Connecticut western news., 1878-09-19
NEWS OF. THE DAY

man assassin was killed by his physi- clans, the authorities preferring this to @ trial and another execution. Au- thorities do not hesitate to say that he twas killed by slow and deliberate tor ture."
 Cleopatra's needle has been successful ly placed in position on the bank of the Thames in London.
 Sections of Ohio. have been visited by a severe storm, and much damage has been done, particularly to bridges. A number of railroad bridges were carried away.
 It is supposed that England will not act with the other Powers to com pei Turkey to execute the Treaty ot Berlin.
 Minister Moves has opened a public subscription for the yellow fever sui fers ill Paris.
 General Miles was not overpowered by the Indians, as reported, but, on the contrary, met and defeated party of Bannacks, killing thirtean and capturing more than thirty.
 The French troops in New Gale donia have completely defeated the in- surgent natives. who lost 13O killed and wounded, including three chiefs killed.
 Frank A. McKean was nominated for Governor by the Democrats of New Hampshire.
 The Greenback party in Massachu- setts in convention in Boston nominated General Butler for Governor. The plat form proposes to refer to the Supreme Court the question of what the bonds originally meant to be paid in. It at tacks Resumption, the Associated Press, land grants and the poll tax ; and advo- cates equal taxation of land.
 The Prohibitionists of Massachu- setts nominated the Rev. Dr. Minor for Governor. There is a hard-money plank in the platform.
 -E. M. Wight has been made the Republican nominee for Governor in Tennessee.
 Great Britain has been visited by another frightful disaster. A terrific explosion occurred at Ebbw Vale col fiery, Abercarn, near Newport, in Mon mouthshire. There were three hundred and seventy-one men in the pit when the explosion of coal gas occurred. Following the explosion came fire, and exploring parties were only enabled to penetrate few yards into the main en- trance to the mine. This disaster is the most terrible that has ever occurred in Wales. The scenes at the mouth of the pit were indescribable. Frantic women who have relatives in the mines were kneeling about the shaftway calling hys- terically for the men who were known to have gone into the mine, but who an- swer not to their names. The last nine men rescued from the pit at about eight o'clock were badly burned, some of them, indeed, terribly disfgured. Fully 300 lives were lost.
 -The Abercarne coal pit, where the explosion occurred, was flooded. All hope was abandoned of saving any of the Z0l men who were n It.
 The Republicans concede the cleo tion of Murch, the Greenback candidate to Congress in the Vth District, of Maine, by 600 plurality. Thus far 58 Green backs and 21 Democrats have been cleo ted to the house.
 Nearly 500 children have died of yellow fever in New Orleans
 Michael Tobin, the condemned sol dier, of West Point, who was to be exe- euted on the 20th inst, for the murder of his messmate, Albers, has been granted reprieve until the 25th oi October.
 The small stern wheel steamer Nadine, while on her way from St. Charles to St. Louis on Sunday last, struck 8 snag when about a mile above the mouth of the Missouri River, and sunk. Three of the crew were drowned.
 The assassin, Nobeling, died at Der lin from the effect of his wound. The immediate cause of his death was par alysis of the lungs.
 Charges are to be preferred against the Sheriff, County Clerk and Register of New York city-the harge being taking illegal fees.
 The New Hampshire Republican State Convention nominated Matt Head of Hooksett for Governor.
 General Szapary announces that the Bosnians, in the engagement he had with them, lost 500 men.
 A Vienna dispatch says that Bihaes is defended by Turkish regular troops. The commandant declares that he has received no orders from the Porte to surrender the place and that he will de- fend it to the last extremity.
 Over six hundred bodies have been recovered of persons drowned by the disaster to the excursion steamer, Prin- cess Alice, which wss run down and sunk on the evening of the 3d inst. by the screw collier BywelI Castle on the Thames. A large majority of the bodies have been recognized. Eighty-three bodies that could not be identified were buried at Woolwich.
 Mount Vesuvius is showing signs of volcanic agitation, and an overflow of lava is considered probable on the side toward the Observatory.
 The ferocity of the Albanian insur- gents is extraordinary. They have been cooperating with the Bosnians to resist the Austrian occupation of Bosnia, and the Sultan sent the Turkish commander, Mehemet Ali, to pacify them but they assassinated Mehemet Ali and twenty members of his suite; and the following