Connecticut western news., 1879-03-26
OUR NEWS SUMMARY

drowned, s1Xty-nVo women widowed and one hundred and sixty-seven children made fatherless. These disasters are the greatest ever known in the same period.
 Many avalanches have recently oc- cured in the Austrian Tyrol. At Blei. berg ten houses were crushed by one ot these, forty persons were killed, eighteen seriously injured and fifteen others are missing.
 The origin of the trouble between the Burmese and the British President at Mandalay is that the latter protects and refuses to deliver up to slaughter two royal princes and their families who have taken refuge at the Presidency.
 The sale of the cargoes of American cattle recently landed at Liverpool by the steamers Brazilian and Ontario did not result proftably to the importers, owing to the exceptional depression of the market.
 Surrogate Gal yin confirms the pro- bate of the will of the late Commodore Vanderbilt, having satisfied himself that at the time 1t was executed the old Com modore was of sound and disposing mind and was not unduly influenced by any body. The Surrogate read the dlssatis- fled children moral lecture on their unflial conduct reprimands Counsel Tor Lord for the tardily withdrawn as- portions on the Commodore's widow ]; and urges MT. William H. Vanderbilt to prosecute two of the female witnesses and also their "guilty suborners."
 The Irish National Colonization Conference in Chicago adopted resolu- tions expressing their satisfaction at the appointment of an executive committee to remedy the existing evil of crowding in large cities the Irish immigrant popula- tion, and recommending the Irish race in America and elsewhere to aid and en- courage this committee whenever it is possible.
 Captain w. H. Andrews, the Presi- dent of the Towards during the yellow fever epidemic last summer and w. l.. Greene, one of his clerks, were sbot dead in Vicksburg by Captain W. F. Fitzgerald during 8 dispute about an Hibernian election in which Andrews had been chosen president.
 The body of the young woman which was found floating in trunk in the Saugus River, at Lynn, Mass, has been again positively identified, and the Boston police think they have finally solved the mystery. They claim that the body is that of Jennie P. Clark, o1 Hyde Park. She was 20 years of age and mysteriously disappeared some dayi ago. The body has been recognized bJ Mrs. Clark and others as that of Jennie
 The British steamer Bolivar, plying between Liverpool and St. Thomas came in collision with the Haytiar steamer Michel. The latter sunk an6 sixty persons on board were drowned.
 The correspondent of the London Ne,0s at Szegedin telegraphs "Do mol credit any statements of the exact num Der of deaths. The loss of life mus have been enormous. witnessed tht whole disaster. The houses fell mostly in such manner as to hold the corpseI down."
 A decree has been issued prohibiting the importation into Portugal of porl in every shape from the United States because of trichinosis.
 -Advices from Chii and Bolivia repor distressing condition of affairs In the territory in dispute between the two Governments. Famine prevails gener ally, and in some parts of the countr, the dead bodies of the inhabitants arr found lying upon the ground. The crop in the neighborhood of Oruro have beer destroyed by frost and drought. Crop elsewhere are short. The Governmen of Bolivia has decreed the confiscatiol of the property of Chilian citizens, ant taken possession of nitrate deposits The Government of Chili has recalle, : it's minister and troops have been sen to occupy Antofagast and other points
 The schooner Harry l., Whitin ha made the passage from Mobile to Fal River in sixteen days.
 An unknown boy, aged about fftee years, was found frozen to death a Cohoes, N. Y. .-...
 All persons interested are invite to contribute toward the erection of monument on Bennington battle field The proposed site of the monument in Vermont, and the action which it designed to comm emorate took plac August Is, 1777, between Burgoyne' troops on the one hand and those ( Vermont, New Hampshire an Massachusetts, under command of Joh Stark, on the other. Vermont has az propriated $15, ,000, Massachusetts $7 900 and New Hampshire 1000 towar the object, and in order to obtain really artistic work, it is proposed t raise $45, 1000 more.
 Of the g, 700 houses composing tb Hungarian city of Szegedin, which WE inundated by the River Theiss, only 26 Tf so1 lot Q l. 5000 horses and 90,000 sheep hay perished.
 An unknown man, evidently intox; cated, staggered through the streets ( Red Rock, Pa., carrying on his shoulder bag containing eight quart cans ( nitro glycerine. Fifteen minutes late the town was shaken and the inhabitant terribly frightened by a most terribl explosion. Investigation revealed tn fact that the man had accidentally faIle1 causing the explosion. Fragments ( his body were scattered in every diree tion.
 The international match for tn champion belt, which commenced i New York at o'clock Monday morning attracted much attention. O'LearJ who had twice won the belt and sti held it, Powell of England, Ennis Chicago, and Hartman of Boston, CT tered. O'Leary, had he won the belt f this match, would have kept it, but b broke down at the end of the third day making 93 miles the first Il miles t6 second, and 61 the third. This left th match between Rowell, Ennis and Hal riman. The table following shows tn distances made by the contestants. Tn first day of the match ended Tuesda morning at o'clock,