Connecticut western news., 1876-06-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Sam Anderson, colored, who was arrested for attempting to outrage Miss Vaughan, of Dc Soto county, Miss, and cutting the throat of her brother was taken from the tficers by body of armed citizens and hanged. The Mexican insurgents have met with several dis astrous defeats recently, and their cause is regarded as almost hopeless Fanatics burned Protestant church in the city of Mexico =. United States Marshal Harrington, of Gov ington, Ky, attempted to seize the Ohio river steamer Kate Dickson, when he was shot by the captain, named Taylor, who was instantly killed by the marshal's aids Gen. Hancock presided over meeting of the Army of the Potomac, held in Philadelphia, and Gen. John A. Dix made the address, Wm. Winter recited & poem, after which Gen. Sherman, Sheridan, Hooker and others briefly responded to calls. ...... In consequence of 8 judgment of Bremen court, Bismarck has stopped the cir culation in Germany for two years of the weekly edition of the Philadelphia Volksblat. ......An the Fenian prisoners in Western Australia escaped on an American whaler, and the authorities sent an armed steamer after them.
 George R. Frintz killed himself in Cincin- natl the night before he was to be married. No cause was assigned for the act. The steamer Austin, from Havana for New Or leans, struck snag twenty-two miles below the latter city and sunk. She is 8 total loss with her cargo of sugar valued at $8O, ,OOO The vessel was worth $125, ,000, and was not in- sured. .... Oregon Democrats claim to have carried the State and to have & working ma jority in the legislature. ... Wisconsin Demo- crats appointed delegates to the national con- ventioD, but did not think it advisable to adopt g platform. The delegates are mostly for Tilden. .....At Philadelphia George Parker rode twenty California mustangs ninety miles in three hours and fifty-seven and one-half minutes.
 A city hall in course of erection at New castle, Pa., was burned, together with an adjacent engine house. Loss, $40,000.. ..... Two brothers named Clark were drowned while bathing at Sea Grove, N. J. They were painters from Providence, R. l., and were en- ployed at the Sea Grove Hotel The historic old South church building at Boston was sold at auction for $1 300; the material to be re- moved within sixty days Charles Worms was found guilty in Philadelphia of forging the name of Secretary Chandler to 8 contract with the Interior department for Indian sup plies. George Sand, the famous French novelist, is dead. ... Several buildings were burned in Cayuga, Canada, inficting loss of $70, .... Alfred D. Jessup, Jr., and one Davis fought duel at River Bend, Col, and
 Jessup WAS killed at the second fire. .... A rumor is abroad that the eldest son of the late sultan has also committed suicide. ..... Coch- rane. Mclean & Co.,, the well-known New
 York importing firm, have failed.
 Reports from the cotton producing States
 show slight decrease of area devoted to the
 crop this year. but generally indicate that the
 plants are doing well .... The Havana (Cuba)
 collector of taxesshas absconded with $40O, ,000.
 By the capsizing of a sailboat at Wor-
 cester, Mass, John and William Stewart,
 brothers, and young son of John were
 drowned .. Goldsmith Maid, in a second at
 tempt to beat 2.14, at Philadelphia, trotted ir
 2.2214, 2.16A and 225.. ....,. The Erie railway
 has made another reduction of one dollar tc
 all the principal points from New York.
 A torchlight procession was held in Dublin
 in celebration of the escape of the Feniar
 prisoners from West Australia. Mir. Disrael
 was burned in efigy. ..... One hundred ant
 fifty armed men went to the Santa Rosa (Cal.
 jail and took out Thomas W. Henley, confined
 there for killing James Rowland, prominent
 citizen, and hanged him. The foot ant
 mouth disease has broken out with great viru
 lence among the hogs at Outrement, Canada
 ..... Ex-Speaker Blaine walked to church ant
 on his arrival was prostrated with sunstroke
 hU rnanfa1 ) ment during the past few weeks. He was un
 conscious from eleven A. M until four P. M. when his physicians pronounced him out o danger. ... Peralto rode 150 miles in sever hours on twenty-five mustangs at Philadelphia .....Nearly all the liberal papers of Spail
 have been suppressed. =. The president o Panama has asked his congress to contract fo
 the survey of & canal route across the isthmu , of Darien, and it will probably be done. .... 5 A revolution has ssken place in Bolivia an Daza has been proclaimed president.
 The Catholics of Houtzdale, Pa, assemble for worship in their new but unfinished edi6ce and crowded it so full that the gallery fell be meath the weight, killing the contractor of tn ; building and injuring thirty of the congrega tion. Prince Milan of Servia has given in hi : allegiance to Sultan Murad . Serious inur ! dations are reported throughout Switzerland f attended with some loss of ife.. Locust 3 destroyed the cereal crops of two provinces ( 8 Spain, and fifteen thousand soldiers are CT . gagged in extirpating the pests. s..... The Guatt 8 malian gunboat, Gen. Barreos, foundered O . their coast during gale and sixteen soldier I. were dl owned. Patrick Quinlivan, 8 lahore l of M Ia 1oh 6f : insanity, attacked his wife, and supposing | hid murdered her, committed suicide by GU , ting his throat. The woman may recover. The Canadian herring fishery has been vel ', successful the past season.
 : The canals of New York have been throw = open to Canadian boats on the same terms l American craft ... When the results of tt F. elections in Belgium, giving & Catholic m |, jority in the council, were made known, in Q mense crowds gathered before Catholic inst . tutions in Antwerp and created much disturl - ance. Many arrests were made ...... IT < Mexican insurgents have recently met wit | many defeats ct the hands of the federals, ar = their cause is losing the popular sympath o ......T The Delaware Democratic conventic d declared for Bayard. .... Maine Democrats
 convention indorse Tilden for the Presidenc
 .... Senator Anthony has been reelected
 the Rhode Island legislature. =. .Lightni1 s struck an oil derrick at Bradford, Pa, and u 1T flames communicating to 8 22, ,000-barrel tan Il both were destroyed. The burning oil sprea g causing the destruction of several cars and Fl lot of lumber. LOSS, $125, 1000.
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 The Business of General Interest Tran t" acted.