Connecticut western news., 1876-03-31
SUMMARY OF NEWS
interesting n 1,en. rom m ~ Homo % and Abroad.

peace. The Senate voted to restore the Presidents salary to $25, ,00O .. Michael Mo Cornell was hanged at Hamilton, Ont, for the murder of Nelson Mills He died asserting his innocence of purpose to do murder. There is deficit of $2 900 in the accounts of John H 2 Magee, treasurer of Ottawa county, Ohio. .,a Samuel Downing's residence at Salmon Falls, i, N. H., was destroyed by fire, and his blind mother perished in the flames. By the caving in of 8 drain at Toronto, Canada, two laborers were su1focated. e. Heavy gales prevailed throughout France, England and Germany, and an immense amount of damage was done, the telegraph lines suffering especially. Shipping disasters occurred all along the coast ... Commercial circles of New York city were considerably startled by the announcement of the closing of the na- tional bank of the State of New York, with de-
 fioit of $1,O00, 900. The loss, which falls on the stockholders, is due to mismanagement.
 =. Three men were crushed in boarding house by 3 snow slide ct ophir, Utah.
 A telegram from Alexandria states that in the recent battle the Abyssinians numbered sixty thousand and the Egyptians twenty thou sand. In consequence of the king suing for peace, the khedive sent dispatches to Prince Hasson and Rahib Pashs. It is generally con- sidered that the Abyssinisn war is ended. Senor Latorre has assumed the direction of the Uruguayan government, and assures the minister of Brazil of his special desire to main- tain friendly relations with that powera The difficulty between Japan and Corea has been settled >. .. The residence of Gen. Gideon Pillow, near Memphis, Tenn, yea sold at bankrupt sale. AS there was no competition in the bidding, the residence, which is prob ably worth $8, 0OO was bought by gentleman for $26, and the valuable library by another person for $11, and both were presented to l Mrs. Pillow. =. Mrs. Senator Carl Schurz died in New York city of puerperal fever. ..... The Servian troops have been ordered to the frontier to protect the inhabitants from the Turks .. .Peko Paulovich, who commanded I the insurgents in the recent battle of Mura- tovizza, claims that of the 3,200 Turks, who attacked him, only 700 escaped. A disease similar to the rinderpest has destroyed 8 ma iority of the cattle in the country surrounding Yeddo, Japan ..... The emperor and empress of Brazil will visit the United States during the Centennial exposition travelling as private l individuals.
 The Cumberland iron works, in Stewart county, Tenn, has suspended, Liabilities,
 $250 0O0; covered by assets. Joseph Strauss, president of the Alsace-Lorraine association,
 of New York city, committed suicide by shoot
 ing. Financial troubles led to the act. .....
 A locomotive and eight ears of freight train
 on the Atlantic and Pacific railroad went
 through the bridge over the Merrimack river,
 killing Christopher Leason, engineer; badly
 bruising Harrison Preston, fireman, and de-
 stroying good deal of property. ..... The re- public of Hayta is again threatened with
 anarchy, as the insurgentf force will undoubted' ly succeed in overthrowing President Domin' ] que. Jacmel. 8 city of fifteen thousand in'
 habitants, is already in the hands of the revo
 lutionists. ... The English ship Erimenides
 Capt Beard, from Port Royal, s. C., for Gre
 mock, capsized at sea, and the captain anc
 twelve of the crew were drowned. .... The
 Cuban yacht Octavia, about which the New
 York authorities had so much trouble at tht
 time of her fitting out, has been captured b,
 tlm Spanish gunboat Cortes. eThe Octavia hat considerable quantity of munitions of wa
 aboard. . . The British ship Great Britain
 from Doboy for Liverpool, encountered terri
 ble weather and became waterlogged. Afte
 the captains two sons had died from exposure
 that officer and thirteen men took to the boat
 They suffered terribly from hunger, and thre of the men dying, the remainder were force'
 to eat portions of the remains to keep iron
 starvation. They were eventually rescued il on emaciated condition. The captain-genera of Cuba has imposed direct taxation of $36, COG, 900 on the entire island, of which Havan
 will pay $12, ,000, 900. ...Queen Victoria is t visit Germany in her private capacity ... Tn
 Rhode Island Democracy nominated Genera
 George L Cooke for governor. E
 Canada has commenced forws ling her good to the Centennial. ... Assem- lyman Wilcox who attacked a reporter of he Chronicle i : the Senate chambers at Sac amento, Cal, wa found guilty of assault and sentenced to pa fine of $500. .. The opera house at Spring field, ILL, worth $190 0O0, was totally destroye by fire. .... The railway bridge over the rive Ill, near Lutterbach, France, was so weakene by the recent floods that it gave way while passenger train was crossing, precipitating a the coaches into the stream, which was dee , and rapid with the flood. Nearly all on boar l were killed by being crushed or drowned
 although the number of victims is unknown $ , present, sixty bodies >have already been rt 3 covered. -. Three of the most prominer
 Montenegrin officials have one to the insul : gent camp to induce their countrymen to sto fighting, and to prevent foreigners from joil = ing them by way of the Montenegrin frontie l ...... The Greboes attacked the Liberia :. (African) town of Topman, but were repulse with heavy loss. The United States frigat I Alaska rhavin 2 arrived at Cape Palmas, u
 captain was asked to arbitrate between Il
 two powers. A speedy settlement of dificulti'
 is anticipated. .. St. Patrick's day was appr | priately celebrated in nearly all the eiti' :. throughout the country. .. ..Gen. Cooke d II clined the nomination for governor tendere II Il by the Democrats of Rhode Island. .... Ger ~ Sherman expressed confidence in Presidel
 Grant and Gen. Babcock in 8 speech at s : Louis Mrs. Ann Hammond, 2 hard-work kir # Irish widow, the only support of five childre r., was brutally murdered in 8 house in New Yo ,t in which she was at work. Thomas J. Barte IS boarder in the house, was are sted for u IS crime and bloody wristbands found in b G. pocket, which had been cut from his shirt ir s plicated him deeply. It is supposed he a e- tempted to outrage the woman, when sh n being very strong, nearly succeeded in gettil II ., haNfn NP k|n aHr yu1n vUhn