Connecticut western news., 1876-07-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


 the river. A fire at Athens, N. Y., destroyed propeller with a loaded barge and canalboat, belonging to the Starin line, together with the Hudson river depot and one hundred loaded cars. Loss, 100000. ....A fire in Virginia. City, New, destroyed the Globe Hotel and twenty-five dwellings. ...... Moscow, Russia, has suffered from 8 confagration to the extent of fifty houses. ..... Commodore Vanderbilt has given $500, 900 more to the Nashville University y-making $1,0O0, 900 in all.
 The Great Falls (N. H. Manufacturing Co., will reduce wages instead of closing their mills. .... A seven-story sugar refinery in San Francisco was consumed by fire. Loss, $350, 900 insurance, SPAS, ,000. E. H. Rollins, Republican, has been elected to the Senate by the New Hampshire Legislature. :. The war between Abyssinia and Egypt is over The tugboat Workman exploded it's boilor while lying at New York dock and three men were instantly killed. The canalboat Julia Sheppard, moored alongside, was completely cut in two and sunk. .... Treasurer New and Solicitor Wilson have resigned. ... It is currently re- ported that the mother of the late sultan insti- gated the assassin who murdered the Turkish
 
 two and one half million dollars to the Scottish church, recently died in Scotland.
 Miners wages in West Yorkshire. England, are to be reduced twelve and one-half per cent. . Senator Morrill,, of Maine, has been unanimously confirmed as secretary of the treasury. .Nicsic has at last been relieved by the Turks. ... Since the withdrawal of the British man-of-war Ariel from Whydah, the king of Dahomey again refuses to pay the fine recently imposed by the British commo- dore, Hewitt, for maltreating British sub ject.. ... During the month of May there were 2,099 cases of plague at Bagdad, of which ,222 were fatal. .. By an explosion in one of Woolf's irework shops at Greenville, N. J., the entire building was demolished, and of the twenty young girls and boys employed therein two were killed, five fatally injured and nine others were more or less burned by the full minate or disabled by the falling of the build ing. A terrific hailstorm occurred near Muskogee, Ill.,, and completely devastated a section of country varying from one-half to two miles in width.
 Seven prisoners in the Salt Lake City peni- tentiary overpowered the guard, and securing arms and ammunition made their escape. The prison cook was fatally shot while endeavoring | to prevent the escape. The college regattas will take place at Saratoga July 18th and 18th the other Athletic sports to follow on succeed ing days. August Il, the foreign university crews will contest the winning crew of the college regatta e. The conference of Massa. chusetts egationalists adopted, unani- l Po,- fermented wine at the communion . Wm Adin, who killed his wife, step-daugnter and Mrs. Benten in December last, was hanged in Cleveland, Ohio. He maintained to the last that the deed was unpremeditated. .... The schooner Dreadnaught won the irst-clasf yacht race of Sandy Hook, and the Peerless was successful in the second class . Mir Blaine has suffered relapse in consequence of overexerting himself at Hayes ratification meeting in Washington.
 Wm. Henry Johnson, who murdered hii step-son, Jacob Redman, in December last was hung at Paris, III. ,. James Courtright ex-county treasurer, at Wilkesbarre Pa., has pleaded guilty to the charge of embedding $2O, ,0OO of funds belonging to the State. .... Gen. Crooks command had four hours en gagement with 8 largo body of Sioux Indians near the Rosebud river, in Montana. Int Indians, who were strongly;armed and mount \ ed, began the attack, but were dispersed by the soldiers, leaving eighty-three of them deat on the field. The troops had ten killed ani nineteen wounded. .. .. The London Dail, Ne,os' Constsntinople correspondent writel that the irregular Turkish troops have com l enumerated thirty-seven villages which the! have destroyed killing men, women and chil dren, besides carrying of many young girls Among the refugees who escaped there is no girl of over ten years of age. The numbe of lives sacrificed is variously estimated 8 from 18, 900 to 90, 900. A masked mob tool colored murderer from the jail at Burlington Ky, and were preparing to hang bim when h.
 ran and epdeavored to escape. He was i-, stantly shot and wounded, whereupon th
 crowd hung him to tree and riddled his bod
 with bullets. ....A tornado at Paris, Ky, de
 stroyed ten or twelve houses and did othe
 damage.
 Two of the northern spans of the railroa.
 bridge across the Mississippi river at Kansa
 City have been burned. The loss is estimate
 at $10O,000. It will probably take two week
 to repair the bridge ...... At Robinson, Ill.,,
 desperate murderer, who attacked and nearl
 killed the sheriff when locking up the prisoner for the night, was taken out of jail by 8 crow and hung ..... MT. Sayler, of Ohio, has bee elected Speaker pro tenn. of the House-Ml
 Cox having left his dutes to attend to politics
 .... A mail train ran off the track near Cervis
 Spain, aRd seventeen passengers were kille
 and thirty-sevan wounded ... Mrs. Larr
 McOarty and her daughter were burned t
 death by the explosion of 8 kerosene lamp i Ogdensburgh N. Y.. Samuel Nenemache l attempted to go down a foul well in Philade : phia, when he was overpowered by the gase and fell into the water. John Solomon we1 to his rescue, but was also overcome. Bot men expired before aid could be extended. Venezuela has declared the church an State separate. All the convents have bee | suppressed and their endowments given ' various charitable institutions. The note F Bishop Cummins died in Baltimore count !. Md, aged ifty-four years .... The war f Honduras, Central America, is still undecide r The aid expected from Guatemala by u - revolutionary chief, Medina, has not been r. f ceived. .. A base ball game between the Va F and Harvard hines was won by the former.. I Trouble ia brewing between China and Eni
 land. .. The schooner B. P. Chase lost h. foremast by lightning and one of the crew VI killed by the same agency .... . By an @ plosion in the colllery pit at Sheffield, Eng ', six men were killed. ..... The English a 2 strengthening the fortress at Gibraltar by g a the means that can be devised.
 1t The Democratic National convention, whit n met at St. Louis, was called to order n Augustus schell, who said it was the purpo ; to nominate candidates whose election sh
 change the government and overthrow corru