Connecticut western news., 1888-04-25
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD

In the Chamber of Deputies at Madrid Senor Balagner,, Minister of the Colonies confirmed the report that four provinces in Cuba had been declared in a state of siege in order 10 repress brigandase.
 M. Polikoff, the Russian railway king, is dead. His fortune is estimated at $50, 900 900.
 The Lancet is authorized to deny the ru- nor that Queen Victoria is suffering from in- somnia.
 Mir Gladstone has written a letter of sym- pathy to Dr. Romaine of Youghal, who was dismissed from the magistracy for issuing a proclamation in support of 8 meeting which the Government had proclaimed.
 MT. Labouchere opened the subscription in the House of Commons for Mir. Bradlsugh and within an hour fifty members had subscribed f5o0, the amount of MT. Bradlaughs damages and costs in the libel suit Mir. Peters brought against him.
 Four hundred ejectment decrees have been issued by the Galway Quarter sessions.
 In the House of Commons the Local Gov ernment bill passed its second reading without division.
 Five of the persons who were injured by en explosion in the St. Helen colliery, Work ington, England, have since died.
 Labor strikes are spreading in Germany. The Labor Central Committee has requested workmen to stay away from the districts affec- ted by the strikes.
 The British steamer Scandinavia, Capt. Rcnfrew, from Mediterranean ports for New York, is ashore off Denia on mud bottom.
 Tho Swiss Bundesrath has decided to create . special Secretary of Justice and Police, whose duty it shall be to watch strangers who are suspected of being Anarchists.
 -Serlous news comes rom bsrIln concern ing the Emperor. who is suffering from fever, bronchitis, and an abscess in the vicinity of the trachea,
 -Advices from China say that Lii Hung Chang, the Chinese Premier on behalf of his Government, hss peremptorily demanded that the King of Corea explain why the Corean Minister to the United States presented letters of credence to President Cleveland without the intervention of the Chinese Minister, which act, Lii Hung Chang asserts, was breach of the explicit conditions upon which China per ulitted Corea to send enyoys abroad.
 "A London papers correspondent at Rome writes that the Congregation of the Index" has decided not to condemn the writings of Henry George.
 The runlors that tho Emperor of Brazil will abdicate are denied. The Emperor will soon return to Brazil.
 The condition of the Emperor of Germany is very serious. Dr. Mackenzie fears blood poisoning. and many people believe that the patient will not live through another week.
 MT. John Morley, in 8 speech at Black burn, referred to Lord Randolph Churchilrs calling this the 'sgolden age of English poli- tics" It was not much of "golden age" MT. Morley thought, when Irish members of Par lament were dogged by detectives, and when the Government refused either to listen to the appeals of the Parne htes or to permit them to speak in Ireland.
 The Figaro says that Gen Boulanger will shortly issue significant political manifesto to which he will propose the revision of the Constitution.
 In the House of Commons Edward Hen- cage moved the passage of the bill to legalizo marriage with deceased wife's sister. The motion occasioned sharp debate, but was finally carried by 8 vote of 239 to 1S2.
 It has been arranged that Emperor Fran cis Joseph shall meet Queen Victoria at the Innspruck railway station, and that they shall take luncheon together.
 The Bundesrath voted to expel from the country Herr Bernstein, the editor, Herr Goth elar, the publisher, and two sub-editors oi the Social Rmocrat
 The chief clerk of the treasury at Athens has becn arrested for embedding 5000 900 francs of the public funds.
 The 10th Russian Army Corps has been or dered to the Austrian frontier.
 Startling revelations are threatened regard ing Gen. Boulangers election expenses.