Connecticut western news., 1876-05-05
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad.


 A sanguinary engagement took place be- tween the Turks and insurgents near Nicsic, with heavy losses on both sides. The insur- gents claim to have driven the Turks to Ozina and Pagliana. The secretary of the treasury has instructed the officers in charge of the to redeem fractional currency in sums from $5 to $100 in silver, as no more fractional currency will be issued.... The ship Victory, from Shields, England, for San Francisco was lost in a storm with all hands seventeen persons. The British government refuses to deliver Winslow, the Boston forger, to the United States, unless it be guaranteed that he be tried for no other crime than that for which he is extradited ..... Advioes from County Gaspe, in New Brunswick, Can, are to the effect that starvation stares the people in the face unless navigation opens soon. Already the stock is gone, and one woman has died of hunger at Perce. .. The bill reducing the salary of the President from $50, 900 to $25,- 900 after the present term has been vetoed by President Grant .... The Toledo Blades reports from over two hundred points in Ohio, Michigan, Illinois and Indiana give the pros- poets for wheat as unusually good. Central Indiana and central Illinois both report short crops on account of winter kill. At the Moody and sankey meetings in New York, the day before the close, earnest appeals were made to raise large amount to carry on the Christian work. At the afternoon service $12O, ,OOO were collected, and in the evening $1OO, 900 more were taken up.
 The Indiana Democrats nominated James D. Williams, M. O., for governor, and full State ticket. The State delegation to St. Louis was pledged to Gov. Hendricks. The platform declares for hard money, opposes contraction, believes in greenback currency, calls for continued Investigations, and opposes any payment of the Confederate debt. The revolution in Hayti is triumphant. Dominique, the late president has fled. Vice-president Ra- meau and Losquet, the generalin command of the government forces, have been shot. The Mexican revolutionists have taken posses sion of Mier, the citizens making no resist .ance. The insurgents having called on Ameri- cans in New Laredo to pay levy, our govern ment sent word to the officer in command of the Rio Grande department to prevent the enforcement of the levy. Montana in- structed her delegates to the Republican na- tional convention to vote for MT. Blaine. ... The Boston Pilot has been purchased by Arch bishop Williams and J. Boyle O'Reilly. They propose to pay every dollar to the poor people who deposited money in the former proprie tors hands. The latter co-operates .. A man named Shuck committed suicide by shooting in Philadelphia, and his wife shortly after took prussia acid with the same result. ..... Breaks in the Mississispi levee occurred in Carroll parish, La., and near Hannibal, Mo-, doing inoalculable damage. .... New York city's school rolls for March showed III, ,53O names of scholars.
 | In four days in Bsgdad there were 145 new cases of the plague and seventy-fve deaths The disease has now appeared on the left banA of the Tigris. =. The Ballou Manufacturing LCo., of Woonsocket, R. l., extensive mil owners, have made an assignment-their lia- bilities amounting to over 1000, ,O00.. .>. Two robbers rushed into the Baxter Springs bank at Fort Scott, Kansas during business hours presented pistols, stole $3, ,000 and escaped.
 Fifteen pilgrims were drowned while crossing the river Vienne, near Parsac, France. ..... $10, 900 in currency were exchanged fol silver at the New York sub-treasury the frs | day of the resumption. ... The total expense of the Philadelphia exposition is put at $8
 5OO, ,0O0. .....A party of whites were attacked by the Indians fifty miles from Custer City, il the Black Hills. Two men and woman wer, killed, three men seriously wounded, and colored woman carried of. Three broker wagons found in Buffalo Gap indicate tha another party has been overtaken and cap tured by the savages. :. Nebraska Democrat appointed to the national convention are sup porters of Mir. Tilden. John Dolan was exc cuted in New York city for the murder o
 James Fl. Noe. The murder was committed last August, and the murdered man was in de
 fense of his premises at the time. He begged hard for his life, but the burglar said h. could not trust him, and brutally beat the un
 fortunate man to death. Strong efforts wer,
 made to have Dolan's sentence commuted t,
 imprisonment for life, but Gov. 1ilden refused
 to interfere. Dolan died easily.
 Mollie Dean refused to marry Wm. Cooper
 who had been attentive for some time, in St
 Louis, whereupon he shot her twice and thel
 blew out his own brains. The young woman
 died from the wounds .. .Offenbach, tn
 opera composer, has left Paris for this coun
 try. Colorado sends her Republican dele
 gates to the national convention uninstructed
 ..... Five murderers were hanged together a
 Fort Smith, Ark. Three of them were Chocta,
 Indians, one colored, and the other 8 whit
 man. There were seven thousand spectator
 present eco. The Spanish government an
 nounces that they will not make any distinc
 tions between Catholics and Protestants in re
 gard to chapels and cemeteries, as has here tofore been done. Californias grain cro
 promises to be unusually good. Fruit als
 looks well in most districts.
 Accounts arrive daily of fresh Indian out
 rages and atrocities. A family of immigrant
 named Baker, from Pennsylvania, consistin
 of father, mother and two children, wer
 brained and scalped within hundred miles o
 Custer City. ..-... AS five persons were de
 scending 8 coal shaft in bucket at Brown
 Station, Mo, the rope broke letting them ia
 distance of one hundred feet-instantly kill
 ing two men and boy and fatally injuripg tw
 more men. Two carriage factories, tw
 saloons, and three barns were destroyed b fire at New Canaan, Conn. :. The foot race C
 125 yards in San Francisco between Crandal of Providence, and Horton, of New Jersey, fc the sum of $4, 900, resulted in Crandalls vii ming by foot in twelve seconds .... By tn burning of somerville's paper mills at Britto1 } England, $350, 900 were lost and five hundre men thrown out of employment. ,. Tn , revolutionary President Medinas troops
 Honduras, Central America, were totally de
 feated by the regulars. Medina died fe'
 days subsequently ..... While large numbe of men were working on new railway tunn neal Meath, South Wales, an explosion of gul power caused the roof to fall, burying 8 lars ' number of the laborers. Thirteen bodies ar 8 number of wounded had been recovered 1 l.s