Connecticut western news., 1888-05-02
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD

Emperor Frederick remains about ill the
 same state of health, and bulletins issued con-
 t1nue to be non-committal | The Boulangist and the conservative candi-
 dates for Senator in the Department of the
 nosges, France, were defeated by M. Charles Ferry, opportunist.
 Sir Andrew Barclay. Walker, formerly Mayor of Liverpool, has offered to give f25O,- ooo toward building cathedral in that city. The revolutionary rising in Roumania has been renewed, this time close to the Russian | frontier.
 force legion under the title of tho 'Irish VoIun- | teers," which is to take active measures against the English people.
 In shs British House of Commons | bill extending local government to Ireland was in- troduced, and in the course of debate the gov Rsnaph R ms sn'fR Se fo5sd S Rs by feated-2s2 to 195.
 Emperor Frederick's state of health under- | goes little change, though his general condi- tion was regarded as more satisfactory. The Emperor and Empress of Brazil have arrived st Venice.
 The Italian government has recalled it's South American squadron and will concentrate the fleet in the Mediterranean.
 The Rome correspondent of the London Tunes says: '"The Pope will shortly issue in- structions to the Irish clergy strongly con demning their plan of campaign and boycott ing, all other questions remaining under ty, that the reports of Mgr. Persico are strong ly adverse to the nationalists and their meth ods of Propagandisnl."
 Count Herbert Bismarck has not been an. pointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, but simply Minister State. ,-The statement that the Pope has issued decree condemning the plan of campaign in Ireland is confirmed. His Holiness says he does so because he is convinced that the plan of the campaign is illegal He says he is con. vlnced that tho land courts will reduce all un- fair rents. Another circumstance that infu- enced him, he says, is the fact that funds are extorted from contributors to the plan. The Pope condemns boycotting as practice con- trary to justice and charity. He makes Tho mention of the National League.
 M. Meilhac the dramatist, has been elected 8 member of the French Academy
 The King of Holland is again vcrv i'll.
 Wilson Barrett will occupy the Princess Theatre, London, for eight years. He will first produce, on May 17, an adaptation of Gains novel, "Dee mster Hawthorn" and afterward
 The Still Alsrra."
 Herr Krupp declines the honor of Baron conferred upon him by the Emperor. "A banquet was given in London to Sir John Fender by those interested in cables. Lord Derby presided.
  ed Minister of Foreign Affairs.
 The shipbuilders at Schweyin, Germany. have struck work. Three thousand shoemak- CTS are on strike in Berlin.
 The Colombian government has abolished the salt monopoly on the Isthmus. .
 A treaty of international traffic by rail has just been signed between Chili and the Argen- tine Republic.
 The creditors of Col Mapleson, the oper- ofi 1,o11 accepted all offer of S2, 500 in settlement of all his debts.
 --One hundred and fifty rersons who arrived from Roumelia have been denied permission to land in Buenos Ayres because the commis- sion considered them gypsies.
 American contributions to the National League during the past two weeks amounts to $2,0OO The home branches during the same period contributed $3S7.
 Death, desperadoes, and assassins are just now worrying the municipal authorities of Panama very much. One hundred and forty-three deaths have occurred there in thirty days.
 The Swansea Metal Exchange indignantly repudlates the statements recently made in New York to the effect that Welsh tinplates are made of mixed lead and tin in order to reduce the cost of manufacture. In the Waterford County Court, Ireland, | the appeal case of MT. Pyne, member of Par Wuo was ScuGenCeu ab OlOumel to SIX weeks imprisonment for offences under the | Crimes act, the Judge declared that the con- vlction of MT. Pyne was contrary to law, and 1 he would therefore quash the decision of the | lower court. -Britain's Queen and Empress of India ar- rived in Berlin, visited and sympathized with | her very sick son-i in-law, Emperor Frederick, snd subsequently became the guest of Dowager l Empress Augusta.
 Justin Mccarthy raised breeze and Mir. Balfour's ire, too, by calling the attention of he House of Commons to the recent extra ordinary proceeding in an Irish court of in 'reasing sentence on appeal.
 Old Marshal Canrobert criticized the three 7ear service clause in the Military Bill wen it vent before the French senators for discus Iion.