Connecticut western news., 1885-03-11

In the House MT. Randall asked unan- imous consent to take from the Speakers table and pass the Grant Retirement bill. The bill passed by vote of 19S to 78, was signed by the President, and the nomination confirmed by the Senate.
 All the appropriation bills were passed by Congress, thus avoiding the necessity for an extra session,
 The President has issued an order throw ing open to public settlement the lands in- cluded in the old Winnebago and the Sioux or Crow Creek Reservations in Dakota, with the exception of few townships and of the tracts which have heretofore been selected or occupied by Indians.
 The Senate increased the House provision for the New Orleans Exposition from $500, ,OOO to $400, 900, which was agreed to by & vote of yeas, 40; nays, Is.
 There was a decrease of little more than $3,OOO,O 900 In the public debt during February. The President has approved the act to de- clare forfeiture of lands granted to the Texas Pacific Railroad Company.
 A resolution to stop the coinage of silver dollars was introduced in the Senate.
 In the House the Fertilization bill was passed.
 MT. Charles M. Reed, who assisted Mir. Schofeld in the defence of Guiteau, has for the third time asked Congress for an appropria- tion of S3,000 in payment for such offices, without success.
 A letter written by Secretary Frelinghuy- sen in explanation and giving reasons for bis support of the Nicaraguan treaty is made public.
 FOREIGN TTEMa
 A Paris dispatch says that Mielle, the mur- derer who sawed his victim in pieces, is sem fenced to be guillotined.
 Earl Granville, in the English House of TnrAa Onado a lnnU anaonh aYnla n natOrv Of tha controversy between himself and Prince Bis marck and apologizing to the latter.
 A magistrate in Switzerland had narrow escape from being shot while sitting on the bench last Friday.
 An explosion occurred in colliery at Kar- win, village of Austrian Silesia, Friday. At the time of the explosion 147 men were in the mine, and 1t is as yet unknown whether or not any of them were saved.
 News has been received that the French transport, Tonquin, formerly the City of Paris, of the Inman line, collided with another trans port of Malaga and sunk, carrying down with her 24 of the crew. The remainder were res- cued
 A terrific explosion occurred in the Us worth Colllery at Sunderland. The explosion was caused by fire damp. Thirty-si1 dead bod ies were recovered from the ruins. At the time Of the explosion there were 15O men ln the mine. These were all imprisoned by the jam ming of the cageway.
 An attempt was made to blow up Cloghan Church, county Donegal, Ireland, by powder placed under it.
 England has ordered 150, 900 troops to be in readiness for service against Russla trusting to the reserves to maintain order at home.
 The French fleet has closed the mouth of the Ning-Po River.
 The Russian police on Feb. 25 arrested forty NihiEsts in Wesenberg, in Esthonia Three of the prisoners had revolyers anC daggers.
 Dispatches from Assab Bay say that tn, garrison of Kassala, who have been defending the place for a year, recently made a sortie but were repulsed by the rebels, with loss O 28 officers and 632 privates killed.