Connecticut western news., 1888-11-21
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The German government has arranged that German Catholic missionaries to China shall be supplied with German, instead of French, passports.
 The police have expelled from Berlin two FrCnch journalists, NJ. Nj. Latapich and Oori- ot. editors of Berlin correspondence with French newspapers. The official reason given for their expulsion is that they made themselves obnoxious. It is supposed that they wrote objectionable letters.
 pr. Windthurst the Prussian clerical lead CT, is expected at Rome shortly. The visit is regarded protest on the part of the Vatican and the German Catholics against Emperor Williams recent visit to the Quir- inal
 A duel was fought in Paris between the poet Catuellc Mendes and Leon Bienvenu. The latter was severely wounded in the right arm.
 A London cablegram says that William Reginald Courteney, Earl of Devon, is dead His lorlship, who had attained his eighty second year. was NJ. P. for Devon from 1S41 to 1S49, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1866 to 1867, and President of the Poor Law Board from 1867 te 1868.
 At a recent sitting of the Servian Re- vision Commission King Milan declared that he would as little tolerate the Russian eagle at Constantinople as the Austrian eagle at Salonica.
 Admiral Possiet formerly Russian Minis ter of Railways, who was dismissed because of the recent accident to the Czar's train, has been appointed q member of the Imperial Council.
 the suppression of the slave trade in the Tan ganvika region leaves Brussels at the begin ming of the year.
 Portugal, on invitation Of Great Britain and Germany, will send vessels to take part in tho blockade of east African ports.
 MT Edward Harrington. Member of Par lament for West Kerry, has been summoned for melting to boycott.
 The coasting steamer Vaitarna, which left Clutch, India, for Bombay with 300 na- tives on board, is overdue. 1t IS supposeu she foundered in recent cyclone and that all hands were lost.
 The committee on coast defenses recom- mended to the Italian government that the ornaments of the maritime fortresses be aug mented, that Naples and Palermo be made impregnable to any hostile fleet, and that torpedo stations be established in some of the harbors of SardenIa and Sicily.
 Acting Governor Palmer of Queensland has telegraphed the British colonial Secretary that the people of Queensland do not want Mir. Henry Arthur Blake for Governor. MT Blake's experience of one year as Governor of Newfoundland is considered insufficient to qualify him for the new office to which he has been appointed.
 The Czarewitch will spend day in Berlin on his way back to St. Petersburg from Co- penhagen.
 The exports of beef, hog and dairy pro- ducts during October aggregated $6,611. 706 in value, as against $7 ,O39 546 for the same month last year
 The German Government has ordered an other cruiser to proceed to Zanzibar.
 Tho Tagus, Louro. and Lizo rivers have overfowed their banks, flooding the sur rounding country and doing extensive dam, age.
 Tine masters of the collieries in Lanark- shire have made a per cent. advance in wages. The British Trade Committee has advised the jute spinners of Dundee to give their employees a similar increase.
 The C;stle of Libenwerga near Halle, Saxony, has been burned to the ground The castle physician, his wife and child and two servants were burned to death.
 Messengers who have arrived at Waly Halfa report that the mysterious white Pasha in the Bahr cl- Gazc distr rict has fought a great bat tie and killed many dcrvishcs
 The Pustcnr Institute was opcnoi in Paris in the presence of President Cannot. Pastcur received an ovation from the people present. In an address he exprcssol his thanks for the support he had received tn full filling a humane task.
 An explosion of fire damp has occurred m the freucflck plt AG DOuf Ill the pFOVlnce of Hanaut, Belgium. Thirty-two miners were killed The three survivors are il more or less injured
 The French Chamber of Deputies Con- mittee on the Revision of the ConStitution has adopted a resolution in favor Ur abolish ing the Senate and the Presidency.
 No confirmation has been recel1 ed of the report that attempt had been made to as- sassinate Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria. The Coburg family has received no advices on the ubcct.
 A band of thirty armed Turis made a raid the Servian town of Reski. The peasants rallied, and offered a determined re- sstance to the invaders. During the strug- gle many were killed.
 -lshak Khan, the leader of the recent tan.
 -Queen Victoria will meet th< ex-Empress of Germany at Port Victoria.
 The Governments of Italy a:ld China have agreed that henceforth Italiau missionaries in China shall carry Italian instead of French passports.
 A Zanzibar despatch says hat the Cover and 2,000 followers to Lake Nyassa on a mission, the object of which is unknown.
 A London despatch says there has been considcra ble wreckage and a number of bodies washed ashore between Lcre and Bolperro from the Nantes and Theodore Ruger, which were in collision off the Lizard. It is believed thilt all but sixteen members of both crews were lost.