Connecticut western news., 1878-11-20
OURNEWS SUMMARY.

Mutual Benefit Savings Bank, of. New York city, died in the honse in. which his sen committed suicide "a few days fiefoFe. -5oq.<. l,,,sts stI ls1 = A'1' ''
 -tik.sf .-yta.at, -..Llstss 1@i <7r'A '.' .:lHE3leayy = rains in Italy have caused & destructive rise of the Tibea. s''- ";''''''
 "A Zanesyille (Ohio) policeman's suspicion having been aroused by team, 1t was pursued, and after an exchange of shots and drive of seventeen, miles, it's driver having taken to theswoods, the wagon was found, to contain four bodies which had been recently buried in the Zanesville cemetery. It is now known that these are not the first which. have been carried of from that city. The resarrectionist was captured later. -~'
 -Fifty-three military mutineers have been shot by the order of Japanese couft-martial.
 Warren & Birch, grocers, of ; Montgomery, Ala., have failed with $1e5, 900 liabilities. The realization Of forty cents on>the dollar. is expected. .,.
 The steamer Cleopatra, from New York for Nassau, and. St. Jago,, went ashore on Booby Rocks. She was got into Nassau, but will probably be con demned. .-, ,-s.- s-s-,,.- -s,t
 The American schooner Thatcher. of Boston, foundered at sea on October 18th. Her captain was drowned and men.were five days in an=open boat without water. ...-..s ,.s. >s,
 Unprecedented charges of cruelty to his wife are made against Dr. Frederick Hal, formerly of New York. city, by those who are contesting the will which she made in his favor. s.
 Angelo Spagnolo, a Maltese, stab bed and killed with long foreign knife, in Chatham square, New, York, Peter Drake, 8 cigar; maker with whom he had quarrolied -'" -'-' -' '' '-'' ''''' q
 Nearly one-half of the English cotton mills in the Ashton-under-Tyne district have stopped work in con- sequence of the depression in trade,s and many are only running on short time. / "A Jacksonville, Fla, dispatch says that the election of Bisbee (Rep.) for Congress in the Second District is now conceded by about 225 majority.
 -Leonhardt Bradbury, lis cousin Elizabeth McHenry and a pahper oman named Kane were arrested in Hoboken. N. J., on charge of causing the death of child four years ago by starving it and neglectfng it. The complaint was made by Bradbury's sister.
 The paint-shop, saw-mill, driving room and ,Aoemaking shop connected with the Central Prison at Toronto were burned. Loss $1Oo, ,o0o The property belonged to the Ontario Government and was heavily insured. '', .s ..l
 Three little children named Kas- choriek were burned to death at Wing field, Wis. x t...sr e
 -Et Marshalttown, Ia. > one John N. Dakin was sentenced to the penitentiary for life for the murder of John K. Slough. He solemnly declared his com- pl~se innocence. After Dakin had been convieted by the jury Frank Rose, an ltallan,. voluntarily confessed that he committed, the murder, and he still as- serts that he should suffer-. Dakin's at- torneys will appeal to the Supreme Court.
 The. Allentown Iron Company of Philadelphia has resolved to tenporarily suspend business. The, company has four furnaces in full blast and their stoppage will, throw out of employment large number of hands. The total liabilities, it is believed, will not exceed $50O,00O, while the value of the com., panya.property is set, w down VII at over $1,- GOO, 1000. M .'I1.sle%it,,. ,- ',. ,,'~ .','.. ,'
 -CharlesF E. Johnson, who, shot his wife iA Brooklyn last December and was sent to the Blooming gdale Asylum, IS re- ported to be released and living with her again.
 -Alptheicoap mfnefsi i4f the vicinity of Zanesyille, Ohio. areIop a strike, de- handing quarter of acent advance per bushelss s,i., .,.s i-'s Is ssS ITS ls,,sss.
 The schooner Joseph R. Bently foundeEed off Forty Mile Point in Lake Huron: The crew were picked up. ess>.
 -Gaorge c. Thompson, who abscond- ed in 1875 while County Clerk of Ste- phenson County, H., and for whose ar- rest the,Supervisors had offered $1, GOO reward. has given himself up to the au- thorities.. He has been living with his family on the Pacific coast. .gas.a ay5
 -AIlt the real and personal property of the St. ,Albans fYt.) Iron and Steel Woiks has been attached and 100 men are thrown out of employment. The total liabilities are'upwards of $1OO, 900.
 A cOlored man and his wife have been lynched in Mississippi for the cruel murder of little girl who had been placed in their care. si ;" >' .>'
 After the late boat race on the Tyne between Lumsden and Hawdon, the winner, Hawdon, was matched to7row Hanlan over the Tyne course next May for $1, ,Oe0a side. s'. s, ',.'. -
 W. w. Burnham, book-keeper of the Dock Board, New York city, has been arrested for&t the embezzlement of S15- 900. The money was made up. by the Commissioners, and the case was kept quiet for six weeks, when the arrest followed.lts publication. --,--
 The New York banks will treat gold
 
 as currency after January l, but will re- ceive silver dollars on deposit only under