Connecticut western news., 1880-04-07
NEWS OF THEDAY'
aENERAn rrEMs.

eoWu was burned. It Is defended by i 12,OOO Peruvians, who have inflicted l much injury upon the Huascar.
 At Comstock, Mich, Andrew Brown, 8 farmer, shot John Dunbar, killing him. Brown when found had taken a dose of C nitrate of silver. A steel Whitworth rifled gun with ( ammunition has been sent to the mouth l of the Rappahannock river by the Vir- 5 glnia State Government to protect the oyster fisheries. While engaged in constructing the bridge across the Hudson at Lansing burg, N. Y., ten men were precipitated forty-seven feet into the river by the breaking of a scaffold. Three of the men were badly injured.
 An explosion of fire-damp occurred m colhely at Anderlues, Belgium, There were 150 persons in the pit at the tune, and the loss of life Is very large. Lieutenant Commander Gorringe ca bles that the arrangements are completed for embarhng the New York obelisk at Alexandria on its westward voyage.
 The London Standard's Berlin dis patch states that emigration to the United States Is again on the increase, and that extensive preparations therefor are being made in every part of Germany.
 The French committee has received 125, GOO frances for the relief of the Irish distress.
 A party of Orangemen were attacked by Roman Catholics in the county of Tyrone, and the police were obliged to fire on the crowd, wounding two of the Catholics.
 Three detachments of the Sixth Cav airy have been ordered from Arizona to report to General Hatch with view to the pursuit of Chief Victoria, who has 200 warriors east of the Rio Grande. A man claiming to be the captain of | the American brigantine Lizzie M. Mer- l rell has arrived at Queenstown. He re- | ports himself as the only survivor of the | vessel, which foundered February 2. The New York State Democratic | Convention is to be held at Syracuse on the 20th of April. "A dispatch from Geneva says that 120 men were killed and 400 wounded in the St. Gothard tunnel from the beginning of the work to the end of February, 1880. The steamship Silesia, Captain Ludwig, from New York March 12 for Hamburg, with her shaft broken, has been lowed into Queenstown by the Vaderland, from Antwerp for Phila- delphia, which met the Silesia on the 26th inst.
 At Enniscorthy, Ireland, March 29, riot was caused by the nomination by MT. Parnen of two Obstructionists- of whom is very unpopular against the Cheyalier O'Clery, Home Rule member for County Wexford in the late Parlia- ment. The Chevalier O'Clery's party, e4, oe the platform which Mir. Parnell, accom- panied by members of the Enniscorthy Club, attempted to occupy. MT. Par nelfs friends were attacked, beaten and thrown down. A body of armed police was drawn up near the platform, and had the Parnen party been more numerous the list of casualties would have been very large.
 A dispatch from Council Bluffs, Iowa, says "News has been received here by stockmen from the cattle dis tricts of Utah, Idaho and Oregon that the cattle have suffered from the weather and for want of feed, and that the loss by disease has been large beyond prece- dent.
 A seventy-6ve-hour go-as-you-please match, twelve and half hours each day, at Brockton, Mass, closed Saturday with the following score: Albert, 435 miles; Hughes (the lepper), 423 miles {; Hourihan, 385 miles; Geldert, 361 miles Campana (Old Sport), $50 miles Howe, 314 miles Colston, 294 miles.
 During a thunderstorm Friday night the City Hospital of Kansas City was burned. It contained eighteen in mates, who were carried or crawled out into the rain-storm, and some of them were unprotected for nearly two hours None were burned, but several will die from exposure.
 Ten small buildings in Superior City Wis, including the post-ofice and tht Sheridan House, have been burned. N insurance.
 In Afehanistan the Hazaras have de featedMahomed Jan, inficting on him loss of seventy killed, including hi brother It is believed that Mahomet Jan will yet attack the British line o communication, avoiding Sherpur on ac count of it's strength.
 In the Washington, D. O., Crimina Court, the negro, Jarrett Pitcher, con victed on March 9 of having committe, an outrage in Georgetown upon Fanni Mitchell, colored girl, twelve years old was sentenced to thirty years imprison ment at hard labor in the Albany Pen itentiary.
 The Sultan of Turkey, with vie, to securing just sentence in the case c the assassin of Colonel Commarof ha requested all the foreign ambassadors select physicians to inquire into an report on the mental condition of tn accused.
 A Panama dispatch reports that tn Chihan forces to the number of abou five thousand have made successful landing at Pacocha, Peru, and that thre thousand more occupied the village C Vitor, coast town twenty miles sout of Pococha.
 A severe earthquake occurred in Yc kohama February 9, destroying consid erable property.
 The New York Democratic Stat Committee met Friday and adopted call in blank for the State Conventio leaving it to a subcommittee of five name place and date except that tn latter must be between April 20 an May 1, and that the call must be issue twenty days at least beforehand A ca for Utica and June with provisions fo joint selection of delegates by Irwin Hall and Tammany Hall was rejected b vote of 29 to 4. A motion to choos place and date at once was lost by to9.
 WASHINGTON ITEMS.
 Senator Thurman was at the Capitc yesterday, and appeared to be in goo health. He did not, however, occupy hi seat
 The subcommittee of the Hous