Connecticut western news., 1876-01-14
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


 Items of Interest from Home and Abroad
 A night express train on the Vermont Gen. tral ran of the track at Middlesex, and threw several cars down 8 ten-foot embankment, in- turing nine of the passengers ...... The com- mission to examine Canal Auditor Thayer, of New York, recommended his removal, and Gov. Tilden immediately did so. ..... Intelligence has just been received from the Philippine islands giving the details of dreadful hurri- cane which occurred there on November 30. The storm was particularly severe in the pro vinces of Albay and Camarines, which form the southwestern part of the island of Luzon. Two hundred and fifty lives were lost snd $500 dwelling houses destroyed. Many cattle perished, and the crops in all directions were ruined " The British now hold all the im- portant positions in Malsoca. The Maharsjah l Lela has lied and taken refuge in siamese ter ritory. The British power is supreme at Perak,, only the murderers of MT. Birch, the | resident, being in arms..... The New York city board of apportionment have agreed upon /, | the financial budget for 1876 The estimates amount to $34 89S, 295. GA. :. Francis D. Moul ton has sued MT. Beecher for $50, 900 for mali cious prosecution. . Nearly the whole of \ the business part of Jasper, Fla, has been l burned. :. :. The fall cod fishery at Cape l Breton has been successful. =. E. L. Pierson, Republican member of the legislature from Natchitoches La., was shot and instantly killed by Mir, Cosgrove, the editor of the VSa- dioator. Abuse of Pierson by Cosgrove in his paper caused the fight.
 Charles Hemmerle, of Cincinnati, committed suicide His wife was accidentally killed three nnonths ago, and after burial some resurrec- tionists were captured with the body in their possession. This event had preyed upon Hemmerles mind ...... Armed bodies of men having driven United States deputy marshal from his labors in Mississippi, the general l government was called upon to support him with military aid. which request was granted. ..... The commissioner of patents has award ed the patent Of the fire and burglar alarm now in general use in large cities, to MT. Watkins, of New York city. Watkins right was strongly contested. .. =. The shipments of butter iron St. Albans, vt., for 1875 aggregate 51, 96s tubs or about 2,59s, 150 pounds. They are less than those of last year by 4,O1O tubs, or about two hundred thousand poupds..... The United States has sent an official note to foreign powers on the subject of intervention in Cuba. .. .. The British admiralty has issued an order to it's naval commanders requiring that any slave received on B British man-of- war on the high seas shall be retained aboard until he can be landed in country or trans ferred to 8 vessel where his liberty will be secure. .. Great whisky seizures have taken place in Chicago Nathaniel Carr, mer- chant of Boston, took box containing 50,000 worth of bonds and papers from the safe deposit vaults at bank, and while examining the ntents. had his attention diverted by stranger.4~In. the meantime 8 confederate stole tue tox. All but $7, ,OOO of the securities consisting of railroad stocks and shares in different corporations, can be replsced. .... News just received from Tucson states that in 8 fight between the state and revolutionary forces in Sonera, twenty-five miles south of the boundary line, tho former were defeated with 8 loss of ten killed and number wounded and taken prisoners. Americans in the country generally sympathize with the revolutionists, as they represent the best of the people .... The residence of David Morrison, at Green City, Pa., caught fire from gas conveyed from a we'll near by. and bis wife and child were burned to death. The natio.,alr.he association of Great Britain have accepted the challenge of tho New York association to take psrt in the match for small bores to be held in the United States during the Centennial celebration. IA dispatch from Eastport, Me-, says that tho winter fish ing there is almost entirely failure. Over t sixty vessels are there, but none of them has cargo. There are no herring between that md Raok hsN Ina parnaa TOdaOp tribe of about eighty warriors, having threat- eneI to drive the settlers from the Walls Walla valley in Orego3, Con. Howard has ordered his cavalry to protect the settlers. Joseph Bork, treasurer of the city of Buffalo, is a dafaulter to the ext: nt of $500, 900, and l as fled to Canada. ... A Jew named Minister, residing in New York tenement. shot and killed his three-year-old daughter. fatally wounded his reputsd wife, and then blew his ] own brains out The couple lived unhappily together aud were extremely poor. Gustave e Gusk, New York German, after discussion
 about the recent hanging of, the three negroes
 evidently experimerted, as rope was found
 aboHt his neck fastened over hook in F., butcher shop where he was employed H. . carried his experiment. too far, however, anG e bei,,g unable 10 call for help, strangled tt
 death z.
 Several bands of Khokand insurgents ar, r. preparing t5 resume hostilities. Charles R l. Beekwith, formerly confidential clerk ant cashier for E. T. Babbitt, the extensive soal l. man of New York city, has been arreste, - charged with embedding $600 900 from hi ': employ CT. ... Col Mines with Sonora Mexican
 state troops, attacked the main body ot tn Il Yaqui Indians at Prtohallo, on the third o
 December, and routed them, with a loss 0 s- abont two hundred killed and wounded . 'o Heavy rains have occurred in the norther
 part of Scotland. The rivers have bee w ewollen and large tracts of land inundated
 The I.och Earh liver has over6owed to a SC alarming extont, and tue mills On it's bank
 have all been compelled to stop At White at hall N. Y, man named Buzell, in fit c
 temporary insanity, attempted to assault hi u, wife, when she stabbed him in the stomach ." from tho effects of which he died shortl ., after
 A The .tholics of Ge, many propose to cele ty brate :e day of Archbishop Ledochowski
 liberation from prison The grand vizer ( o1 Turkey recently asked the Pope to use his 1T
 fuence with the Catholic insurgents in Herzt
 goviua with view of peace, and tho Pope &,
 cording instructed Cardinal Franchi to il
 quire into the condition Of affairs . Tn Fl, debt statement for December, 1875, shows 8