Connecticut western news., 1876-05-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

been sick for few weeks, was stricken with | paralysis and died in New York city at the age of fifty-three. Don Amceto Esquirol has been elected to succeed Gen. Garcia as presi- | dent of the republic of Costa Rica. A night train on the Canada Southern line dashed into the Welland canal. The locomotive and eight freight cars were badly damaged. The fireman and engineer were killed. It is supposed that the latter was asleep, and did not observe that the bridge was open. The Metropolitan hotel, at Long Branch, N. J., was destroyed by fire, involving loss of $70,000. The hotel had just been enlarged, and was one of the finest at the Branch. There were 522 deaths in New York city in oDe week .... Miss Mary S. Linden, of Newark, N. J., having been de- ser, cd by her betrothed, became Respondent and committed suicide with arsenic. . A son and daughter of Prof. Parker, of the Iowa State university, were drowned by the upset ting of rowboat while in their fathers com- pany. War has been declared between the Central American states of Guatemala and and several unimportant engage ments have taken place .....The Prince of Wales, accompanied by his brother, Prince Arthur, were received at Madrid by King Alfonso and suite.
 Mckee, of the St. Louis whisky ring, was sentenced to two years imprisonment and to pay fine of $10, 600 =. .. The Massachusetts Republican convention appointed delegates to the national convention, but left them un- pledged. Resolutions favoring both Bristow and Blaine were before the members, but were not acted on. ..... The governor of the island of Barbadoes reports that the island is now quiet. .... As John Smith. who mur- dered Judge Carson at Crab Orchard, Ky. was being taken from court to jail, he was assaulted by the sons of the victim. The attempt to kill the prisoner failed however, and the young men were arrested, only to be set at liberty on their promising to abstain from further efforts in that direction. e. The opera house at Rouen, France, caught fire from & gas jet while the troupe of seventy-fve performers were preparing for the performance, and be- fore they could all escape the entire building was in flames. A number of the company were burned to death, among thsm Mime. Pays, the principal singer. Four soldiers were killed and fifteen others wounded in endeavor- ing to rescue the unfortunates coco. A bill to
  was defeated in the English House of Com- mons by 8 vote of 2J9 to 152. .. John Stone, a;ed twenty, of Manor Station, Pa., fell in love with thirteen-year- old girl, and because she refused to marry before she was sixteen, he blew out his brains, leaving note in which he said that he could not live three years with out the girl. The Turkish garrison of Nicsic made 8 sortie to procure provisions, but were repulsed by the besiegers. The garrison and inhabitants arein extremities, having had nothing but horse meat for several days. .. The national board of fire underwriters declare that ffty-fve per cent of the fires are incen- diary.
 The New York Democracy, in convention in Utica, appointed delegates to the national convention, heading the delegation with Sena- tor Herman. After directing the appointees to act as unit, the convention adopted resolu- tions declaring it's settled conviction that a re- turn to the constitutional principles, the frugal expenditure, and the administrative purity of the founders of the republic is the first and most imperi, us necessity of the times, the com- manding issue now before the people of the Union and while entertaining a cordial ap- preciation of other Democratic statesmen, re- spectfully suggest the nomination of Samuel J. Tllden for President. The Arkansas Re- publicans appointed delegates to the national convention, and instructed them to work fol Oliver F. Morton.
 The Post-ofice Appropriation bill, as re, ported, calls for $32 1s9, 109, of which it is estimated the receipts at the office will cover $29, 25S ,2O3. The appropriation proposed is $5, 750, ,696. 99 less than the estimates for the department. ... The California delegates tc the Republican national convention were left to vote as they chose, but the appointing con- vention expressed preference for Blaine. The report of the comptroller of tue currency showing the condition of the national banks on March 10th, gives their total resources as $1, ,834, 236, 393. .57, and the number of banks a | 2,090. .... Gen. Crook telegraphs tl4at tho Indians at Red Cloud are on the verge o starvation on account of the neglect in for warding supplies. In reply to the grea powers asking what are the best means O. bringing an end to the conflicts now existing between the various states and the church the c&rdinals replied that peace was impossible until the spiritual independence of the churcl is acknowledged. .... The German imperia court of discipline has formally dismissed Count Von Arnim from the public service, an, sentenced him to pay the costs of the proceed ings. The plague is increasing in the east At Bagdad there were seventy-fou attack and thirteen deaths on April 9th. and ffty-si attacks and twenty-six deaths on the 10th . l hn rno Shno of k1,a >l DoJo railroad company, at Rondout, N. Y., wa burn d, involving loss of $2O, ,OOO. It is sup posed to have be fired by discharged strikers
 The treasury now issuing twenty cen silver pieces. The Centennial comnissio have decided to open the exhibition ground on Sundays free of charge but to keep tn buildings closed ... Calamitous fires hay occurred lately ill numerous districts in Japa1
 On March 26th upward of three thousan
 houses were destroyed and ten lives were los
 iu the town of Izushi. On the sams day II
 houses were burned in Matsmai. and on Apr
 3 twenty houses were burnel in Osaka.
 Queen Victoria has been proclaimed empret
 of India. The steamer Quessant, frol
 Brest, has foundered at sea, twenty-one live being lost. =. .Wm. Boddie was hanged
 Tuscumbia, Ala. for committing rape on
 white woman in 1874 He died protesting h innocence. ... Turkey has asked the gre , powers for mill ary assistance in suppressir the insurrection, quoting as precedent u aid given Russia y put down the rebellion Hungary in 1949. The body of Edwal Fuller, missing from Rutney, Vt, for tv
 months, was found in an open lot in Westmi
 ster, with the re msins of his horse and sleig
 As jug of liquor was also found. it is su 3 posed he got lost in the snow while intoxicat, and soperished.
 At St. Hendine, Canada, girl named L
 bouillier, seamstress by vocation, shot al r killed Mrs. Murphy, 8 lady for whom she W