Connecticut western news., 1880-12-15
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS,

OENHiNAh A terrible explosion occurred at | one o'clock Friday morning at the Naval Steam Coal Colliery, at Peny- graig, in Wales. One hundred men were in the colliery at the time. The shock of the explosion was felt for miles around, the earth shaking As if there were an earthquake. The most intense excitement prevailed throughout the district. The cries of the poor people whose relatives are im> prisoped in the colliery were heartrend- ing. Many volunteers offered to join an exploring party, and eighteen bodies were taken out at once. The pit IS 45O yards in depth.
 Mayor Cooper of New York city, nominated Allan Campbell, democrat as Comptroller of the city in place of John Kelly, whose term of office ex pired. The Board of Aldermen con- he took possession of his office at once. The schooner Emma, from St. Johns, N. r., to Green Bay, is reported lost with all her crew. - ..a.. By the pre- mature explosion of a blast in the Fornan Shaft, at Virginia Clty, New, Wednesday, two men were instantly killed and one seriously and several others slightly injured.
 ~-The rebellion in South Africa is al- most over and the Poncomese have been entirely routed. The President of the Orange Free State believes that there will not be Q trace of the rebellion in six months. s-
 Four of the crew of the bark Bris- tolian, who were brought to Gaspe, Que, by the schooner Wasp, Wednes- day night, are dead, and the captain and two others of the crew are not expected toive.
 Captain Payne and 400 colonists left Arkansas City for the Indian Territory Thursday night They were followed by company of cavalry.
 The President has sent to the Sen- ate disappointment to second ieutenan- cies the names of the class last gradu- ated at West Point.
 Emma Geiglin was burned to death in her fathers house in Baltimore, Md. |, Thursday afternoon. ls
 A fire in Springfield, Mass, Thurs day, destroyed a block of ho uses owned by the. Wason Manufacturing Company. The loss was about $10O, 900, divided among several firms; fully insured.
 The Newfoundland Government is unwilling to have the claim of the Uni ted States paid for losses by the Bay Fortune outrage.
 The Ways and Means Committee of the United States House discussed at some length the. proposition to repeal the tax on bank checks, matches, patent medicines and the like, and referred it to the subcommittee. 51,,
 Senator Blaine proposes to intro. duce bill reducing letter postage to two cents. a A new Antarctic exploring exped- tion Is about to be undertaken under the command of Sir Allen Young, who will leave England for Cape Town in 0 yacht this winter to make preparations
 Tt is rumored that MT. Parnell is to be specially tried for his speech at Waterford just before receiving the freedom of the city.
 At the session of the National Council of the Union League of America in Philadelphia Thursday, General J. : s. Negley, of Pittsburg, was elected President, and the other officers were reelected.
 An express train struck MT. Theo. Davenport's carriage in Stamford, Conn. Thursday, instantly killing Miss Harriet Davenport, seventeen years old, and severely injuring Mir. Davenport and the daughter ot Rev. J. W. Hyde.
 A woman in Marquette, Wis, in a fit of temporary insanity cut off her babes head and then committed suicide.
 Three negroes, one woman and two men, who murdered Mrs. Kennedy in Clarendon county, s. J., Sunday, were captured Wednesday and hanged to the nearest tree to the place of the murder that could be found
 Three young men dressed in white sprang out on young man named Chapman, while he was passing grave yard at Fort Lawrence, Cumberland County, N. S., and he is now a rayine maniac.
 At Carey Station, H., an accident occurred on the Northwestern Railroad by which fifteen persons were injured One man and woman will probably die.
 The California electors met at Sac. ramento Friday and cast five votes fol Hancock and one for Garfield. The Oregon electors met at Salem on Friday and voted for Garfield and Arthur.
 An indictment for criminal libel on General Garfield in connection with the Mercy letter was presentedby the Grand Jury of New York against Joseph Hart c. A. Byrne, Louis F.. Post and Ken. ward Philip. u.-
 -Leary l.. Key died at Springfield III. He was Sergeant in the Sixteenth Illinois Cavalry during the war, and was captured at Cumberland Gap and taken to Andersonville, where he organized and commanded the prison regulators. In this position he arrested and tried the raiding prisoners who were robbine the sick and dying and condemned six of them to be hanged, the sentence be, ing carried out under his supervision.
 The report of Commissioner Raum shows the receipts from internal revenue last'year to have been $123, ,9S1, ,916.
 The United States produced last year, according to the report of the Director of the Mint, $36, GOO, 900 in golc and $37, zoo, 900 in silver. On Novem Der thege were in the country $612, 293, ,603 in gold and silver coin and bull lion. i< -. .....
 According to the annual report O the hfe-saying service, there were 30t disasters last year on the seaboard and the lakes, by which only nine lives were lost.
 The Very Rev. Dean Close, Dean o Garlialo in Ennlon1 oool airrb&r, Ro,1r.