Connecticut western news., 1881-03-30
NEWS OF THE DAY
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lie mas lett for Mexico. ! I-Yonng Kalloob, the son of Mayor Kalloch. of San Francisco, who was on. triaffor nearly two months on the charge of numbering Charles De Young. editor of the San Francisco Chronicle last April, il,=was acquitted. The jury were out twenty-four hours. When Kalloch was discharged and got into carriage an immense crowd took the horses from the vehicle and pulled him to his house, some three miles distant.
 s, The Rhode Island Democratic State convention, nominated the following ticket Governor-Horace A. Kimball, of Providence; Lieutenant Governor Thomas W. Segar, of Westerly Score tary of State-J. G. Perry, of South Kingston Attorney General Francis s=L. O'Rielly, of Woonsocket General Treasurer-zArnold l.. Burdick, of New port. The following resolution was spassed': Resolved, That the unmauly, dishonest and treacherous course of Senator Malone, in aiding and abetting by his vote, the Republican party in direct opposition to the sentiment of the people of his State, thereby violating the trust placed in him by the Legisla- Atnfe of Virginia, merits the condemna- ton of this convention.
 The President nomin ated State Senator Robertson to be Collector of the port of New York; Collector Mer- ritt to be Consul General at London j; William Walter Phelps, of New Jersey, to be Minister to Austria, and William E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, to be Solicitor General.
 The assessed valuation of the real sSandi personal property of New York Slate according to the forthcoming cen- asns report is g., ,679, 13s, 133.
 The total values of the exports of damestic- breadstuffs from the United Sta1es during February last were $13, ,919, ,246, and during February, 1880, $14,426, ,S44. -tE
 -The President has nominated Stew sartsL. Woodford to be United States District Attorney and Lewis F., Payn to be United States Marshal for the Southern District, and Asa W. Penney to be United States District Attorney for the Eastern District of New York State.
 The Sedfate confirmed Henry G. Pearson as Postmaster of New York city. -----.
 MT. Voorhees, introduced resolu- ton in the United States Senate reprimanding the national banks for their recent action in connection with the+Funding bill.
 The news that Indians had mas- sacred thirty persons and burned nine- teen wagons at Puerto del Chocolate, near Janos, Mexico, about sixty miles south of the United States territory, is confirmed by dispatches to General Sheridan from the commanding officer asFort4 Bliss.5
 The brig George, of New Haven, with the captain and five of the crew, has been lost at sea, of the West h. dies.
 The U. $. Senate confirmed the nominations of Mr. Levi P. Morton as Minister to France, and Mir. Horton as Secretary to the American Commission to the Monetary Conference. The nomination of Capta1n Richard l.. Law to be Commodore has been withdrawn.
 Joseph Schell was instantly killed and four or five others seriously injured by the sudden falling of brick build ing in Rochester, N. r., Monday. The loss is estimated at $20,000.
 Eighteen children died of diphther1a at Thurso Village, Ont, last week.
 The Boston Board of Trade passed resolutions, Saturday, to tHe effect that early in the next session Congress should pass bill for the distribution of the balance remaining from the Geneva award among those who were obliged to pay extra insurance against the risk of capture by Confederate cruisers.
 Mir. F. B. Harper, Midway, Ky, has priced his stallion Ten Broeck, nine years old, by imported Phaeton, dam Fanny Relton, by Lexington, to party for $75,0 900.
 Senator Frye, Mir. Blaines suc- cessor, was sworn in Friday, thus con- pleting the full strength of the Republi- cans. The Senate is now tie at 37 to 37, and Vice-President Arthur twice cast deciding vote Friday, once on motion to indefinitely postpone MT. Pendleton's organization resolution and again on MT. Anthony's resolution submitting the committee lists as arranged by the Republicans. Malone attracted some attention by casting one vote with the Democrats, but when his blunder was pointed out he changed it.
 The Sprague divorce case, it is understood, is to be tried on April IS. Testimony is now taking in Boston.
 The Rhode Island House of Repre- sentatives rejected the Senate resolution of sympathy with Ireland by vote of 16 to 26.
 FOREIGN.
 By the burning of the opera house at Nice 100 lives were lost. The fire was caused by gas explosion, and stam- pede followed. The killed were nearly all Italian artisans. It was at first be- ieyed that number of Americans visit ing Italy had lost their lives by the dis aster, but this is now known not to be - the case.
 The French Minister of Marine has received dispatch from the Governor of Senegal reporting an engagement between 1,500 natives and 150 French infantry, who had been detailed to es- tablish telegraph line to Futa-Djallon. After sharp fighting the natives were repulsed, and fled with loss of 100 killed and wounded. The French lost four officers and nine men killed and nine wounded.
 A fire broke out in the Italian Opera- House at Nice Wednesday even- ing shortly after the commencement of the performance. There was the usual panic and rush for the doors. The building was destroyed in an honr. The bodies of fourteen persons killed by suf- location or from being trampled upon havesbeen taken. out and placed in the church opposite the Opera House. It is feared that 8 hundred people perished.
 The Boer negotiations have resulted in neaoe The countrv will remain nj. .