Connecticut western news., 1880-08-04
Al Rrodford Pa Dr, A. G Hopkins

Su. the latter for compounding prescription which caused the death of A. w. Carroll. The deceased was poisoned by morphia used in powder instead of calomel.
 Jonathan Wasley, Frank Willman and John Reese, mine bosses, were killed by white damp in the Keely Run Colliery near Pottsville, Pa.
 John Diggs, the negro who com mitted an assault on Mrs. James Tschffely last Saturday near Darnestown, Md, was taken from jail and hanged Monday night by masked men.
 The Maine Democratic and Green back State committees were ill session at Augusta Tuesday, when it was decided that fusion was the only course to be | followed.
 The ChinesaLegation at Washington | declares that the report that the Chinese Government is engaging the services of foreigners for its army and navy is en- tirely devoid of foundation. No foreign CTS are wanted. Thousands of Ameri- cans have made application for enlist ment in the Chinese army.
 -Maior-Gen. W. S. Hancock, U. s. A. in addition to his present duties, has been assigned to the command of the Department of the South during the tenn porary absence of Brigadier, Gen. c. 0. Augur, U. s. A., on detached service in | Washington.
 A pleasure steamer capsized in suuall on Lake Bienne, Switzerland, Monday night and sixteen persons were drowned.
 In recent engagement on the river Mabay, in Cuba, the insurgent officers Brigadier-General Pepillo Medina and Colonel Johnson, the latter a native of the United States, were killed by the Spanish troops, and one prisoner was taken. The insurgent chief Juan Fleites and three of his followers have surren- dered with their arms at Bayamo. A Paris correspondent telegraphs | that Mrs. Wetmore did not commit sui | eide and that her death has been official ly reported as caused by congestion of the brain. The suicide story is believed I to have been concocted for purposes of | blackmail.
 -Advices by mail from China and Japan of July 10 say that the Spanish, Brazilian and American envoys were on I their way to Pekin that the Nankin To- cal authorities had decreed the exclusion | of American kerosene oil, and that French and Italian ships of war were about to visit Corea with proposals for treaties.
 In the match at Wimbledon, Satur- day, between picked English team and eight American refemen the Englishmen won by score of l, ,647 to 1,568.
 A dispatch from Madrid says the total loss of life by the earthquakes at Manila is estimated at 320, including 200 Chinamen. Almost every family is houseless.
 Captain Rand, of the Ethel Merritt, denies that his vessel was in Spanish waters when she was fired upon, and says that all his crew will swear they were at least six miles distant from the Spanish coast.
 In the English House of Commons Sir Charles Dilke said the Government would not be satisfied with general promises from the Porte. MT. Glad stone said the Government was not un- der obligation to say whether @ policy of coercion would be applied or not.
 The excursion steamer Garland, with twelve hundred persons on board, while going down Detroit river, at 10 o'clock Thursday night, came in collision with the steam yacht Mamie, about nine miles below Detroit, cutting her in two so that she almost instantly sank. The latter had on board twenty -four persons, consisting mainly of Father Bleyenbergh, pastor of Trinity RomanC Catholic Church, of Detroit, and number of acolytes, boys officiating in various capacities in | the services of the church. They had been on their annual excursion to Mon roe. and woro returning home. S1xteen of those on board were drowned. | The New York State electoral ticket nominated by the Tammany or Shakes peare Hall Convention at Syracuse in April was withdrawn at the meeting of the Tammany State Committee Friday, in Saratoga. An address full of venom toward the Tilden Democrats was adopt ed, and committee of five members was appoin ted to confer with the regular State Committee in regard to a State Convention John Kelly was at the head of the committee which prepared the address.
 General Grant has accepted an invi-
 tation and is going to Boston the last ot
 September as the guest of the Middle sex Club. A grand banquet and recep- tion will be given in his honor, at which all the New England governors and many other distinguished men will be present.
 There was another shock of earth quake at Manila which lasted fifty-fi seconds. Not single public edifce was
 spared The convent of Guadaloupe which had lasted three centuries, was , destroyed. Nobody was killed. The inhabitants are encamped outside the ! town.
 The attempt to pump out the Hudson River tunnel shaft for the pur
 pose of recovering the bodies of the
 drowned workmen has been abandoned and 1t is now intended to sink large
 coffer- dam about the break.
 George Bonnet, the murderer of tht Hon. George Brown, of Toronto, was hanged on Friday.
 General Ramirez, with forty men has commenced new revolution il Mexico. He attacked the barracks or the 26th ult. The fight lasted severa , hours, some thirty being killed and as
 many more wounded. He expects to have an army of 5000 men in shor time, as many of the Federal troops art f joining his forces.
 Ex-Governor B. Gratz Brown, O : Missouri, has announced himself as { l Democratic candidate. before the mex @ Legislature, for the United State t Senate.
 About 2,OOO people participated il the decennial celebration of the settle ;- ment of New Sweden, Maine, Friday [. Speeches were made by Senator Ham : lin, Governor Chamberlain, Colone u Stone and others.
 ,, Nor SATISFIED. A gentleman of tn }, civil service in British Burmah recent | anDlied for leave on Ilrpent private at