Connecticut western news., 1885-11-25

| intelligence Of 0 terrible murder by Indians
 has been received. Col. Manuel Antonio
 nam, and Major Fernandez had been
 sent to tho Department of Anachs
 to recruit soldiers. They were set
 upon by tho Indians at Huarl and decapitated, | the drunken semi-savages fixing the heads on poles and carrying them in triumph through | the town.
 The Advisory Board of the Iasters' Union | in Brockton, Mass, have ordered all the lasters | employed in forty-two shoe factories to cease | work This strike will throw out of work al | least 5, 900 hands, although but 900 are mem | bcrs of the union.
 l In Louisville, Ky, HAlf" Little, called tho | Breathitt County desperado, was sentenced ir
 the United States Court for sixteen years on
 the charge of forging pension papers and l p1st office orders. Little is now forty-fi ve | years old and is credited with having killed
 fourteen mon during his lifetime.
 | In Philadelphia. whilo Lizzie D. Pole 12 l years old, was at work in & mill, her hair be-
 came entanged in the shafting. The child's l body was whrled around with frightful rap
 idity, and when tho machinery was stopped and the little manged form extricated, life was extinct.
 WASHINGTON NoTEa ! Col. c. G. McCawloy, commandant of the | United States Marine Corps, ill his annual ! report says that the Panama expedition showed in tue strongest manner what he had | for years stated to the department-that the | Marine Corps had not enough officers and | men. All the shore stations were nearly | stripped and left without adequa'e protection, | and the guards were withdrawn from many | ships, which gave rise to much inconvenience. | It also showed that the corps should have a | complete outfit of tents and camp equipage for | 800 men, as we'll as woven cartridge belts for | use ill the field. Col. McCawley recommends | # I,,,ill hn fnlE | Navy Yard into barrack for enlisted men, | and that the corps be increased by 500 pri- | yates. He submits estimates amounting to | $919, ,S4l for the next fiscal year.
 President Cleveland in conversation with ! a Republican Senator said that he would esteem | it Q great favor if Senators knowing anything objectionable or detrimental to public interests | about any person or persons appointed by hlm would apprise him of the facts. The Presi- | dent expects that fight will be made on some of his appointments, but believes that the ma | jority of the Republican Senators will oppose any attempt 10 defeat confirmation except where unimpeac Ina ble facts presented, and | that if such cases exist the obj ction will be
 called to his attention before there is any or | ganized opposition.
 Colonel W. F. Switzler, Chief of the Bu- | reau of Statistics, in his annual report says: | The duty collected on merchandise fell from S190 GOO, ,000 in 1884, to $178. GOO 900 in 1885, but the equivalent ad valorem rate rose from I 41.7 per cent. to 46 per cent. This increase in the ad valorem rate is due to the dc cline in | prices of goods subject to specific duty upon | which are imposed high rates of duty. The value of our foreign trade conducted i'll ves- l sells bearing our national flag, shows a steady | decline. During the fiscal year 1885, the value | of merchandise carried in our foreign trade | was $1 338, ,000,000, of which only 14.6 per | cent. was carried in American bottoms, and xl,, aknn | sells, but of the 79.5 per cent. of this com | merce conducted by foreign vessels, 64- 8 per | cent. was carried in foreign steamers. Of the | total tonnage entered at our seaports in the | foreign trade last V ar, amounting to +, ,000, | GOO tons. only 2,S00 900 was American tonnage | and 9,200000 foreign tonnage. There was | also large falling off in immigration. The | number arrived during the year was 395, ,346, l as against 5lS,592 during the preceding year, ! and falling off of fifty per cent. since 1882, ' the year of the largest immigration, when the arrivals were 788. 902
 The annual report of Lieutenant c eneral | Sheridan says the army consists of 2 154 off cers and "A, 705 men. Many of our large cities | are still at the mercy of the ironclads of for | egn nations in case of rupture of our rela- | tions, but it is hoped that public sentiment will before long prevail on Congress for liberal appropriations i'll this respect. Gen. S. says, ! relative to the Indian question:-I would re- commend that each family be given and To- cated on the 320 acres now provided for them | by law ill case of actual settlement. The Gov ernment should then condemn all the balance | of each reservation, buy it in at $1.25 per acre and with the proceeds purchase Govern | ment bonds, to be held in tru.t by the Interior Department, only giving to the Indians each year the interest on the bonds for their sup port. I only propose that the Government should buy lands for simplicity and safety. Settlers and spectators would buy them and | take them at the average of $1.25 per acre. Some of them are now worth $8 to $10 per acre. In this way the Indians would have
 perpetual security in the principal until Con- gress chooses to give 1t to them, to be used as they may see fit. The Government would lose nothing, and the Indians would only be getting
 the value of their property safely invested. Chief Naval Constructor Thomas D. Will son in his annual report, submits estimates for completing the four doubIe-turreted moni- tors, amounting to $2 923, 6 6, of which $9Z5,- 342 is for the Puritan, $627, 28S for the Terror, | 2639, 584 for the Amphitrite, and $701442 for the Monadnock. He also asks for $5,000, GOO for building the hulls of new steel vessels, and $150,000 for extra tools required in navy yards for building iron and steel vessels. The Secretary of the Treasury appointed John W. O'Brien to be Weigher No. 50. Class 4, in the New York Custom House, vice George | B. Bacon, suspended.
 For the Brooklyn yard, estimates are sub
 mitted and strongly urged for new dry dock, $700, ,000; to lengthen the present stone dry dock shop. $95, GOO, and the extension of the yard wall, $2l,7
 FOREIGN uEMR
 It is reported at Calcutta that the Chi nese government has given orders to prevent
 King Thebaw from seeking an asylum in China.
 A German-American named Thielman, a locksmith, has been expelled from Prussia by l the authorities. He went to America in 1872 ' and returned to Germany in 1883.
 The County Irfirmary, near Sandusky, Ohio, was partially destroyed by fire. Five women were burned to death, and the superin- tendent was badly injured internally. Anderson, tho steward of Honorable Ga- | thorne Hardy, who eloped from London with | Miss Ridgeway, a ward in chancery, has been | sentenced to a months imprisonment. | Gen. Prendergast and the British expedi tlonary force have captured the Burmese folt fess of Mlnhla. No serious obstacle intervene.
 10 stop their advance on Mandalay. Prince Hohenlohe at a banuuet at Mety | fPoke or the advantages gained by tue people
 or Alsace-Lorlai aine since their annexation bv Germany. " | The Socialist Lieske, who was convicted | on July of the murder of Police Counselor | Rumptf at Frankfort, on the night of January | l3 last, was beheaded. He protested to the
 last that he was innocent, and behaved in a ! cOmpoapd manner