Connecticut western news., 1878-08-15
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.

E State Greenback Convention. For the first six months of this year | the failures in the United Kingdom were 7,516. The failures in the United States and the Canadas for the same period were only 5,825. These were out of list of 700, ,00O persons or firms engaged in business, and it is claimed that there are not so many in the United Kingdom. The Colorado Republican State Con- vention nominated F. W. Pitkin for | Governor. The accident which occurred on the Pan Handle Railroad, at Mingo June- tion. Ohio, was the most appalling one that has taken place in the West since that bleak night in December, now nearly two years ago, when the bridge at Ashtabula went down with two train loads of human freight into an abyss, either to be burned in the ea4s or drowned in the swollen river, This last accident resulted in the loss of twelve lives and the injury of some forty per sons, some dangerously, others not so seriously. The fast passenger train was going at the rate of forty miles sn hour, when the engineer saw not hundred yards before him on the track freight train under full steam. The whistles of both engines sounded down brakes at the same instant and both engines were reversed, but the next moment the crash came, and amid the grinding of wheels, the sound of escaping steam, the awful jar and crush of the trains, the two engines piled one on the other, top pied over, and rolled down the embank- ment distance of forty feet.
 By the explosion of the Russian powder magazine at Fratesti, near Buch- arest, ffty-fve persons were killed and thirty-one injured.
 While Light Battery K was drilling at Fort Adams, Newport, the horses going at high speed, on turn one gun carriage upset. Three men rolled un- derneath the gun, and were badly in- jured.
 At Fort Keogh, Jim Crow Collins, a gambler, shot Bigler Thomas, of the Second Cavalry. The soldiers of his company surrounded the jail and wounded the Sheriff The Sheriff then abandoned the jail, and fight ensued between the prisoner Collins and the soldiers, in which several soldiers were killed.
 At Anna, H., three women-Mrs. Smith, Miss Miller and Miss Matthias while seeking shelter from the storm, were instantly killed by the top of 8 large oak tree which was broken off by the storm and hurled upon them.
 Russian troops are returning home by way of Roumania in large numbers. The balance of trade in favor of America turing the last fiscal year was $261, ,00O, GOO.
 Three millions of people are report ed to be affected by the famine in Moroc- co. Large numbers are daily dying from starvation and disease is adding to the horrors of the situation. A relief movement has been generously started by the Hebrews of New York city.
 A boy SIX years old died in New York city of hydrophobia.
 At Newark, N. J., Mrs. Ann Teller, wife of Joseph Zeller, used kerosene to start fire, and was burned to death.
 Professor Swift, of Rochester, says that he also discovered the body SUD- posed to be Vulcan.
 A flash of lightning struck Meth odist Gospel tent in Philadelphia on Sunday, killing one child and injuring several others.
 King Alfonso proposes to erect g monument to his wife, the State voting $50,000 per annum toward building ii until it is finished, the King giving $40, 900 year.
 Sitting Bull, Canadian authorities say,. will not take the field to fight.
 The house of John 0. King, at No 571 Vesey street, New York, was robbed of $30,000. Having lost largely by say ings bank failures, MT. King kept ths money in carpet bag, and then lost it
 Two tramps stopped at 8 farmer house, near Trenton, Henry county Iowa, and after getting good dinne from the farmers wife, and learning tha her husband would not get home unti night, suddenly assaulted her, and lief her insensible. They had stopped tn cries of tho farmers little daughter b, rolling her up tightly in blanket When unrolled the child was nearly sui located, and died in an hour.
 -Rarus has won his place as the kin, of the turf. He trotted mile in 2:134 which beats the best time of Goldsmitl Maid.
 The grasshoppers of the nortl swooped down upon Bismarck, D. I. and cleared the vegetation from all gal dens and. truck patches, eating ever green thing. They come little late t do serious damage, the most importan crops being too far advanced to be SC riously impaired by thelr ravages.
 Austrian troops have entered Mos tar, Herzegovina much indignation ha been caused at Vienna by the ambuscade of Maglaj and C1tlak.
 Captain Bogardus won by one biri in the pigeon-shooting match with At brey Coventry.
 The boiler of an eng1ne running saw:mil1 at Enterprise, W. Va, explode killing George Avery, John Parr an Frank Dilworth, and seriously wound ing Dent Park and three other person
 New York and Rrooklvn are askin