Connecticut western news., 1876-03-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.
 A cable has been laid between Sydney and New Zealand ...... The Indiana Republican State convention, which nominated Godlove s. Orth (present minister to Austria) for gov ernor, presented the claims of Oliver P. Mor ton for President. The Oarlist cause is deemed lost by those in Paris who are well posted . June twenty-seventh was ap- pointed for the national Democratic conven- tion, and St. Louis was fixed as the place. .... Richard B. Irwin was arrested on charges by Rufus Hatch that he had embezzled the Pacific mail subsidy fund. An invalid lady ot eighty-six years, while sitting before fire in New York city, was burned to death by her clothes catching fire, she being teo feeble to extinguish the flames. Disastrous floods occurred in the provinces of Upper Austria and Moravia, by which 120 houses were washed away. .. It is now probable that the threatened war between the States of Central Americs will be sverted. %. The four-mile running race for $3O, 900 at San Francisco, which has excited SO much attention from the sporting world .during the past three months, was finally run on Washington's birthday, in the presence of 25,O00 people. Foster won the race in two heats in 7.Ss1S and 753; Ruther- ferd taking second place. Hook Hooking, Katie Pease, Revenue, Jr., Golden Gate and Chance were all distanced on the first heat.
 George Cameron shot Fred Schneider through the head, in Chicago saloon, and instantly blew his own brains out. As there was no occasion for the crime, it is supposed the double death was prearranged between the deceased men.
 The condition of affairs in Hayti is reported to be alarming. The president has ordered Cuban refugees to leave the island, and 8 monetary panic is imminent..... A small party of citizens of Montana were attacked and besieged by Sioux Indians on the north Charles R. Ingersoll and the entire Democratic State ticket was renominated by the State convention held in New Haven, Conn. The steamship Switzerland, from New York for Antwerp ran down the brigantine Hero in the English channel, and drowned four of her | crew w By . destructive fire in Tarrytown, | N. Y, an entire block of stores was burned and dozen families rendered homeless. Loss, $150,00O The governor of Maine has signed the act to abolish capital punishment. .... The American House, one of the leading hotels of Boston, was sold under 6 mortgage foreclosure for $21O.000.
 Gen. Babcock, private secretary to Gen. Grant, who was tried at St. Louis for com plicity in the whisky frauds, was found not guilty by the jury on the first ballot. The trial lasted seventeen days......O. E. & A. Dixon, the noted merchants of Liverpool, England, have failed for three and one-half million dollars. .. A thaw throughout Ger many caused the rivers to rise suddenly and overflow their banks washing away bridges, houses and farms, and causing some loss of fife =. No regular revolutionary combination appears to have been formed in Mexico, al- though many individuals have declared against the government in different parts of the coun: try. The Protestant church at Jalapa was re- opened under police protection. A slight earthquake was felt in the City of Mexico on the seventh of February The Plymouth church advisory council was dissolved, after sustaining Plymouth church in it's discipline, and providing for the appointments of 6 scandal bureau to investigate charges against MT. Beecher. A sleeping car was wrecked and burned near Wallingford Station, Vt., and Mir. Bissel, proprietor of the Sherman House, Chicago, and his son were burned to death. Several others were wounded. ..The steamer Strathmore, running between London and New Zealand, which has been missing for nearly year, has just been heard from. She was wrecked on Orozet islands last July, and of the eighty persons on board only twenty were saved.
 War is deemed inevitable between Japan and Corea. .... Gov. Ames, of Mississippi, has been impeached by the House of high crimes and misdemeanors. .. President Grant has announced that Gen. Babcock will nc longer act as the Presidential private secretary; that while convinced of Babcock's innocence in connection with the whisky frauds, he con- | siders him to have been indiscreet. . The Delaware Lackawanna and Western railway company are to re luce their gauge, and work will be commenced forthwith Mr. Lan- sing, cashier of the Kern Valley bank, Cali fornia, who claimed to have been overpowered and chloroformed by masked men while work ing at his books in the evening, after which the robbers secured 8 large amount of funds from the open vaults, has been arrested and | OOAAASSoON where the stolen funds were deposited, and all were recovered. =. A woman and three small children were burned to death in tene. nient house in La Mais, Iowa. On learning o1 the fact the husband became 8 raving maniac
 .....A great battle took place in Herzegovina in which the Turks were badly beaten The Louisiana House has appointed 8 committe. to investigate the charges against Gov. Kel logg, with the intention of impeaching him
 ..... The United States Senate passed tho bill authorizing the issue of $500, ,OO0, 900 ir four and one-half per cent. bonds to ru, thirty years.
 The steamer Mary Belle, the largest of thu
 Mississippi fleet, was burned at her wharf il
 Vicksburg, with her cargo of cotton. Thre
 lives were lost. The vessel and cargo wa valued at $500, 600. ...... four-oared Englisl crew will come to the Centennial, under tn stroke of Robert Watson Boyd. ... Genera
 Crooks command will punish the Sioux wh
 arc on the war path in Wyoming Territory . E Six masked men robbed three schooners lyin in New York harbor, securing considerabl , booty. In each case they forced their wa , aboard at the muzzle of revolvers, and cruell ) beat the crew. The managers of tn ) eastern bound trains from Chicago have re duced the freight rates slightly .... .Ex-Ta Commissioner Hand was sentenced in Patel . son, N. J., to serve eighteen months at har } labo~. ~......T The secretary of the treasury ar nounces that there is the sum of $91, ,987, OPS ? 17 in the treasury at the present time. 2 Austria has ordered from the country a Herzegovinian refugees. .... An outbreak O, 9 cured in the jail at Maulmain, India, durin which eleven prisoners were killed and sever wounded ...... Mrs. Emma E. Wimple, c l trial for the murder of her husband st Littl s Valley, N. r., has been convicted of murder