Connecticut western news., 1879-07-16

Old Catholics are henceforth to be treat | ed ill Germany as Q part of the Catholic Church. It is presumed from this that they gre to enjoy the advantages of be- ing recognized by the State.
 The Russian Telegraph says that it has been ascertained that before the recent executions at Kieff, 400 Nihilists arrived there from different parts, some even from Western Europe, to attempt a rescue, but their intentions were frus- trated by the precautions of the police and the seizure of quantity of dy- namite intended to be used in the at- tempt.
 A dispatch from Blackburn, Lan- cashire, England, says the cotton trade ill that district is unprecedentedly gloomy. Several mills will close be- cause of the depression.
 Owing to the dullness of trade and the general feeling of insecurity, the In dustrial Exhibition contemplated for Moscow ill 1880 is postponed one year.
 A drunkard named Haskins, 5S years old, living at Alden, near Buffalo, N.Y., killed his wife and then deliberately blew out his own brains.
 As Miss Jessie Dunbar, a music teacher, aged twenty years, was walking in Toohey's Grove, at Matteawan, N. Y., tlree boys threw some ire-crackers on the ground near her, which exploded and ignited her clothing. Her screams attracted the attention of some men who extinguished the flames, but not until she was so terribly burned that she died, after suffering dreadful agony.
 Mrs. Samuel Bergy, of Freeport, Mich., shot and instantly killed two of her children, fatally wounded another and then shot herself. She is presumed to. have been insane. Some time ago she attempted to murder her brother with carving knife.
 The London ISnaes's correspondent at Paris sends the following: The Journal de Jatr0 reports that in a hurricane on the River Doubs steamer with fifty-three passengers was sunk. Only five persons were saved.
 The scaffolding and an unfinished wall of a house in Montmartre, Paris, fell killing four workmen and wounding five others.
 Mrs. Mary Lake, of Floyd, N. Y., was held by the coroner's jury for man. slaughter in whipping her ten-year- old adopted daughter, who was sick with pneumonia and died from the effects oi the disease and her injuries.
 -Lieutenant Carey, who is charged with leaving the Prince Imperial in the lurch among the Zulus, is to be court martialled. A London letter describes the indignation felt against the pool lieutenant as very bitter.
 N Ho1,,oo,, Ho sencleaver, 8 lunatic, aged 29 years, escaped from his attendant and attempted to run in front of 8 moving locomotive. Both legs were severed from the body, and he died an hour afterward.
 At Sackville, N. B., four young men set fire to the house of Joseph Sears. Mr. Sears detected them in the act and shot two of them dead.
 As an excursion boat was approach ing Morris Island, near Trenton, N. J., hundreds of people on the island rushed on the wharf to get on the boat. The wharf suddenly gave way, and about sev. enty-fve persons were thrown into the river. Several persons were drowned and others seriously injured. A serious disaster occurred at Wor cester, Mass, on the 4th, at Lake Quin sigamond. The steamer Isaac Davis loaded with passengers, so careened tha her hurricane-deck broke off, and scores of passengers were thrown into the lake seven passengers were killed and others injured.
 A fearful colliery explosion occurred in High Blantyre, eight miles from Glas gow, Scotland. The explosion is though to have been caused by the peculia state of the atmosphere, which for some few days has been in such a condition as to render the risks of explosion greate than usual. There were thirty y-one per sons in the pit at the tune of the explo sion. Twenty-three bodies were recov cred. Four of the victims were burned alive.
 Mrs. Anderson, her son six year old, and an infant child were burned tt death by kerosene at Williamsburg, N Y. Mrs. A. was filling 8 lamp whil, she held the infant in her arms.
 Reports from over 100 points il Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin say tn late storm did no damage to crops Some wheat was blown down, but it i all coming up again.
 The storm Wednesday night was tn heaviest ever knownin Minnesota. Fiv inches of rain fell in fifteen hours. Il
 all sections of the State serious damag
 was done. At Vasar the orphanage wa
 blown down, and out of twenty-four in
 mates three were killed and seventeen
 seriously injured. The house of Eric Stevenson, close by, was blown down
 and he was killed and his wife seriousl
 injured. G. H. Holme and wife; a
 elderly couple, were killed; also bab of MT. and Mrs. Linsed, and anothe
 person unknown, making nine person
 in all killed, and four more who are nc expected to live. The number of wounG
 ed is thirty. At Warrentown, on tn lake shore, three houses were torn dowr and man, his wife and daughter we1 , killed in one of them. At Winnebagc
 the wife of Nathaniel Stevens was kilIe
 by lightning. At Mountain Lake, Law renee Lawless was killed by lightning In Reymouth County, and at othe
 points, lives were lost.
 Sergeant Finney, of the Signal Sel
 vice Corps, who went West from WasI ington to investigate the terribly d. structive cyclone which occurred i Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri on th , 29th and 3Oth of May, arrived in 8 ,, Louis on his return. During his tri :, he visited over thirty cities and tow1 . in the States named. He surveyed th ,, entire ground over which the storl : passed, and says that there was gener, storm area in Northern Kansas, Soutl
 eastern Nebraska and Northern Missour and that he discovered traces of eleve
 distinct tornadoes, two of which pr vailed on the 29th and nine on the 3Ot D of May, all originating in that or | | storm area.
 7 Richard Rolliston, Janitor of u f Staten Island Boat Club House, sh,
 and killed George Sisk at Tompkin
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