Connecticut western news., 1883-06-13

provisions of the prohibitory laws.
 . The will of Amasa Stone, the wealthy suicide, is made public. The estate is about $3, ,500,0OO. Dispatches from Oposura, Sonora, report threatening incursions of Indians at Nacori. They are renegades escap- ing from General Crooks column ad- yancing into the Sierra Madres. FOREIGN ITEMS. It is said that if the German Reich stag does not vote for the budget of lS845 it will be dissolved. Several fights have taken place be- tween Albanians and Turks on the bor- der.
 Two Egyptians have been sentenced | to death for taking part in the burning of Alexandria, and eighteen others to penal servitude.
 -Spain has been requested to repeal the law prohibiting the introduction of I free black laborers in Cuba The Nihilists claim that the strength of the party is greatly increasing, and assert that there were at the coronation | officials and others under the orders of the Nihilists near enough to the Czar to have struck him on the brow, if the word had been given. It was even feared that some too jealous partisan might throw 8 grenade at the Czar.
 War preparations on 8 great scale are being made in China. Father Bechet, Catholic mission ary, has been beheaded by Annamites. The trial has commenced at Heres, Spain, of seventeen members of the Black Hand Society, who are charged with murdering an associate who they suspected of betraying the secrets of the organization to the Government. The Public Prosecutor, in opening the case, claimed that he would submit evidence sufficient to secure the death of sixteen of the prisoners.
 The Mayor of Moscow is said to have been banished for having expressed the hope that the Czar would institute 8 constitutional regime.
 The Chinese army is being mobilized and active preparations are being made for war with France. -One hundred and forty three SOL diers, stationed at Posen, Prussia, have been accidently poisoned. The condi- tion of the men is dangerous. -Advices have been received from Sierra Leone, under date of May 24. that fifty persons have been roasted alive for witchcraft in the Sherbro dis trict of South Africa. The American Archbishops are to be summoned to Rome to prepare for Pro- vincial Council to deliberate on politico- ecclesiastical questions. It is said that the Pope will take vigorous measures with the priests who disobey his admonition concerning the Parnell fund.
 Property belonging to Americans is believed to have been damaged by the bombardment of Majunga.
 Thomas Caffrey was hanged in Dub lin for the murder of Thomas Henry Burke, to which he pleaded guilty.
 When the guns of Moscow announced that the Czar's coronation was happily accomplished they were answered gun for gun by order of Rear Admiral Bald win of the U. s. Navy from his flagship at Cronstadt.
 POLITICAL.
 The Ohio Republican State Convention nom-
 
 nor. For Lieutenant-Governor, William G. Rose; Supreme Judge Qong term), w. H. Up- son; Supreme Judge (vacancy and long term), Jno. H. Doyle. Both by exclamation. The platform is as follows:
 That the Republican party believe now as in the past, in the maintenance of tariff system which will provide a revenue for the govern ment, and at the same time will protect Amer ican producers and American labor; that it is opposed to the Democratic doctrine of "a
  Urine, if enforced, would of necessity compel American workmen to accept the unremunera- tive wages which are paid their foreign rivals. It looks with alarm upon the purpose all ready avowed by the Democratic leaders that the next Congress will revise the tariff by fur ther reducing the duties on imports, which, if executed, will unsettle the business of the country, and will produce great injury to the mechanics, producers, and artisans of the land.
 That the wool tariff of 1867 should be re- stored at the first possible opportunity; favors a National Bureau of Labor Statistics; favors submitting the constitutional amendment rel tive to the liquor tariff to the people, and comments the administration of President Arthur.
 The Iowa Democratic State convention, Judge Kinne for Governor with the following State ticket:
 Lieutenant-Governor, Justin c. Clark; for Supreme Court Judge Walter I. Hays and
  gar B. Farr.
 The platform, after the usual reaffirmation of the principles of the Democratic party de- nounces the abuse in the civil service, both na- tional and State, by the Republican party; favors the extension of the civil service laws to every department of the Government; arragns the last Congress for it's extravaganza and de- l mands economy; endorses tariff for revenue only, and gradual reduction of protective duties; denounces the tariff legislation of the last Congress as ''the result of corrupt and disgraceful intrigues and shameless attempts to perpetuate existing evils under pretense of tariff reforms" opposes constitutional prohibi- tion, and, in the interests of practical temper ance, favors well regulated license law with the penalty of forfeiture of the license for it's violation; affirms the right of legislative regulation of railways, but holds that the power should be so exer- cised to promote friendship between the railways and the people; demands that the Government protect it's citizens from imprison- ment by any foreign government without charge or right of trial, and cordially sympathizes with the oppressed of all nations struggling for their constitutional rights and liberties The Bridge Verdict.
 The Coroner's jury in the case of the Rrook1vn Rridpo 1isastar raportod fboir