Connecticut western news., 1875-10-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad. F Accounts from Scotland and Ireland are to the effect that the great autumn storm caused linundations and much damage to property. tThe city of Cork was partially under water.
 Rev. Newman Hall, in the presence of select
 company, laid the crowning stone of the Lin
 coln memorial tower, adjoining the new tSurrey chapel in London, England. The tower is designed as 8 memorial for the aboli-
 tion of slavery, and bond of brotherhood be-
 tween England and America . There is 8
 ;tightness in the German money market, and
 the rate of discount at Berlin has been raised
 to six per cent. .... Nova Scotia was also
 visited by the gales which accustomed such
 heavy loses elsewhere, and numerous vessels
 went ashore. .... An old man named Welch,
 residing at Knowlton, Quebec, attempted to
 murder his wife with an ax, when, seeing his
 son coming in, he turned and shot at him.
 The son then, in self-defense, shot his father dead. The old woman is not expected to live.
 t..... The Indians want $9, 800, 900 per year for an indefinite period for the Black Hills The
 lcommissioners would not listen to such pro-
 position, and the council has broken up .....
 The New York State assessors fixed the assess
 ment of New York city at $1, ,205, 531 ,580. and
 it's State tax, $7, 233 315, the rest of the State
 tax being $5,782, 5S2. ... The Porte has ad-
 dressed circular to the foreign powers de-
 claring that the present state of things rem
 deres it necessary to keep one hundred thou
 sand men under arms between Mostary and
 Widdin to watch trespassers and that Turkey, is unable to continue this for an indefinite
 time. ,. The Chicago board of education has
 discarded the Bible from the public schools.
 The floods caused enormous damage in
 Langford Kerry and Tipperary, Ireland. .... The court-martial in the case of the British
 ram Vanguard, which was sunk by a,vessel of
 the same squadron, have reprimapded Captain Dawkins, of the vessel, and dismissed him
 from command of the vessel. While
 locomotive was pushing half dozen platform
 cars containing seventy laborers, near Ia
 maska, Canada, an obstruction on the track threw off three of the cars, and eleven men
 were killed aud twenty-five wounded. It is
 thought the obstruction was purposely placed.
 ..... Three men stealing ride on 8 sleeping
 car near Hamilton, Ohio, were killed by the
 train colli,ling with freight car ...... There.
 are still over 30,0O0 cattle in England affected
 by the foot and mouth disease. President
 Grant, Gems. Sherman, Pope, McCook, Mar
 shall Vincent, McArthur and Belknap took
 part in the exercises of the reunion of the
 Army of the Tennessee, at Des Moines, Iowa.
 .... Nicolls, the defsulting teller of the Mon
 treal bank, has been arrested in St. Augustine,
 Fla. Med O'Baldwin, the pugilist familiarly
 known as the Irish Giant" was shot by his
 business partner, and died two days after
 ward He was six feet seven and one-hslf in ches in height, and his arm three feet four
 inches long ...... In heavy typhoon at Che
 Foo, China, three European and dmany Chinese
 vessels were wrecked and thirty lives were
 lost. .. |. Richard Robinson, the murderer of
 Mrs. Dixon at Norwichtown, died in jail at
 Norwich, Conn.,, from the effects of poison
 taken after his arrest. -,5 ~y .-..-. .9 sf
 The price of cable messages between this
 country and England is now fixed at one dollar
 per word ...... Cardinal McCloskey took pos
 session of his title in the Church of Sancta
 Maria Supra Mnervan at Rome. Many Ital-
 ians and foreigners, especially Americans,
 witnessed the ceremony. President Grant : made speech at the meeting of the Army of
 the Tennessee, in which he spoke highly of
 his comrades in arms of ten years ago asked his auditors to encourage free schools, and not vote dollar to the support of sectarian
 schools advised them to keep the church and
 State forever separate e.. The Crow Butte
 council for the sale of tue Black Hills is ended.
 and nothing accomplished. ... John sCrini-
 mans, young man employed in W. R. Parks
 lumber mill at Warren Summit, N. H. < on
 attempting to oil the machinery, was caught and fearfully mangled, both arms. being torn , | from thoir aon1xets and nd hool, broken. He died instantly .. The single scull match between Dspmarsh, of Pit! sburgh, , and Redgrift, of ChicA so, was decided to be a draw on account of 8 foul. Denmarsh rowed : over the mile and half and return in 19. 381l being the fastest time on record. eco. The Z race between the stallions Smuggler and Thomas Jefferson for the championship and , $2,00O, was won by Smuggler in 2.251s, 2.28, 2.4O. The judges allowed Jefferson to withdraw z from the third heat, as he was badly lamed. F By an explosion of gas in the Anchor { colliery at Heckscherville, Pa, two men were 3 killed and one severely injured. They were 8 ordered to leave by the fire-boss, who began to D clear the mine of the gas, but refused tc l go out. The gas exploded from the miners t lamps. .... The stockholders are endeavorine to revive the Northern Pacific railroad, and ! have elected new officers. An examination of the books of the Planters National bank, toi ? Louisville, Ky, reveals dedication of $105, - 900, taken during the last five years by the latt
 teller, Louis Rehm. It will be remembered
 that Rehm recently robbed the bank safe O. 7. $l00, ,00O, and endeavored to palm of stor. 9 that he had been taken from his bed by rnaskes n men and forced to open the vault.
 t The large Boston lumber firm of Shepard Hall & Go. have failed for $1, ,5OO, GOO. .. ] The public debt statement, issued Oc5. 1 l showed a reduction of $3, 342. .562. .61s durin, Q the past month, the total debt now bein,
 $2, ,255, 749, 856. 95. The currency balance il 5 the treasury is $4, 79O, ,352 92; coin $67, ,Sss, . 316 94, including coin certificates, $11, ,645, 200 : ..... Willard Carpenter has given $500, 900 t. endow an educational establishment at Evans Fl vile, Ind. He promises $20O, 900 more :. |. :. The jury in the Jefferson Borden mutineers, 8 ,. Boston, returned verdict in which Miller an Il Smith were found guilty of murder, and Gle1 o was acquitted. .... Nathan Holloway, his wife l, and Mrs. Shell were drowned by the upsettin b of their boat while crossing the river iron r Gananoque, Canada, to Fishers Landing N. Y e ...... By 8 treaty with the Salteaux an n Swampy Cree Indians, Canada secures th . territory covering both sides of Lake Winni peg. and it's estimated area, exclusive of water V I. is 50,000 square miles. By this treaty fire - navigation of & portion of the lower Sasakat chewan will be secured, as well as free accee
 to the shore and inlets of Lake Winnipeg. :.
 It is said that the peculations of Pinney, tn