Connecticut western news., 1876-08-11
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

tems of Interest from Home and Abroad.
 Gen. Crook, with 1,4OO men of his com nand, will force the Indians into the mountains nd press them closely, without waiting for urther re-enforcements Four inches of now fell on Mount Washington, White moun- ains, N. H., on July 26th. By fire in James Nolen's mill in Philadelphia, the exit of some hands employed op an upper floor was gut off, and Ellen Heaven and Ann Patterson were killed by jumping from the windows Senator Oaperton, of West Virginia, is dead. Jay Cooke & Go. are discharged from i The largest commercial block in the town of Cornwall, Canada, containing the Masonic hall, Fi'eeholder office, and several large stores, WAS destroyed by fire. Loss, $50, 0OO ..... The town of Everton, Ind, was almost totally destroyed by 8 confagration, which is believed to have been started by an The exasperated people secured the country about in search of him.
 Both Houses of Congress adjourned for one day on learning of the death of Senator Caper- ton, of West Virginia ...... A confagration at Jamestown. N. r., destroyed eight business establishments ,.... fourth incendiary at tempt U burn the Second Baptist church, at Newburgh, NY, twas successful, and the edifce was entirely destroyed. .... There is serious trouble with the coal mine strikers of Cape Breton. ...... The Democracy of Illinois, in convention, after nominating Lewis Stewart for governor, adopted resolutions emphatically favoring Tilden and Hendricks. At the Saratoga races the Alabama stakes for three year-old Allies, course of one and an eighth miles, was won by Merciless in OOsl, with Patience second .... The free-to-all race for $4 GOO, at Cleveland, was contested by Snug gler, Goldsmith Maid Lucille Golddust and Judge Fullerton, and, after five exciting heats, was won by Smuggler. who came in first in the three last heats the Maid winning the first two. Time, 2.15}, 2.1719, 2.161l, 2.199 and 2174 .... Jeremiah Fairbanks, cashier of the State national bank, at Elizabeth, N. J., is 8 defaulter in large amount. The borough of Nanticoke, nine miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa., lost twenty-two places of business or other houses by fire, comprising nearly the entire place. Many families lost everything they possessed.
 Coal has been advanced by the combined
 producers .... The factory of P. H. Dederick
 & Go, hay press manufacturers, at Albany,
 N. Y., was destroyed by fire. LOSS, $50, ,000. | Two boatmen named Simon Granthamel and
 John Messer were found dead at the Uhle1 | limekilns, near Easton, Pa. It is suppos ed
 that they were suffocated by inhaling sulphur gas from the kilns. ..... Cheyenne Indiane
 from Sitting Bulls camp report that the main
 body of Indians are in front of Gen. Crooks
 camp, and Gen. Sheridan sent & scout to warn
 him of the fact. t.....A Vienna paper states
 that 8 change in the ruler of Turkey io an ac
 complished fact. Abdul Hamid Ffendi,
 younger brother of Murad Effendi is regent
 of the empire ..... Cuban insurgents made ;
 raid on the town of Santa Clara, and had ap
 propriated the contents of several provision
 stores before they were driven of by tht | Spanish guard. Several were killed on eacI
 side. Ex-Queen Isabella has gone to Spai1
 for the purpose, it is rumored, of arranging
 the nuptials of King Alfonso and 8 daughte
 of the Duke de Montpensier.
 The great yacht race for the Brenton rec
 ever sailed, being from Sandy Hook to Brentol
 reef and back-three hundred miles. It wa
 contested by the Idler, Wanderer, Tidal Wave
 America and Countess of Dufferin. Tn
 America being the famous vessel which wo
 the Queens cup in 1851; while the Countess 0
 Dufferin was built in Canada the past year fo
 the especial purpose of winning back the trc
 phy to British hands. The Idler was the frs
 to reach the goal, having been about thirty-tw
 hours on the course, closely pressed by tn
 Wanderer, with whom she had divided the lea
 on the first half. The Wanderer came in se, ond, with the Tidal Wave, Countess and Amer ) ca following few hours after-having mt with mishaps which had delayed them I'll Swedish town of Soderhamm, on the gulf ( Bothnia, was totally destroyed by fire, an much distress prevails among the inhabitant ..... A well made counterfeit of the new si yer dime may be detected by its tin-lke hr , and sharp jingle Eight hundred and te
 Mormon immigrants have arrived at New Yol
 within the past two months. .... A prize fgl f occurred in Toronto between Steve Taylor, s Jersey City, and Charles Mcdonald, Can dian, in which Taylor defeated his adversa t after short but bloody fight !. Cubans thre t 8 railway freight train from the track at La l bocas, and sacked it of clothing, boots, shoe 7 etc. A Spanish officer and seven guards we t killed by the car they were in being overtur l ed. The Cubans recently captured conv
 with 5000 in gold .... Intelligence fire China states that famine is threatened in t D provinces of Chili, Shantuug, Honan and Ma
 kin, in consequence of prolonged drougl Tho crops have been destroyed over eight hu a dred square miles of country inhabited r. seventy million people. There has been d
 | eli i1o17n Ioti ot oo6 h a, 0 rounding country. There was great loss 0 life, eome five thousand dead bodies havi 1t been found near Foochow alone ... ..Mow1 II Laphams mills, at Millbury, Mass, were utt IS ly destroyed by fire, together with an adjace It boarding house andkbarn. LOSS, $140,0C u insurance, $9O,OO0.
 70 Munson Ravens, twenty-two years old. if of Barrett Ravens, farmer living four mi 7 west of Deckertown, N. Y, committed suic l. by taking paris green. He was detected il d forgery of note for $375 .. Samuel Butch W Catholic bishop of Meath, Ireland, while s " fering from disease, became temporarily Id sane and cut his throat with razor, and
 pired shortly afterward. .. The captain le the brig Echo, which arrived st New Y t. from Pernambuco, states that On July 28 ,I6 latitude forty-three degrees and thirty minut 10 he saw schooner which had lost it's foret # # mast and was sailing with olose-reeted ma o sail. Men wore slowing the jib. While v WAS still looking at her she went down h. h. foremost, carrying all hands with her. rv was supposed to be coal-laden. An ty family feu1 in Franklin county, Ky, led ne 8 bloody affray in which pistols and shotg1