Connecticut western news., 1889-01-23
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

Henry Thomas a farmer, of Bolar, Mo-, followed two eloping daughters, shot and killed their lovers, ataly wounded one ofthe girls, and on returning toward home learned that two other daughters had also eloped He pursued and captured them also, but was caught by mob and hanged before getting home.
 Near Eckert, Ind, while three boys were hunting they dug into an old log after rab- bit and discovered a pot of gold coin, which counted out $4 1000.
 The North Mountain. between Cumber land and Perry counties Pa., has been mass of flames for several days, and thousands of dollars worth of valuable timber has been destroyed. The loss is particularly heavy at Sterrett's Gap, near Carlisle.
 St. Joseph's Convent at Locust Gap, Pa, was burned. The flames spread so rapidly that the religeuses and those who came to their assistance were unable to save any thing.
 A shock of earthquake was felt in pol : ton of the Leith valley and in Western Edin- burgh, but no damage was done.
 A cotton warehouse on the Liverpool docks was burned, entailng a loss of $25O,- OOO
 The strikers at Origny, department of the Aisne, are resorting to riotous demonstra- tions. They have set fire to one factory and seriously damaged others. detachment of soldiers has been sent to suppress the riot CTS.
 An explosion of fire damp occurred in Hyde colliery, near Manchester, England. Thirty men were killed.
 Judge Hanncn, presiding judge of the Parnell Commission in London rendered a decision acquitting William O'Brien, charged with contempt of court on account of m ar ticle in United Ireland
 Henri Woolff, the Dutch aeronaut, as- cended in n balloon from Antwerp. He was II | was driven out to sea, and it is feared both gentlemen were drowned.
 pr. Kruss chemist of Munich has suc- seeded in decomposng cobalt and nickel, both of which have hitherto been supposed to be elementary substances.
 A man has been arrested at Tunis on sus- picion of being the Whtechapel murderer.
 Confirmation has been received at London of the news that the Bishops of Tirnova, Varna and Vrantza were dragged from their beds by gendarmcs and summarily marched outside the walls of Sofa, where they were left shiveringin in the biting north wind. Because of this violent treatment of the Bishops 1t IS believed that a "holy war" will be declared against Prince Ferdinand.
 M. Aschinof's expedition of Cossacks, which intends to found a colony in Abyssinia, has sailed from Suakin for Obock, from which port it will proceed to Massowah. The French Consuls at all points touched have officially welcomed it.
 "A house in the Quartier Bellemal Mar scillcs, inhabited by Italians, collapsed. Seven of the occupants were killed and nine injured. The building had been undermined by floods.
 -Advccs from Singapore state that the steamship Phyapeke has been in collision with another vessel and has sunk. Forty two persons were drowned.
 M. Rochefort, editor of L'Intransigeant. fought a sword duel with M. Lissagary, editor of La Bataille, near Paris. It is believed the latter will die.
 By Imperial ukase the Russian Army is to be increased so, 900 to 100000 men.
 -Twenty-sevcn Socialists, including the leader, Becker, have been arrested in Vienna.
 A detachment of the enemy's cavalry fired upon a British vidette near Suakin. They were repulsed by the guns of one of the forts.
 The yield of gold in Queenstown for 1888 was 426 OOO ounces, an increase of 5000 ounces over the yield of 1887.