Connecticut western news., 1876-07-28
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

Items Of Interest from Hone and Abroad.
 MT. Pratt, commissioner of internal revenue, has resigned. ..... The President asked for and received the resignation of Postmaster General Jewell, and appointed Assistant Tyner to the position. :. Tho surrogate of New York has dismissed the petition to set aside the will of A. T. Stewart ..... The committee appointed for the purpose formally rendered the candidacy for the Presidency to Gov. Til den. who accepted in . brief speech, putting special stress on the necessity for political re- form \. v. A terrific thunderstorm extended over the Middle and New England States, the lightning striking in numerous places, killing several persons and doing considerable damage to property .... The king of Italy has sent & congratulatory letter to this government on its centennial ~, - -- -. - The mercantile agency of R. G. Dun & Co.,, in their statement for the first six months of 1876, give the number of failures for this period in the United States as 4, 500, with liabilities amounting to $106, ,415, ,429. In the first six months of 1875 the failures were 3,563, with liabilities amounting to $76. .0OO, 900. In Canada the failures for the first six months of 1876 were 858, with $12 694 ,2S6 liabilities. In the first quarter of the year the failures in the the United States were 2,806; in the second quarter, 1,794. The agency says: 'The marked decline in failures for the past quarter very generally entertained, that we have seen the worst effects of the present depression so far as casualties of this character are con- cerned. It is true that business continues in 8 very depressed condition that tue results of trade, with rare exceptions, have been exceed ingly unsatisfactory that values continue to decline, and that uncertainty and anxiety exist in all quarters. Yet, in the face of all this, there is comfort in the reflection that the causes which produced this condition of things have been almost completely reversed. In the place of reckless over-trading, we have now lessened sales guided by caution, and also prudence in purchasing" s f5
 The House passed the resolution declaring Gen. Schencks action in the Emma mine af- fairs "ill-advised, unfortunate, and incom- patible with the duties of his position" Theodore Deschner, Prussian gunsmith, at Ithaca, N. Y., shot and killed Andrew Smith, a ca1tman, for alleged improper intimacy with his wife. .... A fire in the Cosmos oil refinery on the Allegheny river, near Pittsburgh, de- stroyed three warehouses, three thousand bar rels and eight carloads of refined oil. Loss, $25 900. ... "A special dispatch states that the Sioux committed terrible atrocities on the bodies of Busters command. Raiu-in-the- Face cut out Custer's heart, and erecting it on pole held grand war dance around it, eco. W. e. Handy, farmer of Somerset county, Md, was tied by four masked robbers and his safe robbed of $4, GOO, mostly in gold coin. He was robbed of $3, 900 in similar manner ten years ago. o......C. Adams Stevens, vice. Y.) Bridge Co.,, has been arrested on & charge of embedding $2O0, 900 worth of the bonds of the company. .. James s. Wilson, treasurer of the District of Columbia, is 8 defaulter to the amount of $7, 1000.
 Three brothers, named Charles Albert and Adif Thielhausen, residing in Newark, N. J., were formerly employed in Dawson's tannery, from which they were discharged by the fore man, whom they have threatened with violence ever since, until he finally sued out 8 warrant fer their arrest, which was put in the hands of Policemen Elsden and Dickerson to serve. No sooner had the officers appeared at the house and made known their errand to the brothers than each srmed himself with ah huge navy re- volVer, shooting Elsden dead cn the spot and wounding Dickerson probably fatally They then ran from the house toward the taunery, on the way seriously shooting MT. Cahill. Arrived st the tannery they asked for the foreman, and not finding him, shot and killed an inofensive workman named Fischer. At this time the foreman's son-in-law, John Albers, went into the room to find out what the firing was for, win en he instantly was shot down and five balls fired into him, from the effects of which he died. The workmen had now recovered from the stupor into which they were thrown b! the horror of the scene, and closed in on the murderers with the long knives with which they work; one of the brothers having the right hand nearly severed st the wrist By threatening with their revol- vers the desperadoes made their way to the street, followed by the crowd which now num- bered hundreds. The brothers ran toward the river, and finding the crowd pressed them, jumped into the water and endeavored to escape by swimming. The crowd of enraged AoA AohnWAno dTE1N0O dC the DAQK or the river and began throwing missiles at the heads of the murderers in the water, who were ex- hausted by their long run and soon sunk from sight under the waters. The crowd stayed about until certain the men were drowned, and there was no need to infct the lynch law so freely threatened.
 The Turks burned the Servian town of Ken terdenan ...... While the British ironclad Thunderer was making trial trip of measured mile in Stokes bay, her forward boiler ex- ploded, killing twenty-five oe the crew and injuring sixty others, many fatally <. :. Hay wood Grant, convicted of arson, was hung at Rome, Ga. He confessed to having killed four men, one of whom was Gen. Hindman, of the Confederate army, at Helena, Ark. The chief Boar Stand Up has arrived from Sitting Bulls camp, and says that Sitting Bull will fight until the Black Hills question is settled .. The grand total of the Texas cattle drive to July 6 is 305, ,290 head. Of this numbe, 50, ,53s have been held in northern Texas while the remainder, 254, ,652 head, have been driven north. Several thouaand head which were xripfor oro6 i,,