Connecticut western news., 1880-07-28
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

LII 0uo f6FIuOub DemOCraG1C SCaG0 Convention Edward J. Phelps, of Bur- hngton, was unanimously nominated for Governor; for Lieutenant-G Governor, George w. Gates, of White River Juno ton, was nominated; for Treasurer, James K. Williams, of Bellows Falls, and for Presidential Electors at Large, Cyrus Jennings, of Hubbardton, and J. W. Bliss, of Bradford. The resolutions adopted indorse the platform of princi- pies adopted by the Democratic Conven- tion at Cincinnati and ratify the nomina- nons of Hancock and English.
 The Ono Democratic State Con- vention nominated Judge Wm. Long for Secretary of State. It was resolved that the Democracy of Ohio adopt as their own the National Democratic plat form.
 The California Greenback State Convention nominated W. A. Howe, for Congressman from the Third District, and J. D. Godfrey, from the Fourth District. The platform adopted by the convention indorses the Chicago platform.
 A convict named Vonderhide es- capped from Ethe penitentiary at Frank fort, Ky, Tuesday morning. The next morning, at Brownsborough, he assailed and murdered colored girl named Re becca Johnson, thirteen years old. Von- derhide was captured in the neighbor- hood.
 The Missouri Democratic State Con- vention nominated Thomas T. Critten- den for Governor, with full State ticket The platform reported accepts and indorses the principles embodied in the platform adopted by the National Convention in June.
 It is reported that the Turcomans have captured and beheaded the Russian General, Skobeleff
 By an explosion of powder in the Russian artillery works at Koorsk, eighteen persons were killed and twelve wounded
 MT. O. B. Simonton has been nomi- mated for Congress in the Ninth Tenne- see District by the Democratic Conven- tion.
 The Democratic Convention at Car bondale, H., have nominated Judge Hlteman, of Union county, for Congress from the Eighteenth District.
 The Republican Convention of the
  J. W. Keller for Congress.
 The Governor and Council of New Hampshire, in report of the investiga- tion of charges against the Warden and Deputy Warden of the State Prison, fully vindicate those officials on each of the forty-five charges presented. . Boston has population of 363, ,565, an increase of T ,066 in ten years.
 The bark Bertolotto Savona was run into by the schooner William l.. Abbott at Gloucester, Mass. The boatswain was drowned and the captain badly cut on the head.
 James Wood, aged sixty, an engi- neer, was murdered at Bull Run, Pa., by men supposed to have been Molly Ma guires.
 In Detroit, Mich, while the clerk ln the bank of Fisher, Preston & Go. was alone stranger asked to buy some Government bonds. As the clerk was about to reply, the stranger suddenly struck him on the temple with slung shot. The blow felled him to the floor and rendered him insensible. When he recovered between $4,000 and 5000 in currency which had been lying on the counter had disappeared.
 At o. m. on Wednesday the caisson surrounding the deep we'll leading to the entrance of the Hudson River tunnel, in course of construction at the foot of Sixteenth street in Jersey City, caved in, carrying with it an immense quantity of earth. Twenty-eight men were buried. Eight were soon after taken out alive nnd fxvaptx ,ovnospo1 A water from the river flowed in rapidly and the steam fire engines were set to work to, if possible, save those who might still be alive, from drowning, but 1t was impossible to do this, and they perished. . ....
 It is stated that General Grant vii shortly be formally offered the Presi dency of the Nicaragua Canal Company
 Earl Spencer has just stated to a deputation that the British Government will not remove the restrictions on the importation of foreign cattle.
 A great number of Jesuits expelled from France are now at Rome.
 Judge Freedman, in the Superio Court of New York, holds that action for damages for lives lost in the Narra gansett disaster can go on n 8 State Court although proceedings were pend ing in United States Court.
 The steamer Dessoug, Lieutenant Commander H. H. Gorringe, U. s. N., master, having for freight the obelisk presented to the city of New York by the Khedive of Egypt, arrived in New York on Monday.
 One person was killed, three fatally and thirty-seven slightly injured by a railroad accident near Knoxs Siding, O., Monday.
 -Thomas Brothroyd, wealthy farmer living in Howard, Kent county, Ontario, was attacked, while going through a small woods near Ridgetown, by a hog that had been running wild for three years, and had grown to an enormous size, with tusks like a wild boar, and killed.
 In compliance with the act of Con- gress of April g, 1880, which provides for the holding of an international ex- hibition in the city of New York in 1883, the Secretary of the State has addressed letter to each of the members of the Finance Committee and to each Com missioner and commissioner alternate appointed by the President to represent the States and Territories at the said ex, hibition informing them that on the tenth day of August next he will call to, gether at New York City the information al commission for the purpose of effect ing permanent organization.
 A dispatch from Rio de Janeiro dated July 1, by the way of Lisbon, says "Election riots have occurred at Vic toria, in the province of Pernambuco The military fired on the people ant killed twenty, including Baron Escada Many were wounded"