Connecticut western news., 1880-12-08
NEWS OF THE DAY
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 -Secretary Thompson, of the United States Navy Department, in his annual report, states that the expenses of the Department were $1, ,788, ,005 within the estimates, and favors subsidies to steam ship companies.
 -Hanlan and Laycock have agreed to race for the championship of the world on the Thames for e500 @ side January IT.
 i-The ice in the Volga has sudden ly broken at Nijnii-Novgorod. Five steamers and thirty barges have been destroyed, and large quantities of grain, naphtha and fish have been lost. The damage is immense.
 The sloop c. B. Turnbull, Captain Elwell, of Rockland, Me-, went ashore inside Cape Cod at three o'clock Tues day morning, near Peaked Hill Bar, one- fourth of Q mile from the life saving sta tion No. 2. Captain D. H. Atkins, of the station, and his crew went to the rescue. The life boat was swamped and : three of the crew, Captain D. H. Atkins, Elisha Taylor and s. F. Mayo, lost tbeir lives, dying at their posts.
 The trial of the Warren County (Miss.) Election Commissioners ended Wednesday. After reviewing all the law and facts in the case, Judge Hill, iu the United States Court, instructed the jury to acquit the prisoners and yer dict of acauittal was rendered without the jury leaving the box.
 The debt of the United States was decreased during the month of Novem- her the SJlrn of S3 60Q 061
 The receipts for tolls on the New York State canals for the week ending November p were $47, ,41S.82. For the corresponding period last year the amount received was $34, 723. 38. Last year the receipts were $941, 573.97, and this year they have reached $1, 155, COL 6a, a gain of $213, ,427.71.
 -Lucius Hotchkiss, a retired mer- chant and banker, died suddenly at New Haven, Conn.,, Monday. A few minutes before his death his wife, who had gone in to see him, on being informed that he was dying fell dead on the bed on which he was lying. He was seventy-eight years of age and she was seyenty-two.
 The first mate of the steamer Ortigia, which sank the Oncle Joseph off Spizzia, Italy, by which 250 lives were lost, states that seeing single masthead light about 8 kilometre ahead he deemed it the light of a merchant man and ordered the Ortigia's helm to be ported, expecting the merchant man to do the same, but the Oncle Joseph star boarded her helm until she saw the ortigia bearing down upon her, when she ported, describing semicircle and exposing her flank. The mate of the Ortigia then ordered her engines to be reversed, but 1t was too late, and the Ortigia's prov drove inside the Oncle Joseph. Few of the sleepers aboard the Oncle Joseph had time to rush on deck before the vessel sank.
 Five members of an Italian family named Palinghi are lying dangerously i'll in Chicago, H., from the effect of eating ham sausage meet alive with trichin@.
 Mrs. Mary Weishar was found guilty of murder in the first degree at St. Paul, M1nn., for killing her hus- band in April last.
 The steamer Simcoe has been lost on Lake Huron with fourteen lives. The steamer Columbia reports that while passing stThe Ducks," she encountered large portions of the wreckage of a steamer, with which the lake is strewn for miles. She saw life preserver marked stSimcoe." The Columbia searched for hours, but failed to find any tidings of the crew. It is the general opinion that the Simcoe struck on Mag ic Reef, off "The Ducks," and went to pieces in the great gale.
 -The Colorado Legislature will stand: Senate Republicans, 23; Demo, crats, 3. House-Republicans 46 Democrats, 13. The Republican ma jority on joint ballot is B.
 A boiler exploded in Andrew Moore's foundry at St. Charlotte, Mich. Saturday, killing George Moore, his son, and another man whose name is unknown, and severely injuring foul others.
 A large land meeting was held il Sligo Saturday. Messrs. Davitt, Dillo1 and Sexton were present. Two bottles of gunpowder were found under tn, platform before the meeting began.
 The battalion of the Guards or dered to Ireland numbers eight hundreC men, and contains very few, if any Irishmen. The battalion left London for Dublin Wednesday.
 "A dispatch from Ragusa states tha news from all parts of the country ten' to confirm the reports of a general re volt in Albania against the Turks.
 Sixty men were buried in an ava lanche on the Denver and Rio Grand Road Saturday, and one man was kille and all the others injured.
 Manager Abbey has decided not t produce the "Passion Play" in Ne7 York. Public sentiment was little to much for the manager.
 From figures prepared in the Gen sus Bureau 1t appears that of the $698 381, ,750 of registered and A. per cent bonds issued, S27O, 773, $50 are owned b individual males, $72, ,672, 800 by ind vidual females, $166, 937, 300 by Stat banks and trust companies, $175, ,988 $50 by national banks, and $12, ,O19, ,OO abroad.
 The official returns of Colorad give the Garfield electors an averae majority of 5000 Pitkin, Republican for Governor, has a little over 5,OC majority, leading the rest of the Stat ticket by about 2,30O. The total vol was about 54, 900, an increase of 26,OC over 1878.
 The result of the Presidential vol in Arkansas was as follows: Hancoc electors, 60, 481 Garfield electors, Al 661 Weaver electors, 4,161.
 The Chicago Tribune furnishes u following statement of the vote, take from the official returns from every Sta in the Union, of the late President election : Garfield, 4,439, ,415: Ha cock, 4,436, ,014; Weaver, 305, 729; Do, R44 scattering 1 7Q2 total O 1QG