Connecticut western news., 1875-04-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

The Canadian House of Commons has passed | bill giving Germans, naturalized after 8 resi- dence of five years in the Dominion, all the rights of British subjects. ... The vote for Governor in Connectict stood 5, 785 for Inger- soil, Dem., A, 1903 for Greene, Rep, and 2, 756 for Smith, Temperance. The Congressional delegation shows three Democrats and one Republican Democratic gain of two. The State Legislature is Democratic . A fire in Shelbyville Ind, destroyed property valued a $40, ,000. ..... The report that the Emperor of Brazil proposed to abdlcate is pronounced un- 1 founded. ... At fire in the Frankfort House, | New York, one man was suffocated " Three masked men entered the house of Charles Mitchell, farmer, living near Mitchell, Cana da tied him and his daughter hand and foot and fastened them down to their beds The robbers then leisurely ransacked the house, and carried off $1,000 in cash. .... Henry R. Wilkinson bought lottery tickets from James Gill, valued at $3,000 and, having lost, he sued Gill for double the sum. A New York | jury gave him $1 400. =. David Keayeny, aged fifteen years, was arrested at Springfield, Mass, | for killing his father, Michael Keaveny, at Petersham, on Easter Sunday, by striking him | with 8 flat-iron.
 | bill was introduced into the New York Legislature for the prevention of abortion, and providing for the use of dying statements as | legal evidence in such cases. ..... The New | York Herald says of the mine disturbances in Pennsylvania: 1t seems to be the yearly burn ing out of very smoky and dirty chimney. | The New Jersey Senate refuses to allow clergy men os all denominations to instruct the in- mates of prisons. .... The London Times in an article on Governor Tilden's message con- corning the canal frauds in New York says : ''We all know that at heart the American nation is as sound as our own and equally capable of noble impulses. The malpractices thus exposed are inexcusable but the corrup- tion is not deep seated and is by no means characteristic of the American people" ...... The question of woman's rights has been con- sidered in the House of Commons upon bill to enable unmarried women to vote for mem bers of Parliament. One of the arguments against the measure was that the "agitation emanated from turbulent women in America" |" Another was that it would enfranchise '' i'm moral women. .... They call the Lick matter in California 's san Indian gift" Every boy and girl will understand this.
 The Spanish government has decided to send 15,000 additional troops to Cuba. This looks like serious effort to crush the instruction, and the truth is that unless something is done to put an end to the insurgent raids the plantations the island will not be long worth | fighting for. .. The West has been visited by frightful tornadoes. Not far from Little Rock Ark, seven houses were blown down and a number of lives lost. bridge over the Platte river in Nebraska was torn away, and at Edin- burg, H., church and five dwelling were de- molished and several lives lost .. It is re- ported that the German government intends to prosecute German subscribers to the Carlist fund, for fomenting rebellion against friend ly power ...... The following were the balances in the United States Treasury Currency, $4,- 146 SOY special deposit of legal tenders for the redemption of certificates of deposit, s44,- 67500O coin 85. 928, I'll, including SPA, ,965 300 ill coin certificates outstanding legal tenders, $379, 226, 300. A strong effort is to be made l to finish the Washington monument at Wash ington, D. C......A An effort is being made to make ex-Presdents of the United States Sena- tors-at-large for life.
 | tions to it's consuls to summon for the last time French subjects living abroad, who are | liable to military service to have their names registered at the consulates. .... The Pacific i Jockey Club of San Francisco offer purse of $50, 900 in gold for four mile and repeat race, i open to the world $15, 900 to the first horse, S6C coo to the second. 5000 to the third, and | 4,000 to the fourth. Horses from Europe will be allowed $1.5O0 for travelling expenses, and from east of Rocky mountains $1 ,0OO. | The difficulty between Germany and China is | declared settled ~ The Boston expedition to the Black Hills is to start ill May. ..... in the polygamy case now on trial at Beaver, Utah, Judge Foreman charges that polygamy com 1nitted prior to 1862 is punishable now, that | bigamy is continuous crime and that the statutes of limitation do not apply. This is directly opposite to the charge of Judge Finer son. The coal masters of Wales have agreed to stop the lockout for week and throw open the pits to miners, with reduction of ten per cent. in the terms of labor then if work is not resumed, 8 further reduction will be de- manded. ..... There were two executions Michael Sullivan, at New Brunswick, N. J., for 1 St. Louis, for the stabbing of his wife. O'Shea died asserting his innocence, while Sullivan made no statement .... The Judiciary com mittee of the New York State Senate reported a bill providing for the removal by the Gov ernor, for cause and on hearing had, of the Secretary of State, Comptroller, Treasurer, Attorney-General, State Engineer, and Sur veyor, Canal Commissioner or State Prison Inspector. .... A demand has been made upon the government of Canada to grant protection to sugar, else the refping business will be destroyed by United States competition. ..
 MT. Charles Tappan, of Boston, died in Wash
 ington, aged ninety years. He was the last
 surviving brother of noted family.
 The Mexican raiders recently in Nueces
 county, Texas while on their way back to the
 Rio Grande, attempted to raid On the custom
 house at Roma. They were deterred from do
 ing so by the prompt action of Federal troops
 O'Leary, of Chicago, beat De Witt, of Auburn
 in one-liundred-mile walk in New York. .....
 A party of nearly eighteen hundred men, full! . armed, has organized and left for the Blacl
 Hills gold region. ... Paul Boynton, who hal been exhibiting an American life-saving dress in England. foated across the straits iron . Dover to BouIogne ,. An organized band O l robbers at Cl1cot, Ark, has been broken mp b. the authorities and three of the rrlffans killed .... Frederick Maxwell and Miss Corinn ) Dunwoody were drowned at Augusta, Ga., b, - the capsizing of boat caused by striking = snag. The bodies were recovered. .... Dal , Bryant, the noted negro minstrel, died in'Ne1 York Bryant was forcy-two years of age, an was born ill Troy. ......Ihe supply of coal sen
 from all the PelinsylTallia regions 50 far thi
 year is 3,0L9, ,O93 tons, against 3,929, $50 to tn same period of last year. being decrease Q
 G10 25S tons The decrease ill the supply c