Connecticut western news., 1875-07-16
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

| showing an increase of $198, ,472, 229 over 1873 ......A monument dedicated to the fallen soldiers of New Jersey was unveiled at Bever ley with appropriate exercises The shaft is l sixty-eight feet high and is surmounted by the figure of soldier. The entire monument is of Italian marble, resting on granite base. .... | The results of the tornado in Detroit summed up in two children killed, three per sons seriously injured and twelve severely, with twenty-three houses totally demolished and many others damaged .. The French Assembly voted $39S, ,OOO for the relief of the sufferers by the inundations . A confagra- tion at Palacios, in the province of Seville, Spain, destroyed one hundred and forty build ings. The court of inquiry on the loss of the steamer Schiller report that they ascribe the disaster to neglect in not using the lead according to instructions. ...A terrific storm passed over Hungary and hail fell until two feet of ice had accumulated. A torrent of water swept through the streets of Buda, washing everything in it's course into the river Danube. Five hundred of the inhabitants are missing. ....One man and five women, all colored while rowing in skiff on Hells Lake, near Little Rock, Ark, were drowned by the capsizing | of their boat =. Yellow fever is reported at Key West.
 By fire in Watson's silk factory in Pater- son, N. J., five hundred men were thrown out of employment and loss of $19O, 900 entailed, to cover which there was an insurance of but $113, 900 :. A party of Mexican raiders crossed into Texas and drove off large number of cattle. but were pursued by party of re guitars. ... Five prisoners escaped from the jail at New I 41
 ....Advices from China state that rebellion has broken out in Manchooria caused by the oppressive exactions against mining laborers. .... China has refusl to allow the shipment of any more Coolies to Cuba on account of the reports of bad treatment received by them in that country. .....A terrible typhoon visited Hong Kong May 31. The steamer Payang was wrecked and one hundred and twenty five lives were lost.. The damage to property by the inundations in the cities of Toulouse and Agen alone exceeds $24, 900, 900. ... China has ap- | propriated forty thousand teals for the repre- sentation at the Philadelphia Centennial. The local government of Hong Chow proposes to send ten thousand teals' worth of porcelain and silks. A London trade review says that owing to the floods in France and the un- l market is hardening. Germany and England have the best prospects, and Russia, Hungary l and France the worst. -. Ferdinand, ex- i Emperor of Austria, died of lung disease, aged eighty-two years. ... Owing to the long drought the Philadelphia water board has limited the supply of water to the city. .. The Newfound- land cod an d salmon fisheries are later this year than ever before, on account of the quan- | titles of ice.
 | The internal revenue receipts for one year up to July first amounted to $156, ,479, 132. 20. | .... A collision occurred between two paasen- ger trains on the Detroit and Milwaukee rail road by which fifteen immigrants both con- ductors and two other train employees were injured. .. =. The Iowa Republicans nominated | Samuel J. Kirkwood for governor. The plat form declares that as specie is the only re- liable legal tender, currency convertible with coin should therefore be gradually attained i; revenue tariff djusted to encourage home industries that no more public land should be ceded to corporations; that the patent laws be revised to relieve industry from monopolies; opposes third term and thinks the Presidents letter effectually does away with the subject j; indorses free education and the public schools. .... One weeks health report of New York city showed 147 cases of contagious diseases as follows: Diphtheria seventy-eight; scarlet fever, ffty-one; smallpox, seventeen typhoid fever, one. .... The California Democratic Convention nominated Wm Irwin for governor: | The platform opposes the unconstitutional in- reference of the federal administration in the domestic affairs of the States by which one portion of the Union is ground with taxation to keep another portion of the Union in bank ruptcy and servitude; denounces the Republ- can party for corrupt administration, for the curse of an inconveltible currency and for the attempt to pass the '' Force bill;' opposes the division of the school fund declares the right and duty of the government to regulate cor porations to prevent them being made monopo- lies favors equal taxation ; and opposes all legislation known as ''prohibitory.' The United States steamer Lancaster has reached Fortress Monroe from Rio Janeiro, having on board several cases of yellow fever.
 The peasants of Deva and vicinity in Tran sylvania, Austria, have revolted against the nobles and defeated battalion of militia. Many persons have been killed, including two judges Regular troops have been sent to the | scene of the outbreak .. There is no diminu- tion in the frightfui mortality from measles and typhoid fever in the Fiji Islands. Medical aid is to be sent from Australia. .... The report that the king of Burmah refuses to allow British troops to pass through his territory is officially confirmed. d.... Gen. Cortina has been arrested and placed under guard by Col. Manuel Parrat, of the Mexican regular cavalry. Cor tina's police have been arrested, disarmed and imprisoned. There is great excitement ill Matamoras and trouble is anticipated. .. Alexander Erwin, having charge of the foundry business of Henry G. Morris, of Philadelphia, who recently failed, has been discovered to have embedded sums amounting to $1, 200, ,OOO, and extending over several years.... Col D. B. Carllng, quartermaster at Fort Sanders, Wyoming Territory, committed suicide by cut ting his throat from to car. Financial embarrassment, complcating his official affairs, is assigned as the cause of his suicide. The new postal arrangement with foreign countries went into effect July first. A member of the Baltimore city council was expelled for taking bribe. He makes the second man ex- pelled from that body for corruption One hundred Germans, men and women, exlled on account of the new religious laws of Ger many, have arrived ill this country and were enthusiastically received.
 Mail advces state that the village of Mer;- dian, Jefferson county, Neb., was totally de- stroyed by a tornado. Alexandria, small town in the same county, was also badly dam- aged. There was 70 loss of life. Wm. s. Birmingham, of Jersey City, N. J., has just been sentenced to eix months hard labor in the penitentiary for falsifying election returns while he was election clerk in 1874. ... The l Sioux Indians have accepted the $25, COG