Connecticut western news., 1877-02-09
NEWS ITEMS.
What is Doing in the Old World and the

What is Doing in the Old World and the 1 Commercial intercourse between Russia and China is at standstill in consequence of l China mistrusting the object of Russian ex- poring expedition which has been inspecting the Chinese borders. .. Magliore Blanchette, the St. Hyacinthe (Canada) incendiary, has been sentenced to imprisonment for seven years cured in the lager beer brewery of David Hass at Buffalo, killing Gustavus Hass, and it is feared fatally scalding Hermann Hass, both sons of the brewer. The building was damaged about $1, 1,Ooo.. A fire broke out in the Stone | hill colhery, near Bolton England, while the men were at work, ani fifteen miners are known to have perished. =. .Advices from Mexico state that President Diaz is now in pos session of the entire republic excepting Cnaloa ] and Chihuahua. Diaz's administration IS con- ducted with prudence and wisdom; the people complain only of excessive taxation. Ex-Presl- dent Lerdo has embarked for San Francisco. | Iglesias and cabinet are at Mazatlan awaiting l events. There is much anxiety to know what course the United States will take in regard to Mexico " A report is current at Fort Randall that train of fifteen wagons and twenty men 1 were captured recently, about one hundred l miles west of the Missouri river, while on their way out of the Black Hills, and that not a man escaped the. scalping knife. The Indian that 1 brought the news says that Crazy Horses band committed the outrage, and that the train be-
 longed to Volin & Popinau, of Yankton. |.
 John R. McPherson, Democrat was elected United States senator by the New Jersey Legis- | atlIre to succeed Senator Frelnghuysen ...-.. | The secretary of the treasury has issued the | thirty-eighth call for the redemption of 5-20 bonds of 1865, May and November. The call is for BIO, 000 O00, of which F7, 900, 900 coupon bonds and $3,0oO,000 registered bonds. ,.. Gen. Belknap demands immediate trial under | the indictment found against him last April. ..... Holland has prohibited the importation of beasts from Germany on account of the rim | derpest. .. Seven hundred of New York city s business men, representing $50, ,000, ,000, signed 8 petition to the Legislature praying for the abolition of the present usury law, and the pas sage of a clear statute prohibiting the taking l of more than seven per cent ...Canalboat owners held meeting in New York city in ad- vocacy of lower tolls on the canals. .. The January auction sale of 150, 900 tons of coal re- alized less prices than the sale in December. ..... The fourth of the Astoria Oong Island) masked robbers was sentenced to twenty years | imprisonment .Advices from Central America are to the effect that everything is quiet. Costa Rica failed to secure alliance with Guate- mala for the purpose of making war on Nicara- qua.
 Islegias, the fugitive would-be president of Mexico, has arrived in San Francisco with his stite. =. The Illinois Legislature has finally elected Hon. David Davis as United States sena- | tor in the interests of the Democracy. Mir. | Davis is at present one of the justices of the | United States supreme court, and in 1872 was a prominent candidate before the convention which nominated Horace Greeley ...... It will l be recollected that short time since Sheriff Manning, of Mississippi, killed Capt. Harvey, | of Louisville, for intimacy with Mrs. Manning, from whom MT. Manning subsequently separ- ated. The sequel now appears in the murder of Sheriff Manning by John Fretwell a relative | to Mrs. Manning. Fretwell had just been re- leased from prison through the efforts of Man ming .... The anniversary of the birthday of | Burns was generally celebrated by Scotchmen throughout the country ...... Four prominent citizens of Austin, Kan, left that town with | wagons of produce for Kiowa in another county, since which time they have not been heard from. It is now supposed they were mastered by Sioux Indians ... A diabolical plot to ex- 1 plode the boiler of the hoisting apparatus of one of the shafts of the Consolidated Virginia | mine, Nevada, was discovered just in time to avert 8 terrible loss of life. The next night an attempt was made to fire the hoisting machinery of another shaft of the same mine. The at tempts are supposed to have been made in the interests of stock brokers in San Francisco. While suffering from an alteration of mind, Harrison Twiner killed Anderson Richmond and then committed suicide at Center, Ohio.
