Connecticut western news., 1875-03-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abroad


 ante-bellum days as conductor on the under ground railroad, died in Detroit, aged sixty four years. He was steward of the White House ill 1341, and President Harrison died in his arms ..... The religious excitement in Mexico continues intense, and all outbreak will no doubt take place ..... The revolution in Venezuela has ended the rebels giving up their arms and the leaders being allowed to leave the country unmolested .... William J. Sharkey, the escaped murderer, was arrested in Havana on & charge of threatening to kill tue captain and the purser of the steamship Crescent City ... A fire at Emporium, Pa., de- stroyed property valued at $70,000. The steamer Cora Belle, with 15O bales of cotton on board has been burned. IA fire in Somerset, Mass, destroyed buildings valued at ,000. ... The United States House defeated the Tax and Tariff bill, and, on motion of MT. Dawes, passed substitute taxing whisky to be made hereafter ninety cents a gallon, increas- inf the tax on tobacco from twenty to twenty four cents pound on cigars from S5 to Se per thousand, and on cigarettes from fifty to seventy-five per cent. The increase of twenty five per cent. on the present duty on sugar and mo1asses, and the restoration of the ten per cent. duty on woolens, steel, and iron, are tained as in the committees bill l..... For the old debt and registered certificates of North Carolina, forty cents on the dollar is to be paid for the funded internal improvement bonds, twenty-five cents on the dollar. The construction and special tax bonds are not in- cluded. The following interest is to be paid For the first two years, two per cent; the next three years, three per cent; next five years, four per cent; next twenty years, five per cent.
 The bills admitting Colorado and New Mexico as States passed the United States Senate. Spain paid England as an indem nity for the Virginius outrage on British sub jects 9500 sterling for each white, and e300 sterling for each black man murdered. ... The Conservative and Republican parties of Louis- ana have agreed on & compromise which, it is hoped will settle matters in the State. .. The salt manufacturers of Saginaw Valley, Mich, are forming a combination to send annually one hundred thousand barrels of salt to the Syracuse market to undersel the manufac- turers there, in retaliation for a similar course pursued by the Syracuse companies. =. Gov. Hartranft issued 8 warrant for the execution on Wednesday, the 24th day of March next, of Joseph Brown, convicted in Schuylkll county on the 18th of November, 1873, of the murder of Daniel M. kraemer and Annetta his wife, and sentenced December P, 1878, to be hanged. ...... Wintermute, who shot Gen. Me Cook in Colorado, has secured the $20, 900 bal required by the supreme court, and is dis charged from jail. .... Jane Mcclure, aged thirty five, escaped frem the Providence Luna tic Asylum. The next morning her terribly nangled remains were found at the crossing of the New York Central and Hudson River rail- road
 Louis Riel, having been declared to be an outlaw by the courts of Manitoba, has been de- clared to be disqualified for sitting and voting in the Parliament of Canada and writ has been ordered for 8 new election ia the District of Provencher. ... The wall of large ive-story brick building fronting on Duane and Chatham streets, New York, fell upon St. Andrews Roman Catholic Church, where services were | going on, and breaking through the roof, crushed it down upon the gallery, killing seven persons and injuring many more. .... Three of the leaders of & gang of counterfeters have been arrested in Massachusetts and committed for trial . The United States Senate passed the bill to regulate the counting of votes for President and Vice-President by vote of 2S yeas to 20 nays ... Fifty-one residents of Owen county Ky, are on trial for conspiring to prevent the deputy United States marshal from executing court processes. =. The re- suits of the observations of the late transit of Venus fix the distance of tho sun from the earth at about ninety-two million of miles. =. Efforts having been made to have the annual exhibition of the Cincinnati Industrial Exposi- tion for 1876 made Centennial Exposition for that year, the board have adopted resolutions declaring that it does not deem it advisable to give any encouragement in that direction, be- lieving that the Philadelphia industrial expo. sition should receive the united support of the whole people.
 The United States House committee on cleo tions, which has been going over the Arkansas
 election returns of 1872, has found that MT
 Baxter was elected Governor by 712 majority
 over Mr., Brooks. ...... During Q freshet in the
 Naugatuck river part of the Home Wooler
 Companys dam at Beacon Falls, Conn.,, wal
 carried away, and man named Faherty, who
 was assisting in moving the break, fell into the
 river and was drowned .... The steamship
 Hong Kong foundered off the Island of Abd elCuria, ill the Indian Ocean. Nineteen per
 sons are reported saved. Six are known tt
 have been drowned and eighteen are missing ... A number of coal shafts in the Indian, coal regions have been burnel by the strikers =. The bark Bell Hill has been wrecked on thu , Irish coast off Balbriggan, and thirteen of tn
 crew drowned. .... The annual report of tn
 Pennsylvania Railroad Company states the ne earning of all it's lines at 1928, ,515, 7O5.97.
 The Shakers at Mount LebcEan have suffere from another fire. ... The New York, Osweg and Midland Railroad Company has suspended and the road has gone into the hands of a re ceiver Trains will be oily as circumstan
 ces may dictate and without regularity
 is asserted that three hundred Navareae troop
 recently deserted from the Carllat army, all | that five of them were recaptured and shot | Mrs. Timothy Gibson, an Irish woman abou = fifty years of age, was found frozen to death i I tle street in Springfield, Mass. She was or r, with her husband, partially intoxicated, an { wandered away from him and lost her way. The amount of indemnity furnished by Spai G to the United States in the settlement of tll Virginius affair is 38O, ,00O, and not $18, ,OOO ] eroneously printed. .... Epll. Wtcher, leade : of the expedition to the Black Hills, has r' y turned to 1ankton, and reports that the part
 entered the hills without trouble and foun t an abundant supply of timber and game, all e sank twenty-five prospect holes, striking go] . in every instance ~ There is developing ,. Washington strong opposition to the Hawaiia U reciprocity treaty, and it's rejection is pr nl n phesied ..... Incendlarism among the strikr o miners in the Pennsylvania coal regions seen
 to be on the increase.
 a Gen. Fitz-John Porter has been apponte