Connecticut western news., 1883-01-31


 bring suit against the Union Pacific Railroad Company to recover about S1 1000, ,OOO, said to be due on account of percentages of net earnings.
 In the consideration of the tariff bill in the Senate the duty on pig iron was reduced to $6 per ton and that on Bes- semer steel rails to $15. The proviso in reference to scrap iron was, by request of the Senate Committee on Finance, passed over for further consideration.
 According to the figures prepared by MT. McPherson, clerk of the House of Representatives, the next House will be composed of 120 Republicans, 6 Re adjusters, greenback-labor, Inde- pendents and 192 Democrats.
 The House Mississippi River Con- mittee will advocate the appropriation of $4, ,25O, 900 for the improvement of that stream.
 A bill introduced by Senator Lap ham to reimburse the State of New York for money advanced to soldiers in the war of 1872, appropriates $250,00O for the State and $55, ,OO0 for the holders of cer- tificates issued by the State to soldiers of the war of 1912.
 Representative Steele, of Indiana, introduced in the House bill to authorize the President to fill any vacancy which may occur in the office of General or Lieutenant General of the army through death, resignation or retirement The effect of the bill in case of the death, resignation or retirement of General Sherman would be to advance General Sheridan to the rank of General of the Army and, probably, to advance General Hancock to the rank of Lieutenant General.
 The Mutual Press Association and American News Exchange at Cincinnati, Ohio, has been placed upon the Post Office fraud list.
 The House on Saturday in Commit tee of the Whole considered the Navy Appropriation bill. During the discus sion MT. Knott, of Kentucky, said there were in commission thirty steaming ves- sels, and for them there were 293 engi- neer officers, at an aggregate pay of $642, ,00O for sea duty. If some indiscreet Secretary of the Navy should offer 8 chief engineer, 8 pay director and med ical inspector for duty on the same ship the vessel would inevitably sink. There was not craft ahoat which could sustain so much official rank and dignity. MT. Whittehorne, of Tennessee, said that the present condition of the navy was lament ably weak and defenseless, but the bill was incomplete, for while 1t seemed to ap- propriate $15, 900, 900, he could show that it in reality appropriated 1928, ,000,- GOO, and the difference would have to be provided for as 8 deficiency by the next Congress.
 FOREIGN ITEMA
 -Forty-two thousand marks have been received in Berlin from New York brew CTS, in aid of the sufferers by the floods.
 The Committee of French Deputies have adopted the draft of bill against pretenders, depriving them of political rights as citizens and exiling them from France. This proposition is opposed by the Ministry.
 The officers of the Cimbria state that I the Sultan was on her port bow, while | the captain of the Sultan declares that | the Cimbria was on his starboard bow, md that if the Cimbria had kept on her course instead of porting her helm the collision would not have occurred. The captain of the Sultan defends himself from the charge of neglect to | save the wrecked passengers of the Cim- | bria and lays the whole blame on the of- l ficers of the latter vessel. A portion of the town of Nicolaieff, Russia, has been burned, involving some | loss of life.
 Russian papers repeat the story of the finding of the bodies of two members of Lieutenant Chipp's party. The ship Vorwarts has been sunk >EP iCh% 1 ,o5 It has been decided to start new | line of steamers between Belfast and the United States.
 A cable dispatch from Paris an- | nounces that Gustave Dore, one of the most interesting, prolific and powerful artistic personalities of the nineteenth century, died in that city Tuesday. | The steamer Sultan, which collided with the Cimbria, was much more badly damaged than at first supposed. The captain says he remained until daylight looking for survivors, but could find l none.
 | It is said that the object of the ex Empress Eugenie's visit to Paris is tc show her approval of Prince Napoleon's | manifesto.
 | There are reports of deaths Dy star vation in the island of Innismurray, of the coast of Ireland.
 In the prosecutions held in Dublin an informer gave information that the city had been marked into districts by
 assassination committees" and identi. fled some of the men who belonged tc them.
 The men who murdered two Eng. lishmen at Alexandria have been hanged
 The Prince of Wales and the Marquis of Lorne are expected to Visit Nv York City during the present season.
 Three more shocks of earthquake have occurred in the province of Murcia, Spain, but no loss of life has resulted.