Connecticut western news., 1875-09-03
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.
 Capt. Robert 0. Bellville put his invalid wife on board the steamer Bristol at New York and then went ashore. He attempted to jump on board after the plank had been hauled in, fell overheard and was drowned. His sick wife, nearly insane was sent home The Carlists made another unsuccessful attempt to relieve Sec de Urgel. The citadel has been much damaged. ... .Ex-Treasurer Parker, convicted of embedding funds of the State of South Carolina, has been released owing to an infor- mality in the commitment. .. :. John l.. Kates
 wealthy married man, was arrested in Phila- delphia for pouring burning oil over the body of his mistress and trying to burn her alive. ...
 The total amount received under the new Massachusetts license law in 120 towns is $463. .456 32. .. The body of N. s. Grimwood, who accompanied Donaldson on his late balloon trip from Chicago, has been found on the beach of Lake Michigan ......A man was arrested in Jersey City charged with bigamy twenty-five years after the alleged crime took place. By 8 frightful accident on the St. Louis and St. Joseph railroad one passenger was killed and over forty seriously injured.
 The heavy rains have caused considerable damage to railways and highways in Connecti- cut. The track of the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill railroad is badly washed between Forestville and Waterbury train from Waterburg to Hartford broke through cul- vert near Waterville and the fireman had leg broken and was badly scalded, and may not recover. The engineer was also injured, but not seriously. None of the passengers were hurt. .. MT. 0. B. Knapp, the Erie rail way agent at Port Deposit, N Y died from the effects of an overdose of laudanum. .. Gov. Tilden, of New York, has preferred charges against A. c. Powell, salt superintendent at | Syracuse, N. Y, for malfeasance in office. ....
 Much excitement was caused in Washington | and Jefferson counties, Ga., on account of the reported attempt by the negroes at insurrec- | tion. Eighty arrests were made and the white 4 military companies in those counties were ordered by the governor to report to the sheriff . James s. Giles, postmaster at Prescott, Arizona, has absconded. Money orders to the amountof $3, 700 are unaccounted for. ... Six thousand persons celebrated "salt water day. at Long Branch, N. J ... .. The Hon. D. M. Key, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has been appointed by the governor to fill sthe vacancy in the United States Senate caused by the death of Andrew Johnson.. |. .ASpauish vessel which shipping material of war at Barcelona, Spain, suddenly exploded and sunk. Fifty persons were killed by the sex- | plosion or drowned. ... Reports have been received of great floods in Burmah. The | Irrawaddy has overfowed its banks for miles in the district of Prome doing immense. dam age to the rice fields and to property generally.
 ..... Joseph W. Robinson, 8 young man of twenty-eight years, of Brockton, Mass., has eloped with Mrs. Hall, after rohbing the safe of his fathers firm of something over $4 1000.
 Robinson has wife and two children. Z
 A divorce obtained in Indiana has been set aside by 8 Jersey City court on account of fraud .. A tramp named John Kane con. fesses that he and three other tramps mur- dered an inoffensive German near the town oi
 Latrobe, Pa., for money. .. A hunter named
 Brughman, living near Melrose, Mmn., ~'was
 taken i'll, probably mouth since, while ir
 lonely shanty, into which he had locked him
 self at night with his two dogs. Whether he died first or the two animals, maddened- by
 hunger, killed him, cannot be determined, bu
 when his body was found lately but little mor'
 than the skeleton remained. . In Cncin
 natl two brothers kicked 8 third to death. Tn,
 deceased had secured from the others con
 siderable property. Jefferson Davis nov
 declines to lecture before the Illinois agricul
 tural society which invited him, on account O.
 the excitement over the matter.
 child answering to the description O.
 Charley Ross has been discovered at Schuyle
 Falls, near Plattsburgh, N. Y. He is witl
 8 colored family. .... Three children named
 Lord, living in the parish of Cashmere, Canada were burned to death in their house, thei
 mother having locked them in for safety whil
 she was attending to some work outside. ... Intelligence from the scene of the insurrectiol in Herzegovina is satisfactory. The insur gents have been forced to raise the siege O
 Trebigne and have been driven across thu frontier. Fifty Turkish families perishet
 when the insurgents destroyed Berbir ant
 Sviniar .. Ex-President Thiers declines tt
 be candidate for the French Senate. .. Tn, amount of cotton destroyed by the Mississipp
 river floods in the Memphis district is esti mated at from 10000 to 80,000 bales. .... A Mr. Shaw, of Tarrytown, N Y., was awaken ed by man shaking him, and ordering him t' "get up." Five masked men stood at his bed side. One held revolver to his head apt
 threated to shoot him if he offered any re , sistance. He was compelled to give up sll th
 money and jewelry he had about him, and hi wife's jewelry also. They robbed the house O $3, GOO worth of property and escaped. ..... Eight prisoners confined in the county jai
 at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, broke out by sawinl | A. lo- Toh Dook fo1;
 aged twenty-four years, was drowned whil
 bathing in the Neversink river at Port Jervis NY. He was seized with cramps and sanl
 before assistance could be rendered.
 Abram Symonds, living at Pine Hill, N. Y. was found near his house few days ago witt his throat cut from ear to ear. His daughte was found dead on the floor of the house witt her skull fractured, evidently by the back o an axe. Symonds was insane, and undoubtedl killed his daughter and then himself .... , The Arlington Hotel at Watkins Glen, N. Y. was completely destroyed by fire, caused b. l the explosion of gasoline lamp. LOSS, $40, 900. .... At a meeting of the German jour } nalists of Bremen, resolutions were adopte asking imperial legislation in behalf of hbert of the press to publish truthful reports o public proceedings of law courts, and of grant ing immunity from disclosure of the name . of contributors ... The national council 0 . Switzerland has passed resolutions for tn | suppression of convents and Sisters of Charity
 w Seven small forts near the Montenegro frontier have been captured by the Montene f grins, who joined the Herzegovinian insul : gents. .... MT. J. Fl. Noe, of Noe & Sons 8 brush manufacturers in New York, found 2 burglar breaking into his store and attempte ] to arrest him, but the burglar being young an 2 | Ja1 ;v, fro ont,, Mr. Noa