Connecticut western news., 1875-11-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

fnteressahg Items from Homo and Abroad.
 Three children being left in house in Oil City, Pa., attempted to light fire with kero- girl were burned to death ...... The students of Yale indulged in their practice of hooting, cat-calling and hissing as Odd Fellows pro- cession was passing the college ip New Haven. They then seized passing coal cart and began firing the coal at the processio on, when the Odd Fellows, unable so stand such sport any longer charged the crowd with drawn swords, slightly injuring severalof the students..: .. A fire at Anderson, Texas, destroyed fourteen stores and dwellings,, the Odd Fellows Hall and furni- ture,, Wilson .& Howelrs store, two warehouses and the post-ofice. 5. ;. The New York Produce Exchange shas fixed the grades for oats as white, high mixed, No. 3, No! 3, and no grade. .....A royal decree has been issued carrying into effect the Bavarian imperial law introducing compulsory civil marriages .....
 Ex-Senator Zach Chandler of Michigan, has taken the oath. of office as secretary of the interior t..:.A A telegram from Berlin says it is stated in naval circles that Prince Frederick C. Fritz intends to visit the Centennial exhi- bition at Philadelphia and that German squadron will escort him, thither. .... Two more steamers laden with troops for the Span ish army have landed at Havana. Utica, N. Y., is trying to abate.the tramp nuisance by requiring all able-bodied applicants for relief to break stones on the streets. .. Sheriff Baker, m Portage county, Wis, was killed by two obrothers named Court9right, while eject ing them from building. The brothers were arrested and locked up in jail, from whence they were taken h ? at at night by masked mob and nMappSSeo9. fsys5tE 0Ti5~s 6x2 aS4ao
 Recent rains have swollen the rivers and streams in Devonshire, England, causing in- undations The lossis considerable. Torqu ay, Teigumouth, and Dawlish were flooded, and much damage was done to property ..... The Congress of Costa Rica, Central America, has passed 3 law:declsring the Port Limon, on the Caribbean sea, a free port, and offering induce ments to immigrants to that section by per hitting public lands to ,be acquired at 8 nomi- nal rate and allowing manufactories of rum and tobacco to sbe Established in that part of the State for domestic use or export without payment of duties. The Warren avenue Baptist Church, of Boston, has stricken out that portion of the declaration of faith which makes imrnersion & prerequisite to com nuhi6n. ' The church is one hundred and twenty-five years old. =. The trunk lines running out of Chicago have advanced passen- ger fares about $2......A verdict of $60G0 damages and five per cent for counsel fee Was | rendered in a Brooklyn (N. Y.) court against a liquor dealer who bit off piece of the nose and thumb of Walter Westlake Governor Tilden's commission made their seventh TO- port, showing an absolute waste of half a mil- lion of money on the Buffalo canal "improve- ments, i" and inculpating Appraiser Davis and Commissioner Fay in eorraps aud unlawful practices :. " . Two hundred dwelling, 8 syna- gogue, and five schools in the town of Widsy, Russian Poland, have been burned. Some persons perished and three thousand are homeless. A terrible fire took place at Iquique, Peru. Three-quarters of the town are said to have been destroyed ...... white murderer named Dugan was taken from a sherin in: Arkansas, by 8 crowd of masked men, who shot him. Dugan was under sen- tence of death for killing his son-in-law under slight provocation. ~~-wv4
 q China has promised to send | mission to England bearing an apology for the Yunnan outrage ...... The sinking of shaft one hun dred meters deep will be begun near Calais, France, as the preliminary operations in the construction of tunnel under the English channel. ... MT. Frederick Hudson, formerly managing editor of the New York Herald, and well known ,asga journalist and author, was killed by train of cars at Concord, Mass ;.
 The damage by the floods in England was heavier than st first reported. 'Shefaeld was heavily damaged. Tho valley of the Rivsl