Connecticut western news., 1879-07-09
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

ny, was run into by the ship Bronhilda on May "A off the mouth of the Hooghly, about sixty miles from the Sandheads, and sank within twenty minutes. Nearly 100 lives were lost. The commander of the steamer (Captain Dickenson) was last seen on the bridge when she sank.
 -Advices from Port-au-Prince, Hayti, are that the populace fired upon the Senate. The Senators fled, but many were shot.
 A fire broke out in the Yellow Jacket Mines, Virginia City. It was speedily got under control by bulkheading, with a damage of oniy a few hundred dollars, but three bullion miners. John Crocker, William Perry and D. O'Donohue, were suffocated.
 The Democrats of Maine, in con- vention at Bangor, renominated Mir. GarcelOn for Governor by exclamation. There was DO contest In the convention A platform was adop;ed approving of the course of the Democrats to Con- gress. It also declared that there should be free and unlimited coinage of sill yer, and that paper should be kept equal jn value to gold and silver. A re- solution denouncing prohibition was de- feated.
 At slaughter-house in West Son. e1ville, Mass, as Henry White was lead ing bull into the slaug house the rope around its horns became loosened and the animal caught White in the ab- 6omen with one of its horns and instant ly killed him.
 A dispatch from Madrid to Havana announces tbat the Spanish Senate Las passed by 11S to 19 the bill allowing Cuban Senators to take their seats with out giving proof of their legal qualifca- tions.
 The steam-colIiers of Merthyr-Tyd- vii, in Wales, numbering 32,0OO per sops, lave resolved to accept the mas ters' demand of ten per cent. reduction of their wages.
 Hayes, the engineer of the steamer May Queen, which exploded her boiler on Lake Minnetouka, Minn., is dead. Just before his death he confessed that when the boat landed ct Rockwell's Island the water was low in the boiler, and that when he started the machinery to back up the pump was set in motion. The txplcsion immediately followed, and there is no doubt that pumping cold water into the heated boiler was the cause of it.
 Both Houses of Congress adjourned Tuesday. The closing hours of the session were unexcitipg and the only legislation worthy of note was the passage by the Senate of the House bill placing quiDine on the free list and the defeat of bill designed to place Captain EaGs at the head of tho Mississippi River Commission. Messrs. O. Turner and Hubbell ediftd the House with ex- plantations of their interview about the Washington Greenback paper.
 Warren Smith, of Halifax, beat Evan Morris, of Pittsburg, in three mile scull race on Silver Lake, near Botton, making the best time on record, 21m. 5s. Hanlan's time in PhiIadelphla was 21m. 9s.
 At Albany, N. Y, Eillaire Latre- mouille was sentenced to be hanged on the 20th of August next. His counsel made an intellectual effort to stay the sentence on the ground that one of the jurors d1d not think the prisoner was guilty, and only agreed to the verdict with the understanding that mercy should be recommended.
 General Nimmo, the Chief of the Bulesu of Statistjcs, in his eleventh monthly statement for the current fiscal year of the exports and imports of the United States, says that the excess of the exports over imports of merchandise for the eleven months ended May 31, 1879, was $259, 481, ,2S6, it having been for the eleven months ended May 31, 1878, S245 585, ,624. For the twelve months ended May 31, 1879, it was $269, ,7O0, S76. and for the twelve months ended May 3l, 1878, $241, ,859, 959. The excess of the exports over the imports of gold and silver coin and bullion was for the eleven months ended May 31, 1879, $3, 238, ,442, as compared with $1, ,S72,- 639 for the eleven months ended May 31, 1878.
 Three hundred and sixty-six failures were reported in New York city in the six months ending on June 30, in which the aggregate liabilities amounted to $11, ,5S2, 656, and the assets were valued at $5, ,346. Compared with the cor responding six months of the year 1878, the above figures present very hopeful exhibit, as there were then reported 514 failures, with gross liabilities footing up $39,030, 195; assets, $11 ,O12, 662.
 Mrs. Jennie R. Smith, who is under sentence of death for murdering her husband, policeman Smith, was baptized at the Hudson County Jail, Jersey City. The President vetoed the Marshals bill and then sent in supplemental message urging Congress to make ap- propriations for the payment of Mar shals' fees. A bill appropriating money for these fees was introduced in both Houses. In the Senate it was indefi- niteIy postponed, and in the House it was defeated.
 Lieut.. Von Schroder, of the Twelfth Infantry, while scouting in the Tonto country, Arizona, on the 25th inst, 1truck party of renegade Tontos con- sistjng of seven bucks and one squaw. The bucks were killed and the 6quaw was captured. The fgh4 lasted two hours. No casualties occurred on Von Schroder's side.
 -Wiliiam Parker, colored, on trial in Memphis for the murder of Mrs. Foster in January, has been fou nd guilty of murder in the first degree.
 John W. Doud, law student in Cohoes, N. Y, was instantly killed by lightning at Adams Island, near Cohoes, on Saturday. Two companions were injured.
 Two little daughters of Mr. Wiswall, of Harlem, N. r., were killed by light hing in 8 sudden thunder shower Sunday afternoon as they sat reading under an oak tree in the dooryard of their parents residence.
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