Connecticut western news., 1875-11-26
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
I,.u. of Interest from Home and Abroad

to be on fire, and the passengers and crew took to the boats but as the sea was running high and the wind brisk they were unable to land, and were driven down the coast. A tug boat was sent after them in the morning. but had not found any trace of them at the time of this dispatch. The Waco, valued at $15O,- 900, was burned to the waters edge, and sunk. Her cargo was worth $1OO GOO. Miss Isabella P. Keene, aged twenty-four years. accidentally shot herself at her fathers residence, in Buffslo t is supposed she was killing rats and the ball rebounded from brick wall, en- tering her head, and killing her instantly. .... Later accounts from the Pacific disaster place the number of lives lost at two hundred The impression is general among sailing men that the steamer struck 8 rock .. The brigs J.W. Spencer, of Boston, and the Toronto, together with the schooners Moses Patten, Nettie Chase and Serene, are all supposed to have been lost in the hurricane which ragged in the Gulf of Mexico at the time Galveston was inundated, as they have not been heard of since. .... The London Times has 8 special telegram from Penang, Malaya, which says that all this side of the Melay peninsula is greatly excited. A general outbreak is feared. Hong Kong has been telegraphed to for troops. One man-of- war, two gunboats, and about four hundred troops are now at Perak.
 Vice-Preeident Wilson was taken very ill in barbers chair while being shaved, and it was at first thought he had been stricken with paralysis-indeed, it was so telegraphed over the country-but further investigation proved it to be only severe attack of indigestion. .... F. Geldowsky, one of the large furniture manufacturers of Boston, has failed for $350,
 GOO assets, $150, ,000.. ... From the telegrams received from Malaga, it is gathered that the rajah of Lilla has ordered the Larut, Salan- gere and Perak districts to take up arms. A religious war is expected. The following order dated Nov. 6, has been addressed to the Russian troops in Khokand: The territory on the right bank of the Syr-Daria from the Rus sian frontier to the River Nareen, hitherto be- | longing to Khokand, is annexed to Russia. ... The revenue cutter Oliver Wolcott picked up one of the crew of the steamer Pacific, who | states that the steamer was struck by vessel l under full sail. A steamer also reports having seen, in the supposed vicinity of the disaster
 & vessel with signals of distress flying, which | appeared to have her bow stayed in, and which undoubtedly was the cause of the catas- | trophe . The bureau of education, at Wash ington, has published 8 report, from which l we learn that there are 8,090, 1881 children attending school in this country. at a total ex- pense of $165, 75s, AT. :. Supervising Architect Potter recommends the sale of the old post office building in New York; and the erection of new buildings for the custom-house and assay office ... Poison was put in the we'll of Charles Massey, ST., at Fordsville, Ky, and his wife, son and daughter died from the 1 effects of the water.
 An unconscious negro was picked up in a boat at sea, who afterward stated that he was sole survivor of the bark Toronto, reported lost some days since. He stated that the crew of fourteen left the sinking vessel ill one boat, but seven of them were shortly afterward washed overheard by the sea. The others foated about day after day without water ol food, until one after another became delirious and jumped overheard, or died of exhaustion and were thrown over-the negro only surviv. ing. ...... Deputy Attorney General Fairchild of New York, having giving legal opinion that savings banks could not, under the law invest in District of Columbia bonds, the at torney-general of the United States and Charles O'Conor gave an opinion precisely opposite, and now Attorney General Pratt has prepared 8 written opinion, setting aside the opinion of his deputy ...... The report of the commissioner of internal revenue shows that during the past year the government has lost on fraudulent spirits the sum of $1 $50, 900, and that twenty-four distillers, thlrty-sever recti6ers and fifty officials have been impli cated in these frauds. ... Edward Murphy and his mother, of Mddleboro, Mass, bott under the influence of liquor, attempted to cross the Taunton railroad in wagon. The horse baked, and the young man was in
 stantly killed by an approaching train. The mother escaped . The Porte has ordered the districts of Trebigne Biletz and Piva to bt detached from Herzegovina and organized al 8 separate department, which will be placed under an Armenian Greek governor ..... Si
 Edward Thornton, umpire of the United State
 and Mexican claims commission, has give1
 judgment for $1,U00,000 in the case of th'
 Catholic Church against Mexico .... During
 the election for president of Peru, riotint
 occurred in the streets of Lima between thu
 adherents of Gen. Prodo and Admiral Mon
 tero Fourteen were killed and many wounded
 The number of hogs packed in St. Loui
 from March to Oct. 31 was 102, ,424, aver
 aging 220 pounds each, against 159, 962, aver
 aging 209 pounds last year. The product o
 these hogs, together with 43, 900 head slaugh
 tered by butchers, was 16, 490 75O pounds o a cut meats and 3,619,862 pounds of lard .....
 Moru cyirl yuh
 being married to man named Brooks, wa
 shot through the head and killed by dis
 carded lover, who escaped. ..... Tennesse has experienced slight shock of earthquake . The cotton mills of Robertson & Go. an ) Young & Oo., at Glasgow, Scotland. wer 7 damaged by fire, at 8 loss of $1500, GOO Twelve hundred hands were thrown out 0 employment ...... The fre-damp explosion il
 the Belgian coal mine proves to have bee quite disastrous-forty-two bodies having al ready been taken out. The crew of tn ship Orpheus have been picked up from a
 island, and state that the steamer Pacific ra
 into their vessel during the nighttime, fror
 the effects of which she sunk ... The strik , of the coal miners of the Hooking valley Ohio, is over, the miners securing their ow ) terms :. The city of Ellsworth, Kansas, Ina been nearly destroyed by an incendiary fire [ ..... Servia has withdrawn her troops frol 5 the frontier and countermsnded the order t ]. the militia to proceed thither, on account C the withdrawal of the Turkish troops.
 A force of three hundred troops garrison 3 the British residency at Perak, Malaga. Th t Sultan Abdullah is friendly to the British ia hi fhotf fho nP Rirol n the British resident, was unpremeditatet p The Malays however, are arming defensivel 8 Gov. Jervois is preparing for military oper n tions.. The ship Calcutta from Quebec f, @ Liverpool, deal laden, was wrecked on Gross