Connecticut western news., 1888-09-12
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

natives again to-day fired upon an Algerine carrying the British flag. Afterward they all lowed an interpreter to land, to whom they de clared that they were banded together to resist all whites"
 Russia accepting German contract to build narrow gauge railway to the Merv oasis, French capitalists have formed com pany to purchase large and fertile Russian territories for farm and cattle breeding An other great company is proposed, with Russian and foreign capi' al, to export beef, mutton and pork to England by fast steamers from Libau.
 Cardinal Moran conferred the pallium upon the Primate at Armagh, Ireland.
 A despatch from India says that shots have been exchanged between the Thibetans and advanced parties of British troops
 General Van Swieten, the leader of the Dutch expeditions in the East Indies and the Dutch commander in the Acheen war, Is dead.
 In fight between pilgrims and servants of the Grand Sheriff of Mecca recently several persons were killed and many wounded. The trouble was caused by the Sheriff defrauding tLe pilgrims.
 migration Treaty with America will be ratified in modified form. The discussion of the question has caused great excitement. There have been several riotous demonst rations. A mob, incensed at the American Ministers ac- tion, attacked the American official residence at Canton.
 Before the departure of the Czar for Southern Russia, he gave an audience to 8 number of Abyssinian priests.
 Twelve hundred spinners at Bolton, Eng land, have struck against the introduction of 8 new system of weighing cotton. It is expect ed that the strike will spread.
 At meeting of merchants at Mini Nov gorod it was resolved to petition the Russian government to prevent the formation of com- pany to construct petroleum conduits from Baku to BatOum.
 M. Ferdinand de Lesseps read paper at the meeting of the British Association at Bath. In it he said he was confident that ten locks of the Panama Canal would be completed by 1890.
 burglars, have been extradited to Germany from London for trial, on the charge of rob ping jewelry house in Munich.
 The German Government has sent note to England requesting that the settlement of the Niger dispute be hastened.
 Surveys have been completed to Irkutsk for new Siberian railway, and the work of building the road will soon begin.
 The Catholic Congress at Freiburg has adopted resolutions in favor of the temporal power of the Pope, and condemning the action of the Italian penal laws affecting the clergy.
 The Pope, assisted by Abbot Pessuto, as editor, is writing a history of Rome in the Middle Ages. Particular attention will be paid to the period of Gregory the Great.
 Gen. Salamon, the fugitive ex-President of Hayti, has arrived at Paris. He is ill and worn.
 It is said that King Milan, will withdraw his petition for divorce from Queen Natalie and will divorce himself under the royal edict sanctioned by the Skuptschina.
 A French newspaper quotes from a letter written by Coul von Moltke to friend, in fho fho hoy,o &ho% 1,o will not see another war between Germany and France. because such 8 war could not be like that of 1S10. The forces of France and Ger many in such an event would be eqnal, and their chances therefore would be equalized. Besides, Germany, having accomplished unity, should now only aim at defending her~ self if attacked
 It is feared that the town of Pisek has been in- undated.
 -Advices from the Philippine Islands report that very serious en,e4te had occurred there, growing out of the refusal of the natives, in- cluding ten thousand Indians, to pay newly imposed taxes. During 8 riot number of reb- bels and one policeman were killed.
 The Sterns and other banking houses of Frankfort, will issue on the 11th inst, 8 41s per cent Portuguese loan to the amount of 158, $40, 900 marks The issue price will be S5.
 The anniversary of the French surrender at Sedan was celebrated by revleW Of the Garde du Corps. The Emperor, accompanied by the Kings of Sweden and of Saxony, was present and was greeted with great enthusi- asm by the immense crowds assembled to wit ness the manBuvres.
 The will of the late Emperor Frederick, of Germany, will soon be published. One pass age declares that an extension of popular rights would be the strongest bond of union between the nation and the monarchy.
 There have been continuous rains throughout the eastern portion of Germany Several districts in Silesia have been flooded.
 The Krupps are reported to be buying lands in Ekaterinoslaff, Russia, where, it is said, they will establish factory in which to manufacture guns for Russia.
 There are rerorts in Berlin of important changes in the German government.
 The evening London newspapers condemn the violent language used by the London Standard toward the United States.
 An unauthentical rumor in London repre- sents General Boulanger as having passed through Hamburg on his way to St Peters burg, via Copenhagen.
 The Czar has returned to St. Petersburg.
 The illness of Cardinal Manning is merely incidental to his advanced age.
 Herr Reschauer, well-known Austrian journalist and member of the Reichsrath ii dead.