Connecticut western news., 1878-07-04
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.

lenSIHs. 1ne tune was aS follows: liar. yard, 20 minutes, A 3-5 seconds; Yale, 21 minutes, 29 seconds.
 Frank Perrino was hanged at Savan- nah, Ga., for the murder of J. F. Lee, farmer, in April last. The criminal died acknowledging his guilt, and urg- ing all present to take warning by his fate.
 Mrs. E. E. Wood, of. Mast Hope, Wayne county, Penn., while laboring under paroxysm of insanity, threw a can containing about three pounds of powder into stove. She died in few hours. t4agt1 eIV .u B
 At Bronson, Mich, Samuel Whitta- ker shot his wife dead and afterward killed himself. Domestic troubles were the cause. f''7e n. a.-..
 -Marie-delas- Mercedes, Queen of Spain, died at Madrid. She was born in the same city on the 24th of June, 1860, and was Is years of age. She had been married only five months.
 The United States troops claim that
 
 fight with the Bannock Indians.
 Lord Dufferin has consented to &C., oept an extension of his appointment as Governor General of the Dominion of
 The Ohio Democratic State Conven- ton nominated candidates for minor State offices, and adopted a platform de- manding the repeal of the Resumption Act and the enactment of provisions for the free coinage of silver. The platform accepts tho decision of the Electoral Commission as final, but declares that the investigation of fraud in the Presi- dential election is not barred by that de- cision. .-2 s..... ..."
 Wholesale arrests of counterfeiters have taken place in the West. At Bax- ter Springs nine men were arrested at one time. ss .st ,,.
 -Babbitt, the New York soap man, who for years has had suit against somebody charged with swindling him, is now in court with a $23,OO0 case against woman who has been foollng him. -,-...,-
 An engagement between the advance troops of Gen. Howard, and the Indians has taken place at point about fifty miles from Fort Harney. Col. Robbins and two soldiers were killed. 5 tr-,-.-
 In the A. T. Stewart will case the answer of Mrs. Stewart and Judge Hill ton IS general denial of the alleged re- lationship of the contestants to MT. Stewart. It is maintained that he left no surviving heirs or descendants of his own. ,s..s ,is,..
 John Finn, James Shea, Hattie Sands, and Mary Welch, of Oswego, N. r., were drowned at Pleasant Point, Lake Ontario. They belonged to an excursion
 A boat containing eight young men was capsized by sudden squall in Ches- ter Basin, Nova Scotia, on Sunday even- ing. Four of the party were drowned.
 A gang of counterfeiters who have been operating in Eastern Pennsylvania, has just been broken up.
 A fire ID. London, Cedar county, Iowa, destroyed nearly all the business houses in Q that place. The loss is estimated at from $75, GOO to $1OO, 900 partially insured. ... .....
 The striking extra hour men in Buf. falo all resumed work, and ended the strikes.
 Michael Tobin, the private who killed Henry Albers, comrade, at West Point. on the 24th of February last, was arraigned for, trial. Tobin alleged, at the time of the killing, that Albers had been rinduiy intimate with his wife.
 The dwelling of John Rouleau, at Beauharnois, Que, was burned. Four of his children perished in the flames.
 The London Posts Berlin dispatch states:that the Russians have 52, ,426 sick in.the Balkan peninsula, and of the re- cruits raised in 1877 for the Armenian campaign, twenty five per cent. are dead.
 -AS St. Mary's Industrial School, near Baltimore, Thomas Fleming, youth and inmate of the institution, was attacked and gort5 to death by bull.
 The late MT. Rhinelander's estate in New York is estimated to be worth about fifty million dollars. He was one of the seven largest real estate owners in the city. By his will the vast prop erty will be managed by executors for the benefit of his children, who may divide it as. they shall see fit.
 The appropriations by Congress make g grand total of about $24O, OOO, 900 to be paid in the fiscal year 1s78-9. This is $5s, ,O0O,ooo more than last years appropriations.
 -S. Angler Chace, the Fall River defaulter, pleaded guilty, and was sen- fenced to twelve years in the State prison, two years solitary.
 By anlexplosion of gas in one of the Brooklyn public buildings, one man was killed and one seriously injured.
 The Socialists of New York city bad a mass-meeting to commemorate the French Revolution q, of 1S4S. The speeches were not riotous in their ten dency, but some of the inscriptions on the numerous red flags were by no means peaceful -one of them being, "Bread or Lead"
 John Hodge, President of the New York State Firemans' Association, has issued call for it's annual convention at Ithaca, Aug. 20, 21 and p.
 Mrs. Jenks testified before the Pot ter Committee that she was the author of the alleged Sherman letter, and that