 Property to the value of $50 900 was destroy ed in Medina, N. Y., by fire which originated in McCormicks furniture store. .. .Benj. Hill formerly representative of Georgia in the House, has been elected senator by the legislature of that State l.. The West Virginia Legislature re- elected Senator H. G. Davis for the long term, and chose Representative Frank Hereford for the short term, ...W W. Kay Neil was hanged at Albany, Oregon, for murder. He confessed the l crime few days previous to the execution but when on the scaffold asserted his innocence. ... Mrs. Crouch, living near Sackett's Harbor, N. Y., who was deserted by her husband. and suffered from great destitution in nsconsequence, gave birth to child, and a few hours afterward, while out of her mind, put the infant in the stove and completely incinerated it . An ava lanche of snow was started down the mountain side by blast in Centennial mine, Wyoming Territory, and one man was killed and two others injured. .. The Hudson river schooner Marie Louise was cut down and sunk near New York. One of the crew was drowned ill en- deavoring to escape on the ice B. & F. Jenny's kerosene oil works in Boston were destroyed by men were injured. The loss amounts to $7O,- 000....W. w. Christian and William Howell
 were both instantly killed by the bursting of al agitator at the Standard Oil Co.'s refinery r
 Cleveland. Ohio The Metropolitan Ins: O.
 of New York city has been put in the hands oi a receiver, owing to the depreciation of assets
 The only losers will be the stockholders.
 The academy of music at Indianapolis, Ind.
 was destroyed by confiagration which Tapped
 up several contiguous stores. Total loss, $125,
 900: partially insured .... Merriman's block
 in Hartford, Conn.,, was destroyed by an in
 250 ...... James May and John Cunningham
 were fatally injured at the zinc mines at Frank
 lin, N. J., by quantity of frozen earth cavine
 in upon them. ... By the burning of P. Dubei
 house ill St. Flavie, Canada, his three childre1
 were suffocated to death .... The New Jersey , Mutual Ins. Co. of Newark, has reinsured iti policies in the National Capital Life of Wash
 ington, and has passed out of existence. ....
 Charles V. Hand was robbed of 1925, ,000 il
 jewels belonging to lady friend, while nego
 tiating for their sale in New York. =. J. B
 Ford X Co.,, Nr. Beechers old publishers, ar'
 again in bankruptcy In consequence of thu
 withdrawal of railroad facilities by the N.
 Midland road, four of the immenss tanneries a
 Elenville have been stopped by the owners . } peddler called at the residence of S. s. Chal
 fant, near Thonlyile, Ohio, and obtained per mission to lodge over night During the nigh he applied chloroform to the entire family anc searched the house, carrying off $9O0 in none, and &35. .0nn in drafts
 The defalcation on the Fishkill (N. Y.) na
 tional bank is larger than at first announced .....- dastardly attempt was made to wrec ~an Erie express train near Waverly, N. r., b, , chaining heavy timbers across the tracks. night watchIaan discovered the obstruction only just in time to signal the fast-running pas senger train. But for his alertness an appal ) ling disaster must have occurred ...... Ex } Chief Justice Iglesias still hopes to be presi dent of Mexico. II he state of Sonora has de clared in his favor. ... Europe generally i strictly prohibiting the importation of cattl
 from the rinderpest districts of Germany
 l The New York Midland road is now running a ) heretofore, the trouble having been settle1 sat isfactorily ...... The one hundred and fortiet ,, birthday of Tom Paine celebrated by ire thinkers in the great cities .... The Methods church at Fairhaven, Vt., was destroyed by fire Loss, $6,O0O insurance, $3,OOO ...... Fou r men were washed over the falls at Louisville :. Ky, by the upsetting of their skift and two 0 ; them were drowned.
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