Connecticut western news., 1888-08-22
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

been stationed at the Georgetown, D. O., Uni versity since 1875, and has served as it's Presid by the Rev. Father J. Haven Richards, S. J., who finished his studies recently at Woodstock Md Father Doonan will go to New York to the College of St. Francis Xavier.
 Gen. Bouanger was elected to the Cham Der of Deputies in the Department of Somme by majority of 34, 723. He also heads the polls in the Charente and Nord departments. The announcement of the figures caused great excitement ill Paris.
 Liverpool will, in short time be supplied with drinking water from the Vernlew, Welsh river. which is one of the principal tri- butaries of the Severn.
 Bavaria at present Is divided into two parties, one adhering to the Regent, Prince tuitpold, the other taking the side of his eldest son, Prince Rupprecht, the heir to the throne. The Regent is undeservedly unpopular, while all the sentimental German ladies sympathize with Rupprecht, young man un- der 20, who wishes to marry beautiful young girl belonging to the lower ranks of Munich burghers.
 The agreement between the Manitoba gov ernment and tho Northern Pacific Railroad for ,he completion of the Red River Railroad is of, and the government will complete the railroad itself.
 Al . meeung tne nl'elpool ne1orm Club it was resolved to start fund to assist Mr. Parnell in meeting the expenses of his ac- ton against the Times. It is intended to make the movement a national one. Many promi- nent Gladstonians attended the meeting.
 In the chess tournament at Bradford Gunsberg has won 12 games, Mackenzie, Bard leben, Weiss, and Macon each, and Black. burn g. There are three rounds to be played, It is expected that the six prizes will be award ed to the players mentioned.
 Florence Morse, 12 years of age, ascended Mont Blanc. She is the youngest tourist that ever made the ascent.
 ".loo .,,I kI0 of Hesse paid visit yesterday to King Chris tian of Denmark at Wiesbaden.
 The chief steward of the British steamer Lord Clive at Liverpool from New York; com mitted suicide by jumping overheard off Point Lynas.
 Edward Hanlan, Jr, the young son of Hanlan the oarsman, while playing with matches in Toronto, set fire to his clothing and was burned to death.
 Vessels drawing more water tean the gov- ernment is pledged to furnish will not be allowed to enter the St. Lawrence canals on account of the lowness of water in the river.
 An explosion in powder mill at Windsor, Que, killed one employee and badly injured another.
 The railroad through Bulgaria to Constan- tinople is at last completed, and Paris is now within three and half days of the Bosporus. The iubilation which this event excited in So- fla, at which Prince Ferdinand presided, may have caught some of it's enthusiasm from the fact that though the Berlin Congress decided upon the building of this railroad as Q matter of obvious necessity, Russia, as long as she had the upper hand in Bulgaria, threw obstacles in the way, believing that the road would be particularly favorable to Austrian trade, and would also enable Austria to throw troops into the Balkan Peninsula.
 The City of Paris, another steamer for the Inman line and the sister ship of the City of New York, will be launched on the Clyde on Sept 1.
 The Mexican Telegraph Company an nounces an increase in it's cable rates. An extradition treaty between Colombia and the United States has been signed. The members of the Holland Society of New York who are now visiting Holland went on an excursion to Marken on the steamer William master and the High Sheriff of Amsterdam. Under the guidance of the Marken officials the | party visited various points of interest on the | island. Afterward they went to Hoorn, where hundreds of flags were displayed in their honor. | Here they were received by the Burgomaster | and other officials in the Town Hall, where luncheon was served.
 M. Floquet Prime Minister, received a | deputation of navves, who declared that the masters would have complied with their de- mands if the Government and police had not I supported them. M. Floquet reminded the | delegation that although the Republic allowed | workmen to discuss the conditions of labor, 1t did not allow them the right to impede labor. | The Government would protect workers against all violence. It had closed the Labor Ex- change in order to put an end to the culpable provocations which the strikers had been gull ty of.
 A despatch from Massowah says: "A French missionary who has arrived from the l scene of the massacre at Saganeti reports that | four of the Italian officers who were in com- mand of the auxiliaries were killed. He does l not know the fate of the fifth. He says that Debeb, the Abyssinian chief, whose troops overcame the Italian command, had force of | 75O men, of whom $50 were armed with uus- kets The report that the Assaortin allies prov | ed treacherous is now denied. Four hundred stragglers from the defeated column have ar- rived at Massowah.
 | Five thousand miners in the Newcastle district of Australia have given notice that they will stop work unless they are granted an advance in wages. | Private banks at Berlin have bought Rus sian funds to the amount of 5O,O0O, 900 roubles. The purchases include the gold rentes, which | Russia was unable to sell in Paris in 1887.
 The steel-works at Landore, near Swansea,
 England, whose shutdown has thrown thou
 sands of men out of work, are not owned by
 the Siemens They belong to 8 company, and
 the Siemens are merely shareholders.