Connecticut western news., 1880-10-27
NEWS OFTHE DAY

in Richmond, Va. -,g- The United States exported during September $11 ,271. 85 worth of domestic provisions and tallow, against $6, ,575, 168 during September, 1873. Special cable dispatches state that the speech of the King of Greece in opening the Chambers is regarded in London as declaration of war against Turkey. HIS boldness is owing to a secret promise of aid from England when the conflict begins. Pubic faith in MT. Gladstone and his Eastern policy is unabated. ,-.-.-.. The bodies of F. Spaech, of Grand Rapids M. Crossman, of Grand Haven !: Mrs. Cole, boy nine years old, named Thomas Osborn, and H. F. Locke, agent of Hill Bros., of New York, lost on the steamer Alpena, in Lake Michigan, have been found.
 Five women were burned to death Wednesday by fire in a shoddy mill at Cincinnati, O. Their bodies have all been found.
 Fifteen persons were injured We'd nesday by collision on the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Day ton Railroad, nineteen miles north of Cincinnati, O.
 Mrs. Lydia Maria Child, the we'll known. writer, died at Wayland, Mass, Wednesday. ..~
 Three men were killed and fourteen wounded by collision on the railroad near Raleigh, N. O., Wednesday.
 The loss of the Alpena on Lake Michigan, with 105 lives, is the third se- rious loss the Goodrich line has met with. ThesLady Elgin, plying between Chicago and Milwaukee, was lost off Win etka with 400 out of the $50 persons on board. She had military party from Milwaukee on board, with sixty Lake Superior excursionists, among whom was Mir. Ingram, proprietor of the London Illustrated NeaOs. The Sea Bird on her first trip of the season was burned off Waukegan and all but two of 167 souls on board perished. The Alpena ran between Chicago and Grand Haven, and was lost in 8 frightful gale that prevailed on the lake. A large number of sailing vessels were lost in the same gale, with many lives.
 EThe steam barge Trader, which pliesy ybetween Chicago and Muskegon, ana uGaged in the lumber business, has been kst and gone to pieces on the east shors Lake Michigan, and all on board, ten persons, were lost.
 The Pittsburg authorities have insti- tuted proceedings against John Routh, conductor William J. Penrod, fagman of the first train, and Engineer Hughey, of the second train, charging them with responsibility for the recent fatal railroad accident at Pittsburg. Routh surrendered himself and is out on $10, ,0OO bail.
 Governor Pitkin, of Colorado, has asked Secretary Schurz to require the commander of the post at Los Pinos to deliver Agent Berry to the Sheriff of Gunnison county, and it will probably be done.
 George F. Edmunds has been re- elected United States Senator from Vermont.
 The bark Trader and the schooner Grenada were wrecked on Lake Michi- gan and fifteen men lost.
 ' At Sheffield, Vt, Tuesday, Byron Blake murdered his mother, sister and step-father, and then hanged himself.
 The English Government has re. -sceived telegram from the Government of Greece notifying it that inasmuch as Greece hasefailed to obtain the support of the powers in rectfying her frontier she will occupy Thessaly alone.
 A dispatch from San Antonio, Tex, reports that Chief Victoria, fifty braves and eighteen women and children were killed in the fight with the Mexican troops on the 14th.
 The British Government has offered e1 ,O00 reward for the capture of the assassins of Downey, the servant of the landlord Hutchins, who was murdered near Skibbereen, County Cork, recent ly. The proclamation offering the re ward also proclaims the County Kerry in a state of disturbance requiring ad ditional police.
 -Elfreda Partridge, Carrie Hickbern Emma Berry and Fred Patterson wer' drowned by the upsetting of 8 boat il the harbor of Stockton, Me-, Monday The bodies of the girl were recovered
 Mrs. Howe and Mrs. Gould-on the president and the other the agent o the 'sLadies' Deposit" of Boston, Mass. have been held in $20,000 and 500 bail, respectively, to appear before tn Criminal Court in November.
 A snow storm in Buenos Ayres Sep tember IS destroyed about 70, 900 cattle 900, 900 sheep and 250, 900 horses.
 -In-a shooting affray at Buena Vista Tenn, Saturday, six men were wounded twa-of them mortally.
 John A. Woodward, chief clerk O City Treasurer Denny, of Boston, is defaulter to the extent of $92, 1000.
 The Democratic conference com mittees of New York city agreed upo1 William R. Grace for Mayor and Au gustus T. Docharty for Register.
 Additional reports of the marriag of the Czar of Russia to the Princes Dolgorouki show that it is proposed tha any children born of the marriage shal be recognized as princes of the bloc, royal, taking rank after the Gran, Dukes. If the Czarewitch agrees to thi he will be made Co-Regent and the Ga will permanently retire to Livadia.
 The snow and wind storm in tn Northwest has been most severe. It i feared that the steamer Alpena, wit forty to seventy people on board ha been wrecked on Lake Michigan. Hun dreds of vessels have gone ashore, an many lives are known to be lost, and it feared that their number will be greatl increased.
 A disturbance took place between Republican negro club of Wilmington Del, and a Democratic procession Sat urday evening, in which twelve whit Democrats were injured, one of who1 died. Two policemen and a reporte were also wounded with stones, and tw negroes were slightly wounded. Thre of the negroes were arrested
 The West has been visited by mos