Connecticut western news., 1876-10-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
items of Interest from Home and Abroad

Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.
 During the storm which prevailed in the West Indies the schooner Mary A. D., of Lunenburg, was lost with all hands on board ...... The schooner Charles P. SInnickson, while st anchor near Indian river, filled and sunk during the storm. The captain, n ate, one seaman and boy were drowned. =. The steamer Rebecca Clyde, from Wilmington, N. O., for Baltimore, went to pieces off Pam lico sound. Capt. Childs, two mates, two engineers, three seamen, the steward, two coalheavers and one passenger named Whildon were lost. Mrs. Levi Hedge, of Lowell, Mass, committed suicide by cutting her throat. .... Lewis Graves residing at Nor wich, near Utica, committed suicide by cut ting his throat. .... Nathaniel Highbee, of Mamaroneck, N. Y, was found dead on the railroad track with a long and deep cut in his back. .... Congressional nominations In the fourth Maryland district Dr. James H. Butler, by the Republicans. First district of New Jersey, by the Democrats Charles H. Zim- merman.
 In the Beaver court, in the Mountain Meadow massacre case, Judge Foreman, in the course of his charge to the jury, said: " The prisoner J. D. Lee, stands before you charged with be- ing participant in one of the most atrocious massacres of human beings-of men, women and children-in the Mountain Meadows in 1857, that ever was known in any civilized part of the world. The evidence shows that the persons killed were immigrants. For several days previous to the massacre oom- of xvh had making attacks on their encampment. h. dlans and white men vied with each other in the fendish work of destroying over one hun dred and twenty men, women and children. It has been alleged that Lee shot one women with & gun and out the throat of anoth CT, telling an Indian not to spare the life of young woman whom the savave asked him to save. The jury brought in a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Gen. Howard expects trouble with the Indians in the far Northwest unless arrangements are made to pacify them ...... One hundred thousand tons of Pittston coal sold in New York at prices ranging from $2 to $3. 75 per ton...... The case of Thomas Duffy, another of the "Molly Mcguire conspirators, who is ac- cused of being accessory before the fact to the murder of Policeman Yost, st Tamaqua, was given to the jury at Pottsville, and 8 Ver- dict of murder in the first degree was re- | turned. This is the ninth conviction for murder of members of this organization. .... John K. Tarbo1 was renominated to Congress by the seventh Massachusetts district Demo- cratic Congressional convention.
 The people of Minnesota have done well in following up the Northfield bank robbers, and it is certain that all of them have been cap tured, the two last being taken by citizens Of Dakota. Four of the robbers were captured in Watonwan county, after desperate fight, in which one was killed and the other three seriously wounded. .... The return match be- tween the American and Irish rife teams at
 Creednoor was won by the Americans. Two years ago the Irieh team, with Major Leech as
 it's captain, came here and inaugurated inter
 ternational rife matches. The Americans
 then won by three points. Last year the
 American team went to Ireland and shot al
 Dollymount range, again winning by thirty
 nine points. It was expected that the Irist
 would win this last match and they came very
 near it. At the eight hundred-yard range tht
 American team made 40s out of possible 450
 and the Irish team made 894, leaving thu
 Americans fifteen ahead. At the nine hun
 dred-yard range the score stood 886 fir tn,
 Americans and 369 for the Irish. The Ameri
 cans had gained seventeen points at tha
 range, two more than they gained at eigh
 hundred, and making them thirty-two point
 ahead. At the one thousand-yard range tn
 Americans made poorer shooting than eve L. ~ kI.> -G,o oL1 -.as,.
 the target At this range the American
 made 370 and the Irish S91 points. The SCOT
 for the three ranges stood: Americans 1 165
 Irish, 1,154, leaving the Americans winners 0
 all three of the international games ...s. O New York day at the Centennial over 125, ,00 persons visited the Exhibition, the rush beiD
 the largest of the season ...... Congressions
 nominations: New York-Terence J. Quinr Dem., for the seventh district John J. Davy Rep, for the thirteenth district. Pennsylvani , John Reilly, Dem., for the seventeenth dis trict. .@A A strange and fatal disease hs broken out among cattle in Wayne count, Pa., causing much alarm. The cattle are il fested by singular tick which bores deep 1T to the flesh of the creature. \Inaammatio sets in, and death follows in few hour , Some thirty head have died at Hawley .... , Prince Milan has been proclaimed king (
 Servia.
 John Young, convicted of the murder
 Abel Mcdonald, was hanged at Cayuga, On
 After adjusting the black cap, al while u condemned man was repeating the Lord 2 prayer, the executioner attempted to sprir : the trap. Through some mismansgemen . however, the chain parted. Five minutes we - taken up in forcing bolt with sledge har 8 mer, at each stroke of which 8 perceptib j. tremar could be seen passing over the CO - demned man. The suspense was inexprest ] ply horrible, many turning away from sig : which will long live in their memories. . '' 7.20 the drop fell aud John Young died wit ll II out struggle. After hanging half hot ! the body was cut down .... The Centenni e Exhibition is not to be extended bey ond N l. vember 10th, the time originally set for cosil if it. The managers expect that the chi s weather of October wlll make the unwarm Il buildings uncomfortable for visitors, an 1T consequently, that the pre- ent large atten d ance will end with September. ....A Belgra h dispatch says: "The proclamation of Prin IS Milan as king of Ssrvia is enthusiastically I 1T ceived by the population. It is believed th U the prince and his ministry only disavow t 'nA n act because of the strong diplomatic pressu 6 exercised by the powers, particularly Russ
 The Porte threatens to terminate the arm
 tice unless Russia stops the influx of soldie
 into the Servian army. The number is nt V estimated at fifteen thousand, ard it is claim d that at least four hundred soldiers from Russ G. pass daily through Golatz.
 7; By the collapsing of balloon at Paxto u H., while five hundred feet from the groun 'i 'i George Winthrop was dropped feet foremo .u sinking in the earth to his knees, and l n ceiving injuries from which he died " IT