Connecticut western news., 1889-02-13
CURRENT EVENTS ABROAD.

i The value Of the plunder secured by the mob in the recent riots in Rome is estimated 1 nt $75, ,OOO. The government possesses evi- | dcnce that the anarchist leaders fomented the I agitation.
 ] The radicals or Milan, Italy, made an nt- tempt to celebrate the revolt of 1858. They were forcbly dispersed by police. | News has been received at Zanzibar from Lake Nyassa to Dec. 19. Lugard was still holding Karonga with greatly reduced gar rison, including six Europeans, the rem aindcr | having left owing to ill-health. Queen Christina has signed the decree ap- | pointing Gen. Salamanca Captain General of Cuba. "A Greek, who has just arrived nt Cairo from khartoum, reports that Senoussi has taken Fl Obeid, and that the Mahdi's sue cessor is alarmed. -7sE
 Eight workmen were killed near Halle. Germany, by a passing train. The Governments of the Australian colonies unite in inviting Canada to send delegates to Australia to consider the ques- tion of closer cable communication, insted of Australia sending delegates to Ottawa.
 -Col. Pevtsoff is about to start to take up the exploration of Thibet, in which Prjevalski lost his life. Joseph Martin, Frcnchman, will also attempt to enter Thibet from the side of Pekin.
 The agent of the East African Company has succeeded in obtaining the release of the Catholic missionaries recently captured by the insurgents, by the payment of a ransom to Bashiri.
 It is stated that Count Tolstoi has ten dercd his resignation as Russian Minister of the Interior, and that it has been accepted by the Car. a-
 ---The bark Theodore Bchrcnd has been wrecked at Tcxcl on the English coast. Ten persons were drowned, including the Captain and his family.
 The Theatre Royal at Aldcrshot, Eng land, was burned to the ground. A perform ancc was in progress when the fire broke out, and the audience became panic-stricken, and mad rush for the doors ensued In the struggle to reach the street many persons were trampled upon and injured, and there were a number of marrow escapes loom death.
 --Considcra able excitement was caused by the appearance on the stand in the Parnell- Times case in London of Q man named Le Caron, who had long been in the ''Fenian" or gunizntion as a government spy.
 Harold M. Sewall, Consul General to the Samoan Islands, was removed. because he disagreed with the State Department in re- gard to Samoan aifoirs.
 -Advices from Shanghai say riot has oc- cured nt Ching -Kiang-Foo, n treaty port on the Yantse-Kiang, and the 'Bntish Con sulate and seven houses belong ing to foreign
  British man-of-war Mutine has been des- | patched to Ching Kiang Foo to protect the | lives and property of British subjects. During 1888 the importation of coal into Cuba amounted to 147 1925 tons, of which | 50. .37S tons came from Europe and 7,447 | tons from tho United States. The workmcn in the glass works at Char eroi, in Belgium, have gone on strike. A number of collisions have occurred between | the police and the strikers, and many persons have been wounded.
 M Guyot- Dcssaigne succeeds M. Fcrrouil- lat as Minister of Justice in France. | The decrease in the cane yield in Cuba this year is attributed to the hurl icane of Scptem- bcr last. ..
 The Spanish cruiser Jorge Juan brought | to Havana 11S emigrants from La Gu0yra and Curacoa. The most of them left for the interior in search of work | -The French engineers are busy repairing | the forts on the Italian frontier. Italy has | ordered 100 heavy guns from krupp and a large number of field guns, and has bought 4,O00 horses in Hungary.
 Tho death of General Gncisenau is an nonnccd at Berlin.
 cision in which it holds that it has no juris- diction in the action for libel brought by Mir. | Parnoll against the Times. The Court has | therefore dismissed Mir. ParnelPs action with tho cost Of appeal.
 l "A special meeting of the French Cabinet was held at tho Ministry of the Interior, Premier Floquct presiding. It is reported that the Ministers decided to take mchsures for the repression of the Boulangists.
 Gen. Riu has been placed under arrest by the French government or fifteen days for making a speech against the Government,
 The staff of Capt. Wissmann, who is to command the German expedition to Africa, hos been completed. It numbers sixty per sons Capt. Wissmann will stop in Egypt and try to recruit detachment of Soudanese for his expedition. X second expedition, com mandad by Baron Gravcnreuth, will leave | some weeks after Wssmann's departure.
 In the debate in the Italian Chamber of Deputies on the address in reply to the King s speech, Signor Crispi, the Prime Minister, scofred at the Peace Society. If was childish, he said, to propose that Italy should disarm when all the other European nations were | increasing their ornaments.
 -Adviccs from Burmah announce that Mundalay has recently been visited by two immense fires. In the first the flames de- stroycd G32 houses, a bazaar and a Budd- hist monastery. In the second, 500 houses were burned. Both fires were of accidental | origin.