Connecticut western news., 1889-04-10
FOREIGN HAPPENINGS.

The Chinese papers in San Frnncisto o Cal say that claims arising out of the recent mutiny and riot at Chnkang are to be set. tied by the Ranking officials without delay Full reparation is to be made, and orders are given that settlement is 10 bo both full and prompt. The doors of the First National Bank at Anokn, Minn, arc closcd The cashier is il, Canada. The President of the Bank has FS,OOO in stock, as much more on deposit and will probably be called on to sink several more thousands in the closing up o matters The capital stock was $5O,OOO. Frank John, of New Holland, Pa, is dead aged 22 years. He was never out oi bed, having been paralyzed when an infant.
 Out of eighty eight indictments reported by the Grand Jury in Augusta, Me, nearly seventy were for viola tions of the prohibitury liquor law.
 Tho Ways and Means Committee of the Assembly has reported MT. Lannon's bill to cqualize taxation on real and persSPal property (same as the Brundage, bill of last year), Mcssrs. fIustcd and Dinkelspiel dis senting
 Tho "Advocatc," a journal of the colored people of Boston, owned and published by John D. Powell Jr has suspended publica- lion: cause. failure Of many persons to pay money owing to the paper,
 James Lewis of Buffalo if ed to commit suicide with morphine because Corporal Tan ncr had not answered an application for an appointment in the Pension Department. He aftcrward received an $1 800 appointment. hut tlrolimd q it on account of his disgrace.
 Mir. Cox, member of Parliament for East Clare, and MT. TulIy,editor ofthe" "Roscommon Herald' were recently sentenced to four months Imprisonment under the Crimes act. They appealed and their sentences have just been reduced six weeks each.
 The French Chamber of Deputies autho-. sr4l Al1, Boulanger
 -Advices from Stanley represent him as travelling toward Zanzibar with ten thousand persons all told.
 Two earthquake shocks were experienced in Santiago de Cuba recently.
 -One hundred and forty Alsatians have been fined GOO marks each for failing to re- port for service in the German army.
 The Marquis of Ely has just died in Italy.
 MT. W. H. Gladstone, the eldest son of MT. Gladstone, who was convalescing from his recent illness, has suffered a relapse,
 A distillery syndicate has been formed in leading firm of distilers however has refused to join the syndicate.
 -The new Ministry of Peru has resigned, giving as the reason therefor the inpossibility of conciliating the minority in Congress re- garding any arrangement for the payment of Peruvian bondholders.
 The merchants ofMoscow have petitioned the government to forbid the importation of foreign goods into the Russian dominions by way of the Petsshora, Obi, Yenisei, and Lena rivers.
 The Emperor of Germany, as a mark of renewed confidence, has summoned to the Herrenhaus Dr. von Puttakamcr, tho Minis ter who was dismissed by tho lato Emperor Frederick.
 "A despatch from the Hague says; Tn compliance with the wishes of the State Coun. cil, Parliament agreed to the establishment of a Regency. Pending the appointment of a Regent, n bill will be introduced vesting royal power in the State Council.
 The Privy Council nt London has re- versed the decision of the Canadian court which had declare - hat metals disco vered on the coast of British Columbia belonged to Canada.
 In the Chamber of Deputies, Bucharest, the Prime Minister announced that the mcnl- bers of tho Ministry had rendered their resig- nations to the King.
 An extensive Nihilist printing establish ment has been discovered in Warsaw, Russia, and many persons connected with it have been arrested
 It is stated that the Sultan of Turkey has discovered a plot to dcpose him and to place bis brothers heir on the throne.