Connecticut western news., 1879-04-23
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

 duced in the Pennsylvania Legislature providing for the appointment of con- mittee to secure the State Supreme Courts opinion as to the responsibility for the losses caused by the labor riots of 1877.
 Roger Pryor has been engaged by | the friends of Porter the actor, who was killed at Marshall, Texas, to go South and assist in the prosecution of the | murderer Currie.
 The jury at Hastings, Neb., brought | in verdict in the case of Olive and Fisher, charged with being leaders in the murder and burning of Ketchum and Mitchell. Both were found guilty of murder in the second degree, and they were sentenced to imprisonment for life. -Hezekiah Shaffer was hanged at Chambersburg, Pa. He had attempted suicide, and was so weak from loss of blood that he was placed on a stool, the rope adjusted and he was hanged. His erlmc was the brutal murder of his wife. An explosion of fre-damp occurred in coal mine near Mons, Belgium, set ting fire to the woodwork of the shaft, and 240 men shut up in the mine are in imminent peril.
 "A fearful tornado passed over sec tions of South Carolina and Georgia. In the village of Walterboro, S. O., one hundred houses were destroyed and fif- teen persons killed. At Oakley much property was destroyed and lives lost.
 The Citizens Relief Committee of Wyandotte, Kan., to which point the Southern colored emigrants are being dispatched from St. Lous, appeal for immediate financial aid. There are 1,700 destitute negroes there now to be provided for, and thousands more are on their way.
 The Chief of the Russian Police at Archangel has been assassinated by Nihilists and the Chief of Police at Yalta, in the Crimea, has been arrested as revolutionist. The Prefect of St. Petersburg has resigned in consequence of threats of assassination. The En- peror, replying to Lord Beaconsfeld's s congratulations, says he counts upon him to maintain the good feeling now existing between Russia and England. st The petition presented in the Do- minion Parliament from British Colum- bia, praying for oppressive measures against the Chinese, asserts that one- fourth of the population is Chinese j; that their competition is driving the whites from the labor market that they are able to subsist on from ten to twen- ty-fve cents day, while white man requires from fifty cents to one dollar, and that in doing this they live on rats and rice. It was also said that they own little or no property, pay no taxes, con- s tribute to no charities, are guilty of i'm moral practices, and are in addition probably the greatest pagans on the [ earth.
 Instead of killing himself, as his friends feared, Dr. Chalfant, the San Francisco dentist, has surrendered him. self, and confessed that he murdered Josiah Bacon, the treasurer of the Vul- canite Company. He said that Bacon was overbearing in his demands, and s that he Or. O. drew revolver, winch went of, he does not know how. He did not intend to kill Bacon.
 Parole, the well-known American horse, won the Newmarket, England, Handicap at the spring meeting.
 It is reported from Cape Town, South Africa, Cetewayo has again made overtures for peace. Meanwhile 35, ,OOO <@AAUo cAO "WaAbAiS LII kIOu6 Ol bl0 U6- leaguered garrison at Ekowe the 6,OOC men forming the relief column now on its way. A force of British captured g quantity of Zulu cattle on March 28th, but they were retaken the same day. A bloody battle followed the nex day in which the English loss wal seventy-seven. The Zulus were defeated with heavy loss. There has also beer lighting jn Basutoland.
 The man who attempted to talk, Emperor Alexander's life is school master named Soloyieff. He says h. was selected by lot to do the shooting F The most vigorous oppressive measure are to be taken against the Nihilists The Governor of Charkof has been ab ducted by Nihilists and will be held as hostage for the treatment of prisoners
 The official returns of the renen State election in Michigan show tha Campbell, the Republican candidate fo Justice of the Supreme Court, receives 132, ,O00, and Shipman, Coalition, 128, ,OOC
 In Butler, Pa., masked burglar bound and gagged MT. Laird, th telegraph agent and left him in 8 burn ing building to perish. He barrel escaped with his life.
 There are 49O vessels aggregatin 28, ,615.2 .22 tons, in the Gloucester fishin fleet. The decrease the past year wa twenty-six vessels. The loss during tn past three months was twenty vessels ( 1,563. .12 tons.
 The motion to reconsider the vot by which the Pittsburg Riot bill wa indefinitely postponed last week wa defeated in the Pennsylvania House b vote of 101 to 98. This action defeat the bill for the present.
 The Berlin secret police were awar that an attempt would be made on tn life of some member of the Russian in perlal family and telegraphed warnin to St. Petersburg. The Czarwitch aion took precautions against an attack.
 Members of the striking miners g Durham, England, have determined leave their homes permanently and settl lnthe United States and British America
 The Pope of Rome has sent COT gratulatlons to the Emperor on his es cape from assassination.
 A tornado swept over Collinsvillt Mo, and demolished large part of th town. The damage is estimated at $50 900.
 Luigi Merelli and his daughter hay committed suicide at Milan on acco LII of poverty. Merelli was the son of u noted impressario.
 .-The body of Benjamin Singerl.. State Printer of Pennsylvania, who die in 1876, has petriied into mass of yello stone weighing 925 pounds.
 While the Czar was taking his usu morning walk early on the morning the 14th, near the palace, four sho from revolver were fired at him. TT