Connecticut western news., 1879-08-27
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

pointed commission to recommend hsoal and political reforms in Cuba and to devise means for keeping up the labor supply on the plantations.
 A new cattle disease has made its appearance in the marshy districts near the Danube. Cool Burgess arrived in Toronto with his three children. His lawyers advised him to leave the city, and he started for Detroit. In the meantime he is corresponding with Widgery's solicitors with view to a settlement without criminal proceedings.
 Pennsylvania will have State team at Creedmoor, Sept. l6. The match will be hotly contested one.
 There is circumstantial evidence to show that Mary Lavinia Roach, who drowned herself from the steamer Bris- tol, on the Sound, was married to a Philadelphian.
 The judgments of the Russian mil itary tribunal against a number of Mi hil1sts whose trials terminated on the 17th inst have been published, Five men have been sentenced to be hanged, one woman to exile to Siberia, and twenty two other prisoners were sen- fenced to ten years penal serYitude.
 An orphan asylum in New York city with 700 children asleep in it took fire at night. Fortunately watchman dis covered the fire and gave the alarm be- fore serious damage was done.
 Charles W. Parker, a construction keeper at the Charlestown, Mass, Navy Yard, has been discharged on the ground that his accounts show serious irregu- larities. MT. Parker admits deficit of $1, 300, but says that he will report sat- isfactorily to Washington in that partic- ular.
 "A letter dated Zermatt, Switzerland, August ', and signed by Sydney Jackson, says the body of Dr. Mosely, of Boston, has been recovered. It was quite unacceptable.
 The English authorities have decid- ed that the evidence taken before the court martial in Africa does not justify the conviction of Lieutenant. Carey. The findings of the court are accord. ingly quashed. Carey retains his rank. The sentence of the court was dismissal from the service.
 A Rome dispatch says the Pope has received an anonymous letter from Bal timore, waning him against attempts to poison him, but the letter contains so many references to the Pope's private life that it is believed it was posted in Amerlca merely as blind. An investi- gation is in progress.
 -Hilaire Latrimouille tramp, was hanged in the Albany, N. r., Peniten- tiary for the murder at Cohoes last April of Miss Caroline Dunspach.
 Reports have been received at Balti- more of the loss of number of vessels on Chesapeake Bay during the gale. It is known that at least ten lives were lost. The New York State Farmers Ali ance which met at Syracuse adopted platform setting forth as the duty of farmers and mechanics to meet in COIL vention in every county and make ad- visory nominations, and to support only those nominations. The Alliance re- solved against excessive railroad charges both for freight and passengers.
 At meeting of the Memphis How ard Association, it was determined to make an appeal to the charity of the nation for funds sufficient to enable them to care for the sick of the city, Their expenses are $1, GOO per day and are increasing. They have expended the 1000, all they had in the treasury, and the deaths by fever increasing, the Association is forced to make the appeal.
 The Right Hon. R. Assheton Cross, in speech delivered at Liverpool on the depression of the agricultural inter. ests in the United Kingdom, said the agriculturists in the neighborhood ot New York were suffering far moro from the great importation of corn and cattl. which come across from the great West ern States than the British agricultur ists were suffering from the present de pression. He said he was not alarmed at the great amount of food which wa coming from America.
 August r the ranch of Jim Raines on Salmon River, Was attacked by In disns. Raines and James Edwards wer killed and Albert Weber was badI, wounded. Seven other settlers escaped and reached the town. The Indian burned all the buildings on the ranch Colonel Bernard's command are hunt ing Indians fifty miles away in anothe direction.
 A watchman who gave informatio which led to the arrest of three harbo thieves in New York harbor was she dead by one of the gang to which tn thieves belonged.
 The Wallace Investigating Commit tee have held their final session in Bos ton. The committee will reassemble i New York after the November election
 During the gale the U. s. Frieat Franklin was driven ashore off St. Hel. na Pt., near Norfolk, Va.
 A dispatch from Eureka, New. say, The coal war has broken out afresh.
 sheriff s posse attacked the coal ranch at Fish Greek between sundown ap dark. Many shots were fred. Fiy Italians were killed and six were badl wounded. Several prisoners were take, The sheriff's party numbered nine me, none of whom were injured. The me seDger asserts that they were confronte by 100 Italians, all well armed.
 The London Times expresses 8 appre hension that in view of the bs harvest prospects much extension , puslEess the1e IS her rdly to be expecte,
 Two of the murderers of MT. Joser F. Frye, in Boston, have been arreste and have made full confession. The are barbers who worked in the she where Mir. Frye shaved. One is Gree the other an Italian, and third, 6 Italian, was engaged in the work vii them. The crime was committed f. robbery, and the plunder was divide between the three. It proves one of u most cold. blooded and deliberate mu ders ever committed in this country.
 One of the last official acts of Mi ister Welsh at the English Court W