Connecticut western news., 1883-10-24

| finished next year by Bennett of the Herald and others.
 Two suspicious persons arrested in Halifax were found to have in their pos session dynamite cartridges, revolvers and internal machines.
 Masked men entered the house of Edward Mclaughlin, 0 farmer near Joliet, Ill.,, and tortured him and his wife until they disclosed the hiding place of $1 ,OOO in gold. They then departed leaving their victims nearly dead.
 The annual report of the Western Union Telegraph Company claims the net earnings for the year ending June 30 is $7, 900, 600, of which $467, ,OOO was paid in interest and sinking fund, and $5, 199, ,OOO in dividends to stockholders.
 -The Chiriqui Improvement Con- pany have applied for 8 mandamus to compel the Secretary of the Navy to buy their lands on the Isthmus.
 The constitutionality of the act pro- hibiting the manufacture of cigars in tenement houses in New York city was affirmed by Judge Barrett as matter of form in order that the question may be presented to the General Term of the Supreme Court and taken thence to the Court of Appeals.
 In the Congregational Council, sit ting at Concord, N. H., the Secretary's report showed net gain of 262 churches of that denomination during the past three years.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 -One hundred and fifty Annamite convicts, employed by the French, mutinied, murdered Frenchman and native warden and seriously injured an other Frenchman. Sixty of the convicts then seized arms and stores and de- camped in boats. The rest of the muti- neers fled to the woo ds and hills.
 Among the villages destroyed by the earthquake recently felt in the Grecian Archipelago and Anatolia were Katoparaya, Refs, Dere and Lidja. The latter was celebrated for it's baths. Slight shocks of earthquake are still felt on the island of Chies. The British Ad- miral Hay has sent assistance to Uhesme and Chios.
 The government of China is actively preparin g to close the port of Canton.
 It was the English schooner Ottome which was captured while trespassing upon the preserv es of the American Alaska Company.
 The corner stone of church, to be erected in St. Petersburg on the spot where the late Czar was killed, was
 laid on Thursday.
 Much damage to property and great loss of life has been accustomed by an earthquake in Asia Minor.
 -The village of Villa Alegno, near Brescia, Italy, has been destroyed by fire.
 There was considerable rioting at d Portuguese town, and government troops were resisted, but quiet was restored.
 An expedition to explore New Guinea has returned to Melbourne iu consequence of fever attacking it's mem.
 bers.
 The trial of sixty three members of
 the Nihilist Red Cross Society has just
 been concluded in Russia. All were
 sentenced to be sent to Siberia. The
 testimony of informers and others
 proved that the society had ramitications
 in every part of the Empire.
 Delegates representing 30,000 min-
 CTS have met at Wigan, in Lancashire,
 and made demand upon the masters
 for an immediate advance of fifteen pel
 cent. in wages of miners. -O'Donnell has been indicted by the l Grand Jury and his trial is fixed fol November 21.
 The Porte insists on the immediate ,, collection of taxes in Crete and the in. habitants are preparing for resistance. -Annamite envoys have arrived al Hanoi prepared to execute treaty witt France.
 -The French troops in Madagascar :, are suffering greatly from fever and famine.
 It is reported that General Si Henry WyGe Norman, member of tn Council of the Governor General C India, has been appointed Governor ( Jamaica.
 Seven shocks of earthquakes hay been felt in the East. The Black Flags are massing g ; Bacninh, and fight is expected. . It is said in Paris that Missionar Shaw will receive an indemnity of 6O GOO francs, and that the French govern ment will apologize to the Englis o government.
 During the services in Jewish sy1 agogue at Ziwonka, in the governme1 of Podolia, Russia, Saturday, a fals alarm of fire was raised in the women gallery, which caused a panic. Tn
 people rushed for the door, where the1 - was terrible crush, during which fort
 women were killed and thirty others il l. jured.
 g The Recorder charged the Gran IT Jury that it would be their duty to It
 turn true bill for murder agains n O'Donnell l. A fire at Nantes on Sunday evenin h completely destroyed the Magazine d
 Louvre, in the centre of the town, whel s the munitions for the government m; o rine are manufactured and stored. Tn if damage to the building alone will reac O 500, ,0OOf and the damage to the content !. will amount to far greater sum. ,r The English police have failed t.
 obtain any evidence showing connection ., between O'Donnen and the Irish Invin s cibles.
 Volunteers have been invited to en d 't roll for the civil guard under the Iglesia ~ government, for the protection of Linn
 and Callao, in Peru, when those cite l. have been evacuated by the Chileans. l B. is expected that the evacuation will talk 1T place soon.
 -Advices from Port au Prince stat T. that revolution has broken out at tha 9s place and half of the city has been de 5e stroyed by incendiarism, bombardment !, slaughter and pillage. Five foreign wa M vessels are in port. n, Elections ill November. ,o The State elections vet to occrr th