Connecticut western news., 1875-04-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abroad

supreme court for the territory of Utah. ...... The result of the Louisiana arb tration will give the Conservatives the lower House of the Legislature, but will retain a small Republican majority on the joint ballot. The United States Senate, by vote of thirty-three to thirty, postponed the Pinchback case until next Deoember..... The Austrian Powder Company's mills, five miles from Cleveland, Ohio, blew up lately, killing three Of the em- ployees .... A mysterious poisoning case took place in Chicago, from the effects of which a mother and infant died. Three other children are very ill. The police arrested the father ... General Cabrera, the well-known Carlist leader, has declared for King Alfons and has been denounced traitor by his late con- panions in arms " The United States Secre- tary of War has informed General Sherman that all expeditions to the Black Hills must be stopped as long as the present treaty with the Indians exists . The steamer Lewis was burned while coaling at Chester, Illinois. and 6ve lives were lost.
 The Emma Mining Company was ordered to file bond, to cover costs ill it's suit for the re- covery of $5,000,000, by Judge Donohue, of the New York supreme court. The ice gorge at Port Jervls was swept out by freshet which overaowed the town, causing damage of $5O 900, and carrying away two bridges, one 8 railway bridge valued at $40, ,000, and another 8 suspension bridge worth $40,000.... Tho Lincolnshire handicap, run at Lincoln, Eng land, was won by The Gunner. The favorite was badly beaten. Messrs. Siordet & Co.,, well-known London merchants, have suspended payment. Their liabilities are stated at 3D. 900, OO0 . The New York Assembly passed the bill protect ng incorporated banks by & vote of sixty-six yeas to forty nays. A Camden (N. J.) school teacher was arrested and put under bonds for whipping a scholar ..... We have further reports of loss of life in Utah by snow slides T. The old man arrested l in Arizona confesses that he IS John Bender. He denies committing the Kansas murders, but says that John and Kate, his son and daughter, did. He says he separated from them ill Texas, where they all went to from Kansas, | and came to New Mexico and subsequently, to Arizona. John. Kate, and the old woman were together when he left them.
 l. The United States Senate, in executive session, ratified the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty l by vote of fifty-one to twelve .... Ten con- victs, employed in making bricks at Little 1 Rock Ark, overpowered their guard and es- capped. One of the convicts was killed by a guard. All except two were recaptured. ..... The grand national steeplechase was run in England and won by Pathfinder ...... The Canadian government will not impose duty of ten per cen5.son tea coming from the United States The North Carolina House of Repre- sentatives passed the Senate bill calling con stitutional convention, to be held on the 9th o1 September next, and the bill is now law..... In the Cincinnati Republican convention John Robinson, the well-known circus proprietor was unanimously nominated for Mayor :, The failure in London of the General South Ameri can Banking Company is announced. The liabilities are estimated at $1, 500, ,000... Charley Smith, of Greenville, an employee o1 the New Jersey railroad, awoke to find tha himself and family had been chloroformed ant robbed of nearly all their wearing apparel, { gold watch and chain, and about $75 in money
 The lower House of the Reichsrath hai approved grant of $25,OOO for 1875 and on. of $50, ,O0O for 1876 to defray the expenses O. the representation of Austria at the Centennia exhibition ..... Mason, arrested in New Yorl charged with passing counterfeit money, wal one of sixteen men who conspired to kidnal President Lincoln and Secretery Seward iron Washington to Richmond The plot dis covered, and he was sentenced to be imprisoned for life in the Columbus penitentiary He wal Epardoned on condition that that he should qui the United States and never return In case in Washington 8 colored man who was no allowed a shave ill barber's shop Was refused writ, the court declaring that saloons ant barbers shops did not come under the civi rights act .... "A conflict has occurred between the troops of India and China, and twent, Chinamen were killed. .... Charles K. Landis we'll known as the founder of Vineland N J., shot and seriously injured Uri Carruth, O the Vneland IndepeRde9at, in the office of tha paper. A difficulty of long standing existed between the two men, and the editor, in almos every number of his paper, had something t.
 say of Landis. .... The United States govern ment has already taken the preliminary step
 for modifying the treaty with the Sioux Indian
 in regard to the Black Hills. =. In Newark N. J., one man employed another to assassinat
 his wife, giving him $100. The man employe'
 took the money and then told the story and tn
 inhuman husband was arrested.
 It is Impossible to give correct idea of tn
 amount of property destroyed by the tornad
 in Georgia. It will reach several hundre
 thousand dollars. Fearful suffering is reporte
 in the devastated territory. The storm was tn severest ever known, and the universal destruc
 tion unparalleled . ...The time of the winner
 in the university boat race in London is off
 cially announced to be 22m. 2s. " lively
 retiring members of the last United State Congress have been appointed to office.
 There are now in the United States abou
 fifteen hundred thoroughly organized base ba clubs having an aggregate membership 0
 25,000.-. .... Two thousand employees of tn Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Compan resolved to strike rather than submit to tn
 demand of the company that they resign iron the Mechanics and Workingmens Benevolen
 Association. =. Postmasters in the Unite
 Stees have been authoritatively instructed b the Postmaster G eneral that on all mailabl
 matter of the third class hereafter deposited i
 their respective offices, to be sent through tn mail postage must be charged thereon an prepaid at the rate of one cent for each ounc
 or fraction thereof. ..t
 Mrs. Ottendorfer, proprietress of the No York Sadts Zeit,tng, meditates the founding C a home at Astoria for aged persons. ..... Stac
 Atkinson, of Mount Holly, N. J., slipped 0 the ice, and the contents of & gun he carrie ; killed him instantly. ..... H. L. Bateman, tn well-known theatrical manager, died in LOT don. On Saturday, while some fifty person
 and several teams were on the ice bridge { - Quebec it brooke loose and floated up the rivt 5 with the tide. All were landed safely som distance above the city on Monday morning
 ..... Senator Abbett introduced bill int
 the New Jersey Legislature confirming the sa