Connecticut western news., 1882-03-08

l ACA"oAfO tO Gu0 CO1udS0 Ol SOlu huU S41- yer coins and to provide for the issue of paper certificates for silver bullion. The principal changes in existing coin- age laws proposed by the bill are: The one-dollar and three, dollar coins are struck from the list of gold coins and the trade dollar from the list of silver coins; the standard silver dollar, coined as now provided by law, is made the unit of value; the subsidiary silver coins are made of full standard value, and all the gold and silver coin author thorized by law are made legal tender for all sums at their nominal value..
 The nominations of ex-Senators Conkllng and Sargent were reported favorably and were placed upon the Senate calendar.
 There are rumors of impending l Cabinet changes, one of them being to the effect that William B. Chandler is to be made to Postmaster. General. ..--
 The Grand Jury indicted for con- spiracy Samuel G. Cobeli, John N. Miller and Charles H. Dickson, the l straw-surety post-route men. Miner and Dickson are further indicted for perjury.
 The House Committee on Naval Ali. fairs have favorably reported the New Navy bill, the principal features oi which have already been made public.
 The President signed the joint resolution appropriating $1O0, 900 for the relief of destitute persons in the district overflowed by the Mississippi River.
 The Grand Jury has made twenty presentments in the Star-route straw bond cases.
 l In the House the Post-off1ce Appro- l priation bill was passed.
 The grand jury returned indict- ments against Augustus O. Soteldo for the murder of his brother, A. M. Sotel- do, jr., and for assault with intent to kill Clarence M. Barton.
 l FOREIGN ITEMS.
 As Queen Victoria was entering her carriage on Thursday evening at the Windsor station-yard man deliberately | fired pistol at her. To judge from the report the pistol was not heavily loaded. The Queen, who was probably not aware of what had happened, was immediately driven to the Castle, but before she passed, the man had been seized by the Superintendent of the Borough Police, who was stand ing near by. He was also violently seized by the crowd and was only rescued from them-when three or four police. men came to the Superintendent's assist. ance. The pistol was captured by one of the crowd.
 The man, who gave his name as Rod. erick MacLean, was miserably clad and dejected looking. He was taken into High street and thence conveyed to the police station in & cab, followed by 6 large crowd, which hooted. MacLean is said to be an inhabitant of Southsea and is twenty-seven years old. He says that he is 8 grocer's assistant. The local doctors pronounce him sane. The re. volver is 8 -chambered Colts Amer. ican make. Two chambers were found loaded and two had been recently dis. charged. Fourteen ball cartridges were found on the prisoner. MacLean says that hunger actuated the crime. The Cabinet sent 8 dispatch to Windsor ex. pressing qualification at the failure ol the attempt at assassination. [ The Austrians have captured Uloy. The insurgents made desperate resis. tance.
 Mail advices from the west coast oi Africa report that ferry y-boat while crossing the Lagoon of Lagos, capsizei and that forty seven out of sixty persons on board were drowned.
 The Austrians are reported to have lost 200 men Tn an attack upon the Her zegovinian insurgents lately.
 General Skobeleff stopped at Vienns on his way to St. Petersburg and wa dogged by Austrian detectives.
 A collier has been wrecked eff Tar mouth. Twenty-three persons wer. drowned.
 One of the Nihilist prisoners who was sentenced to death, strucl Merkulaff, the informer, in the court room.
 Thirteen hundred fugitive Jews nov in Austria will be helped to emigrate t' the United States. | The Austrians have lost 116 killet and wounded in skirmishes with tn, Balkan insurgents since February 16. The Meath election, at which Michae Davitt was returned, has been declare, void. MT. Egan will be allowed to clain the seat.
 It is said that MT. Parnell has sui ,. fered weeks solitary confinement fo attempting to bribe turnkey to talk :, out letter. ), In his contest with the Lords MT } Gladstone is supported by all sections o
 he Liberal party and by contingen of Home Rulers. , Ten Nihilist prisoners, includin, , one woman, have been condemned t, . death at St. Petersburg.
 Eight persons have been indicted at Vienna for criminal negligence in con a nection with the Ring theatre fire. Tn trial will begin in May.
 Germany and Austria are strength 3 ening their eastern fortifcation. , A dispatch to the London Standort from Vienna reports that by an explo . sion in coal mine at Leoben, in Styria ? ? 150 persons have been killed, so far a ascertainable.
 Lieutenant Danenhower, who B still suffering from the affection of hi s eyes, has been forbidden by his physi 8 cians to start for St. Petersburg unti
 the weather gets warmer The remain
 der of the survivors of the Jeanette vii
 therefore start without him. 8 Tt is believed that fifteen of tn ] Nihilists now on trial at St. Petersburg 3 will be sentenced to death.
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