Connecticut western news., 1888-05-09
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD

The discovery in the Greek treasury of 5,00O,O ,OOOf. more than was credited in the ac- counts has made great sensation at Athens.
 The Madrid committee having in charge the Christopher Columbus celebration offers a prize of SlO, 900 for the best book, in any lan- guage, on the geographical discoveries of Por tuguese explorers prior to the time of Magel- Ian. About the end of this month the Queen Regent will unveil monument of Columbus at Palos.
 Brazil is seriously ill at Milan. Doctors have been summoned from Rome and Naples for a consultation.
 General Boulanger has sold the manu- script os his book on the German invasion for S4O,OO0.
 Dispatches from India announce that Delhi and Moradabad have been visited by ing been killed. The hailstones were flat and oval in shape, and some of them weighed as much as two pounds.
 Tho Russian military chiefs who recently assembled in St. Petersburg declared that Rus sia would not be in position for long time to attack a European power, Even her deten- sive forces, they said, were too weak, owing to lack of railways. It was decided to construct three lines toward the Austrian frontier at the cost of l3, GOO rubles.
 Tho Empress of Germany is confined to her room with neuralgia.
 The director of the Paris Compton Des- compte has failed to negotiate a loan of 800 GOO coo roubes with the Russian Govern ment, as Russia would not accept the condi- tons.
 At conference of Austrian ministers in Vienna it was decided to summon the delega- tions to assemble at the beginning of June.
 Mir. John Bright has written letter to London paper advising popular resistance to the early closing bill as unreasonable interfer- ence with freedom of business. Count Hiroburni, the Prime Minister of Japan, has resigned. Count Kurado, the Min ister of Agriculture and Commerce, succeeds him.
 A cable from Havana says the state of siege declared in several provinces of Cuba is owing entirely to the desire of the government to put an end to brgandage in those sections. Politl- cally the island could not be quieter.
 The dynamite outcry threatens to again arise in London. The metropolitan police pre- tend to have been informed that a group of dynamiters, sent by the Clan-na-G Gael, are on their way to England. A special watch has been placed at all the ports.
 Mir. Charles H. Sturgeon, the celebrated London preacher, who is visiting Bourne mouth, England, for the benefit of his health, has written letter in which he says he is ill, worn out and hardly able to keep on his feet.
 Cambridge University, England, has ap- pointed the Rev. Wm. Creswell Doane, Bishop of Albany, N. Y., select preacher for the com- mencement exercises in June.
 The Dutch Parliament was opened. The Prime Minister announced that a royal com- mission would be appointed to consider the question of national defence The finances of the country were in a favorable condition. The government, he said. was examining into the feasibility of increasing the import duties.
 The famous choir of the Sistine Chapel, Rome is going to Paris to sing in aid of char ity in one of the fashionable churches.
 -Ayoub Khan has left Bagdad for India.