Connecticut western news., 1888-10-24
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The city of Bremen formally entered the Zollverein. The Burgomaster made speech on the occasion.
 The beet-sugar manufacturers of Saxony met and unanimously passed resolutions de claring that the Sugar Counties Convention was incompatible with their interests and likely to injure the beet-sugar industry.
 Tho Paris comic paper, Grelot, has been seized for publishing an insulting caricature of Emperor William.
 The Mayor of Madrid announces that he will float municipal loan of f4, 900 ill Europe before long.
 Tho London fund for MT. Bradlaugh amounts to f2, 4S5 which will enable him to wipe out the whole of his debts.
 The North Wales Coal Owners Association has granted the workmen rise of ton per cent. in wages, and the danger of 8 universal strike is now over.
 Mir. John Finucane, member of Parliament for East Limerick. will bring suit against the Times for libel, for stating that in speech he advised the farriers in Ireland not to refuse 10 shoe the land grabbers' horses, but to shoe them and drive the nails into the quick.
 The Prince of Wales bade farewell to Emperor Francis Joseph and started for England
 The agent of the British East African Company, accompanied by Gen. Matthews, has left Zanzibar on board the Sultan's steamer for Mombassa Traders, both German and ln- dian, have established business thero in the expectation of developing trade in the districts under the jurisdiction of the company.
 A Roman dispatch says Floods in Abruz- 20, has caused enormous damage and the loss of many lives.
 Petroleum in the fore hold of the steamer Vile de Calais, at Calais, from Philadelphia, exploded. The vessel sank. It is feared that some lives have been lost.
 MT. Parnells defences in the action in the Scotch courts against the London Ii'nes have been delivered.
 The members of the Spanish Cabinet are divided on the question of army reform. A ministerial crisis is therefore threatened.
 Lord Mount Temple, son of Lady Cowper and stepson of Lord Palmerston, died in Lon- don.
 A courier from the Congo Free State brings news that Major Bartellott was shot and killed by porter of the Stanley relief expedition for ill treatment by the major. The murderer has been hanged for his crime.
 Gen. Gresser Chief of Police in st, Peters burg, has been promoted to the office of Gov ernor of Kiefr. Gen. Sheerekin succeeds him.
 The syndicate for the conversion of the Hungarian debt includes the Berlin Disconto Gesellschaft and the Austrian Credit Anstalt and Credit Foncier.
 A Zanzibar dispatch says: The story that three sailors who deserted from the German gunboat Moewel had been eaten by natives roves, upon inquiry, to be unfounded. The men were killed by the natives, and their bodies when found were badly mutilated, but it is believed the mutilation was done through fetichism.
 Tho Government has issued an order for bidding the reception of foreign officers in the military colleges of France, and also forbid ding their services in the army.
 -Advices from Java state that conspiracy against the Dutch residents has been discover ed at Madion. Forty-two of the ringleaders in the movement were arrested and eleven others who refused to surrender were shot.
 Forty thousand copies of Dr. Mackenzie's book have been seized by the police of Leipsic. The Berlin officers are visiting all the book shops and sezing all the copies they can find. The London census for September shows that there are ninety-two thousand paupers in that city.
 Cardinal Rampolla, Papal Secretary of State, has sent circular letter to the various nuncios in which he says that the Pope is much satisfied with Emperor Williams visit to the Vatican. Cardinal Rampolla further says that Emperor William recognized the Popes high sovereignty.
 -Advices from Samoa of the date of October state that Malietoa's partisans had burned adherents at Mulini Point. The latter were without food and water and the Germans were trying to supply them. -Senor Moret Spanish Minister of the In- terior, has informed the Council that the English Government has proposed to the Euro pean and American Governments to prohibit the Pacific Ocean trade in arms, dynamite and other explosives, and alcohol. Senor Armijo, Minister of Foreign Affairs, said that the American Government had declined to assent to the proposition. The Council decided to assent if the other nations would do likewise.