Connecticut western news., 1885-03-18
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upon r kin. The Freuch government wi u
 shortly ask for grant Of Sl0, ,00O, 900 to pro
 vide for the dispatch of 25,000 men to China.
 The Afghan war clouds have been tenn.
 porarily disseminated Mir. Gladstone an.
 nouneed in the English House of Commons | that tue advance Of the Rus ian and Afghan
 forces woulI be stopped, and that a contilcI
 between England and Russia was at least post
 poned.
 | Stephens and Eugene Davis. chief of the
 Anglo-French section of dynsmiters, and John | Morrissey, president ot the lrecent Conve t on
 in the Rue Cambon. These three are now de- | tained at the Prefecture, and will probably be
 expelled from French territory. The police | are searching for another man supposed to
 have fed to Switzerland with important pal CTS. | Lord Granville has received dispatch | from M. de Giers saying that the Czar desires | peace.
 President Diaz, of Mexico, sent on ulti. | matum to President Barri 's, of Guatemala, giving him to understand that Mexico would
 the Central American republics. It IS consid- cred that President Diaz by his bold and | statesmanlike action has prevented war. An atrocious act of sacrilege has thrown the little town of Saint Saulge, France, into state | of wild excitement. Daring the night gang | of malefactors forced their way into the cem-
 etery and desecI ated over one hundred tombs. | They also destroyed all the crosses in the neighboripg cemetery of Clamecy and pro | famed it in the same manner.
 Edmund Yates, editor of the London l World, who was sentenced to four months inl-
 prisonment for allowing Lady Stadbr"oke to | libel Lord Lonsdale in his paper. was released from prison op account of ill health. According to special dispatches from Der
 lin, England and Germany have made friends and Count Herbert Bismarck has returned tC
 the Spree covered with diplomatic glory. Five thousand female cigarmakers created
 . disturbance in Madrid as 8 protest against
 the introduction of machinery. A dispatch from Hong Kong, China, says:
 The French, after five days fighting. have car ried the Chinese positions around kelung. Forty Frenchmen ere killed and two hundred
 wounded.
 American railroad securities are the only investments in the London market that are
 not suffering from the scare of war with Russia.
 Tine Prefect of Police of Paris announces dynamite convention, which was said to have
 been held in private residence near the Grand Hotel on the z3d ulk, has proved beyond ques- ton that the convention IS myth Mir. Charles Bradlaugh announces series of woI kingmen's mass meetings to be 1 he'd in London and the principal towns in England to protest against 6 continuance of | the war in the Soudan.
 intelligence has been received from the Hong Kong missions that the mandarins with | a body of Chinese fir, m the main land have sacked and devastated Damiano, a small
 island west of Macao. Happily the mission | aries managed to escape.
 The King of Servia has granted amnesty | to 700 persons who were imprisoned for com | plicIty in last years revoluuon. Despite the pacific assurances of Russia. the British War Office is dis atching troops to | India with all possible speed. The number | sent forward Is limited only by the means of l transportation, as there are far more men
 available for active service than can be sentto the scene of the expected hostilities, oaing to | the lack of vessels.
 pr. Walsh, president of the Maynooth College, was elected Archbishop of Dublin An insurrectiou has broken out in Albania. | All the available Turkish troops arr being hur- | ried to the scene. A force of Turkish regu-
 lars has been defeated by insurgents near | Lyoumet. The Austrian Government has introduced
 tariff measure identical with the German | one. The tax on wheat is to be raised three
 marks and four 71S.
 A dispatch from Newry, Ireland, says that a gang of marauders visited the house of John
 rurley, rear Camlough, and gave the man terrible beating. His wife interfered in & II ost -nergetc way 10 save her husl and, and was killed. Hurley is in a critical condition. Agrarian troubles are the alleged cause of the outrage.
 The internal machine found in an unoc-
 upied house in Cork, Ireland, contained seven
 ounds of powder. The police are searching for other machines of the same kind, having been informed that a number of them had re-
 ,ently been introduced into the city.
 The detailed statement of the French losses incurred during the siege of Thuyen-
 luan by the Chinese IS 50 French soldiers and 2 French officers of the garrison killed and S2 soldiers and one officer wounded. In the bat ties of March and between the French army of relief and the Chinese as>ailants of Thnyen- luan 54 French soldiers and French officers were killed and 134 soldiers and officers were
 wounded.
 The Paris Temps calls attention to the
 fact that Capt. Perels, the Counselor of the German Admiralty, in his Manual of Mari
 sime Law, which is considered an authority in
 he German navy, admits that all provisions, and therefore rice, are contraband of war.
 A strike of 35,000 miners against reduc- ton of ten per cent. in wages is impending in
 Rotherhsm, England. If, as is expected, the South Staffor miners jon the strike the total number of miners idle will be 5000,
 A bread riot was suppressed by the police at Cracow, Russia. A great number of pOor and unemployed workingmen gathered in front of a rich mans castle in a suburb of Crac W and made great disturbance, de- manding work or bread. he D lice were sent for, and came in numbers sufficient to sur round the assemblage of worklngmen. The latter submit ed wi bout resistance to dispersal
 ut 100 of the more conspicuous among them were arrested.
 The great lioness in the Winter Circus in
 Paris attacked Edward Williams, lion tanner,
 while he was putting her through her regular performance in the cage. causing consterna- tion in the audience. The keeper escaped, but
 was badly injured.
 -Advices from Se west coast of Africa are
 to the effect that the Ge mans have hauled
 down the British flag and hoisted the German at Victoria, the English mission town. Mir.
 White, the English Consul, protested against
 such action, but was obliged to leave. The famous cathedral in Glasgow, which
 lacks but two years of being seven centuI ies | old, was on fire, but the flames were extin- | guished with little damage.
 The e1-Empress Eugenie is seriously ill | from nervous shock, the result of being thrown from her carriage et Faruboruugh recently. | One hundred and twenty-three of the one hundred and forty-seven men who were in the | colirry at Karwin, in Austrian Silesia, at the found dead from burns and suffucatiou. Only | i've of the men were rescued alive. | The Usworth colliery, at Sunderland, in | which an explosion from fire-damp occurred | on March 3, imp isoning 150 men, thirty-sx | of whom were sub equently taken out dead, is | on fire, and all the unfortunate miners are
 dead.