Connecticut western news., 1878-05-16
The Allan Line steamship sardinian

from Liverpool for Quebec, took fire at the entrance of Lough Foyle, the harbor of Londonderry. There were A460 pas senge on board, 9, large number of whom were injured. and several killed The disaster came from an explosion of generated gas on board the steamer. I-T The United States. Senate passed the bill repeating the Bankrupt act. An amendment was agreed to that the bill go into effect Sept. l. 1878, instead of Jan. 1, 1879. .
 2 "A stormy session took place in the Canadian House of Commons, over a railroad bill. Violent language was used and abusive epithets applied to each side, which only terminated upon the Commons being summoned to the bar of the Senate for propagation. E m
 John Morrissey by will left $1o, 900 to each of three sisters, the balance .Eof his property going to his wife. .; ~.-. ...,
 The lockout at Preston, England, is complete. Five thousand operatives who are willing to work are. thereby kept in enforced idleness. At other points the troubles between the mill owners and their operatives continue. Riots have taken place.
 Another fight is threatened over the will of the late A. T. Stewart.
 Belgrade dispatches report that Bosnia is in state of great agitation. The insurrection is spreading and the insurgents force all Christians to join them or burn their villages.
 - s' Whiskey did it." was the effective temperance speech of colored murderer on the scaffold in Louisiana.l - e.---
 The National party of Pennsylvania nominated @ State ticket, with Samuel R. Mason for Governor and Christopher Shearer for Lieutenant Governor. The platform reported advocates protection, cooperation, the substitution of green backs for National Bank notes, the abo- ition of contract labor in prisons, a re- duction of legal interest to three per cent. ], internal improvements by Govern ment aid, the taxation of all property not owned by the Government, woman suffrage, and the, adoption of an eight hour law.
 - The schooner Geno was capsized in squan at Lake Pontchartrain, La. Capt. Spero and all on board were lost, with the exception of Louis Kline, aged IA years, who clung to the wreck and was rescued by the steamer Camelia.
 The United States House passed the bill for the enforcement of the eight hour law, with little opposition.
 -The American Bible Society declares that there is large falling off in it's re- ceipts th1s year.
 The United States Treasury Depart ment decides that the gold paid to civil officers out of the Confederate Treasury at the close of the war cannot be recov- cred by the United States. 5 E8E
 San Domingo, is still struggling with. her civil war. - '--'' .-
 A,fre started in a small stable in Bradford, Pa., and the flames spread over two acres of the business part of the city. The large hotel, livery stables, several stores, oil offices, and dwellings I were burned. Real and personal prop. ] erty valued at $1OO, 900 was destroyed. The bill before Congress for new Postoffce and Custom House buildingr and repairing old ones in the United States, appropriates nearly $40, ,000, COG for the purpose. se s~s 9szlssags 4 r. By . boiler explosion in Memphis, Tenn, the engineer and fireman were killed.
 Francisco Peralto, who made an eff fort to ride 3O5 mifes in fifteen hours or Prospect Park Fair Grounds, Brooklyn failed to accomplish the feat. He made 3O14 miles. s5sssS5 -tat 2
 The woolen mills at South Chicago Ill.,, were burned, with loss of $15O, 900.
 The written confession of Joe Glow, who was hanged in New Jersey in 1888 for the murder of Miss Hamil ton, at Bordentown, has been found a
 Wilmington, Del.
 James Durkin and Patrick Steele
 of Phoenixville, Pa., while stealing {
 ride on the Reading Railroad, wer,
 struck by bridge near Limerick, Sta
 tion, and-instantly killed.
 The last of June is the earliest da,
 talked of for the adjournment of Con ; gress. < & - |
 A great tornado visited Canton ol the 11th of May. Thousands of house
 were destroyed or seriously injured b. the wind and an enormous water-spou
 from the river which broke over the city
 Many lives were lost. The foreign set dement's suffered severely. In the mids of the confusion four fires broke out which are supposed to have been tn work of lnoendiaries, as many robberie followed. Fully 800 Chinese were killed l No foreigners were seriously hurt, -Charles Morgan. a prominent busi } ness man, died in New York at the az 2 of ss, He was worth $15. .0O0. 900. Fl . owned the line of steamers between Ne 3 York and Texas, and railroad in Texs : connecting with the line He con | meneed life poor, but was strict an
 reliable. honest and successful bushes S man He built and equipped seminar ia his native town, Clinton. Conn. Hi ! large property is left so that his immens } business wlM continue as heretofore> The proposed new army hSl reduce a the number of enlisted msR hrom 2S. .0O : to 2000o> but by it's changes n redaeSn s thsR0mher of efiieers> 0 makes 8 rsSf0,