Connecticut western news., 1879-04-02
OUR NEWS SUMMARY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 hibited the landing of American cattle in that country.
 A dedication of $100,0 900 has been discovered in San Francisco in oonnec- tion with certain street bonds.
 -Wm. P. Wallace, ex-Sheriff of Ham lton County. O., has been indicted fol embedding 1928, ,0G0 of the county funds.
 In Wilkesbarre, Pa, Joseph Schaal fatally shot Jacob Schwalb in a saloon after an all-night card party.
 The Massachusetts Senate passed, by vote of 24 to II, bill granting women the right to vote for school com. mittees.
 William Newman, one of the keepers employed to care for elephants in Central Park, New York, has been arrested on charge of having tried to subdue an elephant by burning it with red-hot iron.
 The Governor of Louisiana has signed the bill passed by the last Legislature repeating tue charter of the Louisiana State Lottery.
 MT. Andrew D. White, the recently nominated Minister to Berlin, in an interview says that Grant will un- doubtedly be the nominee of the Republican party for President.
 An inventory of the estate of Asa Otis, who died at New London, Conn. March 12, shows valuation of S1, 124, 939-6S. Of this sum tue American Board of Commissioners of Foreign Missions, his residuary legatee, will re- ceiye $967, ,639, and Yale and Amherst Colleges each $25, 900.
 The whole central part of Clumber House, near Worksop, England, the seat of the Duke of Newcastle, has been burned with large number of valuable pictures and books.
 A recent accidental fire at Akyab, Farther India, destroyed the native por- tion of the town. The loss is estimated at $500, ,000. Thousands of people have been rendered homeless by the fire.
 -Advices from Mandalay represent that quiet prevails there. The King of Burmah, since the despatch of reinforce ments of British troops is reported to have expressed his willingness to grant any concessions demanded.
 Judge Elliott, of the Kentucky Court of Appeals, was shot, and killed in Frankfort, by Col. Thomas Buford, because of a decision from the bench which had been rendered against Bu- ford. It was one of the most deliberate and cold -blooded' murders ever con- mitted, even in Kentucky.
 An injunction to restrain the Sheriff from hanging Phair, the alleged mur- derer of Mrs. V. Frieze, has been asked for in Vermont on tue ground that the warrant expired when reprieve was granted and that new one must be issued by the Supreme Court.
 Governor Marks, of Tennessee, has sent message to the Legislature urging 1t not to close its session without de- cisive step towards the settlement of the State debt, and that it call constitu- honal convention to adjust the matter. Bills were introduced to that effect.
 A correspondent of the London Times writing from Arment, Upper Egypt, February 24, gives heart rending account of the condition of the population of the Nile Valley. In some of the villages the people are past help, sitting naked and eating roots. In one town women and child1en fought over scraps of bread like wild animals. The famine is believed to be still worse in the inland hamlets.
 On the New York Elevated Railroad Q train had just been switched off at Forty-second street to run to the Grand Central Depot, when a train from Har- lem came whirling along. The engine of the Harlem train struck the switch before the switch had been closed, and engine and cars were immediately run oil from the west, or down track, to the east, or up track, and at once came into collision with an upward bound train. A dozen passengers were injured, none of them seriously.
 General Tytler defeated 5000 of the enemy near Peshbolak, Afghanistan. The enemy lost 200 men. The British loss was tri1ing. The Bengal Lancers made brilliant charge.
 The London Times reports that there were shocks of earthquake in Northern Persia during Saturday and Sunday. Minaeh was much damaged, and the adjacent villages of Tarr and Mannan were totally destroyed. Out of 100 inhabitants only few escaped death.
 At the Empire Mines, near Wilkes barre, Pa, Thomas Grifeth, miner, and laborer named Shields were killed by fall of top coal.
 = The bark Redwood, Captain Buck hard, which sailed from New York December IS, for London, has not yet been heard from. She was owned in St. John and Liverpool.
 The vote in the Rhode Island House of Representatives on the question of granting the prayer of petitions for woman's suffrage stood 25 yeas to 2l nays-not the necessary two-thirds for submitting an amendment to the consti- tuition to the people.
 Counsel of s. W. Jones, convicted ot giving perjured evidence in the trial of Billings for the murder of his wife. moved for new trial on the ground of lrregularity in the conduct of the jury, improper conduct of the prosecution (exempting counseD and newly discov- cred evidence. The motion will be argued April 28.
 -Mayor Williams, of Gloucester, Mass, has published request for con- tr1butlons from the country at large in and of the families of the seamen lost on Saint Georges Bank during the recent gales. One hundred and forty-six able bodied men were lost, leaving ffty-seven widows and 15O orphans dependent upon the charity of the public for support. A boy was struck by lightning in the form of ball of fire while going through vacant lot in Paterson, N. J., and was badly burned.
 -Guzman Blanco has taken charge Of the Venezuelan Government and formed new Cabinet.
 President Canal of Hayh has issued decree of amnesty to all persons im- phcated in the late riots.