Connecticut western news., 1883-01-03

Secretary Chandler, in reply to an inquiry to-day, says it is not true that he has decided to close one or more navy yards. As heretofore stated, how ever, plans for reducing expenditures in the civil departments of the various navy yards are in course of preparation and will be announced at an early day.
 FOREIGN ITEMS.
 The steamer New England has been wrecked in the Clarence river, Australia; the crew and passengers were drowned.
 Emperor William has congratulated Professor von Ranke on the completion of the third part of his Universal History.
 Russia is buying Krupp guns in Germany.
 Complaints against the Jews are again appearing in Russian journals.
 The Russian Ambassadors at Berlin and Paris have been summoned to St. Petersburg.
 The vote of credit for the Congo River expedition has been adopted.
 A French transport has sailed fo1 Tonquin.
 China is about to send a special am- DaSSaQOf to t rance.
 A man was strangled and robbed in an express train between Nice and Mar seilles.
 In the libel case of Belt vs. Lawes verdict of G5,000 damages has been given for the plaintiff.
 A tall chimney in Bradford fell on a building where number of operatives were employed; twenty-f four persons were killed.
 M. Gambetta's friends seem more troubled about him than at any time since he was wounded; an abscess has formed in his intestines
 A duel is in prospect because one French Deputy declared that another had made false charge concerning the Tunisian loan.
 The Rhine from the Lake of Con- stance to Cologne continues torise rapidly, owing to steady rains. A bridge near Lorrach has given way, drowning twenty persons. Parts of Cologne are flooded.
 Floods are prevalent in the midland counties of England.
 German railways are about to be completed to the Russian frontier.
 The Danubian Commission desires to extend their jurisdiction.
 A British ship has captured eight slave dhows off the east coast of Africa.
 A French commissioner will be sent to Tonquin and his demands will be supported by an expedition of 5000 troops. which will occupy the chic fortresses of the country.
 -Arabi and his fellow exiles have Jeff Suez for Ceylon.
 The Pope is about to reappoint Catholic bishops in Poland in pursuance of the neodoIs UiUe1ad5 agreed upon with Russia.
 King Alfonso hopes to see the whole of Spain attached to the monarchy.
 Great distress is anticipated in Ice land from want of food during the winter.
 -Westgate, the confessed assassin has been discharged, the authorities being satisfied that he had nothing to d. with the Phoenix Park murders.
 About one hundred persons art searched nightly in Dublin under tn. curfew clause of the Repression act.
 The Emperor and Empress of Rus sia will take 8 trip to Copenhagen nex spring.
 -Riotous Italian students have beer fined and sentenced to imprisonment.
 The scheme for the creation of al inland sea in Africa will be resumed b, private enterprise.
 Two of the murderers of Professo Palmer and his companions hs,7s hhsss,7s bee; bee; captured in the rDese,rt
 England proposes to send to tn, { Powers an explanatory note about Egypt
 The British government has deter mined to prosecute the editor of thu limited IreL1yad.