Connecticut western news., 1878-09-12
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.


 men have nominated Warren G. Brown, of Whitefeld, for Governor.
 The election returns from Vermont indicate Republican majority of IS, 900 or 200 for Governor.
 The New York street railroad drivers have been on a strike.
 The New York Republican State Committee decided to hold the State Con- vention at Saratoga on September 26. General Philippovich announces that band of 1000 Bosnians were de- feated by the Austrians near Kalinoselo and thirty of them were killed.
 A meeting of manufacturers is to be held at Manchester, England, to consider the depressed state of trade.
 It is expected that the Paris Exhi- bition awards will be made known by October.
 Victoria, one of the British colonies, has passed the memorial of secession and prorogued her Legislature.
 George Howell, 8 negro, who mur- dered Joseph Martin in Green county, Tenn, in December last, was executed at Greenville The criminal confessed his guilt.
 At the mines of the Andover Iron Company at Hibernia, N. J., 8 mass of rock fell from an upper level and buried four men to depth of thirty feet beneath mass of rocks, timber, etc.
  At the burning of the Grand Gen. tral Hotel at Omaha, six fremen lost their lives.
 -Orville Grant, the ex-President's brother, was taken in custody at Eliza beth, N. J., on his arrival from New York, and was sent to the insane asylum at Morristown. His mlnd runs on inn mense speculations and starting 8 new business on gigantic scale, etc. He was sent to the asylum at the request of friends.
 Tine General Executive Committee of the various state dairy organizations completed arrangements for holding a grand International Dairy Fair ln New York city during the present autumn. It is proposed to make it the most ex- tensive exhibit of dairy products dairy and cheese factory implements, models and designs ever held in any country. The fair will also include an exhibition of the choicest breeds of dairy cattle. Ten thousand dollars will be distributed in prizes. At Sandusky, Ohio, William Fay Tor, the colored man who is supposed to have murdered the white girl Alice Mo- Donnell, was taken from the custody of the sheriff by mob and hanged to a lamp post. ture costing $40O, 900 was destroyed by fire.
 Gen. Lew Wallace has been appoint ed Governor of New Mexico in place oi Axtel, removed
 The United States Treasury has issued circular offering to purchase greenbacks with silver coin.
 The subscriptions in New York city for the yellow fever sufferers now exceed $125, ,000
 Isaac Robinson, negro, killed his wife and shot himself, in Mount Yer. non, N. Y.
 The excursion steamer Princess Alice, returning from Gfavesend to Lon. don with about 800 passengers on board was run down off Barking, about o'clock, by screw steamer. The Prin cess Alice was struck amidships aud sunl almost immediately. The number O persons drowned was about 550. Tn, steward of the Princess Alice sta es tha after the collision the other steamer pro ceeded without attempting to rende aid. He estimates that seven hundred persons were on board the Princess Alice She sunk, bow first, in five minutes after she was struck. Some small boat and another excursion steamer rendered what assistance was possible. Tn, drowned include an extraordinary pro portion of women and children. Sey eral of the survivors speak of havin, lost as many as three, five and six children They describe the water as covere, with hundreds of shrieking people. Tn captain and nearly all of the crew of tn Princess Alice were drowned. They ha no time to lower the boats and ther were but few life-bouys on the steamer The reports from the fever stricke districts of the South are more and nor narrowing. In Vicksburg one physicia says he found whole families down wit the fever, without anything to eat or single soul near to give assistance, som having been in that condition for thre days. If the terrible increase of the pas few days should continue this place vii discount the horrors of Grenada, for ther are few here that are not on double duty and the excitement attendant on tbes awful times is wearing them out dail by the scores. Grenada is literally deserted city. Not store, market ( saloon open. Physicians say the dil ease IS more like a plague than yello fever, the victims turning black an blue just before and just after .deatl Some cases have occurred at Holl Springs, Ark, and panic ensued ther, Out of HOO cases of death in Ne Orleans from fever, nearly 800 wei children. The colored people of Lou siana have made an earnest and heartfe appeal for aid
 The register at the Health Ofic Memphis showed eighty five deaths fro yellow fever for the twenly-four hou ending Sept. 5. Of these forty-thrt R