Connecticut western news., 1880-06-09
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tle bank or France. lz 7s- ..3 taz.ska. Als When the United StatesG Government made its last proposal for the purchase of its bonds, four and four and Q half per cent. bonds were included. !,The five per cent bonds were offered Ate 408. 80 to 109.11 and the four and one-half's at 1895 to 1O9.62. Three million dollars of the latter bonds were purchased by the Secretary of the Treasury. S,51s z.
 The American rife team left for Europe Thursday The team is as fol lows: Colonel John Bodins captain; s. I. Scott, William Farrow, H. E. Clark, Fl. Rathbone, o. H. Laird, H. Fisher, J. E. Brown, W. H. Jackson and, MT. Rockwell. 'a .+
 The steamer Golden Eagle was burned on the Mississippi River, near Alton, Ill. Three passengers were drowned. -=- rssss-s,sasse sss-,asse.l.,.. A terrible cyclone visited Savoy, in Texas and on the Texas Pacific Rail roadSaturday night, and totally destroyed the town, killing nine persons and wounding sixty more, some d whom will die. ,,s-asss .sss sse.
 Mrs. Maria Avent and sMrsS Emily Chidsey, two aged widow siSte4s ing near Hartford, Conn, were f6phf nallI- dered in their house. The1h hNnsS was not robbed, and neither clue bo the, murderer nor motive for his aeRon is known. s,(| $: .s::!ssltsSS s The Democrats and Greenbs kers in, Maine held their State convent Vhea delegates of the former for Cincinnati were not instructed The GreEnbackers are for Solon Chase. General Harris M. Plaisted was made the joint n6mlAee of the conventions for Governor
 The United States deBt statement issued June l, 1880, shows the decrease of the public debt during May; tos be, $15, ,928, ,033,87. The total debt of the United States is now $2, 15a coo, ,23esS2. The total cash in the Treasury is. $206,- SIS, ,51697 ,.st {sss'ssssss..s ssssss,slas''4' .''ss
 Ryan and Goss, the puaiIiists, met m the prize ring for the heavy weight championship and $2, 900 iazsa ravine near Golfers Station,4 West Virginia, about 300 yards from the PgnIsg glvania boundary line,s on, Tuesd They fought eighty-six rounds and both men were punished severely. Atssfhe eighty seventh round when time Twas called Gloss failed to respond and Ryan was declared the winner. a ar sE.sssAss
 While diver was at iWppk at ,Hai2 fax the air pump was struck h5 htning which passed down the line king the diver, who was taken out ina Msensi- ble condition. - 4.~ e .s.sss .,,S.ss,II
 There were coined at they Phladel- phia Mint during May coins to the value ot $3, ,376, 800. Of this sum Ehare was in gold g, ,242, 800; in silver, e$1 JOG, 900, and in. base coin, $34, 100.
 William and Richard HeHeron,t of New York, met with aisad eeeident Joy falling over bank near thas New Sus- pension Bridge, on the Canahan side, at Niagara Falls. :. William was instantly killed, and Richard badly inSusaei: a
 An explosion in .powda niiiI be. cured at Wetteren, Belg giunss 6y which thirty persons were killed, sess,s se.s. ,s
 The Indians have been making fur ther depredations in New Mexico. Many settlers have been killed and much stool run of. It is said that since Victori, set out on the war path in NewMexict he has killed 250 settlers. .SsS4
 The Whitaker inquiry case swa closed Friday and the proceedings sub mltted to the Secretary of War. {.
 Henry Ham1in, who killed sNigl Watchman Shipman at the WetlfeGsfielt Conn. prison in 1877, vas Aanged a Hartford. Charles Boiling, R. mulatt boy seventeen years old, was executed a Hanover Courthouse, Va. Fhomas Ed munds was also hanged at Ozark, Ark. for the murder of his wife and ehild 5A
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 Admiral Ammen has receiveA& cabl message from Engineer MenoSal statin that the Nicaraguan Congress 6as con firmed the concession recent EKmade b the President of that repphiie to a American company for the donsE1eti6 of an interoceanic ship canal Aeross tn isthmus. essss5q ysss
 A joint resolution was uaaninfotlsl agreed to in the House to-daE.A .ApprDpr1 ating $30, 1000 for the erection of aIreny; ment to mark the birthplaceaSf @eorg Washington Se4sS1sS S .S
 The President to-day apRfeyed tn bill providing for the reappSffiopnnen of members of the Legislattsess in th Territories of Montana, 5IdahS and Wy oning.
 The following is statemant of Uni ted States currency outstanding: < Ot demand notes, $61 ,O3O; legal itefide notes (new issue, all issues) 3846s681 O16; one-year notes of 1863; 47l55 two-year notes of 1863, $13, ,D0O,i ~}we year coupon notes of 1863s. $23, $50 appropriateness notes, $247;346; frat donal currency Gall issues), $16, 6,5g2,938 70. Total, $362, ,665. 1928. 70. g1;s s,..ss
 At 8 Cabinet meeting, z Befegat Downey's amendment to thb Snndr Civil bill requiring that all the mone appropriated by that bill shoula Be pai out in silver was talked over. aSecretar Sherman admitted that the pfoposftio was feasible and said that he would carr out the law to the strictest Bftar if should pass. He also furnished som interesting statistics on thef 5dbjeei showing that 1t would take l, ,2560O pounds, or about 700 tons ofSsi4aer t provide for all the items of the e1ill.S ' ]; q.
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 MT. Blair presented a minoriEy fepol in the Senate upon the abridgmeht ( suffrage in Rhode Island. MsaButle submitted resolution relating to Sth Governments claim against he Ne, H. Ga,, k,ro1 IL