Connecticut western news., 1879-04-09

 building in honor of the ninth anniver- sary of the ratification of the fifteenth to the Constitution.
 A New York bank few days since took $4O,OOO,OOO of the four per cent bonds.
 Washington Nathan, son of the man whose murder is still so great mys- tery, was shot by one actress while he was in the room of another at the Cole man House. Jealousy was the cause. MT. Nathan's injuries are considered serious.
 Mine. Patterson -Bonaparte died Tn Baltimore after an illness of several weeks. She was unconscious, and was kept alive for several days by stimu- lants. There were present at her death bed her physician, Dr. J. s. Mackenzie; her grandsons, Col. Jerome Napoleon and Charles Joseph Bonaparte Mrs. George Patterson, widow of her brother, the late George Patterson, and Mrs. Clark, relative, who has been faith full attendant and nurse for the past ten years or more. Mime. Bonaparte left an estate valued at more than $1, 5000
 Fully 10000 negroes have left Mis- sissippi for Kansas, where inducements are made to them to settle on railroad lands.
 Deputy United States Marshall Cochran has captured in the mountains of Eastern Kentucky during the past two weeks fourteen moonshiners and destroyed 8 number of stills.
 About two-thirds of the employees of the Reading (Pa.) Cotton Mill struck against 8 ten per cent. reduction in their wages and operations at the mill are stopped.
 The New Jersey Southern Railroad was sold to the first mortgage bondhold- CTS for $752, ,OOO.
 As the night express train on the Grand Trunk Railroad was passing 8 point two miles east of Smiths Creek, Michigan, it was thrown from the track. The engine and the three forward cars were wrecked. Three persons were killed and several others seriously in jured.
 Near Decatur, Ill.,, wagon con- taining man named Robinson, his two daughters and Mrs. Jones Nye, was struck by lightning, instantly killing Robinson and his daughter Kate, aged sixteen years, and stunning Mrs. Nye.
 The debate on the South African war was renewed in the English House of Commons, and Sir Charles Dilke's motion of censure was rejected by 306 to 246.
 A young man giving his name as F. W. Weyrich was arrested by the de. tectives at Washington on charge oi attempting to extort $100 from Hon. B. of threatening letter.
 Estimates of the wheat and fruit crops from nearly every county in Ohio Indiana and Kentucky indicate that the wheat crop will be bounteous, while there is poor prospect for peaches and apples.
 On Sunday night twenty mounted armed men rode into Fayetteville, Ark. and shot guns into the windows of sev eral residences. Fortunately no one was injured. They are presumed to bt friends of desperado named Reed who was shot in jail by the jailer in self-de fence.
 The Rhode Island Union Greenbacl Labor Mass State Convention nominated Samuel Hill, of Providence, for Cover | nor.
 At Moberly, Mo-, Joseph Daily sho and killed his wife while she was asleep | The shooting he claims was an accident He thought the pistol was empty and ex pected to wake up his wife by snappine cap. The parties were married only three weeks. Daily has been arrested and placed in jail.
 -Chili and Peru are arming for fight and war will undoubtedly take place between them.
 | -Belrs Life Srs London says :-" team of professional cricketers, unde the leadership of Richard Daft, will g to America early in August"
 At the burning of the Fairchil, block at Madison, Wis, twenty fremel and citizens were injured by two ex plosions which occurred in the build ing.
 | General Sendeman has routed al Afghan force which attacked him, en tailing upon it loss of 145. The Eng fish loss was small.
 The Fremont House was burned a
 Claremont, N. H. About forty persons including boarders and help, were il the house. The fire spread so rapidl,
 that the building was soon filled witt smoke and flame, compelling most of tn inmates to make their escape from tn
 windows and roof. Notwithstandin
 strenuous efforts to rescue them fy
 persons perished, and two others wer
 injured by jumping from the burnin
 building.
 The jury in the Poindexter murde
 trial at Richmond failed to agree an
 were discharged. The jury stood fiv
 for murder in the second degree, five fc
 voluntary manslaughter and two fo acquittal, or at most involuntary mar
 slaughter. The prisoner was remande until the first Monday in April. An al
 plication for bail was refused. A strike took place in Montreal, in th
 iron foundries of Ives & Allen and W Glendinning. In the former case th trouble arose from the men refusing pour iron for the apprentices, and in tE
 latter case the men demand hlgh' wages.
 Nearly the entire portion of Senec 2 Ill.,, was destroyed by fire. z The Ohio Democratic State Col , vention will be held in Columbus (
 the 4th of June.
 The King of Siam has invited Gel a Grant to visit him, and the invitation ' accepted.
 : Although the decision of the Cou l of Inquiry in the case of Gen. Fitz Jol 3 Porter has not yet been made public h
 friends have assurances that it will - in his favor.
 3. Tt is expected that the claims arrears of pensions will be adjusted
 June next.