Connecticut western news., 1885-04-01

President Cleveland has made the follow
 ing nominations, all of which have been con-
 firmed;-Edward J. Phelps, of Vermont, Min
 ister to Great Britain; Robert McLane, of
 Maryland, Minister to France; George H.
 Pendleton of Ohio Minister to Germany, and
 Henry R. Jackson, of Georgia, to be Minister
 to Mexico.
 The death of Mir. Clark, the new Assistant
 Secretary of the Interior, Is 8 severe blow to
 Secretary Lamar, who had asked Mir. Clark to
 take this important place because be was & personal friend and an exceptionally able busi- ness man. Mir. Clark was & victim to the ex-
 tremely trying weather which has prevailed in Washington for two weeks past and which
 has caused many deaths and much severe ill., ness.
 Mrs. Mary Ireland, wife of Robert Ireland, the piper, the story of whose Kidnapping to Canada and his arrest a deserter from the British army has been told, visited the State | Department to see what could be done 10 se- | cure her husbands release. MT. Edwin B. | Hay prepared formal statement of the case,
 including Ireland's certificate of naturalization
 and Mrs. Ireland's petition, and presented 1t | to Secretary Bayard with request that prompt measures be taken for the return of the piper. | -Mr Phelps, who is to succeed MT. Lowell | as Minister to England, is Q citizen of Burling | ton, Vt., and is 50 years of age. He was a | Whig, and when the Republican party came | into existence he became Democrat, and has | been one ever since. The only office he l ever held was that of Second Comptroll- | or of the Treasury under Taylor's Administra- | tion He was nominated for Governor in 1880 I and defeated. Although not a wealthy man, | MT. Phelps is comfortably well of. His money | was made in the legitimate practice of his pro- | fession. He did not inherit it, and never ! speculated. Two years ago he abandoned his active practice and accepted professorship in | the law school of Yale.
 | Governor Pattison, of Pennsylvania, re- l ceived the communication from the District | Commissioners and Chief of Police of Wash | ing complaining and setting forth certain acts | of misconduct by the National Guard of Penn | sylvania during the inauguration of President | Cleveland. conference was held by the | Governor and the Adjutant General the result being the issuing of an order for the conven- ing of 8 board of military officers to try the charges.
 The Postmaster General, it is understood,
 has said that applicants for position in the
 railway mail service might just as well with draw their papers, as removals in this branch will only be made for good cause. It's employees are, for the services rendered, the poorest paid of any of the Gov
 ernment servants. It has been said that the industry required to be an efficient railway postal clerk would make man prominent in any of the professions. Postmaster General Yilas says that this class of public servants ought to know at once that their places are not to be framed out by politicians, and that he expects to continue the mail service just as it has been developed by the experience of the
 last ten years. FOREIGN ITEMS. | An offensive and defensive alliance has been made between Salvador and Costa Rica. Quiet has been restored at Panama -Thirty-ive miners were killed and thirteen
 wounded by an explosion of coal gas in some Chilean mines.
 Dispatches from London state that Fur key is to send 1000 troops to Suakim to relieve the English Guards, who will be sent to India. Forty men were imprisoned, and all of them were instantly killed by an explosion of fire damp in the Dombrau-Ornau Mining Con- pany's colliery at Troppan, in Austrian Silesia. -Fifty-six miners were killed by an explo- sion in the mines owned by Barren Rothschild, at Astran.
 The quarrel between Russia and England is, according to cable dispatches, in an acute stage.
 l "A slave girl, who was in Khartoum when | the city was taken by the rebels, confirms the report that the women and children who were | captured in tEe city were sold as slaves. She | says that a severe battle took place between l Gen. Gordon's troops and the Arabs fort | night before the city fell.
 A cable dispatch from London announces l the death of the Rev. James White, brother of
 Henry Kirke White. He was ninety-seven years old.
 "A dispatch from Suakim says that five l hours battle was fought on Friday morning between the British troops and the forces of Osman Digma, and that Osman Digma's posi- l ton was finally captured by the British. The 1 dispatch says that the Arab losses were very great
 The Irish Times has authority for saying l that Dr. Walsh will certainly be appointed to the Archbishopric of Dublin. The trouble between Russia and England does not seem to settle. According to cable dispatches, both Powers are making extensive military and naval preparations. In Tuesdays session of Parliament in Vii enna, there was great anti-Senitic demon stration. After the vote on the Northern R. R. arrangement had been accepted 8 number of anti-Semites began shouting, 'Down with the Jews p This insult to Parliament was re- | sented by the other members. The President could not check the disorder. The disturb ance lasted for half an hour and the session was finally broken up. The people in Vienna are so greatly excited that the Parliament may
 have to be removed to some provincial city. | The members of the Chinese Legation at | Berlin say that earnest peace negotiations be- tween France and China are proceeding at | Pekin.
 -The naval officials were ordered by the
 Admiralty few days ago to make a list of the | vessels at Plymouth available for service. Or | ders were received to prepare the vessels inn
 mediately for active service.
 On Sunday Germany celebrated another anniversary or the birthday or the Emperor. | Born on the 22d of March, 1797, Kaiser William
 has entered upon the eighty ninth year of his \ life.
 General Baker, of the railway apartment
 scandal has been nominated by General Lord
 Wofseley to serve on his staff, but the Queen
 has drowned down the appointment.
 -Corean advices say that the father, mother, l wives and children of Kin Gioukukin, J. Sar-
 bitza, and J. Kohau, leading members of the
 Independent party in Corea, were hanged at
 the palace gates on Feb. 2. Eleven other
 Coreans who sympathized with the cause were
 hanged with them. The parents, wives, and
 children of four of these latter were also
 hanged. Kin Gioukukin, who sought refuge
 in Japan, will soon come to the United States.