Connecticut western news., 1884-06-18


 be arrested, was sent to State Prison for eight l years. By tic wreck of tho schooner Six Brothers off Newfoundland fourteen lives were lost. -Forty-five of the crew of the ice-stranded brig Confederate have been rescued.
 Arrangements arc bemg made at Wash iugton, D. C., for an international single seull race, to be Cpen tO all oaTsmen ill the world for S5,0C0 in cash p.iz.s and the worlds cham pionship.
 An accident to a gravel train, on the Pitts burg, Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, resulted in the mangling of seven Italian laburers, two of them subst tquently died.
 Fourteen men, crey of a small vessel lost their lives in Trinity Bay, N. F., by tho capsiz- ing of their craft.
 The coal companies havo decided to raise the price of coal and reduce the wages of min cts during the current mohth
 A demented pauper leaped from the -"p of the 8 mshouse at Erie, Pa., and was in- stan ly killed.
 Failures in the fruit trade have taken rlace in New York
 -CI ancellor Runyon, of Newark, N. J., issued an order to the managers of the Newark Savings Institution directing them to show cause why they should not be punished for conts mpt in leaning the funds of the bank contrary to the Chancellor's orders.
 WASHINGTON NOIEA
 The House Commerce Committee agreed unanimously 10 report favoraby tho bill to au- thcrize the registration of certain steamships as vessels of the United States, and which pro vides that vessels purchased by the American Express Steamship Company shall be entitled to an American register if their speed is not less than eighteen knots an hour and the'c cost Cf each not less than $1 250,000.
 The Commissioner of Pensions has obtained, |, Al,rH &I.r list of over three hundred thou and names of Union soldiers, from which he is enabled to give applicants for pension information of tho whereabouts of theIr comrades, who can fur hish the testimony required in their cases.
 Inc River and Harbor bill was passed by the House. The bill proposed by the New York Chamber of Commerce for the preservation of New York uarbor WIS offered by Mir. Cox as an amendment and adopted.
 During the present sessi n of Congress tho House has passed bills providing for the for feiture of nearly seventy million acres of land granted to railroad companies. Tho land is in Oregon. California, Arizona, New Mexico; Texas, Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana.
 Colonel Morrow, of the Sixth Cavalry, will be tried by court martial on the charge of du- plicating his pay accounts.
 The record of the Swain Court of Inqui,y states that series of transactions discreditablc to any officer in the army were shown by the evidence. A court martial will be ordered for the trial of General Swain.
 Crop returns to the Department of Agricul- ture show generally favorable condition. The concurrent resolution introduced in the House from the Ways and Means Committee, and adopted without division, to adjourn on the 30th of June, is the usual hamburger of an adjournment of Congress six weeks from the date first agreed upon-that is about the middle of August.
 Tho sub committee of the House Appropri- ation Committee preparing the Sundry Civil bill will recommend the transfer of the Coast Survey from the Treasury to the Navy Depart ment.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The discovery of petroleum in the extreme northwest of India, near Quetta, will have, it is thought, an important bearing on the indus trial development of India.
 -lhe Paris Mdtin stated that Prime Hohen- loho the German Ambassador, declared to q reporter that public feeling in Germany was envenomed against France by the constant provocation of the Frt nch press.
 The banking houses of Barring Brothers & O. and Glyn Mills Currie < Co., London, have issued G5 000, ,000 of the new Canadian 315 per cent. lean. The minimum price is 91. The accusation against the anarchists on trial in Austria has rested. The revelations
 
 anarchist, Podboy, who turned informer.
 The French Minister of the Interior has issued decree forbidding bull fights. Dis gusting scenes of cruelty have recently been witnessed at bull fights in various parts of France.
 News has reached London that a water spout occurred in Akulsig, Russia, Russian 1urkestan, On June 2. The river was over flowed and seventy houses destroyed. Forty persons were drowned.
 It is said that the ''Irish-American Dyna- miiers" in Paris have decided to act inde pendently of James Stephens, and the plan of their next outi age IS published.
 An international rife match participated i'll by English, Scotch and Irish teams, consist ing of twenty men each, las been con cluded at Conglen, near Glasgow. The score was as follows:-England, 1877 points; Scot land, 1,8l0; and Ireland, ,657.
 Twenty deaths from yellow fever occurred at Havana last week.
 France has assured Italy that she has no intention of modifying the StdtIs quo in Mor- occo.
 Russia is said to be planning international action against dynamiters.
 Dynamite cartridges were exploded in front of two churches in Genoa.
 Much rioting occurred in Brussels owing to the result of the Belgian elections in favor of the liberals. A conservative cabinet will be called to power.
 The Spanish Ministers have decided, in council, that seven of tho fifteen members of the Black Hand Anarchist Society condemned to death shall be executed at Jer, E. The others will suffer lifelong seIvitude. The bill re-establi,hiug divorce has passed its tilst reading in tie French Senate by vote of 156 to 1l5.
 Twelve artillery officers have been arrested at Odessa, Russia, and fifty male and female pupils in three high schools at Kischencff have been arrested on q charge of Nihilism.
 The returns issued by the British Board of Trade show that dutng tue month of May the British imports decreased, as compared with that month in 1883. f3, 100, 900, and that the exports increased during the same period G3Ss,G00, as compared with those of May, 1883.
 It is reported that the plague has ap- peared on the Persian frontier.
 An election riot has occurred at Miedspell in Hungary Five persons were killed and two wounded.
 POLITICAL
 mass meeting of independent repubi- cans was held at Boston. Opposition to Blaine and Logan WAS declared and a committee of 100 was appointed to take such action as may be advisatle after the democratic nominations have been made at Chicago.
 The Texas State Democratic Convention nominated delegates favorable to 1ilden and Hendricks.
 Inc Nevada Democratic State Convention in it's platform demands the nomination of Til den and Hendricks and the removal of all re- strictions on silver coinage. It opposes the acquisition of large tracts of public lands by aliens, and demands the absolute exclusion of the Chinese.
 The California Democratic State Convention deo'ared in favor of 1iden and Hendricks. MT. samuel J. Tilden writes to Daniel Man ming, chairman of the Democratic State Com mittee of New York, saying, in tho course of an elaborate letter, that, because of the condi- ton of his health, he is ''constrained to say detinltively" that he "cannot HOW assume the labors of an administration or of canvass" and that he has retired from all public life.