Connecticut western news., 1876-02-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

SUMMARY OF NEWS.
 Interesting Items from Home and Abroad. The Russian authorities in Turkestan have asked for 5000 troops in addition to their I present force of 10000 men ... ,. Serious and bloody feuds have occurred among the tribes on the Scinde frontier in India, and there are l fears of general rising against the English 1 throughout Beloochistan. .. |. !. The public debt statement for January shows 8 reduction of $1, 599, l55. Al coin in the treasury, $73, SOL,
 361. Al currency in the treasury, $11, ,992, ESQ.,.
 O4 coin certificates, $34, ,604, 400 special de- posit of legal tenders, $40, ,6OO, ,OOO; outstand- ing legal tenders, $371, 273, 14C..... Fifteen of the Indianapolis Ind.) whisky conspirators
 were sentenced to terms of imprisonment
 varying from six months to two years and to pay fines of from $500 to $1, 900 .... China
 has appointed the proper officers to superin-
 tend the exhibition of Chinese ware at the
 Centennial. .-.. .Silss Wilder, of East Lyndon,
 Vt, while in 8 fit of anger at his wife and family, stabbed his wife seriously, struck down his father with an ax, and then killed his mother with the same weapon. Returning to where his father bad been struck down, and finding him still alive he again buried the ax in his head, killing him instantly. Wilder | then cut his own throat, and as death did not ensue, walked to the barn, fastened rope about his neck, and jumped from beam,
 breaking his neck and causing immediate death. F -g
 The gale of February 2d extended over the entire country, and did much damage -un- roofing houses, blowing down buildings and chimneys with considerable loss of life. A number of church steeples were also blown down. .... A dispatch from Lisbon announces | that the Chamber of Peers has voted the aboli- ton of slavery in St. Thomas and Gulf of Guinea. The captains of the Oxford (Eng. ) boat clubs refused the challenge of the Ameri- can Intercollegiate Rowing Association, be- cause the date is inconvenient ...... A speedy eruption of Mount Vesuvius is expected. j.
 A stage line has been opened from Cheyenne to the Black Hills ...... Italy will send nearly four hundred tons of materials to the Centen- nial . |. The Prince of Montenegro received Turkish envoy coldly, and declined to con sider his request that the Montenegrins be de-
 tained from joining the insurgents.
 The President has issued his first veto of the session, in sending back the bill transferring the Indian trust funds to the Interior depart ment .... After 8 long session, the United States Senate adopted the joint resolution to pay the interest on the bonds issued by the commissioners of the District of Columbia. ..
 General sherman has written letter de-
 claring that he is not and will never be 8 can
 didate for the Presidency .. An engine driv-
 ing snowplew on the Midland road, jumped the track at Westfield Flats, when within 8
 few feet of 6 small bridge, which was carried
 away by the blow. The engine and blow went
 into the river, iDjuring nine men, among them
 the superintendent and master mechanic.
 Cambridge (English) university has declined
 the cha uge of the American college boat
 clubs.... mherst College will not end g crew to the Saratoga regatta on account f the
 expense. IA Catholic church in Bidd. ford,
 Me, and Baptist church in TariRville, Conn.,,
 were destroyed by fire. .... Beatrice, Queen
 Vlctorias youngest daughter, is reported to be
 engaged to Prince Louis, of Bsttenburg, now
 in India with tne Prince of Wales. Parliament
 will be asked to grant 8 dowry.
 The Rev. Alexander Fl. Mackonochie and
 about one hundred leading ritualis of Eng
 land disclaim any dealings with the Papacy.
 An explosion of fre-damp took place in the
 Jabin colliery, near St. Etienne, Belgium. The
 men were at work in the pit at the time to the
 number of 230. Of these only twenty-siz
 have been taken out, two of whom were dead
 The earth fell in, in immense masses Con.
 sternstion prevailed throughout the district
 ,.... Henry O. Bowen, in . letter to the ex amining committee of lymouth church
 charged Mir. Beecher with adultery and per.
 jury. He said MT. Beecher had dishonored
 several homes, but refused to give his sources
 of information. .... Rome special says that
 despite the numerous denials, Cardinal An tonell the chief adviser of the Pope, is seri , ously ill. .... At the last revival meeting helc : by Messrs. Moody and sankey in Philadelphia collection was taken up for the benefit oi i. the Young Mems Christian Association, anG , $25, 900 were realized. Y , George Hendle, wife and two children were , burned to death in their house at Holloway vile, Ill .....: One hundred and ifty-six livel were lost by the fre-damp explosion in thu colliery at St. Etienne, Belgium. . Jefferson 3 Davis has written letter denying the charge , cruelty imputed to him by ex-Speake l Blaine; intimstes that he does not care fol amnesty. and makes counter-chsrges of cruelt, ! upon the Federal forces . The Harvard : freshmen reject Yale's treatments challeng, for six-oared race..... The ipternationa
 committee on the under ocean tunnel between
 France and England has ended it's work, ant F the report expresses the belief that the grea n enterprise will be successfully completed. .. n The jury in the case of Landis, who sho v Editor Carruth, at Vineland N J., returned s 8 verdict of not guilty on account of insanity a .... Captain Richard Mott, his three sons d and another young man, all of Canarsie L. I. s were drowned by the upsetting of their boat il 6 Barnegat bay, where they had been diggn clans. seE
 It is said that the Biscayan and Navarres ii provincial deputies have told Don Carlos nc |, to expect any further aid from them. Tn a United States Senate passed a bill for the pay l. ment of the Alabama claims awarded by th @ commission :. ... In Chicago, John Heic ,f shot and instantly killed Edward Campbe e during quarrel about Heich's wife, who wa @ divorced from Campbell before her marriag @ with Heich. The latter was badly cut by y razor in the hands of Campbell .. The1 are already forty houses in Custer City, in th
 Black Hills, and sixty more are in procet o of construction. ..... A mob recently stone = the Protestant church in the plaza of Sa i Fernando in the city of Mexico. The Prote e tants in Acapulco are rapidly increasing |, numbers since the assassination of Mir. Ricl e srdson. . The New Jersey House of Assemb t, passed the bill appropriating $10,00O for tt ol kl,, 5. far appropriated for the Centennial pu TT,;t