Connecticut western news., 1875-05-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.,

An1orceNmH MoMS HUH N"NNap %r~ A~h"%%A 3 sThe ship King Philip left BalHmore in May, 1874, for San Francisco with a cargo of coal. Befors leaving Chesapeake bay the crew 5nutinied, but were quelled by Sthe maya academy shortly after the crew set the ship on fire, but it was extinguished. She then sprung aleak and put into Rio Janeiro for re- pairs. Here riot occurred on board, in which one sailor was killed and several wounded by 8 mate of the ship, who was sentenced to eight cen years imprisonment. The voyage was finally finished in one year, within twelve days. ..... John Franley, highwayman, attempted to rob Dr.. Giles in New York city early one morning, but the doctor defended himself stoutly with heavy cane, and gave the man over to the police ... Reports received by the agricultural bureau at Washington indicate great damage to the tobacco crop from un- Reasonable weather ... The internal revenue receipts from July 1, 1873, to April 30, 1874, were $91, ,845, ,642.O1. The receipts from July 1, 1874, to April 30, 1875 were $89, 758. 871.95, being an increase of $7, 913, ,229. .94. If sto the receipts for the first ten months ofthe current fiscal year are added the receipts of May and June of the last fiscal year the total will 1 killed McCready at Moorestown, N. J., has I been found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to twelve years imprison- ment.
 l Treasurer Spinner has received $100 from Boston to add to the conscience fund. ..... Intelligence from Kingston, Jamaica, states that Q revolution has broken out in ort-au-Prince. Dr;o oh, shot. Forty foreigners have been killed i; among the victims is 8 servant of the British consul general Buildings were fired, and every species of disorder prevailed. Astate of siege has been proclaimed. A British gunboat is there, and another is to be sent. Steamers were not permitted to enter the port, and landed their scargoes at Kingston. .... It has I been definitely decided that the great inter national rife match shall take place at Dolly mount, England, on June 29th. Banquets are I to be rendered the Americans by the lord mayor of London, the fellows of Trinity college, and others. ;. The Emperor of Brazil opened the regular session of the Chambers in person, and in his speech said that public order was completely restored. ss. While son of Perry Pearsall was ploWing slwissta team of horses in New Dorp, IN. r., one of the animals became unmanageable, and, springing upon the boy, bit him severely on the arm. The boys father , and mother went to his assistance, when the horse jumped upon the lady and broke two of her ribs, trampling upon her so that her life is dispaired of The animal vas finally got into I the stable where he plunge about until he broke his neck. .... The Hon. Edward Blake has been offered the chief justiceship of the supreme court of Canada, the highest judicial position in the Dominion. =. Josie Leban rwenty-three years of age, thedivorced wife of Asa Wedmore of Fair Haven, Conn, and latter ly living with another man in Hartford, com mitted. nit suicide by taking laedsnpm, sz
 Justice Gilbert has appointed Mr. Edwin Alexander receiver of the Merchants Life h. surance Company of New York. .. Bill Roclifer, 8 noted desperado, made daring attempt to break from the Jacksonville Qnd.) peniten- tiary. One of the guards heard noise in & cell, and on making an examination he was suddenly confronted by the prisoner, armed with revolver. The guard retreated for help. Further examination showed Roclifer in some mysterious way had secured the keys, unlocked the cell door, and silently seized tle inside guard, whom he disarmed and threE into the cell, locking him in. The convict the n made I an attempt to knock 8 hole in the wall large l enough to get through. The noise he made in attempting to do this first alarmed the guard. Roclifer was secured and again locked up ... Wm. E. Sturtevant was hung in Plymouth county, Mass. for the murder of his two uncles and female cousin in February, 1874 by beat ing them to death with club. His object was their hoarded wealth . .. The revolution in Mexico is spreading. Various prominent Ipersons have been assassinated Charles I O. Russell, S White Plains (N. 9Y.) druggist, committed suicide by shooting himself three times in the heart, in 8 fit of despondency. He was to have been married in few weeks. | .... .- Coroner Kessler, of New York city, held druggist in $1,000 bail for prescribing for little girl sick with diphtheria, he not holding any diploma. ... Howard Woodward. convicted in the Burlington county (N. J.) court of an outrageous assault on 8 little girl, has been sentenced to twelve years in the State prison. i.... A tornado passed over the State ot Georgia, taking in the whole line from Alabama to North Carolina and proving more disastrous in it's results than any tornado that has visited
 
 cloud resembled 8 funnel, with it's apex on the 1 ground. Buildings were demolished before it. houses were lifted bodily from the ground and smashed to pieces, and in one case whole ' village was swept away. 1t is known that ove, seventy persons were killed, and more thar I one hundred injured !. Tie American Metho dist chapel at Quickang, China, was destroyed by amob,of Chinamen. The authorities have offered reparation.
 ) A wharf two hundred and twenty-three feet long, st the foot of Pacific street, Brooklyn N. T., sank, and with it ten thousand tons o1 coal, two wagons, and horse, involving loss of over $40, coo ... Two sons of Aaron Day of Iynnl Mass.,l ate freely of wild carrots which they found in the woods, and died in 6 few days. -. Intense excitement was created in Jersey City on account of the Delaware ant i Lackawanna Railroad Company laying theh track through Catholic cemetery. A large crowd of men and women, many of then armed, gathered at the grounds, and threat ened hostile proceedings which resultedin th' work being stopped until such 8 time as th' l excitement has been allayed. By 8 fire il } : a New York tenement one woman was burned
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 unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck
 Pottsville passenger train on heavy curve a
 Big Mine run, Pa., by placing an iron railroad chain across the track. .... Three strikers ol t the public works were arraignedi in Washington D. C., charged with engaging in ariot wit . sixty or seventy others, the.objeet of which va . to intimidate non- strikers from working The ' were found guilty and ordered to pay fine o $20 or suffer twenty days Imprisonment !. The boiIersof the steamboat Senator explode