Connecticut western news., 1875-01-22
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 not been done it is my firm belief that scenes of bloodshed would have ensued. ... At the suggestion of Democrats, meeting was held at Washington consisting of one leading Democrat from each State, to consider the political situation. The consultation was private. ... A man on trial at Bath, N. Y., for bigamy, shot himself in the court room. He did not succeed in his effort to take his life " The weather has been 80 cold in the West that persons have frozen to death in Kansas and Nebraska. Irwin, of the Pacific Mail case, has been looked up in the Washington jail be- cause he would not livulge to whom the money had been paid. It has already broken out that members of Congress were offered money $1, 900 being the sum named to vote for the subsidy. ...... Caroline Babcook was arrested at Hartford, charged with poisoning her hus- band, Jesse W. Swain, at Sheffield October, 1873. The New York 7th regiment was invited to visit New Orleans and take part in the Mordi Gros festivities, but declined the invitation, as it was impossible to go.
 | Thomas Francis Farrell, 8 boy three years old, was burned to death in his fathers house at New Haven, Conn.,, by his clothes catching fire from a stove where he had come to dry them, after sliding down hill. .... The steamer Kathleen Mary, from Odessa for Falmouth, has been lost at sea and twenty y-six persons drowned. .... During the late cold weather in New York and New Jersey nnmber of persons were frozen to death. .... The inmates of the Lincoln (Neb.) penitentiary overpowered their guards, seized the armory, shot several citi- zens, and attempted to escape. The Spanish 1 of obo1lo To l,o1;o Marie Louise have been re-estabGshed by the Spanish government .. Don Carlos has de- tsrmined to carry on his war, notwithstanding the restoration of the Spanish Monarchy. | The mining difficulties in the anthracite region of Pennsylvania are causing the stoppage of machine shops and foundries ...... During a snow storm the brig Agnos Raymond, Captain Randall, ran ashore at White Island, thirty miles from Halifax, and became total wreck. When some fishermen discovered the wreck no person was on board, and there is no doubt that all hands were lost. The crew doubtless took to the boats, which were swamped, as two boats were washed ashore in the neighborhood. There were probably eight persons on board. .... MT. Scudder of New Jersey, introduced 8 bill in the United States House authorizing tunnels between New York and Jersey City, and between New York and Brooklyn. ... The Committee on Elections in the United States House directed the chairman to prepare re- port in favor of the resolution for the exclusion of delegate Cannon from seat in the House on the ground of his being polygamist -,.. A boiler in Tyson's Baltimore Chromo Works Baltimore, exploded, killing William Lucas, colored employee, and causing damage to the amount of $10,000. . The Lake Shore anG Michigan Southern railroad declared dividend on the 18th of December. Jacob Rubno E stockholder and bondholder of the company complained before Justice Happen, in the Brooklyn Circuit Court, and an investigation was ordered preventing the dividend from be- l ino r1aid