Connecticut western news., 1888-12-05

Count Stoffcl, formerly French military attache, has been expelled from Alsace-Lor- ralne.
 rested at Kief for not leaving town when ordered.
 It is said the title of prince will soon be con- ferred on Count von Taafe, Prime Minister of Astro-Hungary
 The merchants of Stettn refuse to com ply with Prince Bismarck's order to begin to alter the conditions of the delivery of corn.
 John Bright has rallied considerably.
 Count Benomar will be called upon to ex- plain before the Council of State of Madrid, Spain, his reasons for attemptingto discharge the duties of the office of Minister at Berlin after he had been recalled. He will also be asked for an explanation concerning the charge that he had informed Senor Canovas del Castillo of the negotiations that had taken place between Germany and Spain.
 Baron Hirsch has made a donation of $5,OOO,OOO for schools for Jews in Galicia and Bukovina.
 The Senate at Rome, Italy, by small majority, rejected the bill for the extension of political suffrage to women.
 Henry George will remain in England un- til Dec. S. In q speech at Glasgow he said that the feeling of the country was against the buying out of Irish landlords. lift was good to use the national credit to enable countrymen to buy their own land, why was it not good to use the national credit to cn- able townsmen to buy their houses?
 -Valery Wiedmann, a German governess, brought suit against Robert H Horace Walpole, the heir-presumptive to the Earldom of Oxford, for 91O,OOO damages for breach of promise and libel. She alleges that Walpole met herin Bulgaria. He made her an offer of marriage and then betrayed her. He after ward discarded her.
 The report from Whitney, England, that a lifeboat had been upset and it's crew of 12 men drowned proves to be untrue. The boat reached the shore in safety. One of the crew, however was drowned
 A Zanzibar dispatch says the German men-of-war Leipzig and Sophie have proceed ed to Bagamoyo on account of a report that fighting has broken out there.
 Eleven persons were killed and one hun dred and seventy-fve injured by the explo- sion of Il boiler at Kineschma, Central Russia
 In the mining districts of Belgium, where strikes are in progress, bands of armed strik- CTS are making demonstrations, and the mine owners fear that their property will be de- stroyed. There have also been numerous Socialist displays. The troops in the Carle- roi district have been reinforced.
 Prime Minister Sagasta, of Spain, has in- formed his supporters that he will introduce Universal Suffrage bill immediately. Senor Canovas del Castillo has called q meeting of Conservatives to concert strong opposition to the measure.
 Two thousand men whose time in the army had expired, and who were about to be sent home before being paid, revolted while tinople, and demanded their pay. They raked the boiler fires, and declared that the vessels should not sail until they had received the money due them. The Minister of War with much difficulty raised enough money to pay the men. and the vessels then left port.
 "A Madrid despatch says: A secretly formed military party, led by Senores Cassola and Dominguez, is aiming to compete against both Liberals and Conservatives in forming it's own Cabinet to govern the country, and to force acceptance of Cassola's military re- form. It is receiving the adhesion of numer- ous Generals.
 A despatch from Whitby, England, says that @ lifeboat was upset there, and that twelve persons were drowned.
 In the House of Commons Mir. W. H. Smith, the government leader, stated that if British troops were sent to Suakim they would not be employed beyond the vicinity of the port.
 W. F. Hertenstein, president of the Swiss Confederation, died. He had a leg amputated on account of a disease of the veins which operation caused his death.
 The Oaths bill was passed in the British House of Lords without amendment.
 The baronies of Cornell and West Offaly in Kildare have been proclaimed under the second section of the Crimes act.
 Gen. Boulanger resigns the seats in the Chamber of Deputies to which he was elected by constituencies in Somme and Charente.
 Two thousand coal miners of Belgium are on strike. No disturbances have been re- ported.
 The British ship The Douglass has foun- dered in the North Sea. Two of the crew were drowned.
 The Rome Moniteur remarks that the Popes departure is the probable solution of the Roman question. 1t is certain that sev- eral nations would contend for the honor of receiving him. The Osservatore Romano de- nies that the Pope is relying on the outbreak of war to gain temporal power.
 Edward Towner, resident of Crown Point, N. Y, aged 80 years, while drunk, fell over a precipice 100 feet high at Dresden, and was dashed to pieces.
 A despatch from Belgrade says that serious election riots occurred in Servia. | Several lives were lost and many public build | ings were demolished.
 It is feared that nine fishermen have | starved to death at Romnsh, Ireland, on tho Donegal coast, the weather having prevented their return.