Connecticut western news., 1876-03-03
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 Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad
 The United States Senate has passed the Pension bill, which appropriates $28, 400 000. COG. E. D. Winslow, the Boston forger, has been arrested in London. ... The advisory council called by Plymouth church met in Brooklyn, and were welcomed in an address by MT. Beecher. Rev. Dr. Leonard Bacon, of New Haven, Conn.,, was chosen moderator. Mir. Beecher then made the statement of the church, which was referred to committees. .. Three of the crew of the American brig S. E. Kennedy, from New York, were swept over board during heavy gale ...... A committee of the Louisiana House recommended the im- peachment of Gov. Kellogg and Treasurer Dubucht .. The historic elm on Boston common, above two hundred years old, was blown down by 8 high wind. An immense crowd of relic hunters immediately set about securing mementoes.. ... Mir. Disraeli made 8 motion in Parliament to give the Queen the title of " Empress of India. '......B By the over turning of a sailboat near Golanda, Ill, five men were drowned.
 The Alfonsists gained victory in the neigh borhood of Tolosa. There are rumors through out Spain of approaching peace negotiations.
 The ship W. J. Hatfield, from Philadel- phia for Bremen, foundered in mid-ocean, with all on board. Two of the crew swan the pre- vious evening to bark near by, being the only survivors. .....A speclal committee of the South Carolina House has presented articles of impeachment against Judge Montgomery Moses for corruption. Judge Moses was formerly governor of the State. The steamer Golden Gate was cut into by ice and sunk in the Hud- son river, at Stuyvesant. .... It is understood that the Erie railway officials have contracted for third rail, to be laid by May first ...... Speaker Kerr has been obliged to leave Wash ington, his health failing rapidly.
 The report comes from London of the resig- nation of Minister Sohenck. The steamer strath-C -Clyde of Glasgow, was sunk off Dover, England, by coming in collision with the steamer Franconia, from forty to fifty persons being drowned. .... It is reported that the Sioux, Cheyennes and Arapahoes are prepar- ing for war. ... Three of the actual mur- dtrers of Mir. Burch, the English resident at Perak. India, have been captured. One ot them has confessed, and says that nine men perpetrated the murder. 70. The New Jersey | legislature passed 8 resolution calling on it's | representatives in Congress to oppose railroad | subsidies. .. Lieut.. Governor Davis (colored) of Mississippi, has been impeached. . Novs Scotia will be well represented in the boat roces at Philadelphia during the Centennial. The owners of the Harvest Queen, which was sunk by the White Star steamer Adriatic, have filed 8 libel against the steamship for $225, GOO | .. Rev. Horace Bushnell, of Hartford, Conn well known in Congregational circles, is dead
 The German government has resolved tt indict Count Won Arnim for treason and the prosecuting officer has applied for the seques tration of the accused's estates. :. The Main, Senate has passed an act substituting life i'm prieonment for hanging as the penalty fo murder .... King Alfonso has assumed com mand of the Spanish army in the north. .
 While the cashier of the Kern Valley bank California, was working at the books in tn, evening, he was overpowered and chloroform ed by burglars, who succeeded in getting ava with $27, GOO. ....A battle occurred between the Sonora revolutionists and the Ssate troop near Alamos, Mexico, in which the revolution ists were successful. Tie boiler of port able sawmill in Framir gham, Mass, exploded killing three of the four men employed abou it. Charlotte Cushmap, the famous actress died ill Boston of pneumonia, sged sixty years ..... Three Italians, who killed one of thei fellow countrymen TWO years ago in St. Louis have paid the penalty on the scatfold.
 | rTI.z a nitely summoned tue bishop of Munster t appear for trial on charges which involve tn penalty of deposition from his see. w KeitI the man convicted of poisoning the we'll C 8 neghbor in Leeds, Me-, was sentenced t ten years in State prison. R. D. Rufir 8 .colored member of the Virginia House ( delegates from Dinwiddie county, was e, pelled for improper conduct in abstractin
 money from the paybook of the sergeant a
 arms =. Charlotte Cushman leaves an ei
 tate of $6OO,0OO. =. .Servia has ordered a men between the ages of twepty and fiji
 years under arms. ... By fire in Athen
 N. Y, eight icehouses of the Knickerbocks
 company were destroy" d, with implements an
 forty thousand tons of ice already stored. IT loss amounted to $325, ,000, which was covere by insurance ..... The Red river steambo Mary Loury was burned to the waters eds while on her way to New Orleans Her care
 of thirteen hundred bales of cotton was almo total loss. By the precipitation of a
 engine down an embankment on the Sho Line road at Lagrange, Ky, Engineer Finn gan was caught under the machinery and he fast while streams of boiling water from tl broken boiler ran over his face and body. E
 died in the greatest agony, with dozen me looking on, unable to extricate him.