Connecticut western news., 1876-08-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Iuterestlnk lEemE rom Homo and Abroad

EuterevtfnR lreuaa rom dome and Abroad.
 The government has redeemed $11, ,746, ,s31 ] in currency with silver coin. The entire ' western portion of the town of DemosVille, Ky. was destroyed by an incendiary fire. The famous naval band at Portsmouth, N H., has been paid off and disbanded. ..... A con- pany of ladies have bought the Old South
 church of Boston, and will preserve it..
 The Chinese government is determined to put
 an end to the exporting of coolies, while the
 Spanish authorities wish to continue it. IA
 young son of John E. Cameron, residing near
 Pottsville, Pa lowered his little sister into
 freshly lighted limekiln on the farm, and be-
 ing unable to raise her again, called his mother
 and grandmother. The mother sent the boy
 cown with instructions to put his sister in the
 bucket and jump in himself, using great haste
 in order not to be overcome by the gases. The
 boy got his sister in, and then fell back un-
 conscious The mother drew her daughtor to
 the surface, and told the old lady that she
 must tend the windlass, as she (the mother)
 was going down to rescue her boy; but the old lady was weak. and when the bucket was part
 way down, her strength gave out and the
 handle slipped from her grasp, striking her on | the head and rendering her senseless while l the woman in the bucket was precipitated to
 the bottom. stage happening along. the |
 driver went down into the pit with the assistance |
 of the passengers and succeeded in putting the |
 woman and boy into the bucket and getting in |
 himself and was drawn up in an unconscious
 condition. The woman and her two children
 were dead. | The university race at Saratoga was won by | | Cornell, the winning time being seventeen
 minutes and one and one-half seconds. Co.,
 lumbia was the favorite. At the end of the first half mile Cornell was first; Oolumbia sec-
 ond; Union, third. At the end of the second
 mile Columbia was first; Harvard, second; Cor
 nell, third. Cornell won Harvard being sec-
 ond. The boats came in in the following order
 Cornell, Harvard, Columbia, Union, Wesleyan
 and Princeton. The time of crews was as fol-
 lows: Cornell 17:13; Harvard, 17:59; Colum-
 bia, 17:184; Union, 17:273; Wesleyan, 17:3S3;
 Princeton, 18:104. The Cornell crew, after
 passing the winning line, rowed in by the grand
 stand. They were immediately seized by their
 comrades and carried in triumph their
 shoulders to where the college colors were
 flying. The single scull race was won by Cor
 nell in thirteen minutes and forty-two and
 three-quarter seconds. The Cornell crew also
 won the freshman race, making three in
 day for this college. Harvard was second and
 Columbia third.
 ] The steamer Baltic, of the Cornell towing line on the Hudson, was burned when in the vicinity of Albany. Loss, $40, 0,000.. Col. Merritt found several hundred Cheyenne and Sioux Indians on their way to join Sitting Bull, and forced them back to their agencies. I Albert Semler, treasurer of Washington Co.,, , Wis. is defaulter in the sum of $6O, ,000. .... , Washington Lee, while passing the farm of
 Robert Ellis. near Vanceburg, Ky, drew . pistol and shot Ellis dead, for alleged too great s intimacy with Mrs. Lee. The murderer was ) lodged in jail, but that night mob took him out and hanged him. Thomas Farrell
 stabbed his wife seriously in Cranston, R. L,
 and after being secured in jail, hanged himself l. with his belt. ... The jealousy of Sheppard T P. Wiley, of Pemberton Pa, was excited to : such degree by anonymous letters as to turn his mind, and in his delirium he killed his wife :; with an axe and then cut his own throat with 8 - razor.
 Q William A. Wheeler in accepting the nomi- B nation of the Republican convention for the l Vice-Presidency, says in his letter that, tiff elected, shall endeavor to perform the duties 6 of the office in the fear of the Supreme Ruler r and in the interests of the whole country. To
 the platform adopted by the convention he
 gives his cordial consent Upon the question
 of our Southern relations, he says his views , were recently expressed as member of the v committee of the United States House of Rep- e resentatives upon Southern affairs. While l deprecating harsh judgments which make no # allowance for the peculiar difficulties and dan r gers which bsset Southern society, he is, = nevertheless, firm in maintaining the right of n all American citizens to equal and full protec- e tion. 7" This will be accomplished, MT. Wheeler U says, "only when the American citizen with s out regard to color, shall wear this panoply of y citizenship as fully and securely in the cane- = = breaks of Louisiana as on the banks of the St. . Lawrence" The obligation of the country to | it's creditors, he says must be religiously kept. If The public school system should be preserved
 and that system kept free from sectional in- e duence or control and the strictcst economy q in the expenditures of the government are de- l. manded.
 It The yacht Mohawk, of the New York yacht 's club squadron, capsized in the Narrows, oppo- j. site Stapleton Staten Island. Twenty one per- V sons were on board, six of whom were drowned. 't The yacht was owned by Vice Commodore Wm. :, T. Garner, of tue New York yacht club, and 70 Mir. Garner and his wife, Miss Hunter, the l. second steward and two cooks were drowned. e MT. Garner lost his life in trying to assist his 7. wife out of the cabin. Miss Hunter, sister s of Mrs. Garner, perished with them. The e yacht had all her sails set, except the jibtop- l. sail, and was getting under way to go down the <. bay to join the fleet, when she was struck by Il violent squall that threw her on her beam n ends. The squall came from tho south west
 and lasted only two minutes. Mir. Garner wae y about forty years old. He was favorite with Ae the members of the New York yacht club, and ,I was familiarly known as " Will" He w&s the ,f owner of the great Harmony calico print mills
 at Cohoes and others and is estimated to have
 been worth from $19, 000, 900 to $30, ,000. 900.
 Tine Missouri Democratic State convention
 at Jefferson City, after adopting resolutions y strongly indorsing Tilden and Hendricks, ,nomi a hated John s. Phelps for governor, ovel " George G. Vert, by vote of 11815 to 9115 ... o1 Ezra Dawson we'll known resident of In ,a danapolis, shot and dangerously wounded ,a A. s. Foster, 8 livery stable keeper, for al le legged seduction of his daughter, fifteen year @. old. Dawson's action is generally approved le Ada Applegate, bright little girl of twelve 8, years, at Eatontown, N J., in the absence O le her mother, endeavored to kindle fire by thu ss use of kerosene, and the can containing thu 7d oil burst, covering the child with it's contents o1 She was frightfully burned. Mrs. Carlyle wa le shockingly burned while attempting to smothe 'n tho flames .. An Italian in Brooklyn was sen 1n to State prison fer twenty years for assaultinl cyf little girl of eight years ...... Congressman