Connecticut western news., 1878-01-24
During A fight with the whisky dis

During fight with the whisky dis tillers in the mountains of Kentucky, one was killed and two injured by the MarshalPs posse. ..e.... <z-#
 James Gordon Bennett of the New York Herahl, is to send Stanley to find the North Pole. Rich discoveries of gold have been made in Colorado.
 In settling Horace Greeley's estate $50, ,000 of worthless notes were found, besides $49,OOO of those of Cornelius Vanderbilt's, Jr.
 The record of last years failures compares favorably with that of previous ones, despite the frequency of financial disasters in, November and December. The total number for the twelve months in the United States was 8,872, or 220 less than in 1876 total liabilities, $780, 669, ,0OO, half million less than in the year before, but sum largely above the average of years since the panic of 1873.
 .-Seldom has a more tragic crime been brought to light than the murder of Farmer Anderson by his son Abe Ander- son, in the State of Minnesota. The father and son quarrelled about five dol
 lars. and Abe, as he confesses, picked up
 an axe and struck his father fatal blow
 on the head Then the murderer hid the
 body under the floor, and dayor two af-
 terward invited party to the house, and l whirled in the merry dance with other
 youths and young women on the very l boards beneath which his fathers re-
 mains lay.
 Mrs. Cavanaugh of Martins Ferry,
 Ohio, was burned to death by her clothes
 catching fire. -rI f.-
 At Harrisburg, Pa., two men were
 fatally injured by the falling wall of ar
 old building they were demolishing. | An official account of the capture o
 Shipka Pass states that 4 pashas, 2S0 of
 fcers, 25,OOO prisoners, and 81 gum s were captured. The Russian loss il
 killed and wounded was 5, 464 men.
 Since the first issues of silver at tn
 United States Treasury $3s, ,335, 900 hav'
 been paid out.
 The speech of the Queen of Englaa'
 before the Parliament contains nothing that casts any light upon the intention of the British Government as regards tn , approaching conclusion of peace betweel Russia and Turkey. The purpose 0 calling Parliament together, as the pub , lie are told, was merely to provide agains , any unexpected occurrence througl . which one or the other belligerent migh be led to infringe the conditions o . which British neutrality is founded. 5 no such emergency should arise, ther ? will be no need for England to take an , measures of precaution; but as such a emergency is always possible so long a
 the state of war continues, the presenc B. of Parliament is required with view f the action which may become necessary - A mob of 150 men, mostly rough . from outside camps, took possession ( ? the town of Lead City, Dakota. A meetin V by the trustees of the town was broke i- up. The mob elected officers and passe n their own laws, one of which is to tE ', effect that streets should be but 20 fet }, wide.
 - "A camp of Bannock Indians, wit If all their horses, has been captured | 70 United States troops. el In Brunswick county, N. O., .e ..e shanty fell in and afterwards took fir ,. fatally crushing and burning four me pr who were asleep in the interior. d The Manitoba Government is abo lg introducing in the local legislature b for the abolition of the ballot at provi n. al elections.
 By vote of 31 to 19 the Senate I h. fused to refer Stanley Matthew's silv of resolution to it's Judiciary Committe
 The motion came from the anti-silv '5 side of the chamber, and it's effect, % of adopted, would have been to postpo u- action on the resolution indefinitely. he the Senator's voting for referenc
 thirteen were Republicans and { , Democrats eleven were New Englan 1Ou1 kOtbuO 41CA3 OAC \OuO1S ii. of South Carolina) 6 Southerner, a ed three far Westerners. Of the Senate voting against reference, fifteen we ng from Southern States, fourteen frt !s. :s Western States, and two (Don Camera n of Pa, and Salisbury, of Del.) fre
 Middle States.
 In the House of Representatives els Ohio, resolution was adopted decl
 ing in favor of the remonetization ,ne ,se silver, and asserting that Preside ral Hayes and Secretary Sherman in tn on opposition to the restoration of the E es- yer dollar do not represent the vie lch OF wishes of the people of Ohio. % of Captain John P. Britton, az v ninety years, while temporarily insa
 committed suicide at Black Rock, Con ed by shooting himself through the hes ge. -