Connecticut western news., 1878-09-26
OUR NEWS SUMMARY,

AAo AuSoI1huS clalm that defzeSO- vina is virtually subdued.
 The Cheyennes were led to leave their reservation by hunger.
 The Government has brought troops to Washington to prevent any outbreak by laboring men.
 The Government has sent 4O,OOO more rations to New Orleans.
 The body found near Silver Lake. Staten Island, in @ barrel, has been iden- ti6ed as that of Annie HommelI. of Saugerties, N. Y.
 Sherman City, a small village in Isabella county, Mich, was utterly de- stroyed by 8 terrific tornado. Every building in the village except one frame dwelling was swept away, and that was partly destroyed.
 In Greenville, Miss, out of @ population of 500 there have been 400 cases of yellow fever and 40 deaths.
 A case of yellow fever was discovered at the Bowery Hotel, New York.
 The total yellow fever subscriptions by New York amount to $308,000.
 Colonel T. B. Thorpe, the author, artist and politician is dead.
 An effort will be made to show that Commodore Vanderbilt was influenced by spiritual delusions in making his will. A Coroner's jury decided that Ed ward Malloy's death at the hands of Theodore Allen was accidental.
 In Lowell, Mass, Frederick Sproat shot and instantly killed Laura B. Hunt. He then discharged a bullet into his own brain, which resulted in his death. Cause, rejected love.
 New Orleans sends the encouraging news that the yellow fever is at last on the decline at that and adjacent points.
 The Republicans of the First dis tr1ct of New Jersey nominated George M. Robeson for Congress.
 The Spanish frigate Pizarro was lost at sea. No lives were lost.
 Near Atlanta, Ga., an aged lady and her daughter were killed by tramps who had robbed their house and committed the terrible crime when discovered.
 James H. Slater, Democrat, has been elected United States Senator by the joint convention of the Oregon Leg islature. MT. Slater succeeds Senator Mitchell, whose term expires March 4, 1879.
 The Republican State Convention of Massachusetts in convention at Wor- cester made tke following nominations For Governor-Thomas Talbot. For Lieutenant-Governor-John D. Long. For Secretary of State-Henry B. Pierce. For Treasurer Charles Endi- colt. For Auditor-Julius l.. Clarke. For Attorney General-George Marston. Most of the nominations were made by exclamation. The platform demands resumption of specie payment, economy, and good civil service, and commends various features of the Presidents policy
 Ex-Senator Carpenter of Wisconsin, has been asked to be again candidate for election to the Senate.
 The yellow fever has broken out at lumber camp in Michigan, and several deaths occurred.
 The Conservative victory in Canada is conceded.
 The Austrians have captured three towns on the Save.
 In March last the log house of John Hurley, Seneca, Michigan, was burned, and one son perished in the flames. Mrs. Hurley and her infant escaped, but were so horribly burned that they died next morning. Hurley and the boy, who slept up stairs, escaped unhurt. Hurley has been arrested on @ charge of murder, made by his father-in-law. One of the motives to the crime was probably criminal intimacy with the wife's unmarried sister, who now charges hlm with the paternity of her two chil- dren, one born before and the other after the catastrophe.
 Mrs. Charles Moore, of Chandon, Ohio, while temporarily insane, killed her little daughter, age seven, and then cut her own throat, both dying in few moments.
 Herman Chapman, the express driver, who was attacked and robbed of $l4, ,OOO at Lasalle, H., died from the effects of the blows of the highwaymen.
 A party of United States officers came upon an illicit distillery in Larue county, Kentucky. They took posses sion. About an hour afterward they were attacked by six men. Eighteen shots were fired. Two of the attacking party and one of the deputy -marshals were severely wounded. The party of officers retreated.
 Much irritation is manifested in Hungary at the Bosnian situation.
 The renewed operations in Bosnia are directed against Zwornick and Bielena.
 It is found impracticable to redeem the currency Tn Turkey by means of a loan.
 J. H. Slater has been elected Sena- tor from Oregon.
 A delegation of laborers, headed by Cohen, the agitator, called at the de- partments at Washington, to demand an increase of wages for laborers Cohen was arrested for violence.
 The Connecticut Democrats re- nominated the present State officers. Colonel Loomis having declined, Charles Durand, of Derby, was nominated for Lieutenant Governor; the platform favors gold and silver as the basis of the currency, but is anfavorable to re- sumption and the National hanks