Connecticut western news., 1884-06-25


 vestigate the frauds in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery in the Navy Department. well known bookseller of Washington has been ar rested, charged with comphcity. Gen. Miles, commanding the Department of Columbia, has detailed a party of officers to explore the Copper River country in Alaska The territory mentioned Is occupied by In dians who have never allowed white men to explore it.
 The House passed tLc Pacific Railroad bill without division.
 The Senate passed the bill to prevent the importation of tea dust into the United States.
 A resolution was adopted by the House that tho charges of corrupt or colluS1ve acton on tho part of the Secretary Of the Treasury, or some of his subordinates, in connection with the selection and purchase of 0 site for the Federal building at Brooklyn have not been sustained. J. o. P. Burnside, late Superintendent or the Post-Ofice Department was arrested on a warrant ,harging him with retaining $8,OOo realized from the sale of waste paper, and was released on $2, 500 bail
 It is said at the War Department of Wash. : ington that in the ten years prior to the ap- pOlntmeut of Paymaster General Rochester there were 170 cases of Implications of pay ac- counts by officers in the army. In the past two years there were but about dozen of such cases.
 Commissioner Evans has addressed letter to Senator Allison, chairman of the State Ap- propriation Committee, on the proposed re- duction of internal revenue districts and objecting to the House Appropriation bill because it's provisions cannot be carried out without criI bling the service. The passage of the Fitz John Porter bill through the House of Representatives, with the Senate amendment coneurred in, closes all consideration of this question except that to be given to it by the President, to whom the q Porter is, by it's enactment purged of all the charges which were made against him before U original court martial which tried and con- victed him. It restores him to the rank of colonel in the regular army and relieves his character of tho stigma which has attached to it during twenty-one years of punishment. It simply withholds from him unearned back pay for those years.
 The tliumphal progress of the Mahdi's lieuteuants still goes on. They have captured the town of Ghia near the Abyssinia frontier, taking six guns 700 camels and 300 of the gar rison. At Berber, however; it is believed that they missed rich prize, and that the Governor of the town escaped unhul t, having E80, 900 of Government money ill his possession.
 The militia who mutinied at Glin, in the County of Limerick, and made an attack on the popuace, were finally driven back by feeling against the soldiers that they were obliged to take to boats and make for the mouth of the Shannon to escape the violence of the people. The town is now quiet.
 70. Fully & Co.,, shlpowners, of Newcastle, have failed for E55,609.
 The female dynamiter arrested at Fiber field is said to have come from America.
 An epidemic believed to be the bubonic plague has broken out in the villages along the right bank of the Tigris river, near Bagdad. POLITICAL
 The American Prohibition party at it's ses- sion in Chicago adopted platform favoring the use of the Bible in public schools, demand ing strict prohibition laws, pledging the party to vote for woman suffrage and declaring that the tariff should be reduce d.. 5. c. Pomeroy, of Kansas, was unanimously nominated for President. For vice-president, J. A. Conant of Connecticut, was nominated by exclamation.
 The Illinois State Prohibition Convention raised $2,700 for campaign purposes, and nominated State ticket with J. B. Hobbs for Governor. resolution was passed indorsing Governor St. John, of Kansas for President of the United States. The platform declares tliat the traffic in intoxicating liquors is the great crime of the world, and should be sup pressed immediately by constitutional or legls- lative enactment.
 The Indiana Republican State Convention | adopted the platform of the National Republ- | can Convention at Chicago, as a declaration of then faith and purpoSes in respect to all ques- | tions of national scope and character, and ratified and approved the nominations of James G. Blaine and John A. Logan for the | offices of President and Vice-Hresident of the | United ates and pledge to thcm the uni; ed | and earnest support of the republican party of | Indiana. A State ticket was nominated with i w. Il. Calkins, for Governor, and Eugene | Bundy, for Lieutenant-Governor. The Democratic delegation from Georgia is practically for Cleveland, if the New York dele l gation go for him.
 The majority of the delegates to Chicago l elected by the Tennessee Democratic State 1 Convention favor Cleveland. The platform l adopted favors "tariff for revenue adequate to | the wants of the general government, econom- | lcally administered and SO adjusted in it's de- | tails as to afford fair and reasonable encour- agement to home labor and domestic product | and manufactures, but not to promote mo- I norolies."
 The New York Democratic State Convention admitted Tammany to an equal representa- tion with the County Democracy. Resolutions | were adopted endorsing Governor Cleveland's | administration. The delegates to Chicago were instructed to vote as unit, but unln 1 structed as to candidates.
 The Louisiana Democratic State Convention | pronounced in favor of tie Ohio Tariff plank,
 and instructed the delegates for Tilden.
 The Ohio State Prohibition Convention
 made the following nominations: Secretary O.
 State, E. J. Norris of Cincinnati; Suprem
 Judge, J. W. Rosenborough, of Fulton County | The Georgia Democratic State Convention delegates are divided between Bayard anC | Cleveland.
 The Colorado Democratic Convention dele
 gates to Chicago are uninstructed They favo
 Cleveland.
 The Michigan Democratic State Convention i left it's delegates uninstructed. They favo
 Cleveland. On the subject of the tariff the
 resolutions declare: We believe in commercial
 freedom-the right of every man to buy where
 he can buy cheapest and sell where he can sell | dearest-and we denounce the present tariff
 levied upon over 2.000 articles, as A master
 piece of injustice and false pretonce.
 Judges Andrews and Rapallo were nomi
 mated by the New York State Democratic Con.
 vention as the candidates of the party fol
 Judges of the Court of Appeals.
 The Vermont Republican State Convention
 made the following nominations For Gov
 ernor, Samuel E. Pinsree, of Hartford; fo
 Lieutenant Governor, E. J. Ormsbee, of Bran | don; for State Treasurer, William H. Dubois | of Randolph; for Secretary of State, Charles
 W. Porter, of MonIpeiier for Auditor, E. H
 Powell, renominated; Presidential electors
 Joseph D. Hatch and Hiram Harlow. Tn
 resolutions pledge support to the Chicag i nominees.
 The Maine Democratic State Convention en
 dolsed Cleveland fir President. | Tine platform declares opposition to wal | taxes and Ill favor of the retention of tht | present duties on whisky and tobacco and fol | such laws as shall reduce the revenues to suci
 amount as is absolutely required for the ex | penses of the government.
 The Delaware Democratic State Convention adopted resolution strongly urging the nom nation of Senator Bavard for the Presidency A FRENCHMAN said to a Berliner. ''Your Iron Cross, the highest Prussian order, is simply ridiculous-it has an