Connecticut western news., 1875-02-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Trems of Interest from Home md Abroad.

Items of Interest from Home md AbrOnd.
 Frarcis Kernan was elected United States Senator from New York State in place of Mir. Fenton The Delaware Legislature reelected Senator T. F. Bayard to the United States Senate... Hannibal Hamlin was re- elected United States Senator from Maine. ... The Patrons of Husbandry of Louisiana and Mississippi have issued an address to. the order throughout the United States indorsing the report of the subcommittee of Congress in re- gard to affairs in Louisiana ..... On account of the frequent outrages on railway trains and employees, the Spanish government has de- termined that every armed Carlist found in the vicinity of a railroad shall be shot. .... To Southern Senators and Representatives asking aid to repair the levees President Grant in- timated that an end to political disturbances was first in order. .. Inc committee on the eligibility of G. c. Cannon, delegate from Utah, recommend his expulsion from the House on the score of poygamy. By fire in a Brooklyn tenement house three lives were lost and two persona seriously injured.
 President Grant issued Q message recom- mending heavy rifled cannon for sea-coast forti- fcations, and the appropriations these measures would require in the message, f.sc President after asking for $25O, 900 to commence work on these guns, says: The constant appeal for Legislation for the'' armament of Notifications ought no longer be disregarded if Congress desires, in peace, to prepare the important material, without which, future wars must inevitably lead to disaster. This subject is submitted with tho hope that the consideration it deserves maybe given it at the present session . Rumors are prevalent in Paris that tho Spanish Republicans and Carlists will join forces against King Alfonso, and in the event of success the people will be asked to vote for Don Carlos as King or for the republic. GOO. It is said in London that the government of Montenegro have resolved war with Turkey s-., ,ssF y4.Y E
 Irwin testified before the committee of ways and means, in the Pacific Mail investigation and gave list of persons to whom he had paid money. The names given were the same as those already mentioned by Abort. ... Isaac P. Christiancy was elected United States Sena- tor from Michigan in place of Zach. Chandler ......A fatal snow slide occurred in Big Cot tonwood canyon, Utah Territory. Six men
 
 other persons have perished in the same manner, as there have been several snow slides in the neighborhood. Fifty China men were buried alive by snow slide in the mountains near Genoa, Nev.... The Mardi Gras procession in New Orleans will not take place this year on account of thea commercial d. presaion in that city and in the State. ... Fsyty4seven Carlist officers have notified the Spanish Consul at Bayonne that they have given in their adhesion to King Alfonso. The king civil list wilb it is understood, be fixed at 28, 900 reals. :. .. The Carlist general 1 Palacons has petitionsd for amnesty.... Five persons were killed and fifty injured by g boiler 1 explosion in Podmorden; Yorkshire. :. Dis turbances have occurred over the baptism of children by the Old Catholics in two villages of the canton of Geneva, and the presence of | troops is necessary to preserve order ....The warlike spirit among the Montenegrlns threat l ens to lead to war with Turkey, notwithstand- ing the efforts of all tho powers to preserve I the paece .. The revolution in Uruguay has been completely successful. The government has fallen and the revolutionists are in power f By boiler explosion at a colliery in St. Nicholas, Pa, George Hassel was instantly 1 killed and the fireman, who is missing, is sup posed also to have been killed. Aman (narne ! unknownl had one leg blown off, several mules were killed, and the boiler house blown to pieces.... The Anti-Crisis League of Phila- delphia suggest as remedy for the present I financial crisis that Congress should impose duties on imports and give bounty on exports, 50 that trade with foreign countries should not l be against the manufacturers of the United States. t. .. Mrs. John Emerson was found sitting in the kitchen of her house in Bradford | Vt., with her head literally blown from her body. Her husband was at the barn, and on entering the house, he found his wife as above stated, with knitting work in her hands. A double e-barreled shot gun, discharged, was on the floor. Mrs. Emerson had been married but few months. She was twenty years old, and was not known to have an enemy. .... Senator Carpenter IS to represent Wisconsin again in the United States Senate .. !. The Russian expedition, which is about to explore Western China, has reached Shanghai, via. -Kiatcha and Picking. ... Counterfeit $20 Uni ted States Treasury notes, dated the 10th of March, 1862, are in circulation. The,spurious 1 man, was hanged at Corsiconia, Texas, for the murder of another colored man, ... The des- intuition in Daketah Territory is so great that appeals are made for help. .. Tie wife of Tom Ballard, the counterfeiter, was sentenced to five years in the Onondaga county peniten- tiary. Her husband was sentenced, to twenty one years. ,.. The boiler of 8 locomotive exploded on the Charleston railroad, near Hardeville, Ga. The engineer was horribly mashed, and two fren1ah were injured. Mrs. John Rankin, of Rockport, Me-, con- mitted suicide by shooting John Weymouth, travelling agent, was frozen to death while on his way to Great Falls, Me-.
 B. G. Caulfeld, Democrat was elected at Chicago to fill the vacancy in the present Con- gross caused by the death of John B. Rice >.
 A party of disguised and well armed men entered the town of Sparta, Tenn, forced their way into the jal captured the jailor, from whom they obtained the keys of the cells and released man named James Boyers, under confinement for murder. Five other prisoners were locked up by masked men, who returned the keys to the jailor and departed . John Gleason's house. in Cranford, N. J., took fire while all the family were absent, excepting two children, aged respectfully two and four years The house was destroyed, and the children perished. Their bodies fell to pieces when lifted. Gleason is all employee of the Central railroad. He did not come home when ex- pected, and his wife went to learn the cause of his detention, and during her absence the dis aster occurred. ... One hundred and forty eight Sisters of Charity were expelled from Mexico and have gone ts France. .. The iron masters and colliery proprietors of South Wales threaten 8 general lockout unless all their employees resume work at once. If the