Connecticut western news., 1878-09-05
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.

Hillsboro, Mo-, murdered her two chil dren by cutting their throats. She said that she was too poor to give them food that she murdered the baby first, and that when she undertook to put the lit tie five-year- boy on the bed to kill him he clung to her and begged pite. ously for his life, saying: "Oh, man. ma, don't kill me, don't kill me l" She needed not the appeal, but threw him oa the bed and, after cutting his throat, struck him on the side of the head with a piece of iron to complete her work. She is about forty years old, of me di um height and presents woe-begone ap- pearance.
 Four men were killed and one nor. tally wounded at New Lewi-ton, Winona County, Minn., by the explosion of the boiler of a steam thresher.
 A trusted clerk named Brandt, of Trenton, N. J., stole his employers money and then killed himself from fea1 of arrest.
 The Peters Manufaotory, in East Newark, N. J., was burned, causing a loss of $150,OOO.
 The accounts from the yellow fever districts are very bad. In Memphis the situation is worse New Orleans has not improved, and the pestilence has made it's appearance at new point Water Valley, in Mississippi. At tGren- ada the head of the Howard Association, the public will regret to hear, has con- tracted the dread disease.
 A whole family, consisting of man, his wife, and two children, were lately found murdered in their rooms at Ri- biere-du-Gay, France.
 General Butler has written letter announcing his intention of being can- didate for Governor of Massachusetts, acd discusses State issues in his usual style. He does not treat of National questions, and will make his canvass on the abuses which he claims have existed in the administration of the State Gov ernment. He proposes to stump the State.
 Two men were drowned at Coney Island while bathing.
 The Kansas Republicans adopted a platform favoring greenbacks in the place of National bank notes.
 General Hunton has been renomi- mated for Congress in the VIIIth Vir- ginia District.
 The conference of New York Re- pubhcans at Saratoga, which was called by MT. A. B. Cornell, adopted resolu- tions urging the State Committee to call a full State Convention for the nomina- tion of Judge of the Court of Appeals.
 The Prohibitionists of Connecticut nominated J. G. Baldwin of Middletown for Governor.
 The Democratic State Central Con- mittee of Massachusetts decided to hold the State Convention at Worcester, Sep- tember IF.
 General J. B. Johnston has been nominated for Congress by the Demo- crats of the IEId Virginia District.
 The Sioux Commission reports that it has selected reservations, and come to an amicable settlement with the Indians.
 -255, ,1O1 children attend the public schools of New York city.
 A serious accident occurred to an excursion train on the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad near Lockwood, Mich, by which thirty-fve persons were in- jured, several seriously and three fatally. Two coaches jumped the track and went down an embankment. The train was filled with excursionists from Manistee and Ludington bound for Grand Rapids.
 The National Decentralization party of New Jersey held convention at Elizabeth. During the convention the delegates, hundred and fifty in all, rose, held up thelr hands, and swore they would lay down their lives in de- fence of the liberties of the country as- sailed by the bank combination. A platform was adopted.
 The paper makers of the East in convention announced decrease of pro- duction amounting to 25 per cent. in order that the prices may be increased.
 The Austrians have suspended oper- ations in Bosnia until endorsements ar rive.
 Meetings have been held in Liver pool and London to aid the yellow fever sufferers in the South, and quite sum of money raised.
 The two tramps who bound and gagged the Beltzhoover family. and stole large sum of money from the house at Butler Springs, Cumberland Co.,, Pa., pleaded guilty, and were sentenced to nine years in the Penitentlary.
 In Wyoming Territory 8 deputy sheriff and party following the trail of highway robbers, were found dead in a raylne. They had been murdered by the robbers.
 -Tornadoes in the West have been doing more damage. A number of lives were lost and a great deal of property destroyed.
 The Massachusetts Republican State Convention has been called to meet in Worcester, September IS.
 The Austrian General Szapary has repulsed several attacks by the insur- gents.
 The awards made in fifteen classes at the Paris Exhibition to American ex- h1bitors have been announced,
 The German Federal Council has adopted the Socialist bill as amended.
 70. B. Bent, Deputy Collector, at NlcksburQ Miss telepranhs as follows