Connecticut western news., 1879-03-19
OUR NEWS SUMMARY
GENERAL ITEMS,

was killed at Goldsboro, N. O., by Duncan Johnson, aged sixteen.
 The Women's Medical College of Philadelphia conferred the degree of M. D. on twenty women graduates.
 The Mahoning Powder Works at Danville, Pa., blew up, killing Willis Lloyd, one of the proprietors, and two workmen.
 The Supreme Court of Tennessee has decidedythat sleeping cars running through that State are taxable. An appeal will be taken to the United States Supreme Court.
 Arthur William Patrick Albert, Duke of Saxony, Prince of Saxe-C -Coburg Gotha, and first Duke of Connaught and Strathearn, and the third son of Queen Victoria, was married Thursday to the Princess Louisa Margaret of Prussia, daughter of Prince Frederick Carl, the Red Prince" of Prussia
 -O'Leary quit the track at Gilmore's Garden, New York, at 215s miles, and says he will never walk again. As an athlete he is broken down. A himsy gallery full of people fell upon the crowd below, hurting dozen persons seriously and many slightly.
 The River Theiss has broken through the dykes protecting Szegedin, the second commercial town of Hungary, and the place is nearly destroyed. Hun dreds of houses have fallen and 60, 900 people are homeless. 1t is feared that there has been terrible loss of life.
 The London lTmes's correspondent at Pesth says the dead by the Hungarian disaster must amount to many hundreds of persons. It is impossible to make 8 close estimate, as the number buried under the ruins cannot yet be ascer- tained. The houses built of sun-dried bricks continued to collapse long after the first inrush of the flood. The work of feeding and removing the sufferers is now proceeding with the greatest order. The first sensational stories of hundreds buried in the synagogue and military hospital are without foundation.
 It IS reported that an officer of the Russian gendarmerie has been strangled by the annihilists.
 Margaret Leary, the housekeeper of the Ocean Hotel, at Long Branch, who was arrested on a charge of setting fire to the Ocean Hotel on March l, 2 and 3, has been discharged.
 7OOAA W CJ Hd6 S1OO u0du by Paul Blank while robbing 8 hem roost near Cedarville, Pa.
 -Campana accepts the challenge of Moore to walk six days at Troy, and puts up $1 ,000 on the result.
 Fresh trouble is brewing in the English cotton manufacturing districts. Reduction of wages and probable strikes form the burden of the cable dispatches. Mrs. John Taylor and two sons Willie, aged ten, and Johnny, aged five were drowned in the Mantle Ice Com pany's pond at Niantic, Conn. The children went for pail of water and fell in. Mrs. Taylor, hearing their cries, ran to their assistance and was also drowned.
 The charges against Superintendent of Insurance Smyth, of New York, were discussed in the Senate and rejected by a vote of IT to 12.
 President Grevy, of France, has pardonsd 150 Communists.
 It is expected that Gen. Martinez Campos, as Premier, will institute thorough reforms in Cuba.
 An embankment caved in at the Hartzen ore beds, near East Texas, Pa., burying two men, one of whom, Edward Dull, was killed. Eight men were killed at the same place by boiler ex- plosion two years ago.
 A dispatch from Walla Walla, Wash lngton Territory, says the report of the suprise and killing of 38 Indians by the = settlers, which appeared in the local papers month ago, was hoax palmed of upon the press.
 "A part of the floor of Mechanics Hall, in North Berwick, Me, gave way during town meeting at which nearly five hundred persons were present, pre- cipitating nearly one hundred and fifty persons fifteen feet to the floor below. No one was killed, bat many received injuries which may result fatally.
 A tramp called at the house of MT. Truesdale, farmer, of Newport, Ky, and, finding Mrs. Truesdale alone, knocked her down, and tearing sheet into strips, bound her firmly to bench, with her hands tied under it and her feet lashed to peg in the wall. He then robbed the house of small sum oi money and some valuables The woman remained five hours in this condition until the return of her husband, and in the meantime she had become mother.
 At fire in Georgetown, D. O., three children of Daniel Martin, negro were burned to death. The children were all less than five years of age.
 WASHINGTON NOTES.
 The Treasury Department will be prepared to issue on the 1st of April, in addition to the BIO certificates con. vertible into four per cent bonds, like certificates on similar conditions to be registered on the books of the Treasury } In the name of the owner, which name will also be entered on the face of the certificate. The first class are received from bearer, the other by order o1 transfer properly attested.
 -Greenbacker-elect Murch, of Maine proposes to introduce joint resolution at the special session of Congress de clarlng eight hours to constitute lega day work for all laborers, workmen anC mechanics employed by the United States Government. A similar measur, passed the House on the 9th of May last but failed in the Senate.
 General Sherman has notified tn Eighteenth Infantry to be at Yankton Dak., by April l. Steamers will ther bc in readiness to convey the regimen to Montana, where they will be em ployed in building the new post of For Asslnaboine, on one of the tributaries o Milk River, near the British boundary Six companies of the Second Cavalr will be sent to this point for scoutin purposes during the building of tn post The post is for the protection c settlers in the northwest against Sittin Bull.