Connecticut western news., 1883-07-04

Six fishermen were drowned at Ire passy, N. F., by the swamping of their boat in a heavy sea.
 A special from Missoula, Montana, says that on Saturday Northern Pa citic gravel train, with about 100 China men on board, ran into wood train at the Heron siding, instantly killing eighteen Chinamen and wounding about twenty-five others The engineer of the gravel train was killed and the fire man badly injured.
 Among the applicants for admission to West Point who have passed an excel- lent examination is John H. Alexander, a young colored man from Ohio.
 The sentence of Paynlaster Wasson, of the United States army, is that he be discharged dishonorably from the ser vice and be confined at hard labor in penitentiary for eighteen months. Gen. eral Argus approves the sentence.
 By the burning of row of small dwellings in Milford, Mass, nine fami- lies lost their household goods and one man his life. .-.. ...
 Tine savings bank at Woodbury, Conn.,, was entered and robbed by burg lars.
 At Charleston, S. O., some thirty colored politicians have signed 8 call for 8 convention to be held at Columbia in July to elect twenty-five delegates to the National Colored Convention.
 The captured hostiles have arrived at San Carlos. Rumors of the intentions 1f the government cause General Crook great trouble in carrying out his plans.
 Perry P. Long, aged seventeen years, was shot and killed in hayloft, near Durham, N. H., by James Glidden, his companion, aged nineteen years.
 Severe floods have taken place on the Mississippi River. The levees have been broken through near Alton and over 35,O00 acres flooded and the crops destroyed. The damage to the crops on the river will amount to many thousand dollars, and hundreds of farmers will be ruined.
 Robert H. Parks & Co.,, doing busi. ness in the New York Stock, Cotton and Produce exchanges, suspended Tuesday, as is said, in consequence of the great Chicago lard failure. Their Chicago correspondents, however, deny that the responsibility for their trouble rests there.
 FOREIGN ITEMS
 The House of Lords has rejected the ''Deceased Wifes Sister" bill.
 A conspiracy is said to exist in Ger many to betray the governments mlli- tary secrets.
 British shipowners are desirous of constructing Suez canal independent of the French Company. a.
 Peruvian towns are pronouncing for Iglesias as President.
 Chinese Gordon says that the Chi France good deal of trouble, the at tack having to be made by sea. If the Chinese were educated they would be able to resist the whole world.
 intelligence has been receive~. from Sierre Leone that the recent British operations against Chief Gbpowe were attended with great atrocities on the part of native allies, who butchered and mutilated all the males taken prisoners. The allies lost over 100 men killed dur ing the attack upon the main fort, which was captured. Eighty-two of the enemy were killed by a single shot,
 A dispatch from Cardiff states that an explosion has occurred in a colliery there, by which two persons were killed and twelve injured.
 In Dervio, on the shore of Lake Como, while 8 performance was in progress at puppet theatre, the structure took fire and was entirely destroyed. The show was held in large hall over tavern. There were ninety persons in the hall. A Ben gal light was used to represent fire, and sparks from this set fire to quantity of straw and tirewood stored ill an adjacent room. On perceiving the flames the snowman shouted "Fire P but the spectators thought the cry was merely realistic detail of the show, and re- mained seated. Cries of fire were soon raised outside the hall. The audience, thinking an affray had arisen in the street, barred with 8 heavy table the door leading from the hall They did not discover their mistake until the flames burst into the room. After the fire was extinguished forty-seven charred corpses were found near the table, in- cluding the bodies of the snowman and his wife.
 An Irish lace exhibition has been opened in London.
 Lynch, the informer, has been re- leased.
 A collision occurred on the Havana and Matanzas Railroad, Cuba Eight persons were killed and many injured. The number of the wounded is not yet known, the sufferers having been sent to Matanzas. ,~
 An affray occurred at Curragh, Ireland, between militia. The af- fray was between North Mayo and Dublin militiamen. and not between the former and the British troops as at first reported. It originated in 8 gam bling dispute, during which the Mayo men called the Dublin men "Careys" and "Invincibles. The fight lasted over an hour, each side using stones and firearms freely. The conflict was only quelled by the officers threat ening to fire upon the men. One of the men wounded was sergeant. Seven teen in all were wounded.
 Severe fighting has occurred at Miragoane, Hayti. During an attack on the 27th ut. the rebel general Brutus Casimir, was killed. On the fol- lowing day the government forces met with severe repulse. The insurgents are strongly fortified. Twenty-four of the ringleaders of the insurgents were shot at St. Louis and ten at Cavallon. The troops are closely besieging Jeremie