Connecticut western news., 1876-10-27
SEMINARY OF NEWS.


 attacked by thirty Indians near Fort Fetter- man, Wyoming Territory, and one of the num- Der severely wounded. After four hours fighting the savages were driven of, two or three of them having been killed. The Mississippi steamer Southern Belle with her entire cargo was burned just above Plaque mine. Several lives were also lost. ...,.. On the fifth day of the racing at Jerome park, Warlock won the mile and 6 quarter race for three-year-olds in 2:14, over eight contestants. The three quarter dash for wo-year-olds re- suited in 8 victory for Oriole in 1:2OI. Vigil was the winner of the two-mile race in $40. Sister to Mercy took the purse in the mile race in 1:47 ...... The yellow fever is abating in Brunswick, Ga. .... The Philadelphia Ex- hibition will positively be closed November 10th, as originally designed. ... John D. Lee, the Mormon leader convicted of complicity in the horror known as the Mountain Meadow massacre, has been sentenced to be shot January 26th next-under the laws of the territory a condemned man has his choice of hanging, shooting or decapitation. ..-.. Nomi- nations to Congress New York, first district. John A. King, Rep; Massachusetts, eleventh, 0. D. Chapin, Dem.; Pennsylvania, sixteenth, John s. Mitchell, Rep, and Chas. Moore, In- dependent Temperance ..... A conaagrstion at Point Levy, Canada, destroyed seven dwell ings. The Philadelphia stock exhibit con- nected with the Exhibition show about nine hundred sheep and five hundred swine.
 The Georgia cotton crop will exceed that raised last year by at least ten per cent ...... Samuel Burkett, colored, entered an African I1a ir toxicated, and on Elder Wm. Barnes asking him to leave, replied with curses upon the elder and the church, whereupon Barnes shot him through the heart. .... Two masked men overpowered the county treasurer in his office at Knoxville, Iowa, in the evening, and com polling him to open the safe, took $14,000 therefrom. ... Ten million feet of lumber, valued at $1O0 900, were destroyed by fire in the yard of the Mitchell & Rowland company at Toledo, Ohio. ... Prof. Taylor ran ten miles in five seconds less that an hour on wagor, at the Dartmouth College athletic ex- ercises. ......A fire originated in the Rexford Hetel, Sandy Hlll, N. Y., and burned through the entire business portion of the town. Twenty business houses lost their entire oon- tents. Losses will aggregate 100000, on
 
 nations to Congress New York, thirteenth district, John O. Whitehouse, Dem.; twenty seventh, P. H. Van Auken, Dem. The pro- feesion al single scull race at Greenwood lake drew out Plaisted and Biglin, of New York, Powell and Coulter, of Pittsburgh, McKiel, of Cresskill Station, Pa., and Landers, of Boston. The course was three miles around & stake boat. Plaisted led over the course by eight lengths in 21:453, with Landers, Coulter, Nc Kiel, Biglin and Powell following as named In consequence of the first three turning the stake from the wrong side, the purses were given to the last three.
 An officer of the Egyptian army states that Abyssinians have overcome and massacred three different expeditions sent by the Egyp- tian government to conquer them. The first | contained four thousand men, the second six thousand and the third nearly as many. The l Egyptian authorities have kept these defeats | from the public. The nail department connected with Zug's rolling mills at Pitts burgh, Pa., was completely demolished by the explosion of the boiler, and of the 150 men employed in the shop, fifteen were instantly killed, four fatally injured and twenty-nine seriously hurt. The ruins caught fire from the furnaces, and it was with the utmost difi- culty the poor maimed wretohes and bodies of the dead buried in the debris could be rescued from the horrible fat3 of being burned. Many of the wounded were wedged in by timbers and as the fire began sweeping over the mass of splintered wood, their shrieks for help were heartrending. The cause of the explosion is unknown, as the boiler was inspected only s
 few weeks previous. Pieces of boiler were
 thrown to 8 considerable distance, and the
 concussion of the explosion was sufficient tc
 destroy all window glass for blocks around
 The loss to the proprietors will probably bt
 $25, ,000. .... Count Won Arnim. formerly o
 the German cabinet, has been sentenced att
 serve five years in prison for treason ane
 offense against the emperor and Bismarck
 The count is in Switzerland. .... The inter
 State rife match-each team to shoot on itl
 own grounds, under the same conditions, As
 nearly as possible-was won by the Louisians
 team scoring 1,5O7 out of possible 1,s00
 New York scored 1,423; Illinois, 1,42O; Con
 necticut, 1871, and Massachusetts, 1,097. .
 First Chance won the Members cup st Jerome
 park, running zn.io an elohtA .n 2:G3
 The Centennial cup, four miles, all ages, wal
 won by Tom Ochiltree in 7:36. The mile ant
 quarter dash for three-year-oids resulted i1
 victory for Warlock in 2:131. Shylock wal
 the winner of the mile and three quarter
 race in 3;12!.
 Ge~. Rufus King died in New York city afte
 short illness. He was for many years edito
 of different influential journals, and at tn ) breaking out of the war accepted commis sion in the army-being West Pointer.
 The steamboat express train from Fall Rive to Boston, drawn by two engines, collided witt freight train near Randolph, while running at the rate of forty miles an hour. Three To comotives, the smoking and several baggag
 csrs were totally wrecked. One fireman wa
 killed and two engineers and two passenger
 who were smoking were terribly injured.
 By the giving way of the second floor in tn
 exhibition building at the Franklin count,
 (Me.) fair, two hundred people were precipi
 tated to the story below and large numbe { injured, one fatally. On the demand o l the English minister, the Turkish government has arrested Chefket Pasha for complicity il the Bulgarian outrages. ... Pinkerton's de , tectives have captured Frank James, one o the Minnesota robbers who succeeded in es
 caping after the attempted bank robbery. H was found in the house of Dr. Nolan, neA |, Kansas Oity, being under treatment for gun shot wound received during the fight. He i , one of the notorious James brothers Tn , Duke of Aberoorn has resigned his vice1 oyshi , of Ireland, and the Duke of Marlborough az 7 pointed as his successor.
 On the first day of the Jerome park meeting 7 Bill Bruce won the mile and an eighth handi cap in 1:59. Parole came in winner of tn mile and half race in 2:38-beating St. Maj tin Wsrlock, Virginius and Rhadamanthus , 1 rtn oR rnila dasI1 Rnrr