Connecticut western news., 1876-11-17
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

a 18lse alAEm or nr6 Cf0aLeQ panic III Chinese theater in San Francisco, and rush was made for the single narrow exit. Large numbers were thrown down and trampled upon; the police taking out twenty. dead bodies ..... A special dispatch from Bismarck says that Gen. Miles had successful fight after an unsuccessful council with Sitting Bull on the twenty-frst and twenty-second of October, on Cedar creek, killing number of Indians and wounding many. Miles own loss about sixty miles, when they divided. one DOT tion going toward the agency and the other with Sitting Bull toward Fort Peck, Gen. Miles following the latter. ..... During 8 Re- publican parade in Albany, N. Y, Wm. fl. Young, formerly colonel of the Eighteenth (New York; regiment, was thrown from his horse and killed. ... The boiler of 8 locomotive exploded near Abingdon, Va, killing the en- gineer and fireman. The will of the San Francisco philanthropist, James Lick, is to be contested by his son, John H. Lick. .... A rainstorm at Orleans, Ind, so flooded the ground in the vicinity that the whole place had the appearance of an immense lake; loss, $100,00 mostly to agricultursts. .. The ~eAAAAASA AAOs0A were destroyed by fire loss, $6O0OO; insur- ance, $14, ,O0O. ...... On board the vessels of the whaling fleet recently abandoned in the Arctic ocean were ,O34 barrels of whale oil, 199 barrels of sperm oil, 61, 100 pounds of whalebone and 43, 900 pounds of ivory. The popularity of the postal card is shown in the fact that the sales during October amounted to 23, 116 900, an increase of g. 2977 500 over the sales of the corresponding month last year.
 The new Dutch maritime canal, connecting Amsterdam with the German ocean, has been opened with elaborate ceremonies. Since the last defeat of the Servian army, the Rus sian officers are leaving in numbers, refusing longer to risk their lives for such pusillani- nous people, whom they condemn in the strongest terms. .... There are internal dis turbances among the Japan csc. |. .. Charles W. Garrett, of Indiana, and Frederick A. Woodwork, of California, were dismissed from the Annapolis naval academy for hazing. ....The Gloucester (Mass.) fishing schooner F. A. Smith lost three men by being washed overheard at the banks. .. Two horse thieves, named William Fulton and Hundley, were lynched in Wyandotte county, Karsas, by 8 vigilance committee. .. Four carriages, three wagons, one pair of mules, one span of horses, one set of harness and three COWS, the pl O. perty of Brigham Young, were sold st public auction at Salt Lake by the commissioner, to pay the award of the court in the Ann Eliza case. They brought $1, 1855. Further seizures Of property will be made. .... A conflagration in Granada, Miss, destroyed eixteen business houses. .. !. The national debt wos reduced $3, SS8. 139 during October. ... Two men were killed and 8 number injured by four cars be- ing thrown from the track of the North Penn sylvsnia railway at Center Valley. broken axle was the cause. . By the explosion of two mills of the Miami Powder Co.,, situated near Xenia, Ohio, one man WAS killed and number wounded. Loss, $t5, GOO. 5E
 The bookkeeper of the West Troy (N. Y.1 bank is Q defaulter to the amount of four or five thousand dollars .. The drug warehouse of A. A. Miller, in St. Louie, was consumed by fire. Loss, $25, 900. ..... Turkey and Servia have signed 8 six weeks armistiee-Russia's threats proving successful. .... The glove fac. tory of H. D. Simpson st Chatha N. Y, wae destroyed by fre.....A report from Camr stambaugh, Wyoming Territory says that g village of fve hundred lodges of Shoshones was attacked on October 30 by large Siou1 war party, estimated at l, 200 lodge .at Pointed Rock, about ninety miles. from stambangh
 As far as learned, only one Shoshone escaped
 ... Floods in tho interior of Cuba have caused considerable damages to crops. .,.By railwa, collision neer Linden, N. J., on the Pennsyl
 vania road, one man was killed and three were injured. ...James Weeden, surviving prin
 cipA of the fatal Weeden-Wslker prize fght in New Jersey, Sam Collysr, his second, witl
 Fiddler" Neary, Richard Goodwin an6
 Johnny Clark, " "backers" " of the fight, who
 were on trial for murder at Salem, N. J., were
 found guilty of manslsughter.
 St. Hyacinthe, the small Canadian tow1
 near Montreal, which suffered 50 severel,
 from fire few months ago, has again beer
 visited by the same scourge and twenty build
 ings destroyed-being the only portion of th,
 town exempted by the previous confagration
 A high wind famed the flames, as previously
 .... .Oolored burglars broke into the house 0
 MT. Hausman near Aiken, s. 0, snd afte
 murdering that gentlemen and his nephew
 and ransacking the house, fired the promises
 .Wm. Wheatley, a well known actor il
 other days, died in New York, aged eixt
 years. .... .Weeden, Goodwin and Collyer, con
 victed of manslaughter at Salem, N. J.. il
 connection with the prize fight, were sen
 tenced each to six years imprisonment. Clar
 and Weary each received one years imprison
 ment. The department of agriculture issue
 8 report for October, in which the crop O wheat is put at 245, ,00O, GOO bushels-a deoreas
 of nearly one-aixth. The rye crop falls sho1
 nearly four per cent. of that of last year. Tn
 barley crop is short six per cent, and oat
 twenty-three per cent. =. :. John l.. Rout
 Colorado's first governor, has been inaugu
 rated. ... While number of convic.s Swer
 being taken from Sing S:ug to Auburn, one c
 them endeavored to escape by sque; gin through car window, but fell on bis hea j and was killed ...... Two receivers have bee appointed for the Kansas Pacific railway i behalf of the holders of a mortgage cover , ing the entire road. Eugene Catcaingb an Wm. Payne who murdered John Love- nes Terrell, Texes, in 1875, were hanged the1 flow days eince.
 , Daniel OLeary, the Chicago pedestrian, i , an effort in Liverpool, England, to beat tb
 record of Weston, succeeded in walking 5( miles in fourteen minutes less than six day } (the time allowed), thus outwalking Westo l by one and half miles .... By the breakin of car truck on the little Rock oad, two ca were thrown over near Edmondson and o1 s passenger killed. A number of others we,
 wounded, some fatally The Spanish prin
 minister in public speech, dc clared tn Spain would hold Cuba at any cost. ... . Ge : Miles, after chasing and fighting the hume ous bands of Indians under Sitting Bull f many days on the Yellowstone, was st last r } warded by the surrender of four hundr' , 0bauanDa Iodoaa-thev piviDo their rrincip