Connecticut western news., 1878-08-22
OUR NEWS SUMMARY.

YELLOW FEvER-Dr. Brown, Secre- tary of the Memphis Board of Health, returned from visit to Grenada, Miss, where the yellow fever is raging so fright fully. He reports the fever there per fectly appalling. He saw seventy cases in one day, and never saw such distress as exists there. He saw mother ana two children sick in one bed. The fever is among all classes and scattered over the whole town. They need doctors, nurses and disinfectants. The business houses are closed, and many of the peo- ple have left the town. The white pop ulation of the town is reduced to about 500, all who could get away doing so. Emil Hoedel, s'the tinsmith from Leipzig" who attempted the assassina- ton of the Emperor William on May Il, in the Avenue Inter den Linden, as the Emperor was returning from drive with his daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, has been executed. He was be- headed at an early hour in the morning, in the courtyard of the new prison in Berlin.
 According to the reports of the Ag- ricultural Department the extreme heat of July injured to some extent the spring wheat of the Northwest. In the East the condition of the crop is far better In the Province of Ontario the crop this year is the largest ever thresh- ed there.
 At eleven o'clock at night an exten- sive fire broke out in Madrid, St. Law renee county, N. r., and destroyed property valued at $43, ,000, on which there was only $9, 700 insurance.
 A fatal accident occurred on the Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg Rail road at Sterling Junction. While a gravel train was being loaded the bed gave way, burying four employees. One was taken out alive; the others were dead.
 John H. Raymond, President of vassar College, died at Poughkeepsie, of kidney disease, after a sickness of several weeks.
 The State Greenback Convention of Colorado nominated R. G. Bucking- ham for Governor.
 At Donaldsonville, in the parish of Ascension, Louisiana, the death penalty was executed on Wilson Childress, Foun- tain Banks, Octave Lauve and Aaron Carter, all colored, for the murder of an aged white storekeeper, named Narcissa Arrieux.
 The boiler of portable saw mill at Bloomfield, Ohio, exploded, killing four men.
 The Indian war being over, Gen. Howard is distributing his troops to their new stations.
 There is great and rapid increase of yellow fever in the South, and the number of deaths is very large.
 The phylloxera is ravaging vine- yards in Spain.
 A Turco-Austrian Treaty is to be signed at Seraievo. Prince Bismark's anti-Socialistic bill has been submitted to the German Federal Council it is extremely strin. gent.
 The Connecticut Greenback-L Labor party adopted platform and nominated State ticket, with Charles Atwater fol governor. The platform says all the financial legislation of Congress during the past seventeen years has been in the interest of bankers and usurers. De mands are made for new legal tender paper money, adequate in volume for th' employment of labor, the distribution O it's products, the requirements of .busi ness, and for the payment of all bond in absolute money as soon as possible for postal savings banks for an inoom tax, and for State and National labo bureaus.
 The vote for the Democratic Stat ticket of Alabama was about 80,OOO There was no opposition. The Legis lature will be almost entirely Demo cratic.
 Sixty Snake Indians have surren dered having had enough of war.
 England is having more troubl with her South African possessions.
 Moves, the ex-president of the Ne, Jersey Mutual Life Insurance Company has been sent to the Trenton Stat Prison. The last effort to obtain 8 pal don from Governor Mcclellan was mad by his daughter, and the interview described as having been exceedingl affecting.
 A sad accident took place in tn East River-the drowning of three chi dren on 8 scow which was run down b the Fall River steamer Providence The boat struck the scow, capsized hel and the children were drowned in thei berths.
 The Political Correspondence a1 nounces that an unrising of Mahometa fanatics has occurred at Livno, in Hel zegovina. The Turkish commandant ws killed. The troops made common caus with the insurgents, and marched wit them on Skople.
 A despatch from St. Petersburg So, an explosion took place on board tf torpedo cutter Nicolaieff, killing thirt men.
 As the engineer of an eastern bou1 train was coming into Paterson, N. he saw the body of a man lying aero the track. The speed of the train w such that it was impossible to stop uni it had passed over his neck. Upon @ animation the body was found to be col showing conclusively that the unfort nate man had been killed before he W placed in the way of the train. The q