Connecticut western news., 1875-06-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

 Interesting Items from Home npd Abroad.
 A disease known as the "black tooth has broken out among the swine on the Upper Ot- tawa river, Ontario, and has proved fatal to large herds. William Parmenter and son, and two other men named Thompson and Healey, who were fishing by rushlight from Q boat on Raquette river, near Potsdarn N Y., were carried over the dam by the current and all drowned. The boiler of the Smith paper mills, at Lee Mass, exploded, killing two per sous, and injutipg fourteen, and jnfictng a loss of $25, 900. =. The Secretary of the Inte- rior has appointed Gov. Axtell of Utah Terri tory to be Governor of New Mexico vice Gid dings, deceased, and Geo. w. Emery to be Governor of Utah, vice Axtell. The town of Marshansk, on the Tsna river Russia, contain ing population of 10000, was entirely de- stroyed Dy fire. By the burning of part of 8 square in Toronto, Canada, a number of shops, stores and dwellings were destroyed, involving loss of $150, 00O " The Newark Methodist Episcopal Conference held an extra session for the purpose of celebrating the one hundredth birthday of Rev. Henry Boehm-familiarly known as Father Boehm-one of their mem bers. ... Deputy United States Marshal Ram sey attempted to arrest two horse thieves at Stockton, Kan, when one of them shot him. Ramsey returned the fire, killing his assailant, but the other thief escaped. Within an hour Ramsey died from the effects of his wound ;. sad accident occurred in Brooklyn, N. Y, by which young man ramed Metcalf lost his life. His mother had summoned him to breakfast, and he had just cheerfully answered "Yes, 0 oF O hoo in his room, and on Mrs. Metcaf rushing up, she found her son dying with 8 bullet hole ill his head. It is thought that the pistol, of which he always had two under his pillow, fell on the floor and exploded. .-.
 The Connecticut Senate has concurred with the House in adopting the bill providing for biennial elections for State officers, and tho question now goes before the people. .... The manufacturers of knit underwear, in convention at Albany resolved to stop all their mills for two months or longer, as may be necessary, to reduce the stock of goods. IA woman named Jane Reynolds, while hanging clothes out of 8 fifth story window to dry, in New York; fell to the ground and was instantly killed. ... Tho Orangemen of New York and surrounding cities will celebrate the battle of the Boyne, July 18th, by an excursion up the Hudson, the experience of the past four years demonstra- ting that parades are injudicious. ..... The new cable from Rye Beach (N. H.) to Ireland is now in working order. It makes the fifth cable laid between the United States and Great Britain and is said to be superior to any of it's predecessors. ... By the sinking of a scow in Broad canal Cambridge, Mass, three laborers. were drowned .... A stevedore named James Barr was drowned by the sinking of wharf on which he was working in Brooklyn, N. Y., and his widow sued the lessees for $5, 900 damages. A jury gave her $1, 900. =. The supreme court I of the United States has affirmed the judg- ment of the supreme court of Pennsylvania, sustaining the imposition of tax on the gross receipts of the Erie Railroad Company. Both houses of the New Hampshire Legislature met in joint convention and elected Person c. Cheney, Republican, Governor. A storm of great violence passed over France, destroy ing much property and causing the loss of few lives. The damage to Paris alone is estimated at Il, ,OOO, 900 francs.
 | fThe suspicious of foul play in connection with the death of Miss Ada Marble, of liar mony, Me-, have been dissipated by the events since brought to light, and it is now estab lished that she committed suicide on account of unrequited love. :. By the explosion of & tug near Central wharf at Buffalo, three mon | were killed outright and one fatally wounded. The force of the. explosion was great that the captains body was thrown over four story building one hundred and fifty feet across the street. ... George Stouter, workman in | ot f Dr0A ;,, cleaning out large vat was overcome by the gases and fell unconscious to the bottom of the vessel. Charles Vofrey climbed into the vat to help Stouter out, and was also quickly over como and fell. When the bodies were taken out both were dead. Quartermaster-G General Meigs has been assigned to special service abroad to observe and report on foreign army organizations A number of Protestant books consigned to an American merchant of Santander have been embargoed at the custom house. 2. ...Governor Cheney of New Hamp- shire, has been inaugurated, and he delivered a message to the Legislature .... The Treasury department has adopted the policy of compro- missing all actions against national banks on account of failure to stamp their checks. The examiners have furnished evidence of such 1alluc6 Dy two nuQQIeQ DlnkS.
 Charles C. Fuller, president, and J. T Mowry, treasurer, of the Chaplin Paper Com pany, of Norwich, Conn.,, have absconded, leaving outstanding obligations to tho amount of $7O,OO0, the greater part of which is be- lieved to be forged notes. No bank and only one individual there is seriously affected by the frauds. ..... The Republican convention of California nominated T. G. Phelps for Gov ernor, J. M. Cavis for Lieutenant-G Governor, and O. H. Hallet, for Secretary of State. The platform states that they have ''undiminished confidence in the wisdom, patriotism and in- tegrity" of the President, and declares that his letter to the chairman of the Pennsylvania convention "is & full refutation of the slan- ders of those who charged him with intriguing for reelection declares the party antagonistic to the Central Pacific railroad as at present managed, and advises that the people should in advance ''oxact from candidates for the legislature an uncquivocal pledge" to vote for reduction of fares and freight. An order has been issued from the Imperial Chancellery at Berlin prohibiting the circulation of copies of Tue Catholic Gazette of Baltimore, for two years, within the boundaries of the empire .. M. Olliveir, who was at the head of the French cabinet on the breaking out of the Franco Prrlssian war, has written 8 book in defense of that ministry, in which he claims that Prussia, by her insults really declared war. .... News has been received by the way of St. Thomas ot 8 terrible earthquake in New Grenada. The destruction was the greatest in the valley of Cucuta, on the Venezuelan frontier, It is re-