Connecticut western news., 1888-12-26
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

- no report that tlte Qncen has withdrawn . +ha wRrrlH, of the Honorable Artillery Com lmar y' tgrt"u denied.
 The workmen on the Eiffel Tower Paris, have gone on strike.
 ceived from Stanley. He is said to be safe and well, as is Emin Pacha. They have arrived, it is said, on the Aruwhimi. Another dissolute woman has been mur- dered in the East End, London.
 pr. Tanner, an Irish member, has been suspended from the House of Commons for using bad language.
 Il orty armed Arab workmen who had be- come tired of waiting for their wages, at- tackled a Frenchman's farm near Zaghoutan, Tunis. The farm was defended by thirteen Italians and the Arabs repulsed with the loss of one killed and seven wounded. Four of the Italians were wounded.
 --An attempt was made to blow up the office of the Commissary of Police, Paris, with dynamite. No one was hurt.
 M. Stoiloff Minister ofJusticc, and M Ma cevies, Minister of Finance of Bulgaria, have resigned. The Minister of Foreign Affairs and two other member of the Cabinet have also resigned.
 The match factory at Scranton, Pa, burned. Loss SIP, ,OO0.
 --The raisn crop of California is estimated at 904 900 boxes of twenty pounds each.
 The British ship Astracalls, .:um Phila- delphia for Havre, collided with the German steamer Borussia from Hamburg, of Cher bourg. The 8orussia, which wis slightly damaged, landed the Astracanas crew and proceeded her journey. It is supposed that the Astracanl has been kept ahoat by her cargo. A Government steamer has gone to her assistance.
 -Bshop kcane presented to the Pope a collective letter from the American Bishops, announcing that satisfactory progress has been made i'll the scheInc for establishing a Catholic University at Washington. The
 letter also thanks the Pope for his support of the plan. and draws attention to the import ance of the work as u hulwHrk against the rise of rntiunulisin and irre thought Ill America.
 --The const ruction Of three new cruisers for the Russian Eovernmcn'-is about to be com mencrd. Three submarine boats will shortly bc finished. The work on them is done with the utmost secrecy.
 News has been received from Samoa that tie Samoans under Mata;,i;s have succeeded in capt uring tue most of Atnn after a long battle with ramascsu'S IorteS The losses in cluded 100 killed and several hundred wounded
 --Thc Countess Costa was stabbed to death in a carriage al Florence. Italy, by q Captain in the army, who then committed suicide by shooting himself mitl, Il revolver
 The obsequies of Prince Eugene, of Savoic. Carignan, took place at Turin and were very imposing. The Duke of Aosta attended the ceremony or behalf of King Humhert The body was laid in the tomb of the royal fam fly.
 The Boulangist National Committee has decided to contest no more bye elections but .l general election. The elections in Serva for members of the Skuptschnn have resulted in the return of 45O Radicals 15O Liberals, and Progress sists.
 The steamer Jasper, from Warrington for Glasgow, has foundered off the Wigtown coast Her crew, mum bering eleven persons, were drowned
 A Russian despatch says Baron Jomini is dead. He was a friend and trusted adviser ot the Car and strong Panslavist. The first number of San Choo, a Chinese magazine published at San Francisco, has appeared. It is a quarterly, devoted to sci ence and philosophic subjects. Yu Yu is the editor.
 u-The North German Gazette says that all ;a:a German em6si ies and consnlates possess n peror FredeTs.k's death, have burned them by order of the Government. The King of Swaziland, South Africa, re- gently caused the massacre of his Premier and SIX chiefs and their people, who were supposed | to be concerned in plot to dethrone him in | favor of his brother. -Railrnad communicatinn- nn-hnt lxeen -Cnlan- | and Panama is still interrupted by the | freshet in the River Chagres. Owing to the revelations which have been | made in investiga ting the recent Parsian ex- plosons, the police have been ordered to | search the houses occupied by many of the well-known Anarchists