Connecticut western news., 1879-07-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
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the Ministry of the Netherlands have resigned.
 Charles O'Brien and Jacob Andrews, fourteen and sixteen years of age respect ively, were killed by lightning at Upper Sandusky, o.
 . William Allen, ex- Governor of Ohio, died at his home, near Chilibothe.
 The explosion at Bodie, Cal, re- suited in the death of eight pers sons and the wounding of forty others. The magazine which exploded contained about five tons of giant powder. A torpedo boat attached to the Rus sian Admiral Lazareff's frigate at Cron- stadt was blown up while at practice. Five men were killed and fourteen wounded. A letter from Coulterville, Mariposa County, Cal, says half of that town WAS destroyed by fire on the 9th inst. In the regatta on Saratoga Lake Wm. Murray, of Portsmouth, Va., won the prize for junior single-scullers F. I. Mumford, of New Orleans, that for senior single-scullers, and the Hillsdale, of Michigan, the deciding heat for four oar shells.
 The project of the Woodruff scientific f OApSNlbiOu luS NoEl(l uuS USeu revived, and the General Werder will sail under the direction of President Clark as soon as 200 students have been secured.
 pr Verdi, of the National Board of Health, on receiving the news of the outbreak of yellow fever at Memphis, expressed the fear that the country is to be visited by another epidemic. It is . l. I ton that the disease must have originated from germs remaining from last years epidemic, which have been rendered active by local causes and by the sum- mer heat. It is not considered that the prevalence of the fever at Hayti and Havana had anything to do with the breaking out of the disease at Memphis, especially as no advices have been re- ceived here of it's existence at any other place in the South. The National Board of Health will at once take vigorous measures to prevent the spread of the pestilence.
 The yellow fever excitement is in. creaslng in Memphis. All the southern cities liable to the contagion have quar- antined against Memphis, and the Board of Health of the latter city has directed the people to quietly remove their fam flies to places of safety. A number of deaths have occurred.
 A serious powder explosion took place at Brodie, so dispatch from San Francisco says, in the old Standard h. cline. The works were blown to pieces, and large number of miners were killed. Twenty seriously wounded miners were taken out of the wreck. The incline took fire after the explosion of the powder magazine.
 Joseph B. Buzzen was executed in ths prison yard of Concord, N. H., for the murder of Susan A. Hanson, con- mitted November 2, 1874, at Brookfeld. Buzzel was once tried as principal for the same crime and acquitted. He was then tried as accessory and found guilty. Yellow fever has made its appear ance in Memphis.
 The largest ice-house of the Knick. erbocker Ice Company, at Rockland Lake, N. Y, has been destroyed by fire. It contained about 50, 900 tons of ice.
 Frank Davidson was hanged at Warrensburg, Mo-, for the murder in September, 1878, of William Haggerty. Louis Schlacter. Buffalo butcher, threw a knife at Peter Miller, butchers boy, inhicting a wound from which he bled to death. Miller and others had aggravated Schlacter in different ways, finally throwing at him piece of liver which struck him in the face.
 A New York paper figures up the killed and wounded throughout the United States on the 4th as follows Killed outright, IS; maimed and mutt lated, 107.
 Two small boys, brothers named Gardner, were drowned at Milksboro, Pa., while bathing.
 The House Committee on Rules will meet to revise the rules of the House at Long Branch early in August The intention originally was to meet or the 18th, but MT. Frye wrote that he would not be at liberty to meet with the committee after the 18th, as he en. tered upon his work in the Maine cam paign at that date. The journal clerk has prepared a revision embodying the suggestions that have been made to him and the work of the committee, 1t il thought, will be completed in abou ten days. The rules can probably bt greatly condensed. The clerks revision embodies 120 rules in place of 160, th' present number.
 The Canadian rihe-team which is tc compete at Wimbledon has beaten b, 120 points the Fifteenth Lancashir team, which included the Queens prize men of two years ago.
 Two thousand people turned out il Case Valley, W. Va, to lynch negr named Lee who had attempted to out rage white woman. Before Lee coul, tho ha hol of her legs and her collar bone an, pulled out her tonsils. The screams 0 the woman drew her children to tn room, and their outcries frightened oi the villain.
 The Hdlie says that the contribu tiops of Peters pence for the first hal of the present year have increased b 92S, GOO, compared with the sum con tributed during the same period of 1876
 M. de Lesseps says that he does no think the total of the expenses of con structing the Darien canal will excee 250, 0,000,000 francs. He says the diff culties of the work are not so formidabl as those which had to be overcome the construction of the Suez canal, as railway already exists along the cours of the proposed Panama canal, with large town at each extremity. Tn caution money, 100000 francs, rt quired by Venezuela, had been alread paid.
 According to a St. Petersburg dei patch the latest official telegram say that the houses of fourteen out of fiftee wards, forming the most important pal of Irkutsk, Siberia, were destroyed b the fire of the 4th inst, and many ( the inhabitants are homeless.