Connecticut western news., 1878-09-26
The notorious The. Allen of New

| 1OrK, SQOG aHtt hllleu u u0GoCblV0 named Malloy. Allen claims that it was acci dental that he was showing Malloy pistol when it exploded doing the SC rious work.
 At the school district election il New Haven, Conn.,, the issue being al attempt to re-establish devotional ex erc1sess in the public schools, the ticket favoring the establishment was elected by 2, 900 majority. The Catholics united with the Protestants to bring about the success of the Bible ticket.
 New disclosures are daily making in the latest Fall River dedication, and the more that are made, the worse the matter looks for Charles P. Stickney. All the indications are that the defalcations will reach at least $500, ,OOO-many persons putting the amount much higher-and that Stickney is quite as guilty as Chace and Hathaway, between whom and him. self the fullest understanding and CO., operation appear to have existed for years.
 There will be no foreign teams at Creedmoor this year.
 Eight children of George Lynch, the eldest seventeen years of age, living at Hackley, Texas, were murdered at midnight by an unknown party. Lynch, the father, was awakened by a pistol shot, the ball striking him in the breast He sprang up and saw a masked man standing in the middle of the room, pointing pistol at him. Another shot being fired, Lynch fell unconscious. When he It covered he found himself in the lane, outside the premises. The assassin, thinking Lynch was dead, seized a hatchet and put the witnesses out of the way, and then set fire to the house. The distracted father saw the house burn and fall in on the bodies of his children.
 At Brantford, Ontario, during the flood, three men were drowned.
 The Kennebec Journal publishes the gubernator1al vote of the entire State, with the exception of few small towns and plantations. They are com piled from official returns, and give Con- nor 56,419 votes; Garcelon, 27,872 votes; Smith, Al, ,4O4 votes. Connor's plurality over Garcelon is 28, LAY; p1u- rality over Smith, 15,O15. The vote for Smith and Garcelon combined aggre- gates 69, ,276, and therefore Connor lacks 12,o57 votes of an election by the peo- pie. The aggregate vote thrown was 125, 726. The total vote last year was 1O1, ,191.
 -Corell & Co.'s nitro-glycerine man. ufactory, Jersey City, exploded. Daw- son Roberts and Wm. R. Caber were fatally injured.
 -The Hayden surveying party has been heard from, and is in safety. They have had several narrow escapes from the Indians.
 Mays Landing, N. J., was flooded by the bursting of a dam and considera- ble property destroyed.
 Major General Shields is seriously i'll in New York.
 A Mussulman raid on Erzerum is feared.
 The Cretans have refused to treat with Mukhtar Pacha.
 Secretary Sherman says that the new order in regard to silver is due to objections that silver redemption was a violation of the law.
 Serious fears are entertained in the vicinity of Sidney, Neb., that the Chey- enne Indians who have left their agency will form a junction with Sitting Bull and go on the war-path.
 The American bark Lavinia, Gap. tain Eaton, which arrived at Dunkirk, Scotland, August 27 from New York, took fire after discharging, and was de- stroyed.
 Three boys while playing about the William Penn colliery, near Shenandoah, Pa., were drawn into a coal shute and one of them smothered. The other two were badly injured.
 On Pine Creek, Tioga Co.,, Pa., two men named Cole were drowned. One was trying to save the other when both sank. They were cousins.
 A singularly fatal accident took place at Bradford, Pa. Thieves had been at work on the locks of a nitro glycerine safe and damaged it so that It could not be opened. It was decided to blow it open with nitro-glycerine, and when this was attempted frightful ex- plosion took place, blowing the safe to atoms and killing four men. The bodies of the unfortunate men were blown to atoms, pieces of them being found in high trees about the safe.
 In Worcester, Mass. Isham Lewis, negro, lately became infatuated with Miss Hannah Courtney, aged nineteen years, and, because she repelled his ad- vances, lay in wait for her one evening and cut her throat with knife, severing an artery.
 -Rumors are rife in Hayh of an ap- preaching rebellion. The President has appealed to the people to allow him to finish his term of office rather than ex- pose the country to bloodshed. If the people will not listen to reason, the President will resort to the most violent means before resigning.
 It is deemed probable that Midhat Pacha will be made Governor of Asia Minor.
 The deaths by yellow fever now ex- ceed 5,700 in number there have been light frosts, and the fever is apating slightly.