Connecticut western news., 1876-11-10
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

when ordered-it being known that they were in communication with the host!les and mak- ing preparations for joining them-Gen. Crook surrounded them with troops and made them quietly return to the agency, where their arms and ponies were taken from them. Red Cloud, the head chief was deposed and Spotted Tail, who is favorable to the whites, put in command. :. Three men were killed and four teen wounded, several fatally, by train on the New Jersey Central running off an open switch near Somervile. The engine and four Another bloodless revolution has occurred in cars were overturned and wrecked ...... Santo Domingo. President Espaillat has been deposed and ex- President Gonzales reinstated. George Miller, target marker for the Worcester (Mass.) rife club, while attending to his duties, mistook the sound of gun fired in the neighborhood for the one he was wait ing to mark, and stepped in front of the target just ill time to receive bullet in the breast, from which he died. ... Ellis, the teller of the Park bank, New York, defaulted to the amount of $66, 900, instead of $36, 900 as first reported. .. A socialist conspiracy has been discovered in Spain and four general officers have been arrested for complicity. ..... Gold smith Maid endeavored to beat her record of 2:14, in the presence of large crowd at Washington, but only succeeded in trotting in 2:1811.
 Brigham Young having disregarded the order of the court to pay the alimony awarded to bis wife, Ann Elizs sufficient of his proper ty has been seized to cover the same. At the Pimlico races, Baltimore, the three-quarters of 8 mile dash was won by Sunbeam in 1:211s. The Dixie stakes two miles, three-year-olds, was taken by Vigil in 3:413, defeating Parole and Heretez. The two-year-old one mile race resulted in victory for Susquehanna in 1:49%. The horse Add won two out of three of the heats in the two-mile race. Tom Oohil- tree won the frs, heat, but was distanced in the second. The peneion commissioner has submitted his report for the past fiscal year, from which it appears that $28, ,35l, 599 were paid out. The number of pensioners on June 30 was 234. 821, or 3, ,684 less than the previous year. The number of army invalid pensioners numbered 105, 478, an increase of 2,912. The widows and minor children decreased 3,718 The number of survivors of the war 1872 is 15,875, falling off of 1869. The Spanish ministry propose treaty of extradition with the United States. ...... The official figures from Indiana show the total vote to have been 434,319, Cf which the Democratic ticket re- ceived 212,O19, the Republican 2O6, 21S, and the Independent 16,082. The Democratic plurality is 5,846.... Chadwick Britain, in an altercation with his mother-in- law, Mrs. Rhodes, at Nashville, Ind, on account of her refusal to deed the farm to him. shot her dead. Her husband hastened to the rescue and was also fired at, but missed whereupon | the young man killed himself .... Frank Mo- Conachi has confessed 10 the murder of little Maggie Bauer, whose mutilated remains were found in the woods near Springfield, l.. l., last summer.
 Gen. Terry disarmed the Ind. ans at Star ding Rock agency, but did not succeed in getting 8 great number of arms, and it IS believed tho savages hid them. .. One hundred and forty thousand people attended the Exhibition on Ohio day-rankiug third in point of numbers 1.-The Democrats of West Virginia secured the same number of representatives in the Legislature they had last year, and will elect their candidate for United States senator. .. The winners of the races at Baltimore were as follows: One mile for all ages, $275, InspiIa- ton, 1:48; mile heats for three-year- olds, $450, Ambush, 147a, 1:53; free handicap for all ages, $450, Burgoc, 3:173 The governors of the large Western States which have suffered from the grasshoppers met in convention at Omaha, and after discussing the subject thor oughly, adopted petition to Congress to aid the sections ravaged. A running race at Newmarket, England, for the Dallingham | handicap resulted in dead heat between the American horse Bay Final and the British sni- nal Broadside. On running it off Bay Final | was successful ...... Wm. B. Whitney, of Chicago, is bankrupt. Liabilities, $425, ,000, much of it due in New York stete The Continental Life Insurance Co.,, of New York, | is defunct.
 The knitting mills at Rome, N. r., were de- stroyed by fire..... Two aged sisters, widows named Brodack and Stoddard, residing alone in Laurens county, s. O., were found mur- | dered. An ax was the instrument used. Tho vessels Alert and Discovery, of the Eng | fish navy which started on Polar expedition over yoar ago, have arrived at Valencia or their return. Although not succeeding ir reaching the pole, they bring back an exten
 sive scientific memoranda, gathered uudtl |
 in latitude eighty-two degrees, twenty-sever
 minutes, where the sun was invisible for IA:
 days, and the thermometer stood ifGy-nint
 degrees below zero for two weeks, on one oc
 casion reaching 104 degrees below freezing
 point. From this point sledge party wal
 sent northward to eighty-three degrees
 twenty minutes, but no land was discovered
 and after taking observations the intrepit
 party returned, having lost three men on thu
 journey .. The Sioux commission having
 stricken from the treaty the clause relating t.
 removal to Indian Territory, the Indian chief
 all signed it willingly By 8 railroad acciden
 near Scarboro, Me-, two men were fatally ant
 number seriously injured ....A freigh
 train on the Jersey Midland road jumped tn
 track just before reaching the high bridge 8
 Hawthorne, and the engine striking the end o
 the structure, knocked it from it's mooring
 and it fell, the train following into the chaem The engineer and fireman were killed and tw other employees fatally injured. The hur
 ricane which caused such extensive losse
 throughout the West Indies extended ove
 the states of Central America, and great dis ) tress prevails n consequence. Managua, il Nicaragua, was first inundated and then visit ed by the fury of the wind, which demolishe , four hundred houses, killing large numbe of people. Three hundred houses were dc stroyed in Blewfeld. The government is ex tending aid to the suffering populace. Tn
 coffee crop suffers to the extent of $3, 900 COG { and the losses at Managua are put at $2, ,000 900. .... In a free-to-all race on Fleetwoo , track, New York, Judge Fullerton took on f heat in 2:22 Great Eastern the second i 2:20I, and Rarus tho three next and race i , 2214, 2:23 and 2:20. :. John Hills and Joh 7 Fullem, who murdered Farmer Chiseled i Atlantic county, N J, last August, for tn purpose of robbing the house, were hange