Connecticut western news., 1876-09-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

AG tho saratoga races Madge won the threo-
 quarters of a mile contest in 1.164; Burgoo won
 the mile and three quarters race in 3.O7sI 1;
 Rhadamanthus won the mile and an eighth
 contest in 1.5924. 4..... Rev. Edward P. Smith,
 ex-commissioner of Indian affairs, and pres;-
 dent of Howard university, died in Guinea,
 Africa. Patrick Monahan was fatally stabbed
 ln New York by bis seventeen -ycar-oId step-
 son, who claimed to have done the decd in
 self-defense. coo. A nine- -year-old daughter of
 George Bowers, residing near Hempstead,
 l.. l., was missed from her homo, and on
 search being made by the neighbors, her body
 was found in the woods near by, terribly mu
 tllated and bearing signs of fendsh outrage
 coo. The New Jersey bber works, at New
 Brunswick, were totally destroyed by fire, with
 two adjacent dwellings. The loes will amount
 to $350,OO0. Three hundred employees, half
 of whom are women, were thrown out of work.
 The Democracy of South Carolina have
 nominated Gen. Wade Hampton for governor. ..... Twenty five houses were destroyed at
 Lewis, Canada, by fire ...... Westport, N. Y.,
 has had it's principal business houses destroyed
 by fire. Congressional nominations Myron
 Harris, Dem, from Michigan sixth district
 Mir. Hoges, greenback, Indiana fifth Charles
 Foster, Rep, Ohio tenth D. O. Dennisop.
 Rep, Vermont second J. D. Cox, Rep, Ohio
 sixth; Milton J. Durham Dem., Kentucky
 eighth. Secretary of War Cameron has
 issued general order calling attention to tho
 resolution passed by the Uuited States House
 Of Repre- sentatives on the tenth of August, in
 which 1t is declared that the exercise of the
 rlght of suffrage is in some of the States, not
 withstanding the efforts of all good citizens to
 the contrary, resisted and controlled by fraud,
 intimidation and violence 50 that in such
 cases the object of the amendment to the
 Constitution, known as Article Fifteen, is de-
 feated, and adds the following order to Gen.
 Sherman, commanding the United States army:
 The President directs that in acordance with
 tho spirit of the above, you are to hold all the
 available force under your command, not now
 engaged ill subduing the savages of the Vest
 ern frontier, in readiness to be used upon the call or requisition of the proper legal authori-
 ties for protecting all citizens, without distinc- ton of race, color or political opinion, in the exercise of the right to vote ss guaranteed by the Fifteenth amendment, and to assist in the enforcement of certain, condign and effectual punishment upon all persona who shall attempt
 by force, fraud, terror. intimidation or other
 wise to prevent the free exercise of the right Of suffrage, as provided by the law of the
 UDlted States, and have such force 50 dis trlbuted and stationed as to be able to render prompt assistance in the enforcement of the law. Such additional orders as may be neces- sary to carry out the purpose of these instruc- tions will be given to you from time to time after consultation with the law officers of the government. Desperadoes removed rail on the Lake Shore railroad, near Northeast, Pa, and the midnight train jumped the track, two baggage and three passenger cars going down an embankment fifty feet in height. The injuries were slight but two men dying from their wounds. The object of the mis- creants is supposed to have been the robbery of the express safe of $20O, 900.
 Thousands of deaths are occurring daily in the northern part of China from famine. Im- mense quantities of provisions have been for Warded from the other provinces but not sufficient to feed the dense population. The first rain in nine months fell on July 2. The trout le between Lpgland and China is not vet settled, and the British minister has left Peklng for Shanghae. ... George T. Anthony has been nominated by the Republicans of Kansas for governor. Congressional nomi. nations Illinois, tenth district. B. F. Marsh, Rep; Illinois, Galesburg district, Thomas R. Boyd, Rep. ..... A railway train was stopped in Colorado aud Judge Stone. of the United States supreme court, kidnapped therefrom to prevent the court being opened to qualify & receiver for the Colorado Central road. He subsequently, escaped, and the receiver was duly qualified. ....The Indians in Lower Cali fornia have rebelled against the Mexicans ... The Utica free-to-all race for $4 900 was won by Goldsmith Maid in 2.1816, 2.18sl, 2.1s15, | over Lucille Golddust, Bodine and Fullerton, .....The greenbaok State convention of h. diana adopted resolutions declaring that )v- ernment bonds and greenbacks should be taxed the same as other property; and de- manded the restoration of the eilver dollar. | that the government may herewith pay it coin obligations. The two-mile race at Saratoga was won by Aaron Pennington in | 3.35A. The handicap mile and quarter race was won by Rhadamanthus in 2.1l,
 Congressional nomiaations Texas. Austin | district, D. 0. Gidiings, Dam; Missouri, sixth, Il. E. Ravens, Rep. ..Gsn. Terry and Crook have united their commands aud are following an Indian trail Crook was on at the time of the juncture. It is reported that Sitting Bull has expressed determination to go to the agency and sue for clemency. He claims that he did not wish to fight, but the whites forced him to do it......A train on the Kansas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs road wa. stopped by band of robbers who mistook it for freight train containing the pay car. When they scovered it to be 8 passenger train they allowed it to proceed .... |. Ray. Wm. A. Cor nell, of Freedom Plains, N. Y., hanged himself while temporarily insane. . During the last day of the U 'ica (N. Y.) races, Great Eastern won the 2.26 contest in 2.2"3, 2223, 222. Rarus won the 2.20 race iu 2. 2.2244, 22l3, 2 g.
 Hon. Michael c. Kerr Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, died at Rock bridge, Alum Springs, Va. Mir. Kerr was born near Huntsville, Pa, March 15, 1927. In 1852 he settled in New Albany, Ind, in the practice of law. In 1854 he was elected city attorney, and in 1856 to the State legislature. Six years later he was elected reporter to the supreme court of Indiana, and published five volumes of reports. In 1864 he was elected represen- tative to the Thirty ninth Congress, and served on the committees on private lands and ac- counts. He was reelected to the Fortleth, Forty first and Forty-second Congresses. In 1872 he was the Democratic candidate for Congressman at-Large in Indiana, and was de- feated by Hon. Godlove s. Orth by a majority of 162. He was elected to the Forty-fourth Congress, and was chosen Speaker by the D.-o
 173 Blaine, 1O6. He was in ill health at the ti ne, and has been gradually failing until his death as announced.
 Sam Camden colored man, raped an eight year-old white girl in Huntington, W. Va, and