Connecticut western news., 1883-06-20

-lnG Q1UcrGnCGS i'll the creek Nation are still unsettled. The latest murder is that of Chief Chicote's private secretary.
 Secretary Teller announces his pur- pose to buy cattle for the Indians as 8 means for making them self-supporting.
 One insane prisoner killed another in the jail at Fort Worth.
 Major Nickerson, whose divorce was pronounced by Philadelphia Court void, was sought by the sdludant gen. eral to appear before the court martial Not being found, his pay was stopped.
 An Italian was pushed on a platform of train by crowd at the Houston street station of the 'L" road, New York. He lost his footing ill trying, as is al- legged, to overcome the opposition of the conductor to his entering the car. When the train began to move he lost his hold, fell to the sidewalk and was killed.
 George W. Bacon, a business man of wide acquaintance, died three days ago in Longview Insane Asylum, Cincinnati. A violent patient had been carelessly placed In the same room with Bacon, and had pounded him to death.
 Charles Fredericks, proprietor of the Theatre Comique in Kansas City, was shot by Orth Augustus Stein, a re- porter of the EUening Star, in the hall way of lodging house opposite the theatre. Jealousy was the cause. An Indian at San Carlos Reservation fatally stabbed his wife and was shot dead by a scout.
 The Supreme Court, General Term, of New York, fixed the 27th of July next as the day on which Edward Hovey is to be executed for the murder of his sister-in-law.
 Leading railroad companies in Penn sylvania and adjoining States are taking steps toward forming @ combination for the purpose of controlling the entire an- thracite coal production. A band of armed men entered the jail at DeKalb, Miss, to lynch negro murderer named Boden. They were unable to procure the keys to the door of the cell; and, after failing in an att tempt to break it down, riddled him with bullets through the bars of the door. Boden dropped to the floor at the first fire, and died almost instantly.
 The Department of Agriculture re- port the condition of winter wheat to be poorer than in May. The general av- craze is 75 per cent of good crop. The spring wheat area has been increased about half million acres, or nearly per cent, and the total acreage is about | 10, 100000 acres. The condition of spring wheat is everywhere high, aver aging 9S per cent. The area of barley | is increased per cent. The total aver age is about 2,35O,OOO acres. Its con- | dition averages 97 per cent. The in- crease in the area of oats is 4 per cent | The area is nearly 19, 200, 900 acres. The condition of the crop is high, averaging 06 per cent.
 Secretary Chandler approves of the recommendations of the Navy Yard Com mission in their forthcoming report to | Congress- They favor the closing of certain yards and concentration of the organization and reduction of expenses | in the remainder.
 The bills supposed to have been stolen from the office of the Governor of | Massachusetts have been recovered and | that office is exonerated from blame in | the matter.
 The iourneymen bakers of New York are unwilling to work on Sundays, and mean to have one of their bosses ar rested for violating the Sabbath law, as @ test case.
 The reduction of internal revenue collection districts will be made to take effect on July 1st.
 The police of Boston are looking for Sullivan, the pugilist, who is charged with ! assaulting his wife. FOREIGN ITEMS. Tt. ,lo ->9 | the foreign Powers on the occasion of his coronation as fresh pledges of peace.
 The village of Valloires, France, has been destroyed by fire. Severe earthquakes have visited Ecuador.
 Lord CarIngford refuses to restrict l the importation of American cattle into England.
 pr. Gallagher and three of his asso- | ciates in the dynamite conspiracy in London were found guilty and sentenced | to penal servitude for life. It is said that conspiracy exists in Dublin to remove James Carey, the in- | former.
 Queen Victoria's depression of spirits is said to be causing anxiety in Eng | land.
 The British diplomatic agent at l Sofia has severed relations with the Bull | garian government. A committee of the Reichstag has reported against the Workmen's Insur- ance Bill.
 The sentences of several nihilists has been commuted by the Czar of Russia.
 MT. Henry M. Stanley has arrived at Brazzavila.
 M Thyselius has becume Premier of Sweden.
 A correspondent at Rome has had an interview with Cardinals Simeoni and l Jacobini, through the former of whom
 the Pope informed him that the letter of
 the Propaganda had no political aim,
 and was issued at the demand of no foreign government. The Pope ex-
 pressed deep sympathy with Ireland.
 Some Cuban bandits recently ab-
 ducted a wealthy proprietor, whose friends had to pay $3, 900 for his ransom.
 No trace of poison was discovered in
 the body of Jury, the ublin hotel keeper
 alleged to have been poisoned by h. vincibles.
 l It is announced in Paris that nego-
 tiations between France and China are progressing favorably.
 The dynamiters are strongly guarded on their way to and from the court room in London where they are being tried.
 There is famine in the Kurdish
 districts of Asia Minor.
 -The basis of the articles of peace be-
 tween Peru and Chile stipulates for the
 cession of the territory south of the l river CamarOnes to Chile