Connecticut western news., 1881-06-22

At the General Synod Ot the Iutn- eran Church held in Altoona, Pa., the Board of Church Extension rccom- mended, and the convention enacted, that the General Synod shall not grant permission to congregations to go before the churches for aid, or to make appeals through the Church papers, and that 8 Especial ordination fund" should be created to donate funds where circum- stances may require it.
 It is rumored that the charges against Cadet Whitaker have been sus- tained by the court martial.
 Three men were killed Sunday by an explosion on the wrecking steamer B. X J. Baker off Cape Henry beach.
 Ten men have been killed in fight thieves.
 The Czar has commuted the death sentence passed upon two Kieff Nihilists to penal servitude for life. Eight others, including four women, have been sent to Siberia.
 The first detachment of troops from Tunis has arrived in France. The Alge- rian insurgents have demolished fac tory near Saida and killed sixty team sters. Many women and children are missing.
 It is charged that the Turkish troops attempted to burn the town of Arta before surrendering it to the Greeks.
 The Paris National states that an attempt was made on Wednesday to blow up the statue of Thiers at St. Ger main with 8 box of gunpowder. The statue was slightly injured. An inquiry into the outrage has been instituted.
 -Iroquois won the St. James Palace Stakes at Ascot Thursday, and Foxhall was beaten by Robert the Devil for the Gold Cup. There was also rumor that Foxhall had been objected to for the Grand Prix. The winners at the Sheeps- head Bay Course were Thora, Gerald, Glenmore and Highland Fling.
 The American horse Iroquois, the winner of the Derby stakes in England, on Tuesday won the Prince of Wales stakes at Ascot.
 The French Minister of War said that the relations between France and Germany were of the most cordial kind.
 It is reported that the Nihilist Hartman has been arrested by the Ger man authorities, surrendered to Russian agents at the frontier and conveyed to St. Petersburg.
 It is again repor ted that MT. Fors- ter is about to resign the Chief -Secre- taryship for Ireland, ard that he will be succeeded by MT. Charles Russell, the member for Dundalk.
 There is 8 general strike of dock laborers at Hull, England, and the trade of that port is almost stopped.
 The proposed International Social ist Congress at Zurich has been pro- hibited by the city authorities.
 Another Nihilist proclamation has been issued from the office of the Nihilist journal, WSU of the People, headed "Trial and Torture" and declaring that the assassins of the late Czar were tor tured before their execution, Rousakoff having informed the crowd to that effect while on his way to the scaffold.
 Special precautions have been taken to protect the houses of Parliament in London from outrages by "skirmish- CTS, and to prevent the introduction of explosives in the coal bunkers of iron clads. The two skirmishers arrested at Liverpool will be defended by MT. Commins, member for Roscommon.
 Twelve vessels are fast in the ice at Oregrund, in the Gulf of Bothnia. Two schooners have foundered there and the fate of their crews is unknown.
 MT. J. R. Keene's bay colt Foxhall, ridden by the jockey Fordham, won the race for the Grand Prize of Paris, about mile and seven furlongs, in 3.17, beat ing nine other starters.
 Fifteen members of an Italian ex- ploring party have been massacred in the interior of Africa.