Connecticut western news., 1888-11-28
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

The Norwegian ship Magnhild, Captain Tellefsen, from New York Oct. 30, which has just arrived a Amsterdam, had on board the crew of the Norwegian bark Gibaltar, Capt. Frodersen which was abandoned, water logged, in latitude 45 degrees N. longitude 2S degrees W.
 Herr von Levetzow, Conservative was elected President of the Reichstag.
 News has been received of the laundering of seven icebound sailing vessels in the sea of Azov. The crews of the ill-fated boats man. aged to reach Tagnanrog after severe suffer ing They were all frostbitten.
 The meetings announced to be held throughout Ireland in memory of the ''Man- chester martyrs" were proclaimed by the Government. A few conflicts occurred be- tween the people and the police. The most serious disturbance was at Kilkenny. A de spatch received from there says that the po- lice were charging in all directions and that a magistrate threatened to give orders to fire on the mob.
 At meeting of the Colonial Company in Berlin it was resolved that the Emin relief expedition be attempted as soon as possible by the nearest route. The relief fund now amounts to $S0,OOO.
 It is reported that two hundred Alsatiar recruits from Colmar, Thanh and Mulhouse attacked their military escort and wounded a Prussan soldier. It is also stated that four Prussian officers were assaulted and se- riously injured by French sympathizers at Strasburg.
 In the ParneI Commission the charge of contempt of court against Edward Harring- ton, M. F., was brought up. MT. Harrington accepted full responsibility for the article in the Kerry Sentinel disparaging the Commits sion, and was fined $500.
 Gen. Boulanger attended performance at the Renaissance Theatre in Paris. The au- dience recognized him and applauded. A a phpprp1 him IVY 10 of the theatre. There was some disorder and the police made several arrests.
 -Forty-six workmen's societies of Milan at nmeeting protested against the triple alliance and against war in general. A resolution was adopted declaring that they would not support the Italian government in the event of war. The protest will be sent to workmen's s associations throughout Italy.
 A despatch from Belgrade says that the elections resulted in a serious riot. The troops were called out to restore order and collision occurred between the soldiers and the people. Many persons were injured.
 It is iumored that the Italian Govern ment contcHlplateS q new loan for military purposes.
 A German grndarme has arrested 8 French employee of the Avricourt railway station while working in his own garden on German territory.
 The police at Lille, France, have cap
 
 bonds amounting to 92O ,OOO from the cities of Brussels and Mons.
 The Mayor of Havana has issued proc lamation imposing a tax on all eatables, drinkables and fuel, to take effect on Jan. l. The press and public opinion condemn the measure.
 The Berlin Kreuz Zeitung announces that the Emperor has decided to appoint another set of general officers, to supercede present incumbents, and that he has signed an order for the reorganization of the field artillery.
 An Admiralty memorial will be presented to the German Reichstag advising the eXpen- dture of IF, ,00O, 900 marks in the next ten years in the construction of large men-of- war.
 Mir Sturgeon, who has been Ill for some time, left England for the South of France. He is extremely weak.
 "A Dublin dispatch says: Fully 10000 persons assembled at Rearcross, and nt- tempted to hold a meeting. The gathering had been proclaimed by the Governor, and strong force of police arrived and charged upon and dispersed the crowd. During the nfiray many persons were injured.
 Heavy and destructive storms are re- ported at ports in the North and Black seas. -The St. Petersburg Messenger charges that in 1863 Bismarck, who was then in the diplomatic service and professedly friendly to the CZar, entered lnto a pot to annex nus sian Poland to Prussia. AstonshmcntiS ex- pressed that such an article could be pub- lished under the rigid censorship of the Rus sian press.
 M Marianf, the French Ambassador at Rome, despairing of obtaining commercial treaty with France, is trying to arrange a n,oduS uiuendi
 Sir Henry Arthur Blake, whose appoint ment to the Guvernorship of Queensland met with much opposition, will probably be ap- pointed Governor of Mauritius.