Connecticut western news., 1882-07-26

tu0 COTTSSpOuuluS uOutA III AoOAs
 The brewers of Milwaukee are talk ing extraordinary steps in Boycotting the merchants and other business men who recently signed a protest against theatrical representations on Sunday. They will not give dollar of business to merchants, and orders heretofore given are countermanded. The act has caused much excitement.
 -Aboy, nine years old, was killed by 8 COW at North Adams, Mass. he hay ing tied around his waist rope which was attached to the beast. Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, wife of the late President Lincoln, died at Springfield, Ill, on Sunday. She had been ill for some tune, but was not con- sidered dangerously so until Sunday morning.
 The men recently arrested in Ire. land as the supposed Phoenix Park assassins did not leave London, Ont., until May p, and consequently did not reach Dublin until after the tragedy had occurred.
 WASHINGTON NOTES. The House Committee on Judiciary having received specific charge that the Texas Pacific Land Grant bill had been passed through the Senate and House by bribery and fraud, decided to give the matter hearing on Tuesday.
 The minority of the House Com mittee report joint resolution forfeit ing all unpatented land grants to the Northern Pacific Railroad. Mrs. Scoville has filed notice in the Probate Court that she will contest the probate of any will of her brother Charles J. Guiteau.
 After long debate in the Senate on the proposed amendment to the Tax bill repeating the tax on bank capital and deposits, bank checks, drafts, etc., 1t was voted down-yeas 15, nays fl.
 The seat in the House from the Fourth Alabama district has been de- clared vacant.
 The Conference Committee takes $350, 900 from the Navy Appropriation bill as it passed the House. | A naval court of inquiry reports tha the loss of the United States steamer Rodgers at St. Lawrence Bay, Siberia, was probably occasioned by spontaneous combustion. It gives the officers and crew high praise.
 In the Senate petitions from tobac- co manufacturers protesting against a reduction of the tax were read and the measure was discussed.
 MT. Robinson, of New York, offered 8 resolution in the House calling on the Secretary of the Navy for the in structions under which Commodore Nicholson threatened to open fire upon \ k1,4 nSk oe Inso L..-- contingencies, and to inform the Gov. ernment whether American sailors and
 officers are performing police duty il
 Alexandria under the British Admiral,
 and if so by what authority. | FOREIGN rrEMs.
 Some Brazilian slaves, who have been illegally kept in slavery for twenty years by an English mining company brought suit for their freedom, which they won.
 The crops in the northwest of Ire. land are in 8 frightful condition.
 Turkey has agreed to enter the I Conference of Powers on the Egyptian question.
 M. de Lesseps declares that the passage of men, -of-war through the cana constitutes breach of its neutrality.
 -Arabi has diverted the Hahmou
 dieh Canal, which supplies the city ot Alexandria with water and has cut thu telegraph lines.
 Lieutenant Harber telegraphe6
 that he would search the Lena delta fol
 the missing boats crew of the Jean
 nette, and that he expected to return il
 October.
 A great fire broke out in Smyrna in Turkey in Asia, on Wednesday. | ragged seven hours. Fourteen hundret ,, houses were destroyed. Six thousand persons are homeless. One life wa l lost.
 -Arabi Pasha maintains that tn bombardment of Alexandria was an ac hostile to Egypt and contrary to tn 3 rights of the Sultan.
 f Two hundred and five European s are said to have been massacred Q 8 Kafr-el-Dewar, Egypt. 8 The Danish Arctic exploring shi t Deimphma, in command of Lieutenan ] Hovgaard, has sailed on her expedition ; The body of the Earl of Crawfor
 and Balcarres, which was stolen som !, months since from the family vault g Dunecht House, near Aberdeen, wa p found in the grounds of the house. 7 A dispatch from Dublin says s]
 IS feared that another crisis is approach L ing. The weather threatens utter dc n n struction to what promised to be one z the finest harvests ever reaped in Irt Z, land. The heavy and almost incessar . rains have laid low many hourishin : fields. Potatoes have suffered severely If the weather should improve thet 7, would still be hopes ofrecovery." l. France will cooperate with Eng @ land in protecting the Suez Canal. T A horrible catastrophe occurred i e Buenos Ayres during the celebration ( e funeral services in honor of Geners Garibaldi. A curtain in one of tn lodges caught fire. The edifce wa s crowded at the time, and in consequence ! of the crowd of people on the staircas T in their anxiety to escape, wall fe :. down, burying many of them. Twent 3 bodies were subsequently dug out of tn - ruins, and ten who were seriousl @ wounded.
 A serious railway accident occurre U on the Taltal Railway in Peru on tn
 18th of June, in which ten lives wer D lost and property valued at $!5, ,OOO ws
 destroyed.
 An insurgent Herzgovinian chic B has killed district governor, who wa
 recruiting and twenty-five of the soldier
 accompanying him.
 A woman has been shot at Balla 7 county Mayo, Ireland, for taking farr , from which the former tenants had bee evicted. She died soon after bein,
 taken home.
 , A Rnssian RObber.