Connecticut western news., 1879-04-30
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

oWenNy -elBnG years Olu. cnarBeu with having three wives, pleaded guilty at Northampton, Mass. He was com mltted to jail in default of $500 bail.
 .-E. Renn Shinn, ticket agent at Ma pie Station, near Burlington, N, J., was beaten to insensibility in the station and robbed of $15.
 --Albert Deffarge, living in West Twenty y-sixth street, N. Y., and formerly druggist, poisoned himself, his four year-old son and his two-year-old daugh- ter. He and his son are dead, but the daughter may recover. Papers were found on him giving jealousy as the cause.
 British Columbia threatens to sever from the Canadian Confederation.
 The late election in Cuba resulted In the choice of Liberal Conservative majority of Deputies to the Cortes. Their opponents, the Liberals. favor inn mediate abolition of slavery. with in- identification to the slave-owners. but ignored the question in their platform. The Liberal Conservatives advocate gradual emancipation,
 -Alonzo Luce, in company with Miss Lucy Wyman, both residents of Cana seraga, N. r., were out walking, and on thelr return to Miss Wyman's home, Alonzo, who had been several times re- fused her hand in marriage, again strongly urged his suit. Being again refused, he drew a revolver and shot her through the head. Then hastenine home, he locked himself in his room and shot himself in the head. Both will probably die.
 The number of persons killed by the hre-damp explosion in the Agrappe coal pit near Mons, Belgium, April IT, IS ascertained to be 1l7. Only forty seven corpses have so far been recovered.
 While Edwin Booth the actor was playing on Chicago stage, he was shot at twice by man in the audience, who, upon being arrested, claimed that Booth nad Wronged him years ago. Booth was not injured.
 The Constitutional Convention of noulslana passed resolution declaring tnere IS no intention whatever on the part of the convention of impairing or restricting the political, civil or religious rights of any class of people.
 Parole, the already noted American horse, won the great Metropolitan stakes at the Epson Spring Meeting in En- gland, thus winning three races hand somely.
 The schooner E. J. McKinnon winch left San Francisco March 20 on a trading voyage, was lost at sea. Capt. OBr1en and nine of the crew lost their lives. '--
 Arrests are daily made in Russia of persons charged with being Nihilists. Within four days 2, 900 such arrests were made, "04o
 The Legislature of Pennsylvania passed a bill to mitigate the tramp evil m the State. It provides an imprison- ment of twelve months for begging to acquire money or a livelihood, and of three years for entering a dwelling against the will of the owner. for klndllng fires upon the highway or upon any land without the consent of the owner, and for carrying firearms with intent unlawfully to do injury to any person. It applies to males over sixteen years old.
 -An act granting an annual pension or $75 to surviving veterans of the Mex 1can war from Pennsylvania, who have resided In the State for more than twen- v years prior to the passage of the bill, and also to Mexican war widows. has passed both branches of the Pennsyl- Vania Legislature.
 -Ex-Treasurer Cardozo (colored) and ex-Congressman Smalls (coIored). who had been convicted of bribery. have been pardoned by Governor Simpson. of South Carolina.
 -Aspecial dispatch from Terre Haute. Ind, states that about twelve hundred coal miners are on strike in that neigh borhood.
 As three children of Oliver Stout were going to bed in Penobscot, Pa., coal oil lamp exploded, setting fire to their clothing. They ran toward neighbor's house, but the oldest girl fell in the road and was so badly burned that she died early the next morning. Another died during the day and the third child, boy, is not expected to re. cover.
 The British stronghold at Ging- holovo was attacked on Thursday, April 3, by eleven thousand well armed and well led Zulus. The savages fought with honlike courage, and made assault after assault. The losses on both sides are very heavy. After many hours lighting the Zulus were forced to retreat They were followed by the British troops and many prisoners were taken. Dabwimanza, the noted Zulu chief, was killed.
 Parole, the American horse, won the City and Suburban cup in the Engliah race. This is the second cup Parole has won. In the first race the betting was 40 to against him. In the second it was 3 to in his favor.
 The late John Adams Dix was a na- tive of the picturesque New Hampshire town of Boscawen, on the Upper Merri- mac, adjoining Salisbury, the native place of Daniel Webster, and was born July "A, 1798. He served in the War of 1oI2. He resigned from the army in io16, was admitted to the bar, and set tied In Cooperstown, N Y. He entered into politics, was Adiutant- General of the State, Regent of the State Univer- sity, Tn the State Senate, and from 1845 to 1849 was a United States Senator, On the resignation by Howell Cobb of the post of Secretary of the Treasury in Buchanans Cabinet, General Dix was appointed his successor, and it was in this position that he sent his notable dis patch, "If any one attempts to pull down the American flag, shoot him on the spot" He served in the late war as a Major General. He was Q supporter of President John son ln the agitated year of 1866, was one of the promoters of the Philadelphia Convention, and it's temporary chair man. In July of that year he was ap- pointed Minister to the Netherlands, but was rejected by the Senate. In september he was appointed Naval Off, cer at New York city, and in the same