Connecticut western news., 1888-07-25
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

M. Charles Theodore Eugene Duclere, for merly Prime Minister of France, is dead. He was seventy. six years old. His connection with politics in France extended from the year 18iO to 1878.
 There were 50, 900 men and l6S guns in the Kransnoe Selo review. The revsew gave evl- dence that the Russian troops have much inn proved in the last few years. Emperor William greatly admired the troops, especially the Cos sack Artillery. When leading his Russian V1l- borg regiment past the Czsr, Emperor William, calling the Czars attention to the fact that the regiment bore a ribbon attesting it's presence at the capture of Berlin, shook hands with him and smilingly, said: "No mat ter that was in the last century, and Is already forgotten"
 Ross, Haskell & Co.,, wholesale fancy goods Montreal have assigned. Liabilities, $50, 900.
 Queen Natalie of Servla having been re- quested by the Austrian authorities to take her departure from Vienna, arrived in Paris, accompanied by the Princess Moroussi.
 Forged hundred-franc notes of the Bank of France have been discovered in circulation.
 The Haytian Legation in Paris have an- nounced that an uprising of the natives oc- cured recently at Port-au Prince, but that it has been suppressed and tranquility restored
 Cholera prevails to an alarming extent among the Europeans at Hong-Kong.
 Notwithstanding the enormous sacrifice of money and labor all efforts to close the breach in the banks of the Hoang- Ho River, in China, have been found to be futile.
 Seven editors are in prison in We're Cruz, and the Mexican authorities refuse bail in their cases.
 Intense heat prevailed at Suakim, the ther- mometer recording 12O degrees. Several per sons died from the heat.
 A band of Salvationists were stoned in Quebec. A member of the army fired shot at their assailants and wounded man in the leg.
 The Dowager Empress Victoria will re- main in Berlin or Potsdam until she finds a suitable castle on the Rhine in which she can reside with her daughters.
 A German merchant has been tried and condemned to fifteen months imprisonment at Vienna for making insulting remarks about the Dowager Empress Victoria
 Minister of the Interior Burgess, has been despatched to the Northwest Territory to in- quire into the disaffection of the Queens half- breeds, over the confscation of their lands.
 A state of revolution exists in Venezuela, and Dr. Juan P. k. Paul has assumed the office of President.
 The death is announced by cable from Paris of Antoine Etex, the distinguished French sculptor, painter, engraver, architect and Hterdteu, who was in his eighty-frst year.
 In consequence of the complaints of many
 
 Niger River, the German Government has re- Quested England to limit the encroachmentS of the Royal Niger Company, and to admonish it to conduct its business in accordance with in- ternational agreements.
 Queen Victoria has purchased the villa Palmiari, at Florence, which she occupied dur ing her recent sojourn ill that city. The amount paid for the property was f24, ,0OO The report that the vile had been purchased by Queen Natalie was erroneous.
 Princess Christian has left Windsor for Berlin to visit the Dowager Empress Victoria.
 MT. Ritchie's County Government bill passed the committee stage in the British House of Commons.
 The order for the despatch of reinforce ments from England to the Cape of Good Hope has been countermanded owing to an im- land.
 The Railway Function Company has pro- tested to the Porte against the seizure by Bull garia of the Bellova- -Vakarel Railway. The company has also asked the intervention of the French Embassy.
 A despatch from Suakim, on the Rod Sea, says that intense heat prevails there, the ther- mometer recording 120 degrees. Several persons have died from the effects of the heat. The war ships Dolphin and Albacore have sail ed for Suez.
 Tho British war ships Dolphin and Alba core have sailed for Suez.
 MT. Oscar s. Strauss, United States Min ister to Turkey, arrived in London.
 The Canadian Government has issued strict orders for the suppression of polygamy in the provinces.
 A battery with eighty men and twelve special constables has gone to Victoria to sup press the Indian uprising at Hazleton, B. c.
 An agent of the Dominion government says that numbers of Chinamen are daily smuggled into the United States across Puget Sound.
 The captains of the French schooners Flanders, Virginia and Amazon have been fined $2OO each and their vessels coniscated at St. John, N. B., for violating the fishing laws.