Connecticut western news., 1876-07-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interesting l..n. rom none and Abrs

N Oy bu0 up6eJLk1lS Ot Q AO"bOoV 1As Fleetwood park, N. Y, Johnnie Murphy rode 155 in six hours forty-five minutes and seven seconds on Eastern horses-a bet having been made that no Eastern man or horses could equal the feat Of Peralto, the Californian. .... Colorado has voted to become the thirty eighth State of the Union . Prince Milan, of Servia, has thrown off the yoke of Turkey and de- clared war ...... Fort Madison, Iowa, was visited by 8 terrific wind storm, which unroofed forty houses and damaged many more. A Catholic church was ruined by it's steeple fall ing on it.. Orson A. House, the noted New York divorce lawyer, was shot dead by his wife, whom he had often maltreated. He was ill-treating her, when she picked up & revolver and shot him dead. ... The United States public debt was reduced $3,881, ,S97 during the month of June.... Four young men of Phia- delphia-Dr. Bucker, Bernard Klosti, H. B. !. Bucker, and Wm H. .Young-were killed by the explosion of 8 can of nitro-glycerine they were experimenting with for the purpose of illumi- hating the house in which they resided,
 General Custer found an Indian encamp- ment of three or four thousand savages on the Little Horn, and personally led charge of | five cavalry companies against the strongest portion of the camp, ordering Major Reno to attack from the other side with seven other companies. The savages surrounded Busters command on all sides, and although the little troop fought with the utmost desperation, they were all killed or wounded, including Custer, his two brothers, nephew and brother-in-law, all of whom died fighting at tho head of the column. Three hundred and fifteen men were | officers. Major Reno intrenched himself, and was held in abeyance by the Indians until re- lieved by General Gibbons, having been an entire day in the scorching sun without being able to get drop of water. The Indians withdrew when Gibbons came up, carrying | with them the arms and ammunition of the slaughtered.
 | Although the great powers of Europe are | putting their armies on & war footing, they will all remain neutral during the trouble between servia and Turkey. There has been an engagement between the troops of the two powers, and both claim the victory ...... The governor of the Dutch East Indies confirms the report of the loss of the steamer Lieuten- ant-General Kroesen in the straits of Sunda. Two hundred and thirty persons were drowned. l 461GSTd1uS 1IO1 VdI1Ou5 pdTGS O1 UL6 country bring reports of confagrations and accidents on the fourth. .... During thunder shower at Elmira, N. Y., lightning struck an umbrella under which two men were walking, instantly killing Samuel Cross and seriously injuring Michael Rohar, ... By ore train of cars running into the rear of another near Elm Station, Pa, two men were killed and five others injured. A terrific storm passed over portions of Iowa and did great damage. The village of Rock Dale, near Dubuque, was overwhelmed with water and forty two persons were drowned. Twenty-nine buildings were destroyed in Burlington and three persons were killed and others wounded by falling buildings.
 Mir. Blaine does not improve very rapidly, and his physicians advise an European trip ss socn as he is able. Dispatches from the seat of the Sioux war indicate that Gen. Gus ter underestimated the strength of the enemy, which was nearly four thousand, and coming upon the camp before his whole command was in position, charged the savages with his uspal daring, and was completely annihilAted. The calamity at Rockdalo, Iowa, was caused by tho breaking away of dam, which could not withstand the added waters of the three hours heavy rain. The village was in 8 ravine, and the waters moved every building in the place with the exception of a mill. Of the two hundred inhabitants, forty-two were swept of and drowned, in many instances entire families dying in each others embrace. The storm of rain and wind extended over parts of Iowa also, and caused great damage to crops. .. :. Mir. Moody will begin a revival in Chicago October first. Santa Anna, the famous Mexican, is dead.
 Later accounts of the Sioux massacre show that Col. Reno's command narrowly escaped sharing the fate of Crster's, as they had been surrounded and fighting the savages for twenty-four hours, when relieved by Gen. Terry. Twelve hundred Indians left the Red Cloud agency to join Sitting Bull ...... A bill
 has been introduced in Congress to enable the President to accept the services of volunteers
 from the far Western States, to be used against
 the Indians .. The Servians defeated the
 Turks and captured the town of Rachka, and
 the Turks were successful over the Servians at
 Belina ...... |. Senator Merrill has qualified as secretary of the treasury ...... The vacant
 senatorship from Maine has been offered to
 Mir. Blaine. IA four-year-old daughter oi
 J. Wiley fell into millpond at Ashburnhsm
 Mass, when her sister, aged eight years ] jumped in after her, and both wero drowned
 w The Centennial commission, ly vote oi
 thirty to nine, decided not to open oa Sunday
 United States Secretary of War Cameron, 1T
 history of the Sioux war made to the Presi dent says: The accidental discovery of golt
 on the western border of the Sioux reservation l,or,
 not caused this war and have only complicated
 it by the uncertainty of numbers to be encoun
 tered. The young warriors love wa, and ire quently escape their agents to go to the hun ) or war path, their only idea of the object O l life. The present military operations are no against the Sioux nation at all, but sgains certain parts of it, which defy the govern mont, and are undertaken at the special re quest of the bureaus of the governmen , charged with their supervision and wholly t. : make the civilization of the remainder possi z bIe. No part of these operations are on o o near the Sioux reservation. The officer
 known to have been killed in the late Indial l. fights are General Custer, Captains Keogh - Yates, Custer, Lieutenants Cooke, Smith, Nc l. Intosh, Calhoun, Porter, Hodgeon, sturgis r Reilly, of the cavalry, Crittenden, of the Twen d tieth infantry, and Acting Assistant Surgeon De l. Wolf. Lieutenant Harrington, of the cavalry f and Assistant Surgeon Lord are missing | Captain Benteen and Lieutenant Varnum, c the cavalry, are slightly wounded ...... In a II their engagements with the Turks, the Sel II vans have been badly defeated. The loss C e life on both sides has been heavy. .... Tn T Twonty-second regiment United States infar ss try, stationed at Fort Wayne, Detroit, ha :, left to join Gen. Terry at Fort Abraham Lii a co!n. ... At Newburgh, N. Y, Eliza Armour