Connecticut western news., 1875-11-05

Don formed lake half mile wide and fifteen miles long, flooding many oolleries and iron mills, and throwing hundreds of employees i out of work. At Rotherham two thousand people were thrown out of employment by the floods. . Eight of the indicted St. Louis distillers have pleaded guilty, and have with I drawn their claims to the property seized by | the goSernment valued ct over $500, ,00O. I A Dr. Ballard was waylaid and shot dead by man named Andrews, near Marion, Ark. It was the conclusion of former quarrel ..... A policeman of Denver, Col, entered small tenement, recently vacated by some Italians, to discover the cause of 8 sickehing smell. l when he discovered in the cellar the bodles of ! man sud three boys, all having their throats cut. .. The county of New York has issued Judgment for $648, 491. .57 against the estate of the late James Watson, county auditor, under the Tweed ring. ... A young nan named Riser, who had become insane over religious subjects, threw himself from the tower of the water works in Chicago, and falling distance of one hundred and seventy feet was dashed | to pieces.
 A telegram from Berlin says that the es- inmates for the German empire for 1876 show | a deficiency of $3, 750, 900. ... Proposals for the new Canadian loan for two and ohe-half millions sterling have just been issued in Lon don. Three-ffths of this sum are guaranteed by, the Imperial government, and the other stwo-ffths are isaued- on the credit of Canada alone. The rate of interest of both is four per cent w A firm in Manchester, England, has begun the importation of American cali skr i,, Britain a number of vessels were lost andI many lives sacrificed. .. Ben Boyd, the most notorious and successful oounterfeiter it the country, was captured by secret service detec-. tfves in Illinois. They also seized a number of plates and much material for making coun- terfeits ...... The commissioner of internal revenue has decided that weiss bier is @ similar, liquor to ale, porter and lager bier, and subject to 8 tax of one dollar per barrel of thirty-opes gallons. .. Mrs. Walton, the divorced wife of Hiram Walton, of Mercer, Me-, who has been living with Greenleaf Tracy, was shot and killed by Tracy in fit of jealousy. He then fled to the woods and shot himself. Both were dead when found. ..... Henry Brown, the negro who killed Phillip Pfarr, German, living few miles rom St. Louis, and then
 
 the yard of the jall. In brief speech made on the scanold, he admitted having struck Pfarr the blow which caused his death; but denied outraging Mrs. Pfsrr.
 Indian Commissioner Smith has resigned s..... The commissioner of pensions, in his recently finished report, states the number of new pensions created during the past year as 1,557, and the number dropped as 12,977. The total number of pensioners is 234 821, in- cluding Ss4 widows of revolutionary soldiers. The total disbursements during the year were 29, ,685. 116.63, leaving 8 balance from the appropriation of $397, ,871. 31 ..... Attorney General Pierrepont has given an opinion that the faith of the government is unquallfedly pledged to pay the principal and interest of the 3.65 District bonds. Charles O'Conor, of New York, coincides in this matter i. ... Uri Carruth, editor of the Vineland (N. Y.) I'ade7 pendent, who was shot by Mir. Landis last March, and from whose brain the bullet had never been taken, died few days since, and Landis was immediately surrendered by his bondsmen and locked up in jail. Moody and Sankey, the revivalists, opened their initiatory service in Brooklyn, N. Y, at eight
 
 of five thousand, ten thousand more being unable to gain admission. The afternoon ser vice st four o'clock was likewise crowded, and 8 church half g block away was opened to the, throng, who were exhorted by Rev. Dr. Cuyler. ......A dwelling in Cheshire, Conn.,, was burned, and Mir. and Mrs. Murray, young married couple, were burned to death ..... A | carriage twas precipitated into the Schuylkill | river opposite Manayupk, Pa, containing five persons, three Of whom, Henry Getler, his mother and child, were drowned. E.
 The republic of santo Domingo is in bank rupt condition. . The first city hall ever built in Baltimore, costing over $2,2OO,OOO, was dedicated with great ceremony .... The annual report of the free delivery division of the Post-ofice department shows that for the first year the receipts for localpostages exceed the cost of free delivery .... j, Burglars broke l into the office of the Oxford Iron Co.,, at OK ford, N. J., but were met by the watchman, who shot and killed one and wounded another. ...... The Emperor William has returned to Berlin from his Italian trip. Russia is to send only such of her products as are but little | known to the Centennial. . The twenty-irst anniversary of the $ charge of the six hun dred" was celebrated by 2 dinner given in London to the survivors of the Light Brigade, who took part in the Balaklava charge. Thirteen persons perished by the floods at Nottingham, England, and six at Burton-on- Trent. ... I'M. P. Handy and Charles J. Jones; of the Now Yo4k Tribune, and James H. Bealr, Jr., of the Boston Post have purchased the Richmond Enquirer and will continue it as I- Ao1sA lol with colored people was capsized in the Missis- sippi opposite South St. Louis, and all but two, including the ferryman, were drowned. <.