Connecticut western news., 1883-08-08
On Saturday, the Western Union

l strike was virtually over. The strikers profess entire confidence in ultimate suc- cess, and say that the removal was mere buster.
 Five negroes were drowned through a skiff capsizing in river near Vicks- burg, Miss.
 The body of Captain Webb, the l famous English swimmer, who lost his l life on the afternoon of the "A of July. while attempting to swim through the whirlpool rapids of Niagara Falls, was found floating in the river near Lewis ton, four miles below the head of the rapids, on Saturday afternoon. His body is considerably bruised.
 At the AlbemarIe Hotel, in New York City, on Saturday evening, Senor Don Francisco Barca, the Spanish Min ister, bid his friends good night, and telling his secretary to call upon him at five o'clock in the morning, retired. In the morning he was found dead, having committed suicide during the night.
 Among the passengers in train of the Delaware, Lacknwanna and Western Railroad before 1t had moved out of the | depot at Hoboken Saturday, was Thomas Smith, who had drawn SIC, 900 from the l Irving National Bank of New York, and was conveying it in a satchel to the Orange National Bank, of which he is cashier. While sitting in his seat in the ear, surrounded by other passengers, MT. Smith felt a terrible blow in the back of the neck Before he could recover him. self he received another blow and still an- other. Instinctively he graspedh his satchel and cried for assistance. An excitement followed, and John Nugent, an ex-police- man of New York, who was supposed to have been concerned in the robbery of the Manhattan Savings Bank some years since. ''Ned" Farrell, a we'll known highway robber, and Peter Elm erson, alias "Big Pete," or "Banjo Pete. jumpedfrom the train and into butchers wagon standing near. They whipped up the horse, but the animal baked, and the three men were cap tured. They had drawn pistols and fred some shots, but did no damage. It was fortunate escape for MT. Smith. The thieves had been watching him for some time, as he daily took a large amount of money to Orange.
 -Ex-policeman John Nugent and "Ned" Farrell, despairing of acquittal, pleaded guilty to the charge of attempt ing to rob Bank Cashier Smith, of Orange, at Hoboken on Saturday. They were sentenced to ten years at hard labor each. Emerson, their alleged accom- plice, denies his guilt.
 | FOREIGN ITEMS.
 An important witness in the Phoenix Park trials is said to have been mur- dered.
 | A movement is on foot in England for the erection of mem orial to Capt, in Webb.
 1 There were 8o5 deaths from cholera in Egypt OH Wednesday. The total number of deaths from cholera in Egypt since the first outbreak of the disease to late is II, ,OG0.
 Emperor William has directed that the Tooth birthday of Martin Luther be observed by all Protestant schools. The students of the Universities will cele- brate at Erfurt, on August 8, the entry of Luther into that town.
 A man with four children, man eighty years old and two youths were exhumed alive in Ischia Thursday. It has been ascertained that tseveral refugees from Alexandria lost their lives at Casa micciola. The Cologne Gazette reports that two German artists were killed in | the disaster. The same paper estimates that 5000 persons perished on the isl- and.
 A Liverpool jus tice said that the charge of conspiracy to murder would hardly hold good against the Cork dy- namiters.
 l A most dangerous nihilist conspir- acy has been discovered in Russia. A great number of people are implicated and many arrests have been made.
 Mount Vesuvius is in state of eruption. Lava is descending from the crater in the direction of the town of Tore del Greco, at the southwest foot of the mountain. The inhabitants of Tore del Greco are fleeing to places of safety.
 Herr Stall, German Deputy for Griefswaid, has been found drowned at Dusseldorf. The circumstances of his death are shrouded in mystery.
 Simmons, the aeronant, in company with Sir Claude Crespigny, crossed the English Channel in balloon Wednesday, landing at Flushing, in Holland.
 A large building on Kopnicker strasse, Berlin, used as manufactory of velvet, was destroyed by fire Wednes- day night. The loss is heavy. Three firemen were killed by the falling walls during the progress of the confagration.
 -One hundred and eighty houses have been destroyed by fire in the town of Semenov, in the government of Mini Novgorod, Russia.
 Several socialist workingmen were arrested in Geneva,
 The waters of the Nile are infected with putrid matter.
 James Carey, the informer in the Phoenix, Park murder cases, was shot dead Monday on the steamship Melrose while she was between Cape Town anG Port Elizabeth. The deed was com mitted by fellow passenger named O'DonneIl.
 A dispatch from Bremen says that the Senate has issued an order to al captains of vessels which arrive from America with picked pork as part ot their cargo to notify the customs author ities of the quantity they have on board of such pork, under pain of 300 marks fine for neglect to do so.
 An explosion occurred in mine al mine at Caltanisetta, Sicily, by which thirty-five miners, out of total of sev. enty, lost their lives.
 There were 322 deaths from cholera at Cairo, Saturday, July 28th.
 A dispatch was received at the Ministry of Marine, Paris, announcing that the French troops had made sortie from Hanoi, infiictinsr severe loss on the enemy. The dispatch says :-' Colonel Badens made a sortie ou the 18th from Hanoi with force of 500 men. He captured seven pieces of artillery and killed 1 1000 of the enemy. The loss oi the French in the movement was but eleven men,"