Connecticut western news., 1884-08-06

teau Margaux ran the blockade of quarantine, an officer of the steamer declaring that there was no such cargo on board. They were dis covered at the dock ill Brooklyn.
 On Tuesday a station agent on an Iowa railway was killed by negro whom he had elected.
 A mob in Rome pursued a burglar in womans clothes, caught him, and hanged him.
 Rags from Marseilles shipped in May last cannot be landed in the United States.
 The bones of Captain Ballard, hero of the naval engagement between the Constitu- ton and two English vessels, were buried in the Naval Academy Cemetery at Annapolis, Md.
 Texas fever has caused the death and slaughter of hundreds of cattle in Kansas Missouri and Illinois.
 The Commercial Bank of Brazil, Ind, and the Barnum Wireworks, of Detroit, Mich, failed.
 A lynching party in the Far West, after capturing party of horse thieves, hanged the two leaders and turned the others over to the authorities for trial. A surveying party, consisting of W. o. Johnson, John Eastwood, R. J. Ea=don. and F. Bleakley, were drowned in Spanish River, Canada.
 A woman whoee husband killed himself while insane, and whose daughter Is crazy,
 
 with her little son, who was sent to join his three brothers in an asylum. The postmaster at Camden, N. J., gave bail in $S,OO0 to answer charges of malfeas- ance in office. Two persons were drowned while yachting in the lake off Chicago, Monday. Two men in North Carolina were drunk on Monday. One danced across a railroad track in front of a train. The other made a ,,It ,,f ko uioaTo Roth were buried at the nearest station.
 The boiler explosion on the Lehigh Rail- road, on Friday last. has cost five lives, and made nine orphans in one single family.
 During 8 wrestling match between two negroes at Plaquemine, La, one threw the other with such force as to break bis neck, killing him instantly.
 FOREIGN ITEMS. A son of the British Vice Consul at Rodos- to has been captured by brigands, who demand E7, 900 ransom.
 Mr. Morton, the American Minister in Paris has subscribed ,O00f. toward the fund which the American artists in Paris are raising for the purpose of presenting that city with a bronze model of Bartholdis statue of 'tLiberty EnlighteRing the World" The steamer Brittania, from New York for London, was wrecked of London, Eng land on Wednesday night, but her crew was saved. ....-. The Players of England, at a match at cricketers, on Friday, were violently assaulted by the spectators. At Warwick, England, on Friday, James Eagan and John Daly, the dynamiters, were tentenced, the former to twenty years penal servitude the latter for life. The Arabs attacked Suakim on Wednesday night, losing four killed and having several | wounded.
 A panic prevails at Foochow, where the foreigners are arming for self-defence and English sailors are being landed. dispatch | to the London Times says that China has re- fused to pay the indemnity to France, and war is imminent
 It is reported that the Grand Duke Louis of Hesse will abdicate his throne in favor of his son Ernest, under advice of the Emperor William. His morganatic marriage with Mime. Kolamlne and subsequent divorce have com promised his position.
 The lower classes of Marseilles and Toulon are prejudiced against the doctors under the impression that they help the cholera along to get rid of the surplus population. The rebels about Dongola have been routed and the city rendered safe. A dispatch from London says: Five thou sand of the striking miners at St. Helen's have resumed work.
 The British man-of-war Canada, with Prince George of Wales on board, has arrived of the Scilly Islands.
 Tho King of the Belgians has conferred upon MT. Heury M. Stanley the decoration of the Order of Leopold.
 The suit for libel brought by Mir. Bolton, Prosecutor for the Crown, against Mir. William O'BFien, editor of the Dublin Utlited Ireldnd was brought to conclusion. verdict was rendered in favor of the plaintiff, giving him fS, ,050 damages
 The Mudir of Dongola telegraphs that re- ports have reached that city to the effect that General Gordon has captured Berber.
 A priest was attacked at Witepsk, Russia, led by mob to an attack on the houses of Jews in that place. The military dispersed the mob and made several arrests The priest escaped.
 The Russian villages of Rybatzkoge and Smolenskoge, near St. Petersburg, have been destroyed by fire. The French men-of-war lying of Foochou | have been cleared for action. A number of women and girls have been arrested for conspiracy against the Russian Government. They are connected with the Marie Institution, a school of education for girls of good family. Conspirators meet in the rooms of the institute, and had accom- plices among the teachers and older pupils of the school
 Three thousand troops of the Warsaw dis | tr1c6 nave been ocn6lOneQ dlOuS the TOduhd1 between Skierniwice and Warsaw, the route tC | be taken by the Car. | A disastrous fire occurred Monday at Ma rash, town of Asia Minor. A thousand shops | two hundred houses, four hotels, three mosques and the municipal palace were destroyed. | A riot has occurred at Klirnof, Russia ! The workmen attacked the shops of the Ok l Believers, whom they denounced as wors. | than Jews. The contents of the shops wert carried off. One person was killed and twC were wounded.
 Ut is reported that Hartmann, the nihilist has committed suicide in Paris.
 -Daly, the dynamiter arrested in April il Birkenhead, has been indicted by the Grant Jury,
 | The English government is ready to con | firm the confederation of the Australian colo | nies and the annexation scheme.
 The cotton worm is ravaging the cottoI crop in Lower Egypt. The prospect is yer. poor. The Nile is now much lower than a any time since 1878, when 10000 persons per ished from famine.
 A dispatch from London says Mrs
 Weldon received verdict of q, 900 damage against MT. Temple, the medical man wht
 had declared her insane.
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