Connecticut western news., 1878-11-06
OUR NEWS SUMMARY,

The doctors who, at the request O the advocate of Juan Moncase, the would-be assassin of King Alfonso, made a medical examination of the mental condition of the prisoner, have declared him perfectly sane.
 -The eruption of Mount Vesuvius has begun again with great activity.
 The President has appointed Thursday, November 2s, day of general thanksgiving.
 Secretary Sherman, in answer to Inquiries as to the condition of the Treas ury for resumption, says that the coin now in the Treasury available for re- sumption purposes amounts to $134, ,231,- 865.
 There were forty-seven failures in New York city in October, 1878, a de. crease of twenty three as compared with October, 1877.
 -Detwiler & Marsh, millers of Phila delphia, have failed. Liabilities, near ly $1OO, 1000.
 The London Times Berlin dispatch says there will probably be an attempt to modify the German tariff in Q protec. honist sense early in 1879.
 The National steamer Helvetia was in collision with the British revenue cutter Fanny, off the Tuskar Light and the latter sank, with loss of sew enteen lives.
 James Green, a tramp sh oemaker was drunk at Osborn, Ohio. He was put in the calaboose, log cabin, and set fire to it. He was then brought to the police station. At about two o'clock A. M. the building was discovered to be on fire, and the prisoner could be seen trying to escape. His yells and moans were heartrending. So rapid and intense was the fire that it was impossible to rescue him. His charred remains were taken from the debris.
 The Grand Jury at Ballston, after four days deliberation, failed to indict Jones, the Billings alibi witness, and he was discharged.
 The officers of the City of Glasgow Bank were committed for trial on charge of fraud and theft Their friends are making great efforts to secure their Hb- eraion.
 The Norwood House at Norwood, N. J., was burned. The loss is estima- ted at $25, 900, and is partly covered by insurance.
 
 -Mrs. Alexander, who confessed con- pllcIty in the recent burking case at Bridgeport, Conn, was put upon trial and her confession to the City Attorney repeated to the jury.
 Patrick Butler, the millionaire, who with his second wife was killed by a carriage accident recently in New York, left by will all his estate to his wife, trusting to her the care of his children. Under this will there is now no provision whatever made for his children by his first wife.
 Four hundred pounds of nitro glycerine in magazine at Petrolia, Pa., exploded, killing the owner, s. O. Gotham, and an employee, John Fowler, and dangerously wounding Henry French. MT. Gotham was picked up dead without a mark upon his body. Fowler was blown to atoms, only a finger being found, and that was 200 yards from the scene of the explosion.
 Five men have been arrested on bench warrants and committed to the New Haven Jail, charged with having been ringleaders in the attempt to lynch the negro Freeman at Ansonia, Conn.,, on October 4th.
 intelligence has been received from Whydah, on the west coast of Africa, that the Portuguese commandant and seven soldiers are held captive by the King of Dahomey, who makes them parade before him daily. The King has recommended the custom of human sacrifices. Five hundred persons have been slaughtered in one month.
 Mrs. Clarence M. Ogden, of New York, was chloroformed, bound and gagged by two masked men at night and OA POVo III houoy hHU J0W6lfy worth $70O The burglars even cut the diamonds from ring which would not leave her finger. Mrs. Ogden was found insensible and bound in the morning.
 James Duncan & Co.,, ship owners, of Charlottetown, N. S., have failed for $S30, ,OOO.
 Agricultural laborers' strikes are announced in England, on account of re- duction of pay.
 There is probability that there will be contest between the Harvard crew and that of Oxford and Cambridge next year. The handsome offer of S1O,- 900 from the Harvard graduates to de- fray the expenses of their crews trip still remains open.
 The trial of the King of Spain's assallant has begun. Eighteen bottles of dynamite have been found in cham bers near Madrid by the police.
 Reports are circulated in London that the British Government has remon- strated with Russia on account of the non-fulfllment of the treaty of Berlin,