Connecticut western news., 1875-06-11

check ShOufu- be put on 6f1eH excess or faith. Seventy five charfed and naangled corpses appeal against the continuance. of system of En5ssez i1tler which places the lives of the community in the hands of rash and careless persons who may happen to be connected with a church.
 xob SUMMARY OF NEWS. a5:
 1te4P or Interest from Hteme and Abroad
 A camp of Austrian fishermen on Baratara Bay, La., was attacked by two hundred Cadian residents and destroyed, and the Austriana threatened with violence. A delegation of the Austrians called on Governor Kellogg for pro- lection. An officer was sent down to investis. gate the affairs .,.. Cerebro spinal meningitis prevails to some extent among the horses of St. Louis but yields readily to treatment. ... As there was, no. choice for Governor and Lieutenant Governor of Rhode Island at the late election, the first act of the Legislature on converting was to elect Henry Lippitt and Henry T. sisson to those offices. They both ran on the regular Republican ticket The upper house of the Prussian Diet has passed the bills for the suppression of convents, and relative to the administration of church pro- perty. ... Recent estimates of the amount taken by Abraham Jackson, the defar1ltlng lawyer of: Boston. place the sum at $70400o. ....Jay Cool1es estate at Chelton Hills was offered at $350,000, but not 8 single bid was made. It will now be disposed of at private sale.. :. Italy has given official notification of it's intention to participate in our centennial.
 ..The property of the Glenham Manufac- turing Company, at Glenham, N. Y, was sold by Floyd Bailey, trustee in bankruptcy, for $l95,00O The purchaser was J. ". Still, of New Rork7city... A large and enthusiastic. meeting vas held in Philadelphia toSinaugurate Black Hills expedition. . The shad fishing in the Hudson river has been unusually suc- cessful this year. At Barrytown the fishermen took six thousand in twelve hours, where in former years the yield would not have exceeded six hundred. Upon the application of busi ness men at Detroit; and the recommendation of the collector of that port, the Secretary of the Treasury directs that the ports of Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan, and Duluth, Minn., shall be and the same are designated as ports at which combined entries for transpor- tation and exportation may be made of goods arriving at those ports and destined for Vic- toria, Vancouvers Island, via San Francisco.
 An appalling disaster is reported from South Holyoke, Mass. by which at least seyenty-iveF persons lost their lives, and as many more were seriously injured. As the services in the Catholic church were nearly tconeluded, the drapery tlae statue of the Eilgin Mary caught ire from q candle and in al instant tbe to the dry ,eeifngsof the ldw building Snd tte woodwork A59stas bn fire. 9here VAS berfibles panic among the congre- gasion of seven hun dlsd men, women and chil- dreM assembled for worship, and while most of Ml1se in the body of the church found an easy egresB those in the gallery were crushed and anoth hered from the inability of the crowd to get down the narrow stairs Many jumped to the floor of the edifice, carrying down and tramplng all in, the way, only; to be jumped on .in turn by others, or consumed by, the flames, which were already tapping up their victims. The stairways. and doors were immediately blocked by the crowd in their frantic efforts to escape and many persons owe tiieit lives to the lthoughtfalhess of man who handed them i6vsf3 the heads of the struggling threng Some Kere Injured by jumping, from the gal derg windows to the ground. The priast made noble efforts tp;quelI the disorder, and soi aid tbe7 escape, but his ,yoioe was drowned by the Tshrieksr of the. living and the tnoans of the dying. The frenen were promptly on hand
 and the sad work of removing the dead and wounded was pushed forward with dispatch. Many bodies were, so badly burned that the flesh fell from the bones when taken from the church. The Sisters of Mercy from the convent near at hand were soon at the scene tending the wounded and praying with thadying! Many we're the shd and heart 'breaking incidents as little children faa3 about calling for parents who would never answer, or poor mothers rushed frantically around for their families, only to recognize them in the sdaaHglsd and Sharfed rel1afihs snatched- from the sasgeesssssNsIEiVg 3ti'T G~a
 Istr A terrible. explosion occurred in 8 Boston drug store occupied. ~bS a. O. DoWs, :Se Co.,,
 from some unexplained cause, by which the en- tire building of five stories was demolished,
 burying in it's ruins more than twenty persons, of whom three were taken out dead, and the
 others more or less seriously in htured. I9M any
 Will probably die from their injuries. ' The force of the explosion was felt forI blocks
 around, and led people to, suppose an earth
 qdaRel had 7oecrreG '-sA horse Car passing
 along the streeEopp pogite vas thrown over on
 it's side but none of-the passengers were in-
 jured. The losses amount to $100,0O Governor Tilden, of New York, has issued a
 proclamation in which he announces the ap-
 preach of the time for taking the census of the State and the collection of statistics in relation
 to it's agriculture, manufactures, commerce and
 general prosperity, and calls upon the people
 to aid the officers in every manner possible ..
 While two men were quarreling in New York, a | pistol was fired, built is unknown by whom the
 ball of which took effect in the forehead of a
 little girl of ten, causing death. Both men 1 were arrested, each denying the charge .
 The new twenty-cent silver piece is now ready for distribution. ... The Pennsylvania Re publican Convention at Lancaster renominated Hartranft for Governor and Henry Rawle for State Treasurer. The platform adopted declares the equality of all men before the law ; l protection to home industry and home market for home products the right of the laborer to protection and encouragement and the promo
 tion of harmony between labor and capital ; cheap transportation and the advancement of closer intercourse between all parts of the country ; free banking, a safe and uniform national currency, adjusted to the growing | wants of the business interests of the country
 and a steady reduction of the national debt j; and the equalization of bounties to soldiers ] The resolutions adopted, while they "point