Connecticut western news., 1876-09-15

strict orders to arrest the prir cpas and abet- | tors on charge of manslaughter. Sultan Murad V. has been deposed because of his mental infrmities Abdul Halnid, his brother, has been proclaimed his successor. ... Yellow fever prevails at Savannah .... Courtney, of Union Springs, N T., ess ly won the cham pionship fer amateur single sculols at Phila- delphia. .....A party of disguised robbers broke into house near Montague, Texas, and murdered W. G. Eng and his wife, step daughter and four stepsons ..... Indians are committing depredations in Nebraska. Fifteen men were killed by them in one day.. passing locomotive set fire to the lumber yard of Waltz & Stricker, at White Haven, Pa., and one million feet of dry lumber were destroyed. Loss, $15, 900. :. .. In the free-to- all race at Hartford, Conn.,, Smuggler won the
 wo first heats in 2.l52 and 2173. The third heat was dead heat between Smuggler and Goldsmith Maid in 2.16%. The Maid won the next three heats and race in 2.174, 2.1S, 2.19a. ..... Congressional nominations: Michigan, second district, John J. Robison, Dem. seventh, Anson B.. Chadwick, Dem.; thirty third, G. W. Pattersen, Rep; New York, nineteenth, Amaziah B. James, Rep; Virginia first, l.. c. Bristow, Rep; Wisconsin, second, l.. B. Caswell, Rep ..... At Derby Line, Vt, B. 0. Hayden shot his wife fatally, and also his brother-in-law, c. o. Bingham No cause was assigned. ..... Jesse Pomeroy, the Boston boy murderer, has had his sentence commuted to Imprisonment for life
 The public debt statement shows a reduc- tion of $3,119, ,369. 29 for August .. The new sultan of Turkey will not make any change in the cabinet. ... Large numbers of Rus- sians are fighting in the Servian army .....
 The Italian marquis who forged the names of King Victor Emanuel and other prominent officials to a large amount has been sentenced to eight years penal servitude. The inter collegiate boat race at Saratoga was contested by the Cambridge (English), Columbia and | Yale crews, and was won by the latter in I 9.104. The captain of the Cambridge crew gave out on the course and they had to stop rowing. A strong wind prevented better time, the course being the same as Yale rowed over in 8.52{ in their contest with the London crew. Officers of the army engineer corps have been detailed to make the new Pacific railway survey ..... Congressional nomina- tions Missouri, fifth district, R. P. Bland,
 Dem.; Kansas, first, W. A. Phillips, Rep.; Vir- ginia, seventh, J. T. Harris, Conservative.
 Trantz beat Wade in the four-mile swim at
 Long Branch, by two feet ...... While mar
 riage ceremony was being performed at Bulk
 ley, H., between George Sleeper and young
 lady, Sleeper was called to the door and shot
 dead by Burt Fleming, rival for the lady's
 hand ...... Hillary Page, colored man, was
 hanged in Chesterfield county, Va, for arson.
 He confessed the crime. .. A band of religious
 fanatics, calling themselves Cobbites, were re-
 ported near Gam Springs, Ark, and two men,
 Humphreys and Blake, went to investigate
 them, when they caught the former and
 literally hacked him to pieces. His companion
 escaped, and gathered together 8 crowd of
 men to arrest the fanatics. They found the
 Cobbites dancing about the head of the mur-
 dered man, which had been impaled on 8 pole
 but as soon as they saw the crowd they pre-
 pared to attack them, when the leader gave
 the order to fire and two of the fanatics were
 killed. The others, four men four women
 and two children were arrested.
 ; The most decisive battle of the Servian Turko war was fought at Alexinatz and re- suited in the defeat of the Servians. The
 
 closed with bloody carnage ..... A fire broke ], out in the town of Hyacinthe, Canada, ant 7 owing to & fierce wind was spread with the ut 7 most rapidity through the business portion O l the place, only being quenched after destroy ing three banks, factories, post-office, cour house and other prominent buildings, as vel ? as eighty stores and six hundred houses Hundreds of families are homeless, their en tire possessions having been lost. The losse will foot up 100000 ...... By the explosion a of the boiler of 8 thrashing machine on 3 farm in Chatield, Minn., Mir. Lawton wa blown 160 feet and instantly killed. Charle - Arnol5 was literally torn to pieces, the frag 3 ments being scattered around. Wm. Burnet @ had the top of his head blown off and anothe l. man was seriously wounded. " By the break ing of an axle of coal train on the Baltmor B and Ohio road, several cars were wrecked = and before g fagman could be sent back s second coal train ran into the wreck and adde @ to the pile of ds5ris covering the passenge track Shortly after mail train ran into tn 5 other two wrecks and was thrown down a l. embankment into the canal. The enginee
 was killed and number of passenger d v ounded Albert Bros sawmill and 8 l. adjoining lumber yard at Woodland, Pa., wer r destroyed by fire, with one million feet c l. lumber. Loss, $40, 900. %. .Ex-G Gov. Seymou @ having positively declined to allow his nam d to be used as candidate for the guberns y 'orial chair of New Y>-k, 8 new conventio 3, has been called by the chairman.