Connecticut western news., 1876-04-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Items O1 Interest from HOwe and Abroad.


 Andreas Fuchs, who kill ed Simmons in Brooklyn, N. Y, and afterward cut his body into small pieces which he hid about in diff ferent places, was sentenced to be hung on June 2..... Every day brings intelligence of additions to the insurrectionary movement among the Christian people under Turkish rule Central osnia is now in revolt The revolutionis of Mexico have taken the town of New Ls do. A treaty of peace has been made between the republic of Liberia and the revolting tribes. ..... Turkey informs the inter ceding powers that she has conceded to her rebellious subjects all the reforms consistent with her self-respect. Great destitution is reported among the inhabitants of Cape Breton, and three hundred persons in the neighborhood of Sydney are said to be with out the necessaries of life. .... Harvard will undoubtedly send crew to Philadelphia to contend with the eight-oared crews from Oxford and Cambridge ...... The direct cable to England is once more in working order.
 The government servia has determined to levy forced loan of BIO head. Freight rates east have been reduced. ... South Caro- lima sends her delegates to the national Repub- ican convention unpledged. ... An iron oil tank at Bear Creek station, Pa., was struck by lightning and instantly became 8 mass of flames, which spread to two neighboring tanks, and the three were totally destroyed with their contents of forty-five thousand barrels of oil, involving loss of nearly $100,00O. A twenty fve-thousand barrel tank was also struck by lightning and set on fire at Beaver Pipe sta %ho steam. .. .. Three men were buried beneath an old wall in Philadelphia, and when rescued one was dead and the others seriously injured. ......A fire in St. Johns, Canada, destroyed brick block residence and storehouse, valued at $70, 900. Four men were instantly killed and five others seriously and perhaps fatally injured by 6re-damp explosion in the Nes- quehoning mine, near Allentown, Pa...... Twenty thousand colliers are on strike in South Yorkshire, England, against fifteen per cent. reduction of wages. ..... The immi- grafton from Ireland for 1876, it is estimated, will be the smallest since 1851. ..... Five dwell ings, with numerous barns and outbuildings, were blown down at Oreston, Ia., during the prevalence Of heavy gale. Loss, 10000.
 Greece has found some of her officials guilty of corruption, and has sentenced former minister of ecclesiastical affairs to one years imprisonment, three years deprivation of poE- tical rights and pay fine of $10,000 another minister WAS sentenced to ten months i'm prisonment; and three archbishops were fined double the amounts each had received as bribes. .. The plague is increasing in Bagdad. ...... Gen. John Mcdonald and W. O. Avery
 of St. Louis, convicted of complicity in the whisky frauds, were sentenced, the first to i'm prisonment for three years in the penitentiary and to pay fine of $5,0OO, the latter to two years Imprisonment and $1 ,00O fine. A hur- ricane did considerable damage at German town, Ky. In one of the houses blown down were eight men, two of whom were killed out right and the others badly injured ...... Gen. Prado, the president-elect of Peru, is travelling about this country on tour of observation. He is travelling about unostentatiously, accom- panied by some of his suite ...... A battle be- | tween French troops and five thousand AL gerian insurgents took place near Constan- tine, and resulted in the defeat of the insur- gents withsa loss of six hundred men, includ- 1 ing their leader ... .Virginias delegates to the national Republican convention favor l Mr. Blaine for President.
 It is reported that the shah of Persia has sent force of troops to Mesched, city in northeastern Persia, whence they will wage war against Merv. If the shah succeeds he may be expected to take possession of Merv before Russia can annex it. IA. T. Stewards will, which was made in 1873, gave his friend and legal adviser, Judge Hilton, the sum oi
 $4, ,0OO, ,OOO, and the balance of the immense estate to the widow, with the exception o1
 8 few small legacies to faithful servants and
 employees. No money was left for public
 charity, but in letter to his wife he expresses
 the hope that she will carry out his plans fol
 the welfare of his fellow-men, and requests
 that each of his employees who have served
 him twenty years shall have $1, 900, and those
 who have served ten years $500. .... Richard
 Kenyon, tax collector of Amboy, Oswegt
 county, N. Y., is defaulter to an amour
 ranging from $2, ,O0O to $3, ,OOO ...... A bronze
 figure of Abraham Lincoln, bought by sub
 scriptions from colored people, was unveiled
 in Washington by President Grant. Fredericl
 Douglass made the address ... St. Mary
 county, Md, has had shake by an earth
 quake. Baby farming in Montreal is being
 looked into and it is found that of 719 found
 lings consigned to tine Gray Nun hospital, las
 year, only eghty-eight survived. .... Severa houses and barns were burned at Mechanics
 vile, Pa., by an incendiaEy fire, aggregatng ! loss of $40,000.... The old Greeley mansion
 at Chappaqua, N. T., was destroyed by fire. James B. Eads, engineer of the improve
 ments at the mouth of the Mississippi, in forms the South Pass Jetty company that tn
 jetties show the least depth of water to b
 fifteen and one-haf feet clear. A depth 0 twenty-two feet extends one mile and three
 quarters. .... Great anxiety is felt for tn safety of the schooner Katie, which left Fol
 Mulgrave, N. S., for Boston with sixty-fv , passengers. ... Holmes boot shop in West
 borough, Mass, was burned to the ground l The loss is from $50, ,0OO to $6O, 900. .. g.. .Wm
 Cullen Bryant, of New York, ex-Presiden 1 Woolsey, of Connecticut, ex-Gov. Bullock, c
 Massachusetts, Horace White, of Illinois, an Carl Schurz, of Missouri, have called for
 conference of prominent men to be held New York city May 18th, to consult about pro curing the election of men of high character the chief offices in the country .... A Russia r corvette, while entering the Pireus lately foundered, and all on board were drowned. , No further disturbances are apprehended
 Malacoa. Dom Pedro, emperor of Brazi 8 arrived safely in New York and declined 8
 public attentions. Mrs. A. T. Stewart, fe r the sum of $1,OOO, 900, has transferred a
 the property left by her husband, exceptin : only the real estate in New York city, to Jude
 Hilton, who, with MT. Stewards old partne Nr. Libby, will carry out all of the dead me
 chants enterprises under the old name :. There are s4 2OO..buildings in New York city, . which 67,156 are dwellings, 8,293 stores ar
 425 churches. Six suicides were committe