Connecticut western news., 1875-05-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abro

wounded. The Secretary of the United States Treasury has issued call for $5, ,OOO GOO of five twenty bonds, upon which interest will cease on the twentieth of July. The bonds called ill are coupon bonds, and arc included within tho following numbers Fifties, from 5,401 to F, 100; one hundreds, from 40, 001 to 44,200; five hundreds, from 20, ,001 to 22, 400 one thousands, from 6G, 00l to 70, 950. Tho charge of libel brought against Dr. Kenoaly by the sub-editor of the London Adpertise, has beon dismissed. Tho committee of tho Louisiana Legislature appointed to investigate the accounts of State-Auditor Clinton, rccom- mend that he be impeached for high crimes and misdemeanors. .. Ehe treasurer of Booths Ihoater, New York, was arrested under tho Civil Rights bill for refusing reserved seat to & colored man .. The superintendent of the capitol in Albany, N. r., says that with $2, 5OO,- 900 he will be able to put roof on the building in two years, and that the Legislature could go into it's chambers ill three years. =. Oscar Burton was killed in Somerville, Tenn, by one Doylo. Burton, last fall, had terrible re- contre with three brothers named Rivers, in which two of the Riverses were killed, and the other dangerously wounded, Burton being thot nine times, and, it was thought, mortally wounded.
 Sharkey is still in jail in Havana. It is not believed that Sharkey will be surrendered by the authorities. =. Ex-Treasurer Parker, of South Carolina, has been arrested on 8 charge of embezzling BPS, ,OOO of the sinking fund money of the State. .... The resolution inn peaching State-Auditor Clinton for high crimes and misdemeanors passed the Louisiana House of Representatives .. The Indians who re- gently escaped from the Cheyenne agency have gathered, to the number of five hundred, along the valley of the Arkansas, and are preparing to go on the war-path .... In the case of Miss Alec Early against the Chicago Times for libel the jury awarded tue plaintiff $25, ,000 damages. ..J. R. Keene, of California, has sold to c. w. Kellogg, the San Francisco millionaire, the trotting stallion Sams Purdy, for $5O,000. This is the highest figure ever paid for & trot- ting stallion. .....A fourteeu-year-old son of James Bennett, of Freyburg, Me-, accidentally shot and killed himself while out gunning. . .. Mrs. David Simley, of Peterboro, N. H., hanged herself in closet with & skein of yarn Governor Hartranft is very hopeful of speedy ending of the lamentable state of affairs in the mining districts of Pennsylvania, and expresses confidence in the peaceable solll- tion of the longest and most stubborn conflict between capital and labor that has ever been known in the mines.
 Outra9es on the Mexican frontier continue. Cattle and horses are stolen and settlers arc frequently killed by the raiders. John Harper, one of the original Harper Brothers publishers, died in New York He was the last but one of the four brothers who started the house. .... The Philadelphia weayers, on a striko, still hold out. .... The house of the Rev. Mir. Fenn, at Portland, Me-, was robbed of $2,00O worth of watches, jewelry, etc. Several thousand dollars in bonds were also taken. Now York merchants gave ex-Senator Carl SchurZ dinner. United States Attor- ney-General Williams has tendered his resig- nation, to tako effect on the fifteenth of May The Cuban insurgents are depredating ill the jurisdiction of Sagua and Colon, meeting with no resistance. A large number of sugar plan tatons have been destroyed. ... Indian agent Haworth telegraphs from Fort Sill that the hostile Comanche chiefs Mawway, Long Hun gry and Wild Horse have surrendered together with thirty-six followers.
 Seven cases of fatal suicide were reported in one day in the papers. They took place ill all parts of the United States. The suicide mania is raging terribly .....A destructive confagration occurred ill New Orleans, three steamers being burned one of them had an excursion party on board. A number of lives were lost. Captain St. John venerable and well known North river steamboat captain, shot himself. Ho was very wealthy and was no doubt temporarily insane from care and anxiety A man ill St. Louis cut his throat and walked whole block before ho died . Fred Klenen, the defaulting secretary of tho Hoboken Savings Bank, sentenced to ten years imprisonment at hard labor in the State prison. .....A new and dangerous counterfeit recently made its appearance at the national bank redemption agency ill the $5 notes of the First National Bank of Paxton, Ill. It is evi- dently altered from tho plato on which the counterfeit $5 notes of the Traders National Bank of Chicago were printed. ... The police authorities of Posen have notified all tho Ursuline Sisters ill that district who arc not natives of Germany that they must leave the country within two months. -. Charles Hill, a prominent citizen of Saco, Me-, and loading politician of York county hanged himself in his sleeping room. He was sixty years of age. ...... Joe Coburn has accepted the challenge of Steve Taylor of Jersey City, to fight at catch weight for $2, 500 a side . The direc- l tors of the Northern Pacific railroad report that work will soon be resumed on the line
 Robert w. Batting was sentenced to Sing Sing | for F, 1,o ,f JnJ,, o+ New Paltz on the twonty-first of October.
 Tho Postmaster General of the United States discovered a fraudulent bid among those for mail routes in Louisiana. About six clerks have already boon discharged for complicity in the frauds, and it is understood that at least a dozen more are implicated.
 desperate fight took place 3SO miles west of Kansas City bctween q band of raiding Oheyennes and two companies of tho Sixth United States cavalry, in which twenty-sovcn Indians were killed ..... John Sneeden n farm laborer, noar Railway, N. J., met with fatal accident Ilo was blowing and hold the rena of the horses ovor his mock, while with his hands guiding the blow. One of tho horses struck stump, stumbled and fell, Sneedcr was jerked forward, quick as lightning and over the plow Tho horses then ran away and the unfortunate man had both arms and several ribs broken and bruised externally and injured internally so that his death occurred. .....A A boy in Now York mischevously throw a stone at little girl, hitting her on the head and killing hcr. Tho boy, only twelve years of age, is in jail ....A civil war is imminent ill Greece and tyo thousand troops are concen- trated in Athens " The first instames.t of tho Virginius award has been pad to the United States by Spain. A largo force oi Texans are ill the field on tn border to protect tho settlers there . Daniel OLeary, o1 Chicago walked l 16 miles in twenty four hours at the Philadelphia rink, making tho best time |