Connecticut western news., 1889-06-26
FOREIGN HAPPENINGS.

The police of Prague have forbidden the Russian author FilipoG to lecture there.
 The German Emperor has abandoned his projected visit to Alsace-Lorraine.
 Mine families were cvicted at Youghai, Ireland. Among the tenants disposaesed was m aged woman named Sweeney, to whom the last sacrament was being administered when tho evictors arrived. Mrs Sweeney was sub. scquently reinstated.
 -Mr Strauss, the retiring American Min ister, will remain in ConstnntinopIe until the arrival of his successor, Mir Hirsch.
 -The Harmonic, one of Captain Wissman's steamers which was reported to have been lost, hns arrived at Zanzibar.
 "A revolutionary manifesto from Serv'a hos been circulated in Bosnia and Herzegov' ina announcing that Austria intends to nn' mex those territories. The populace IS great ly excited.
 Mir. Balfour made a speech at a banquet given by the Constitutional Union. He de. clared that the new Gl;ldstonian scheme of Federnlizing the empire wns more lmpiaGtlc. nble than Mir G!adstone's first Home Rule bill.
 Lord Salisbury has entered his defence in the libel action brought against him by Mir. O'Brien He declares that the speech to which MT. O'lsricn takes exception wns made in good faith and was . fair eoMlueHt on Mfr. OBrien's course.
 
 Ponsonby estates, Ireland. Several tenants were elected from their homes.
 The committee of the French Chamber of Deputies to which the governments Panama Canal Relief bill was referred, are still dis. cussing the measure. Seven members of the committee favor the bill and four ask more time in which to examine it.
 The Emperor William will probably leave Kiel for Norway, shortly. His voyage will extend to Hammerfest, and perhaps to tho North Cape.
 Count Tornielle- -Brusato al vergano, Italian Minister at Madrid, has beeu ap. pointed Ambassador at London.
 Prince Louis Napoleon, at the request of his father. Prince Jerome, has resigned his commission in the Italian army. The Parisian cab drivers strike is ended. MT. Strauss, the retiring United States Minister had farewell audience with the Sul-
 tan of Turkey. He was afterward enter
 tained at banquet in the palace. In the House of Commons Mir. William
 Henry Smith, the government leader, an- nounced that the government had decided to postpone further proceedings in relation to
 tho bill to put into effect the Sugar Counties Convention.
 In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies Senor Becerra, Minister of the Colonies, read the Cuban budget. The revenues and expendi- tuTcb UoiduCSu 6U 4SO,OUO,VOO. Auo nAiuio- ter asked authority to issue 0 Spanish guar
 antee loan of; SITS 900, ,O00, and to convert the Cuban debts. -Ex-Premier Garashanine, of Servia, and his family have fed to Semlin. The Russian army will soon be provided with breechloading rifles which will carry a distance of 1000 feet. Noiseless powder will also be used in future by the army. These improvements in the arming of troops involve immense expenditures. In the Chamber of Deputies Prime Minis ter Crispi. in opposing Q motion to reduce the African credits, promised to submit pa pers which would show that Italy is about to | gather the fruit of her sacrifices in Africa. | A vote of confidence in the government was carried by @ large majority. The French electoral campaign opened | with a Boulangist meeting at Month artre, l which was attended by about three thousand | persons.
 Tho Times says that tho letters received l at Zanzibar from UjGi stated that Stanley intended, in company with Emin Pasha, to force his way through Aasailand to Nom baao.