Connecticut western news., 1876-10-13
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

neats ln the 1z4 race, a6 Boston, Cornee won in 225, 2.253, 2243 ... The New York Green back party held 8 convention at Albany, which was attended by six hundred delegates, and nominated full State ticket, headed by Richard M. Griffin for governor Congress sional nominations New Jersey, second dis | trict, Hezekiah Smith, Dem, Pennsylvania, | sixth, Washington Townsend, Rep; New Jer- | sey, third, Miles Ross, Dem. .. Rear Admiral ] Rennock was buried at Norfolk, Va, wioh naval honors. An immense concourse of friends attended the funeral. .. .. The Indian commission have at last prevailed upon the , Spotted Tail agency chiefs to sign the new | treaty ..... Terrible suffering is reported among the inhabitants of Puerto l rincipe Cuba . Four thousand rations are issued to the poor twice week ..... The Chinese gov | ernment has recently made considerable con sessions to foreign nations regarding trade, | and has opened new ports. .... At the Louis7 vile races Grit won the mile race for beaten horses in 1.46, 1.45, 1.5O19. The Galt House stakes two miles, was won by Harry Hill in 3 All, 3. 423 =. Another hurricane has swept over the West Indies doing considerable dam- age at Martinique.
 
 third district, John T. Wait, Rep; fourth, Dr. Robert Hubbard, Den.; New Jersey, sixth, Wm. Baxter, GreeDbsck Kentucky, fourth, J. Proctor Knott, Dem. %. .. Internal Revenue Commissioner Raum has instructed the district attorneys throughout the country to bring suits against all persons who have not paid tho whole of their income tax. .... Terence Welsh and Patrick Donohue were instantly killed and two men seriously wounded by the falling of rock in 8 tunnel in which they were at work in Baltimore county, Md . The Cherokee Indians and other civilized Indians in Indian Territory protest against the pro- posed settlement of the Sioux Indians on their reservations, and claim that the government will violate it's treaty in so doing. ....Wm. M. (Boss) Tweed has been taken on board the United States Warship Franklin, from vigo, and is now on his way home His companion was released by the authorities .. General Braxton T. Bragg, of the late Confederate army dropped dead ia the street, at Galves- ton, Texas, from heart disease. " Servia rejects the conditions of peace proposed by the great powers, and hostilities have begun again. ... A bronze statue of Wm. H Seward was unvailed in Madison square, New York, Wm. M. Evarts making the oration. It was presented to the city by admirers of MT. Seward ...... On the Louisville racecourse Harper's horse Ten Broeck ran four miles against time in 15A-beating the fastest time on record (Fellowcraft's, at Saratoga, 7.19D by three and one-half seconds. The miles were made in 1929, ,1.451<, 1.464, 1.5Osl. There were 26O,OOO people present on the Exhibition grounds on Pennsylvania's day, 57,296 of whom were paying visitors. ..... Congressional nominations: New Jersey, sixth district, Thos B. Peddie, Rep; Massachusetts, ninth, George Verry, Dem.; Connecticut, sec- ond, Stephen W. Kellogg, Rep; Pennsylvania, | twentieth, l.. A. Mackey, Dem ...... A fire in | Kingston Ont, destroyed three dwellings and | storehouse which contained $16, 900 worth 1 of raw hides .... Don Carlos is reported to | have informed the French authorities that he would not again enter Spain at the expense of another civil war ..... In the free to-all race 1 at Fleetwood park, near New York, Goldsmith | Maid defeated Judge Fullerton in three heats in 221sl, 2.213, PA.
 Rev. A. B. Ffennell, an Episcopal missionary at the Cheyenne agency, was shot dead by some unknown assassin. AS he had no ene- mics it is thought he was mistaken tor some one else ......' Congressional nominations |: | New York, twenty-frst district, T. H. Matter | son, Dem.; Maryland third, Alex. H. Hobbs, Rep; Massachusetts, eighth, N. W. Warren, Dem. .....The Hudson river steamer Dean Richmond ran down brick laden schooner near Barryto and tho vessel immedatel l al Efa Tho saved. The post-oftice authorities at Wash ington will soon discontinue the practice of re- | turning dead eSters to the writers thereof, in consequence Jf the reduction of help. .. The American snip Ellen Dyer, laden with refined petroleum, burned at sea, the crew es- caping in the boats and being subsequently picked up by passing vessel. .... The i'm ports iuto the United States during August amounted to 1885, ,S64, against $44, 191, ,673 for the same month last year. The exports were $43, ,286,0 against $35, ,699, ,437 in 1875
 A small boat containing five young men was capaized on the Delaware river, of Glou- cester, and Henry A. Paul and Andrew Dugan were drowned ... The Cuban tobacco crop is poor and small Tho W.llni. g:,n (N. O Daily Journal, the oldest paper in the St:le The people of Ecuador, South America, in CO., operation with the army, have overturned the presidency of Mir. Barrero and placed General Ventimlla in the chair. .. A three-story build ing in Springfield, Mass, fell during business hours from overlooking the upper floors, and buried seven men in the ruins, four of whom were killed, namely: George N. Walker of J. Walker X Co.,, Sheridan and Kessler, two of the firms employees, and Erskine Pease, who was buying goods at the time. There were forty tons of tobacco on the upper floor and forty-four tons of flour on the second A terrible scene occurred at the hanging of Abraham Wertheimer, at Coshoeton, Ohio, the first fall not breaking his neck or choking him, and necessitating second springing of the trap, tho u fortunate victim meanwhile crying and groaning piteously.
 Mr. O'Connor Power, M. F., of England, has arrived as the bearer of 8 series of resolu- tions passed in Dublin on the fourth of July last, congratulating President Grant upon the centennial of American independence. Sixty thousand people were present at the meeting. The address, which was then adopted by ac- clamation, is handsomely engrossed on parch- ment in old English letter with illuminated border and initial letters .... By cutting holes through two walls, burglars gained entrance to Horton jewelry store, New York, and robbed IL or S1o,to0 worth of treasures-taking every thing in the store except the contents of one safe and some plated ware .. . Gen. Bab- cock and Mir. Somerville, on trial in Washing ton for comphcity in the safe burglary, were acquitted. .... Julius Blank, blind musician. of New York, shot and killed his wife and three-year-old daughter and then committed suicide. .... Tho American consu!s at Porto Rico report that the recent hurricane destroyed great many residences and other buildings and that soDle ot the crops were ruined