Connecticut western news., 1888-12-19
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

Terrible storms have been raging for three days in the Department of the Pyrenees Orientales, France, flooding villages and causing wrecks and much loss of life.
 It is stated that the commission investi- gating the recent accident to the Czar's train at Borki will report that the disaster was due to carelessness on the part of officials, several of whom will be tried.
 M. Manrel and M. Cemenccau fought Q duel near Paris with swords. M. Clelncnccau was wounded in the shoulder
 In the primary elections which have just been held throughout Servia the Radicals and Liberals scored u great victory, the Progress sionists being totally defeated.
 Albeck's woolen manufactory at Neumun- ster, Germany, was burned to the ground. Fifteen persons were killed and ten others sustained fatal injuries.
 Lord Harrington and the majority of his followers have formally resigned from the National Liberal Club Lord Derby, who has has not resigned.
 The chief ex-Arch of Bulgaria is dead
 Two mon have been killed and many others injured by the breaking of a capstan on board the torpedo boat Japon at Toulon.
 It is stated that General Hahnke will be appointed Minister Of War for the German Empire ill the place of General von Schcllen- uortf.
 "A Choctaw Indian named Lyman Puslcc shot by members of his tribe for killing his brother. He sat erect on his coffin, focing 6 his exccutioncrs, and met ucatE like q stoic.
 The Cabinet has under consideration new law, to go into operation ln 1855, under which foreigners who have lived five years in Russia will become Russian subjects or else be expelled from the country.
 The Pope is about to despatch letter to the American Bishops instructing them to support morally and materially the scheme proposed by the Bishop of Plaisance to estab- fish a seminary for the instruction and traln- ing of missionaries to give aid to Italian en- igrants arriving in America.
 A female lion tanner was attacked by the beasts under her charge during performance in a menagerie at Hohenmouth, Bohemia, and so frightfully lacerated that she died soon afterward.
 Shoa, instigated by the Italian Government, which has supplied him with arms and muni- tions, has rcbeled against King John of Abyssinia, his f;,therin-law. Abyssinia is in Q very destitute state.
 The results of experiments at Spczia with O new shell fired from 1OO-ton gun far sur pass all expectations The destructiveness
 
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 Count Herbert Bismarck called the atten- tion of the Foreign Committee of the Reich stag to the fact that France has not shown the same frankness and good will as the other powers appealed to in assisting in the SUD- pression of he slave trade on the east coast of Africa. The Government expects the Reich stag to give a decided support to the meas ures for the repression of the rising there and the DrOtectiOn of German interests
 The reports that have been circulated re- garding the health of Emperor William are denied. The Emperor is engaged in writing narrative of his recent visits to Northern capitals which will be illustrated with wood- cuts by the Emperor's own hand.
 By an explosion of gas in @ coal mine near Canyon City, Col, while workmen were engaged in extingushng a fire that had pre- viously broken out, two men were killed, two mortally injured and eight more seriously hurt.
 The German Government has not yet de- cided on an East African policy.
 It is rumored that King Milan may resign.
 --Despatches from Samoa say that the ad- hercnts of Mataafas continue to besieee T am. nscse King of Samoa. The German Consul has ordered Mataafas to withdraw. con. ference of the consuls on the situation has been without any result.
 A Suakim dispatch says: The artillery has begun work. The enemy's right redoubt was nearly destroyed by the heavy combined fire of the ships and forts. The Arabs replied, wounding one Egyptian. Deserters says that Osman Digna is>at Handoub with two thou sand men and will march in defence of the trenches when an attack IS made.
 Two men have been arrested at Naples for throwing Q dynamite bomb at the Ger man Consulate in that city. The bomb did not explode. The men are members of the Republican Society.
 A fire broke out at wharf at Antwerp, and about ], 300 out of ? 900 bales of cotton from the British steamer Mareca from Balti more, have sustained extensive damage.
 Prince Alexander of Hessc is reported to be dying.
 MT Gladstone will go to Naples and will reside in the Vile Rocca belle, near Posilippo, until the end of February.
 Ut has been discovered that $24O, ,OOO has been stolen from the governments deposit bank in Madrid. The robbers are unknown.
 Thirty persons have been bitten by mad wolves near villages in the ncighborhood oi Arsova. majority of them have already died after suffering great agony.