Connecticut western news., 1884-12-31

--Harrigan & Hart's Theatre Comique, in New York city, was totally destroyed by fire on Tuesday morning with loss of $150,000. The mail stage from Fort Smith, Ark, to Chocoville was stopped by two armed men, who seized the mail sack and made of with 1t. Key West cIgar manufac turers and New England tobacco growers strongly protest against the Spanish treaty. A new hog disease has broken out in the neighborhood of Brookfed, Conn. The an1- mals diseased are of dark steel gray color,
 with dark purple spots, and are filled with water. "A number of tramp ocean freight steam CTS are missing and believed to have been lost with all on board. At Jackson, Mich., the boiler of blaming mill exploded killing two men. At Brinkley, Ark, the mail carrier was killed and his mail box stolen. WASHINGTON NOTES. The debate in the Senate on the Nicara' guam treaty showed that serious complications might grow out of the ratification, and the necessity of a strong naval force becomes therefore the more evident. Senator Pendleton favorably reported | from the Foreign Affairs Committee the bill ! introduced by him to repay to China the re- mainder of the Chinese indemnity fund which ! is now in the possession of the State Depart ment.
 Sergeant Holtnorth of the Signal Service, denies the charge that he opened Lieutenant | Greely's desk to read the letter from Howgate. He says he simply saw it open lying upon the desk and read it, and informed the Secretary of War He also denies that he had any req son to suspect Lieutenant Greedy of any con-
 nection with Howgate. Tt has been decided that the inauguration ball shall be held in the lower story of the new Pension Building. The committee has fixed I the price of tickets at $5, and complimentary ones are to be issued only to the President and | Vice-President and their immediate party. FOREIGN TTEMB The discoveries at the fire at the Windsor railway station have proved to be hoax. The draft of a declaration for a new com- mercial treaty between Spain and England has been signed.
 \ revolution.
 | Austria has signed the convention with the African International Association. | A dispatch from Shanghai says that \ S5, GOO Chinese troops under L Hung Chang are .massed at Pei-Ho. The works at Port Arthur on the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, built by Ger
 man artillery officers, make the strong \ est fortress in the north of China. They are
 mounted with heavy Gatling and Nordenfeldt
 guns. The entrance to the port is guarded \ with torpedoes.
 ! It has been shown that the Frenchman \ who confessed that it was he who murdered
 Sarah Becker, Jewish girl, is innocent of the crime with which he charged himself. His
 confession was prompted by insanity. The crofters on the Kimulr estate recent | ly forcibly prevented the sheriff from serving
 8 number of writs and ejected him from the I estate.
 \ The death is announced in London of \ William Henry Charming, the well-known Uni \ tarian minister and author. He was born in \ Boston, May 25, 1910.
 \ At BalIyduff, county Waterford, Ireland, \ the vault of Col. Hiliers, formerly Inspector General of Police, was broken open, and Mrs. \ Hilier's coffin was taken out and thrown into \ a glen.
 The trial of Mime. Clovis-Hughes for | shooting M. Morin will begin on Jan. 8. Peo- ! pie of all ranks in Paris are besieging the Judges for tickets of admission to the court
 during the trial
 | A secret Socialist printing press, together \ with quantity of revolutionary documents, ! have been seized at Pesth Franz Spielman, 6 compositor, and his landlady have been ar- \ rested.
 -Caen. Lord WoIseley reports that the delay \ in the concentration of the troops at kortl \ will retard the advance across the desert until
 the second week in February. The prepara- ! tions for 8 demonstration from Suakim have | been postponed. Military authorities fear
 that the relief of Khartoum cannot be accom- plshed before the middle of March.
 The Commercial Gable Company opened for business to Great Britain, Ireland, and
 France at the rate of 40 cents per word, which
 is 8 reduction of 10 cents per word from the
 rates charged by the other companies.
 Gen. Wolseley will complete the concen- tration of his army at Khorti in the first week ill January, and will begin his march through
 the desert upon shendy on the 7th of ! January.
 "A dispatch from Shanghai says: 'The
 French Minister has been ordered to inform | China that any further negotiations are use-
 less. The dispute must now be settled by the \ sword"
 Serious hurricanes, accompanied by thun-
 der and lightning, visited the French coast
 between Brest and Cherbourg, doing an i'm mense amount of damage.
 --Oficial advices have been received of the
 massacre of the Blancm mission In Central Africa. =
 ---The British governmers haa sesned in- | strpctions to Inc b-@su Uf Admiralty eo pre- | aara ,1Ians es1 concerted operations for the de-
 ss..,So Ui the British colonies in the event of i war.