Miners National Asso- ciation, has been, arrested at Osceola, Pa, ; charged with conspiracy :. Cadet 0. S. Hall was fatally injured at West Point by being. thrown from his horse in the cavalry drill. ,-~,
 The distiLers lately arrested by the revenue authorities have joined together for carrying this matter into the courts and testing the constitutionality of the internal revenue act. r:As a gang of convicts were working on the grounds of the Sing Sing prison near the railroad track, five of the most desperate made 8 rush past the unarmed keeper for freight train which was proceeding at very slow rate, and Jumping on the engine drove off the en- | gineer and fireman with loaded revolvers. | They then uncoupled the engine from the train, and pulling the throttle wide open started on their terrible ride for liberty. As the en- gineer stepped off, however,. he turned the pumps on full without being perceived by the convicts inehope of flooding the boiler and so | stopping the engine. His antlcipations were fully realized, for the engine had not proceeded far when she blew out one cylinder head, and at the expiration of three miles the other cylinder gave way and the engine stopped, the convicts taking to the woods. The pursuing parties had not been successful at last ac- counts. The divers examined the hull of the Schiller for four hours. They found her broken up-a confused mass of iron and timber Her lower deck rested on the rocks, and her bottom was gone, having been torn off by the rocks None of the specie was recovered, and no cargo was visible .. By the will of the late James Root, of Hartford, Conn.,, over $10O, 900 is bequeathed to charitable institutions Josh Frazer, cclored, was hanged in Camden, s. O., for murder in the presence of six thousand people. He was convicted on circumstantial evidence, but confessed his crime on the scaffold. He also acknowledged numbering ] his wife and child, as well as another woman, besides burning several barns and gin houses.
 Tine priests imprisoned in Posen, Germany and the neighboring towns, have been released and informed that evidence with regard to the alleged secret admins tration of the diocese by papal delegate is no longer required by the | government. .. Ten families lost their homes in Springfield, Mass, by an incendiary fire
 The postmaster-general has reduced the pos- tage to foreign countries from ten to five cents l for each half ounce, to take effect July 1st.
 Alfred Speer, of Rockland, Me-, while intoxi- cated, shot his wife in the face. As she was running from the room wiah her infant in her artus another shot waa fired, shs hall entering