Connecticut western news., 1881-04-13
NEWS OF THE DAY
GENERAL ITEMS.

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 < ssaIohn ". Williams, who murdered sns"aie in April, 1877, was hanged at fyerly, Tenn, on Friday, in the presence of 900 people. He was bap-
 azed methe creek near the jail in the morning by Elder Thomas of the Nerznern Methodist Church.
 Captain Thrasher, of the schooner Nathaniel H. Skinner, of Taunton, trem Boston for Philadelphia, reports that on the 9th lnst his vessel was in collision with the schooner Fred Brown @S*z4 Rroyidence, Captain Small, from New York, and that the latter vessel sRnk immediately. The captain, mate ssapd wife, and three children. and one seaman of the Brown were drowned.
 --Geerge Hoover, fourteen years old, deliberately shot and killed his sister at sunbury. Pas Wednesday, after a quarrel at the dinner table. ,zs .GThe Society of Friends of the town <ek.shrewsbury, N. J., has disbanded ana the meeting house is to be sold on
 @prs Simpson, of Watertown, N. Y, sayss5that the cattle disease which is already affecting several herds in that SEieauity is murrain. The fatal cases are nhp1 Jar confined to one herd.
 -The Appropriations made by the U. 5. Congress for the fiscal year 1882 exceed .$177, ,000,000, or more than $6. COG, 600 greater than the appropria- tons made for any previous fiscal year. z>-While Mary Falcon was burning straw Tn a field near Gaston, N. O., her clothing took fire and she was roasted to daath.
 The Connecticut House passed the bill gedistrieting the State; making twenty -four instead of twenty one Sena- toriak districts. The Senate reconsid- cred and killed the law chasing cider with Atoxicating drinks in regulating liquor sales.
 In the United States Senate on Thursday Mr. Vance spoke on North Cafollna. finances, denying that the State had ever repudiated her honest obllgaGons. North Carolina bonds are quoted at 85, and MT. Sherman admit ted that that was fair price for four per cent State bond.
 zAt Albany, on Thursday, the New York City Citizens Committee Street. Cleaning bill was voted down by 66 to o5 after long debate.
  stltution, giving women the suffrage in stete elections, has been adopted by
 Ih New York city Edward Her. man Johannes Sagert, who had heer sending blackmailing letters to Mr: Louis Strasburger, and pre- tepping that they came from Nihilist l committee. was decoyed and arrested by Detective Campbell. While struggling | to escape, Sagert was shot dead, acci- dsntdly as Campbell claims.
 The Democrats elected the Mayor and 9, majority of the city officers of gmaha, and the Republicans those of | St. Louis. The majority of Harrison, the Democratic candidate for Mayor of | Chicago, is oyer 1000. In Leadville | the Republcan candidate for Mayor was elected.
 A caucus of the Republican mem- befs of the Pennsylvania Legislature adopted resolution indorsing the posi- ton of the Republicans in the United States Senate.
 MT. Bay ard made a speech in the Senate on Wednesday defending the Democratic position in resisting the election of officers. Senator Sherman again defended Senator Malone for the position he has taken.
 Captain Charles Cunningham Boy- colt, of Ulster County, Ireland, arrived In New York on Tuesday with his fam He will make short stay here. He IS the man whose exploits orig ginated the word r Boycotting."
 sGLater reports from Dakota Terri toEy say that large number of lives were lost by the floods. Intelligence received from Bonhomme is to the effect thae out of fourteen persons ten have been rescued alive and well. Two fami. lies named Bates and Haddeman were drowned. Seven other families were lost six miles from Bonhomme. At 1ankton the river was six miles wide and filled with broken ice.
 --A Mormon, convicted of bigamy in Utah, has appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States, where he has won his case, the United States Court reversing the decision of the Utah Court.
 A delegation of colored Republi- cans from Baltimore waited upon Presi- dent Garfield and claimed a share of patronage on the ground that negroes constituted more than a majority of the Republican voters in Maryland. The President told them that color could in itseli be neither 8 recommendation nor bar.
 && szs7szA FOREIGN.
 Ten thousand French troops have landed in Algeria for the attack on Tupas. es The Tunisian tribes are ready for war.
 The Duke of Argyll, in giving his reasons for withdrawing from the En- glishs Cabinet, said he was opposed to the Irish Land bill because it depriyes the landlord of the lard without giving it absolutely to the peasant.
 Shocks of earthquake continue at goods and medicines are shipped from Syga by each steamer. Two hundred sappers have left the Pireus in a eun- boat to bury the dead. The number Of the killed Is variously estimated at fromA A9e0 to 5000. The injured are more, than twice the number of the killed, A Constantinople dispatch saws atleass 8, 600 persons were killed, The mayor of the island appeals for every sort of relief. Forty thousand persons are without bread. Prominent Athenians are aiding the Government in affordinp relief.
 gThe trial of Roussakoff and his ac- conpices, in Russia, has begun. The reading of the indictment occupied two hours. The Nihilists offer to the Rms sian government to cease their work in return for an amnesty and constitu- tlon. Another mine has been discovered near the Winter Palace. Jeliahoff ono