Connecticut western news., 1876-04-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

were cut down in the congressional committe, from $14, ,3O1, ,O0O to $5, SIS, 1000. ... The nomi nation of Richard Fl. Dana, Jr., as minister tt England, was rejected by the Senate. .... break fifty feet wide is reported in the Mili ken Bend levee, a few miles above Vicksburg Miss. barge containing ten thousand bushels of corn became unmanageable just above St. Louis and struck the bridge witt such force as to break in two, drowning the entire crew of six colored men. .. Bradley N Cummings, well.known merchant of Bos ton, committed suicide while temporarily in sane by drowning himself in shallow pool oi for Italian ports, collided with the English steamer Hylton Castle off the south coast oi the Morea. The Agrigenti immediately sunk, and nine of the crew and twenty passengers were drowned. Reports from Newfound- land state that the fishing season has been un- favorable, and that number of sealing vessels were crushed and sunk by the ice. Destitution prevails in many parts of Green Bay -..... The schooner Helen J. Holway went ashore near Fire island, of Long Island, and six lives were lost. .....A seventeen-year-olds son of Patrick Pickering, in Columbus, Ohio, having asso- ciated with forbidden companions, the father, while intoxicated, made him go down upon his knees and promise not to do so again. While the youth was in this position the father discharged 8 gun at him, killing him instantly. ......In consequence of Thomas Tracy and wife being unable to live happily together, Scar Carlinsville, H., the woman concluded to lAoVa hnahQn6 nT1th hor intentions when he shot and killed her, and then beat out the brains of their six-year-old daughter. Subsequently he committed dsuicide by cutting his throat.
 Chief-Justice Waite administered the oath to the Senators, and they immediately organ ized themselves into high court of impeach. ment for the trial of Belknap. The army headquarters has been ordered back to Wash ingeon from St. Louis by Secretary Taft. .. q. It is reported that he inhabitants of the Bihacs district of Bosnia have revolted against the sultan. The rebels cheered for the en- peror of Austria. They have been joined by some Mohammedans and have captured a quantity of powder. .... Yellow fever is in creasing at Rio Janeiro. w Four powder magazines, situated within one mile of Salt Lake City, exploded with terrific force and did an immense amount of damage throughout the towh-nearly all the glass being shattered by the shock. Heavy powders were thrown from the magazines into the city, killing one lady and wounding others. Human remains, found near the scene of the explosion, have been identified as those of two boys who went in that direction in the morning with guns in their hands. It is supposed they fired into one magazine, the concussion of which ex- plosion set of the others. The largest maga- zine contained one and one-half oesloads of powder, and the smallest ten tons. Home, the famous spiritualist, died suddenly in Europe. ......By the falling of an old brick building in process of demolition in New York oity, three boys were fatally and several others seri- ously injured .... The strong current of the river Dee, Scotland, overturned ferryboat in midstream, and it is thought that thirty pas- sengers perished .... Rhode Island Republi- cans carried the State and Legislature but their candidates for governor and lieutenant governor only received 8 plurality of votes and not 8 majority. The Legislature will elect Lippitt to the gubernatorial chair.
 Advices from Mexican sources state that proclamation of martial law checked the revolutionary movements in nearly all the states except Oaxaoa. The police of Mexico City killed one hundred sympathizers of the revolution, in breaking up meeting held to express appreciation of the insurgents. Prices have advanced twenty-five per cent. under the heavy taxation, and business is completely ruined. .. The cable of the Direct company was cut by fishing vessel, whose anchor got foul of it,. Great Britain's income tax has been increased penny in the pound =. The Delaware river being free of ice, millions of feet of lumber being rafted to market .....s. 0. Parsons, uggist, of Northampton Mass., while insane om brain fever, drowned himself. ... The president of the Haverhill (Mass.) bank, who had his pocket picked oi large amount, recently, has received $13,- 900 in notes and checks by express The Canada Pacific railway has succeeded in get ting the Canadian parliament to appropriate $1, SIG, 900 toward it ..... The insurrection which broke out in the Bihacs district oi Albania is extending along the Orina and north Bosnian frontier. All the towns between Mogdane, Polje and Petrowatz have risen .. Maurice Vignaux, the winner of the champion billiard match in Paris few weeks since challenges any man in America to three-bal game for from $1 900 to &5,oOO. ... Johr Johns, Episcopal bishop of Virginia, died a the age of eighty years. ... Three thousand coal miners in North Derbyshire, England struck work in consequence of reduction O. wages.
 The Turks having violated the armistice b, concentrating their troops, the peace negotia tiens have been dropped by the insurgents. Al Bosnia is now in revolt. The captain O the ship Franconia, which run down the Strath clyde, of the English coast. whereby man, persons lost their lives, has been found guilt, of manslaughter. An evening train betweel Philadelphia and New York run off the track overturning the engine and one car, by mean
 of which the engineer, fireman, and severa passengers were severely injured. |. .. Tn
 four-ball billiard contest in New York betweel Cyrille Dion s.nd A. P. Rudolphe for the dia
 mon1 championship cue and $500 side, re
 suited in Dio-s securing 1,500 points to hi
 opponents 392. ... A suit to recover $338, GA
 for transporting goods across the isthmus
 has been brought by the Panama railroad com
 pany against the Pacific steamship company
 ...... Henry Kelly, of New York city, who wa
 bitten i've months ago by 8 pet dog, died 8 fe,
 days ago in the hospital of hydrophobia, afte
 suffering terribly for four days. The dog ha
 never shown any indications of madness.
 A locomotive on the Tyrone and Clearfel
 road exploded near Bald Eagle, Pa., and tn
 engineer, fagman and brakeman were killed
 and the fireman fatally injured. The enginee
 was throw over one hundred feet and ever
 bone in his body broken. The fagman wa
 thro Sn over one hundred and fifty feet up i
 the air and fell 8 shapeless mass. The other
 were buried under the debris ...... At Shelb
 Center, N. r., large Touring mill and nun
 Der of buildings connected with it wore burned No