Connecticut western news., 1884-10-15

The Cttzens' National Bank, of Indian Apolis, will go into voluntary liquidation and close up business by reason of the expiration of its charter next month.
 William v. Gilman, swindler who has succeeded in obtaining over @30, 900 paid sub Scriptions to an Augusta (Me.) family news paper and pocketed the money, has been arrested in that city.
 George Bates, @ shipoarpenter living in the canal village in Jersey City, N. J., was At- tackled by Patrick Murphy and Harry Jackson, members of the Bridge Gang on the bridge that spans the Morris Canal st Henderson street, Sunday. He refused to give the men money for beer and was knocked down. His skull was fractured and he died few hours afterward. Murphy snd five other members of the gang were arrested.
 A employee in 6 circus exhibiting at Waterbury, Conn.,, was dragged by the tigers into their cage and terribly injured before he was rescued.
 Two men were killed and one fatally in- jured by railroad collision near Omaha on Wednesday.
 The American whaler Seine was totally lost at Cape Eric, two of the crew being drowned.
 The Indians of British Colombia at Met lakehela, are at daggers' points over the quar- rels of two missionaries, the Rev. Mir. Duncan, who has been there for years, and Bishop Ridley, sent out to displace him.
 T. J. Wilson's barn and sheep sheds, near Corcicana, were burned. Six hundred sheep perished in the flames. The loss is $10,000.
 A carriage containing George and Alice Hall, of Stamford, Vt., was struck by an ex- press train at Greylock crossing, at North Adams, Mass, on Wednesday night, and both of the occupants instantly killed. They were the only children of an aged widow and had been visiting friends in Pownal. The young mans body remained on the engine pilot while the body of the young lady was thrown & hun dred feet from the crossing, landing on bauk ten feet above the level of the track.
 The most disastrous storm for years visited Harrisburg, Pa, Wednesday night, causing great destruction of property.
 Ten men employed in the construction of tunnel to supply water from Lake Michigan for Chicago were blown into the lake by storm and drowned on Wednesday.
 FOREIGN ITEMS
 It is reported that the Arabs have cap tured three Europeans, with their dragoman, supposed to be Colonel Stewart, Mir. Power and Consul Herbin.
 A London dispatch says: A violent gale has prevailed in the Gulf of Trieste the past few days. A large number of fishing boats have been wrecked and the bodies of their crews washed ashore.
  charged at Cracow, Russia, with the murder of 8 Christian girl under the most revolting cir cumstances several months ago, have been found guilty and sentenced to death.
 M. Rochefort fought duel with Captain Fournier, who negotiated the Tientsin treaty. Both were slightly wounded.
 The prospect of 8 compromise on the Franchise bill in England is improving.
 Germany has extended an official invita- kiOn the POwara tn A nOnforancn in order tn settle the Congo question.
 In the engagement on the Loo Chuan River thousand Chinese were killed and the French captured all the enemy's war material.
 -Abbe Le Mesle, of Havre, has withdrawn from the priesthood and married bankers daughter
 A new expedition of the African Associa- ton left Brussels, going to Zanzibar, thence across to the upper Congo country. The aim of the expedition Is to establish trade routes and stations from the Congo to the East Coast. The expedition, which is under the command of Lieutenant Becker, will be absent about two years.
 An explosion of fre-damp has occurred in the mines at Oelrau, in Moravia, causing the death of twenty persons. -Rioting has occurred on the Spanish lines at Gibraltar in opposition to the establishment of a sanitary cordon. A detachment of troops was called out and quelled the riot. A transport has taken 250 workmen and their families from Lisbon and the Island of Madeira to the new settlement near Mosss' medes, South Africa, which is being founded by the Portuguese government. After stubborn resistance of six hours the Chinese were routed in the valley of the Loo Chuan river by the French forces. The news of the victory of the Mudir of Dongola at Rorti has caused many of the re- bellious tribes to submit -Advices received in London state that the steamship Miramar, while on voyage from Yokohama for Hong Kong, foundered at sea. All hands on board were lost with the excep- tion of two Chinese. The race for the Cesarewitch was won by St. Gatien, who ran this year dead heat with Harvester for the Derby. The oity of Dongola is now garrisoned by 600 British troops and 1000 black Egyptian soldiers.
 The court martial to investigate the loss of the English gunboat Wasp, which was wrecked | recently on Tory Island, found that the dis | aster was due to the absence of care and to iA- attention in navigating the vessel. The sur viving members of the crew were acquitted of | all blame.
 Tt is feared that Colonel Stewart, who, with | forty men, was stranded at Wady Garna, has been killed. Some treacherous Arab whom he had trusted boarded the vessel and ID Issacred | his men.
 The British government has cabled to 0t- tawa. Ont, for eight steamer captains to join the Gordon relief expedition.