Connecticut western news., 1879-11-19
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

<. oonuoMueu man left behind a Weitten confession of his guilt. He ad- nuts that the deed was premeditated and : that ne has also misstated many things ana burned his fathers barn. A tenement house in New York was burned at No. 82 Cannon street, and six persons burned to death. Parties have been arrested, charged with setting the building on fire for the sake of the ill. surance.
 Charles Drews and Francis Stichler were executed at Lebanon, Pa., for the murder of Joseph Raber, an old man, 70 secure the insurance on his life. Other parties connected with the mur- der are in prison and will be executed unless reprieved.
 There was an explosion of fire damp in colliery near Wolverhampton, Eng Iand. Six men were killed.
 Governor Crosswell of Michigan, has appointed Fernando O. Beaman United States Senator to fill the unex- pred term of the late Senator Chan dler.
 The ocean tonnage at Montreal for the past year was the largest on record. amounting to 46S,000 tons, an increase of o0, GOO tons over last year and 68 OOO tons over 1874, which shows the next largest tonnage.
 By fire at Frarbach, Prussia, be-
 tween Frier and Coblentz, sixty houses were destroyed, among them the Town
 Hall. building dating from the six teenth century. -
 Returns from every county in Penn.
 sylvania give the total vote for State
 Treasurer as follows: Butler, Rep.
 2SO, 153; Barr, Dem., 221 ,175; Sutton
 Greenback, 27,207; Richardson, Pro, hibition, 3,219.
 A desperate fight took place at the - Candelaria Mountains. fifty miles sonth
 of El Paso, Texas, in the State of Chi
 hrahua, Mexico, between large band
 or Indians, numbering about 200, and a party of fifty men from Cariza, New
 Msn nco. Thirty-two of the latter were m Anled and eighteen escaped wounded. "Ihe Indians are those that Major Nor row was after. They came from the rlor1da Mountains, by way of Clos mans Iake, to the Candelaria Moun- Islns, where the party in pursuit of them were surprised by the Indians concealed behind the rocks. The fight A"oeSN 9AA uAys
 "A tornado passed through part of Crawford county, Arkansas, destroying nearly everything in its course, killing several persons and woundipg others. 1he storm seems to have been the same one that struck several towns in Mis- souri on the same day.
 In Lancaster County, N. O., Satur- day night, Mrs. James Adams cut the throats of her five children, set fire to her own clothing and was burned to i -Iti is said that the Chilians in taking tlsaeua experienced determined re- Estance from the Peruvians and lost 500 men killed and wounded. Pisaoua was taken by siege and the Peruvian loss is supposed to be small.
 The town of Strasburg, Black coun- ty, Mo, was visited by terrible cyclone. which came from the northeast, causing great loss to property.
 "A fire occurred at McKeesport Pa Dy which the Washington House. a large grist mill and other buiIdinos were totally destroyed, entailine a loss estimated at $sO, 900.
 .,.Mr. and Mrs. Peter Little, two children, and MT. and Mrs. James brown, were rowing across the Merri- mac from the Centralville shore to Lit tle Canada, when the leaking of the Ooat fr1ghtened them, and during the confusion 1t was overturned. MT. Brown sWam ashore. Mrs. Little and one child 9iung 10 the boat and were rescued, MT. L1ttie and Mrs. Brown (his sister,. and S.a a. Histies tWo-year.old son were
 The cases of several lottery firms came up in the Chancery Court at Louisville, Ky. When the injunctions were served the company shifted their cravings to what is termed the New port local grart, 8 franchise granted to start newspaper. The Chancellor has sustained the injunctions.
 Miss Saline Coles, a daughter of Feyton Coles, of Albermarle. Va. a beautiful young lady connected with the leading families of the State accldently shot and killed herself at her fathers residence.
 A report has been received at San Franclsco from Eureka tbst the outlaws w who recently had fight with the onef1ns posse have been overtaken killed. 'A
 The steamship Champion, which sailed from New York on Thursday at 5 P. m. Tor CharleseDn, s. O., with seven teen passengers and an assorted cargo valued at about $1OO, GOO, was sunk by collision with the bark Lady Octayia. aoont thlity miles from Cape Henlopen, on Friday morning, and thirty-two out 01 , nIty-seven persons on board were lost, The Champion sank so suddenly that the passengers who were in their berths went down with her, there not being nme to call them. The bark was badly injured.
 -One span of the great railway bridge at St. Charles, Mo-, has been broken by freight train, the train fall | ing into the river. Several lives were lost by the disaster.
 -lnquiry at the Pension Office. Washington, reveals the fact that busi. ness IS behindhand there to an extra ordinary degree. The Pension Arrears Act has completely overwhelmed the The Treasury Department of Wash ington has been officially advised that the British Government has issued or ders prohibiting the importation of sheep from the United States after No vember 23, 1879. except for slaughter.
 In the OLeary six-days' fair heel. and-toe walking match in Newark, for a gold chronometer and $1, 900 in prizes, the contestants were not allowed to walk more than twelve hours each day. Tbe score IS as follows: Hartman, 342: Walker, 335; Modem, 332; Armstrong, 220. Rae 300
 The steamer Falcon, Captain Kirby, from Baltimore for Charleston, s. O., was run into and sunk off Cove Point.