Connecticut western news., 1882-04-26
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CTS. lie says the Cons6ltuUonanty Ot law making appropriations in aid of permanently locating and deepening the channel and protecting the banks of the Mississippi, and improving its navigation, etc., cannot be questioned. He added that he desires to leave 1t to the judgment of Congress to decide upon the best plan for the permanent complete improvement of the river, and for the protec- tion of the valley. He urges the pro- priety of closing the gaps in the levees made by the recent floods and of inau- gurating means for tho permanent i'm provenlent of the navigation of the river and the security of the valley. It may be, he says, that such system of improvement would, as it progressed, require the appropriation of $20, ,000,- 900 or $30, ,000, 900, but even such an ex- penditure, extending as it must over several years, cannot be regarded as ex- travagant in view of the immense inter- ests involved.
 The new Chinese bill with several amendments will be favorably reported to the Senate by the Foreign Affairs | Committee.
 1 | Sixty families have just been evict- cd by the Marquis of Sligo.
 The reports of outrages on Jews in the vicinity of Odessa have been re- ceived Whole streets have been wrecked and ?, ,000 families are ruined.
 The death of Dr. Darwin, the emi- dent philosopher and naturalist, is an nounced.
 l -MacLean, who shot at the Queen, is to be kept in custody during Her Majesty's pleasure.
 During the anti-Jewish riots in Podolia fully one thousand houses were destroyed; the damage is estimated at ] f, 800, ,00O rubles.
 A dispatch from Rangoon says the King of Burmah has massacred his in ferior wife and two sisters, the Finance Minister and fifty palace officials. Dispatches from Darlington state that fifteen persons have been killed by colliery explosion at West Stanley. -Roderick MacLean, who attempted to shoot Queen Victoria, has been tried on charge of high treason and yer. dict of not guilty recorded on the ground of his insanity. A proposal for a cutting that will | flood the Desert of Sahara has met with the approval of the French authorities. It will cost $13, ,000, 900. The ex-Syndic of Palermo, who was abducted by brigands, was liberated after the payment of ransom oi e2, 900.
 An explosion occurred in the Black Horse Colliery, and thirty five persons were killed. Seven persons were res cued. They were badly burned. Four bodies were recovered from the colliery. Fourteen persons are still missing A riot occurred Tuesday at Gam. borne, in Cornwall, Eng, caused by ill feeling against the Irish miners. 4 mob wrecked the houses of the Irish men andIa Catholic church.
 Conditional release has been offered to American subjects which has no been accepted. The American Minister has been instructed to demand thei trial or release.
 Five thousand workmen Fin Pari are on strike.
 MT. O'Brien, editor of the Unitet Ireland, has been internationally re leased from prison. Rev. Mir. Higgin has been liberated on bail.
 A letter in the Paris Temps say that war is openly declared against al Europeans in official positions in Egypt The Arab papers advocate the expul sion of Europeans from the public ser | vine