Connecticut western news., 1880-11-24
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

ernmental action to prevent the spread of pleuro-pneumonia
 MT. Gairdner, landlord in Gal way, Ireland, was tarred and feathered by body of armed men Wednesday night.
 -Sheik Abdullah attacked the Per sians at Urumiah on the 18th inst. The loss was heavy on both sides. The Kurds were repulsed They burned Q village and massacred 200 inhabitants in their retreat.
 Tho British ship Galatea, bound LOT Bombay, has foundered off Cape Clear. Twenty-one persons were drowned.
 It is announced that the Chilian squadron left Valparaiso few days ago with troops for the purpose of landing at Callao and besieging Lima.
 Mary White has recovered judg- ment for $2,OOO against the proprietor of Chicago candy store whose soda face.
 Tho Vermont Senate has refused to pass bill reducing the number of Su- preme Court Judges from seven to six. John Gill was killed and three men were seriously injured by railroad ac- cident near Altoona, Pa., Thursday.
 The total values of the exports of domestic breadstuffs from the United States during the month of October, 1880, were S25, I'll, 469, and during Oc- tober, 1879, $33, ,049,607.
 In his report to the Secretary of the Treasury Second Auditor Ferriss makes statement showing the expenditures on account of the war of the rebellion chargeahle to appropriations on the books of the office The amount dis bursed on account of said war up to June 30, 1879, was $1 ,558, 138, ,343.98.
 -Rhetta, the daughter of William Macdonald, of Huntington, Pa, was ac. cidentally shot and killed Tuesday, while handling @ loaded pistol. She was ten years old.
 A dispatch from Corsicana, Texas, says a special train, carrying four com panies of the 16th Infantry, struck a broken rail, four miles above that place, ditching four coaches. Twenty five men were wounded, several seri- ously.
 The spinners of Fall River held a meeting Wednesday, and decided to ask an increase in wages of ten per cent. The manufacturers decided, in the fall ing state of the market, to make nc change at present.
 The Government of Santo Domingo has asked all American Governments tc join in subscription to erect monu. ment over the remains of Christopher Columbus.
 A mother, three children and gir visitor were suffocated by gas in Cleve land, O., Tuesday night. One cbild is dead and the others will probably die
 The Minnesota State Insane Asylum at St. Peter, was burned on Monday with loss of fifteen lives. The build ing was crowded with inmates, and as the poor wretches were driven in thei1 night clothes and barefooted out into the snow the scenes was heartrending in the extreme The patients in the annex wing were males. Many of them re. fused to leave the building at all. They ran up and down the halls, screaming and crying, and those who could not be forced out became the unhappy victims of the flames, and were suffocated ol suffered a horrible death in the pit oi the flames The air was bitterly cold and the poor wretches who escaped with half naked bodies and bleeding feet were rushing about, hiding in alleys and dark corners for some time.
 Three small children of Hyatt Hut ton died at Wilmington, Del. It was thought that death was caused by scar let fever, but accidental poisoning was found to be the cause. It is stated that the children ate uncooked sweet pota- toes, on the vines of which Paris green had been sprinkled.
 Tt is suggested in London that the Government should purchase land ex. tensively in Ireland and distribute it on fair terms among the poorer tenants.
 Train No. 21 on the Lehigh Valley Railroad was wrecked near Millcreek, Pa., by broken rail Tuesday. Fire. man Sweeney and Engineer Murphy were killed.
 Two thirds of the town of Newport Ark, was burned on Monday, and about two hundred families rendered home less. The loss Is estimated at $2OO, ,OOO
 General Sherman's annual repor shows the army to be in good condition and advocates the selection of places fo1 permanent garrisons. He says the or ganization of the army provides for Il general officers, 555 officers, and 1,28( enlisted men for the staff; 1889 officers and 24,214 enlisted men for the line Of these latter, 694 are detailed as clerk or recruits unassigned to regiments reducing the possible force for militar, service to 23,520 enlisted men, an( renews his recommendation of last yea that Congress be asked to give 25, ,OOt enlisted men specifically to the troop. of the line of the army.
 Referring to the Whitaker cas, Gen. Sherman in his annual report says "A thorough, patient, close investiga ton in the midst of 0 tumult of abus resulted in perfect vindication of tn authorities of that academy.
 The Czar of Russia has commute, the sentence of death passed upon thre of the convicted Nihilists to imprison ment for life.
 It is said in England that if tn Boycott relief expedition performs it mission in safety the Habeas Corpus ac will not be suspended, but that Parlia ment will be called very early and a. Irish land measure proposed, which, rejected, will cause the dissolution c Parliament and an appeal to the coun try.
 Willie Sprague, son of ex-Governo Sprague, was tried at Wakefield, R. L Saturday on charges of assault with dangerous weapon and assault with il tent to kill MT. Thompson, his mother trustee. He was discharged.
 A lad named Frederick Palmer, so of the manager of the Western Unio Telegraph Office in Elmira, N. Y, hs : lost an eye from epizootic poisoning The other eye is endangered. It seen tha lad uined his face mith O hnndlrn