Connecticut western news., 1878-11-27
OUR NEWS SUMMARY,

At Lagrange, Ky, forty armed men took from the jail negro named Geo. Williams, awaiting trial on the charge of assaulting on eight-year-old girl, and hanged him. Williams confessed bis crime. ,...t.. -.s -.r Juan Antonio Hernandez was hanged at Rafugio, in South Texas, for the mur- der of Walder and Maton. He protest ed his innocent. -r ..-7a.r
 "A horrible story of the murder of two illegitimste children by their mothers and an attempt to stop the mouth by death of a witness comes from Delaware.
 Minister Welsh paid over to Lord Salisbury the amount of the Halifax award, accompanying the payment with protest against it's ever being used hereafter as an argument of American assent to the award.
 -Mayville, N. Y, is sufferer from a destructive fire.
 Lord Cranbrook's dispatch to the Viceroy' of India reviewing the history of the Afghan quarrel is substantially 8 declaration of war. Telegrams from India announce that the Prince of Wales's Tenth British Hussars have oc- cupied Fort Kapion beyond the frontier without a blow, and that the whole British force has advanced. '
 The fourth attempt upon the life of royalty this year has just been made in Naples on the person of King Humbert, of Italy, as he was entering the city in state. Humbert comes of brave race, and, true to his instincts, he drew his sword and attacked the assassin, who was immediately secured. The King re- ceived scratch upon his left arm. Sig nor Carroll, who accompanied the King, was wounded in the thigh. The would he murderer is cook, twenty nine years old, aud gives as reason for his crime poverty and hatred of royalty. It will be remembered that an attempt was made on the life of Amadeus, Humbert's brother, while King of Spain in 1871.
 The electric light has been tried in the Capitol at Washington it is favored for lighting that building. ..ss,z. ,.s
 The explosion of locomotive at Mahanoy City, Penn., killed four men.
 The fish market at the foot of Full ton street, New York, the most important m this country, was burned. Business will not be seriously impeded. Theloss is perhaps $1O0,00O.
 A terrible story is told from Trenton of an old watercress gather who got into mudhole from which he was unable to extrioate himself and where he remained twenty hours. He was at last rescued, but only to die subsequently of exhaus- tion.
 The Secretary of the Treasury has issued the seventy-second call for $5.- 900. 900 five-twenty honds--2, ,O0O, GOO coupon and &, ,000, 900 registered.
 In Austrian Galicia, the people of Lemberg having projected procession in honor of their Deputy Hausner, who supported the foreign policy of Count Andrassy in the Reichsrath, the police prohibited it. Acollision followed, some persons were wounded and many arrests made.
 The Antoneli will case, in New York, unlike the Vanderbilt case. has come to an end, with @ verdict against the claimant.
 Thirty-five passengers in the St. Louis sleeping-car on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad had narrow escape from frightful death by burning. An over turned lamp set fire to the drapery of the car. and the car, with all the small baggage, money and jewelry of the pas sengers, was entirely destroyed, the pas sengers escaping in their night clothes. Fortunately no one was injured. ....
 "A fire at Tyler, Tex, destroyed five large stores and the United States Court rooms, together with all the court docu. ments. The loss is estimated at $1OO.- 900.
 Nearly 25.0O0 persons witnessed a boat race between the Modoc and St. Louis crews, of St. Louis, on the Mis- alssippi over six-mile course. The St. Louis crew won the prize of $2OO.
 "A bale of grain bags thrown from the train at a station where no stop was to be made, was the cause of the disas. ter on the New Brunswick Railway neal Fredericton. Four persons were killed.
 The directors and cashier of the First National Bank of xenia, O., have been indicted for converting to their owr use $65, ,000 belonging to the banks de, positors. ....,5s
 The Pittsburg glass blowers have struck.
 Henry Myers, of Hyde Park, N. Y, the possessor of about $8,OOO, fearing poverty, hanged himself.
 The jury in the trial of John M Wright for the murder of Barney Feron the junk dealer, in the New York harbol brought in verdict of murder in tn, second degree, ,and Wright was sentenced to Imprisonment for life.
 The official vote for Court of Ap peals Judge in New York is as follows Danforth Rep.), 3s9, ,676; Bradle, Oem. ), 352, ,O6O; Tucker co. B. ), 71, ,O2o Van Cott (Pro.), 3,723.
 Yale officially declines the invitatio, of Harvard to single-scull race, bu promises one of her men to back him u, if he will personally challenge the Ha1 yard champion.
 The Chief of Police of Pittston, Pa. and two of his officers have been arreste on charge of killing man while re sisting the arrest of his brother. Tw other officers, fearing lynching, hay,