Connecticut western news., 1880-06-16
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.


 -Returns from Oregon report the election of M: Q. George Republican) 10 TOT member of Congress for Portland. houses. -m the National Greenback Labor Convention at Chicago, Richard Treve hok, of Michigan, was made permanent Chairman. The Hoyt-Pomeroy dele gates and forty delegates from the Social snc Labor party were admitted. Reso- !utons demanding the abolition of the Naaond banks and the Burlingame treaty with China were adopted.
 -Twenty-one bodies were removed rom the coal mine near Dortmoud, Great Britain, where an explosion of fire-damp occurred on Wednesday.
 Glen. Sir Donald Stewart, the British commander at Cabul, has been ordered to withdraw his forces with the least de- lay compatible with the health of his troops.
 -Telegrams were received in Liver pool announcing that the port of Buenos Ayres had closed, which is supposed to mean that the gunboats of the National government have blockaded the harbor. The Chilians are reported to have captured Africa, Peru.
 The Prussian Parliamentary Com mlttee on the Church bill on a final vote on the whole measure rejected it by 13 to g.
 The President sent the name of ex- Governor Hartranft to the Senate for Collector of the port of Philadelphia.
 All but one of the Georgia delegates to the Democratic National Convention declare themselves in favor of Judge Field. The California delegates stand nine for Judge Field and three uncom- mitted.
 In New York city, John Gumpel, after brutally beating his wife almost to death, set fire to the house in which he lived and then rid the world of his pres- ence by cutting his throat from ear to ear.
 The Lord Mayor of Dublin has tele- graphed to the mayor of every town in the United States and Canada, asking for nose money to relieve the distress in Ireland.
 The Maryland Democratic Conserve tive Convention assembled at Baltimore. The resolutions contain no instructions for the delegates, but express confidence In Senator Bayard The Georgia Demo- cratic Convention elected delegation solid for Judge Field, with the exception of delegate each for Bayard and T1l- den. The Indiana Democratic Conven- tion, over which ex-Governor Thos. A. Hendricks presided, elected delegates to Cincinnati favorable to him. Franklin Landers was nominated for Governor.
 -Wm. M. Springer was renominated for Congress by exclamation at Chicago by the Democratic Congressional Con vention of the Twelfth Illinois District. While ward Republican club at Rondout, N. Y., was firing salute to General Garfield Tuesday, the cannon exploded, wounding two bystanders severely.
 It appears from the Russian news papers that the famine in the Caucasus and in some other provinces of Russia is of an unprecedented severity.
 A hurricane in Southern Minnesota has been doing frightful damage. The town of Monketo was nearly destroyed. The loss of life is considerable, and much live stock has been killed.
 The Democratic primaries in Chi cago resulted in the election of Seymour delegates to Cincinnati.
 -E. o. Elam, editor of the Rich mond Whig, was shot and severely wounded in duel with Colonel Thos. Smith, son of ex-Governor Smith, of Virginia, near Richmond, on Sunday, Smith was uninjured.
 A church near Mt Carey, Hancock County, O., was blown down Sunday, and twenty persons were injured, but rf fha,oo In the competition to select the Irish rife team, the following are the scores out of possible 500: Milner, AZ; Joynt, 445; Murphy, 437. These with Rgby, Fenton and Young form the first six of the team. For the places Dyas made 434, Coghlan 427, and W. Rigby 424
 In Paris, the editor of the Voltaire was wounded by member of the Jockey Club In duel on Friday. The Prince . de Santa Severina was wounded in another duel with M. de Fronsac on Saturday. The editor of the Bonapartist newspaper Le Safr0ge UniVerseL and the editor of a Republican provincial journal fought at Angouleme, and the former was wounded.
 The Colorado Democratic Conven- tion elected an uninstructed delegation to Cincinnati. The delegates are under. stood to be solid for Judge Field.
 The final competition for choice ot members for the team to oppose the American riflemen was held in England Out of apossible 250 but four men scored over 200
 In New Work city four children were fatally injured by fire engine, the horse of which became unmanageable through the breaking of rein.
 The National Temperance Society sent dispatch to the Chicago Conven tion asking it to declare against tn, liquor trade.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 The bill for the establishment o titles in Hot Springs, as amended by tn Senate Committee, was adopted by tn House Committee on Public Lands an, ordered to be favorably reported to tn House. The bill provides that any per son in whose favor the Commissioner appointed under the acts of Congress 0 1877 and 1878, relative to the Hot Spring of Arkansas, have adjudicated, shall hay the sole right to enter and pay for tn amount of land the Commissioner ma have adjudged him entitled to purchase by paying the receiver of pubis money at the Land Office in Little Rock, Ark 50 per cent. of the assessed value there of, and that such assessments be reduce to that extent. The bill further provide that those divisions of the Hot Spring Reservation known as the mountain dis tricts shall be forever reserved from sal and dedicated to public use as parks.
 In response to Senate resolutio the Secretary of the Treasury has fu1 nished an elaborate statement of the e1