Connecticut western news., 1875-10-01
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of conferring tho ring and title on Cardinal McCloekey O.. There is . report of future marriage of Alfonso. the king of Spain, with the daughter of the Duke of Montpensier. .... DeerAeld, Mass, appropriately celebrated the two hundredth anniversary of the Indian mas sacre at that place. .. Superintendent Chap man, of the New York State Insurance depart ment, has canoeled the certificate of authority of the City Insurance Company of Providence, R. l., to transact business in New York State.
 The storm at Galveston, Texas, swept away about one hundred houses and other buildings, and destroyed much property otherwise. The water was several feet in depth ID some of the streets. The railroad tracks were greatly dam aged. Twenty persons are .known to have perished. Numerous vessels were wrecked. The storm extended along the entire coast, and many marine disasters are being reported. Accounts from New Mexico state that much damage has already been done to the wheat crop by the wet weather, and the town of Los Cruce was nearly destroyed by the bursting of 8 waterspout. .... Four boys out sailing on a Sunday afternoon recently were drowned by the upsetting of their boat near the Humber, few miles west of Toronto ...... During the recent storm twelve inches of snow fell in Quebec, and much damage was done to fruit and ornamental trees .... Wm. Stone, aged nineteen years, while disputing with his father in B machine shop at Newark, N. J., deliber- ately drew pistol and shot his father in the face, intlcting serious wound. A loco- motive of & coal train on the Lehigh Valley railroad exploded at Stoney Creek, Pa. John Kershner, engineer, John Dupler fireman, and Benjamin Hoffman and H. W. Kolp brake men, all of Fairview, were instantly killed. George Owens, brakeman, was injured. ..... The Anthony House and an entire block of buildings in Little Rock, Ark, were destroyed by fire, with heavy loss The steamer Emery City was burned to the waters edge near Kingston, Tenn The mail was saved and her passengers uninjured. The freight and boat are . total loss. The cabin caught fire from 8 stove in the engine room. .... A snowstorm prevailed on Mount Washington, N H., Sept 17th, continuing all the next day. No trains or stages went up or down. .... The United States cotton crop this year is 3,827, ,845 bales. The insurrection in the Turkish colonies still continues, and much fighting with the loss of many lives must result before affairs are settled.
 Jacob Benjamin, a well-known pawnbroker of Baltimore, died from erysipelas, which was produced by the use of hair dye. .. The Ser vian newspapers say tbat the government has received 8 note from the Sublime Porte asking if Turkey may rely on the maintenance of Ser vian neutrality. .... The gale at Galveston drove the waters of the Gulf over the entire | island, inundating the highest points to 8 depth of two feet, and running gardens and foundations. Many buildings were moved | bodily into the thoroughfares. The gale ex- | tended along the entire coast and created great havoc with the shipping of all classes .... | It is expected that Russia will recognize Khan Sade as the successor of his deposed father lin the Khanate, of Khokand, Asia, but whether recognition will be accompanied by the armed | occupation of Khokand is uncertain. At last advices all was quiet there. ..... Westervelt, one of the alleged abductors of Charley Ross, has been convicted in Philadelphia of con spiracy to kidnap, conspiracy to extort money, and conspiring to defraud the child of his liberGy. He was acquitted of the counts oi kidnapping and concealing the child. He toob an appeal ... James Garland, professor oi music at New Brunswick, N. J.. has so ill l treated his wife that she determined to leave him, and was making her preparations to dc so, when he shot her three times with revol
 yer, nflicting serious wounds in her neck anc head. Garland then went to his room anG | fired three shots into his own head and cut his throat and arm with penknlfe, breaking two
 blades. Not content yet, he caught up & ham mer and struck himself on the head, crushing in the skull, and died in few minutes. .. The supreme court at San Francisco confirmed tht decision of 8 lower court sentencing ex-Harbo1 | Commissioner John Marks to seven years i'm
 prisonment for embedding $66,O0O
 The town of Indianola, Texas, was almos completely destroyed by the recent storm, and from one hundred to one hundred and fifty
 lives were lost The high winds drove tn. | waters of the bay back upon the town, inun
 dating it to the depth of many feet, ard sweep
 ing off buildings as if they were straws. Al
 the churches and nearly all the other buildingl
 are gone. The bodies of the dead were strew1
 for twenty miles along the coast, and the ter
 ror-stricken survivors, although in 8 destitute
 condition, were busily engaged in hunting ou
 their relatives for burial. In many cases only
 one of family is left. Relief parties wer.
 formed in Galveston, and food and clothing
 were literally given for the sufferers. Infor
 nation from Matagorda, also on the coast
 states that of all the houses in that place, onl.
 two remain standing. Cedar Lake is also re
 ported washed away, and all the inhabitantl
 drowned but nothing definite has been re ceived Of twenty-eignt persons at East Bay
 only five are known to survive.