Connecticut western news., 1884-06-04

 cent. on account of the depression in trade.
 The visible supply of wheat in Chicago shows a decrease ut nearly 001,00) bushels during the last week, caused by the sharp al- vance ill prices.
 WASHINGTON NOTES
 The Senate cut down the appropriation of the House joint resolution for additional relief to the sufferers from the Mississippi flood from I1O0 600 to $40 0Ol the latter sum being the unexpendcd balance of the Ohio flood appro- Iriations
 Col. J. O. ?. Burnside, disbursing clerk of the Prst Office Department, is charged AS a defaulter to the sum of S45,0 ,000. He has been removed and held to bail
 Tho Judiciary Committee reported a joint resolution proposing the following as article sixteen of the Constitutions "Ihe right ot the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be abridged by the United States or by any State on account of nativity.
 The House Committeee on Elections, by vote of 9 to 1. decided to report m favor ot seating J. H. Chalmers, in the contested cleo tion case of Chalmers ys Manning, of MisSis- sippi. In the case of Massey Vs. Wise, of Vtr ginia, the committee agreed to report in favor of Mir. Wise by a vote of to t.
 A bill was favorahly reported from the L. S. Senate Pension mmittee which confers pension on all persons who served three months ing the war and have become dis abled.
 X ptt ttition was presented to the House ask irg that provision be made for Noros and Min derman, survivors of the Jeannette expedition.
 Senator Brown made a speech on the Utah bill, in which he condemned unconstitutional legislation. and expressed t.e opinion that the statistics of divorce and immortality in the other States constituted as great a disgrace to the country as po!ySamy in ah.
 X bill passed by tho House of Representatives
 ,,F.-T II IgI. .l.- % accept decoration from the Austrian government in recognition of the young officers galantryin saving life. Representative Robinson made querulous objection, calling Mir. Reynolds dude. Sunset Cox replied ill iue style, and on the vote there was not enou- Il opposition to call for a count.
 The Senate Committee on Public Lands de- cided to report bills forfeiting the lanl grants opposite the uncomp'eted portions of the North Tn Pacific main and branch lines and the Atlantic and Pacific railroads. It is thought the forfeiture of the Northern Pacific will amount to about 13 OO0,O00 acres, and of the Atlantic and Pacific to about 36, 000, 900 acres
 FOREIGN ITEMS. President Gonzales, of Mexico, will ask | Congress to permit hin to resi- Sn next month. A fire occurred in a coal pit at Porto Bello, three miles east of Edinburgh. Nine men | were suffocated.
 The floods continue in the Eastern prov | inces of Spain, and are especially severe in | the towns of 0rihuela, Alguerias and Aeira Provisions are being sent to the sufferers by | the inundation.
 It is reported that Fl Mahd has succeeded | In purchasing the neutrality of King John and | outMitting Admiral Hewett A petition has been largely signed in Ger many praying for commutation of kraSzew- | skis severe sentence. The French government will celebrate the | centenary of the Revolution of 1789 in an i'm posing manner.
 The rigors of imprisoned Spanish journal ists are loudly complained of by the press of | Madrid.
 In Scotland Yard London, an explosion of | dynamite occurred outside of the detective of | flee, blowing down a portion of the building and slightly injuring several persons. | A bomb was exploded outside the Junior Carlton Club, in Pail Mall, shattering he base | ment and injuring four female servants. | The race for the Derby resulted ill dead | heat between St Gatien and Harvester. Qut CD | Adelaite fini-hed third. | -Comte d'HsussoEville, a French politician and member of the Academy, is dead. Four hundred and nine dwellings have | been destroyed and 514 injured by the floods in the province of Mureia, Spain. | The Catholic Bishop of the Soudan has l just arrived at Cairo from the south of Egypt. | he reports tDat seven lt2ldn priests ana IOur | Sisters of Mercy have been maSsacred at Ei 0beid. He also reports that three priests were l exposed naked to the sun for four days and died from the effects of their exposure. | The floods in Spain are becoming alarm ing, exceeding those of 1879. -A train was maliciously derailed near | Bologoe, Ru ssia, one person being killed and seven injured.
 The Australians defeated the Midlands team in a game of cricket. The Americans defeated the Yorkshire | team in game of lacrosse. American citizens are subject to 8 stlict | examination in Cuba. In France Mile. Colembier has been sen- | fenced to three months imprisonment for her | scandalous book called Sarah Barnum.' | General Gordon's brother says that the | General has 10 fear as to his personal safety and can escape from Khartoum whenever he \ likes.
 | As basis for the Egyptian conference | England has agreed with France for a renewa | of international control, English occupation o1 | Egypt to be limited to five years l The vineyards in the district of Cartha- | gena, Spain. have been ravSged by hurricanes | and many families ruined. Iu the district of
 Molius is submerged and the people have been
 compelled to take refuge on the roofs of the
 houses and in boats.
 A letter from the Philippine Islands says | that band of fanatics under the leadership oi
 . so-called prophet appeared there last month. | The troops dispersed them with loss of thirty l eight killed and wounded.
 zGewit-ch < Sons, an old leather firm of
 Vienna. have failed for 2,0e0, 900 il ,rius. Five
 other leather firms have suspended in conse-
 quence of this failure.