Connecticut western news., 1899-10-05
FOREIGN NOTES oF INTEREST.

News has reached Victoria, B. O., of Chinese emperor.
 The steamer White Cloud, under Amer icnn charter. sank en route from Hong
 kong to Manila, seven men being drown ed. a a-. The London Daily Mail says that Mrs.
 Bangtry (Mrs. Hugo Gerald de Batbe) Ia
 writing her "reminiscences, which will be
 published about Christmas. Confirmation has been obtained of the report that the bubonic plague has made it's appearance at Baguia, a village out
 side the oporto (PortugaD sanitary cor
 don. .. The Greek government has been in- formed that severe shock of earthquake around Smyrna killed 1000 persons. in- iured 500 and demolished 2,oO0 houses and two villages.
 A fierce battle between the police and native infantry on the one hand and body of Bhil raiders on the other To re- ported from near Khergoum, in India. The police and troops pursued and over took the Bhils, who lost POO killed and wounded.
 By the burning of the steamer Montoya of the Colombian transport line on the Magdalcna river a week ago 30 lives were lost, including that of General Julio Rengifo, former secretary of the treas ury of Colombia and minister to Ecuador. One of the victims was a woman.
 The officers of the British warship
 Leander, which has returned 10 Eseui- malt from a cruise In South American waters, report that a volcano on James island, one of the Galapagos group, be- came very active three months ago, send ing broad streams of lava down It's sides. No damage was done, as the island ia un- inhabited.
 Sixty engineers and employees of the United States canal commission have ar rived at Greytown In order to make care full surveys of the five routes for canal
 across Nicaragua between Machuca falls
 and the Caribbean sea SO that the com
 missioners can decide on the most desira-
 ble route. Professor A. r. Davis of the
 geological survey, who Is in charge of the
 Photographic division, is pushing his
 part of the work with much skill and sue cess
 Four greasers, three firemen and two
 coal trimmers of the British steamer
 Scotsman. wrecked Sept 21 In the strait of Belle Isle, who were arrested on their arrival at Liverpool from Queenstown, H@e"N@@sNs& goods belonging to passengers of the Scotsman and formally arraigned. Four. having been previously convicted, were sentenced to months imprisonment with hard labor. The others were lined S10 and costs.
 Advices from Samoa say quiet prevails
 there, but the feeling among the whites
 is that there Is trouble ahead. It Is add
 cd that von Buelow, the former heuten-
 ant in the German army who organized
 the forces of Mataafa, has been going
 about the country interviewing the Ma
 taafa chiefs. This Is objected to by the British and Americans as likely to ac- centuate the hostile feeling The core
 spondent of the Cologne Gazette at Sa.
 moa has received cable instructions to re-
 main at Apia.
 It is evident that fatalities from recent
 floods and earthquakes In India far exceed
 800. At least 200 were killed in the de-
 struction of the Phool bazaar and as many
 as 100 at Darjeeling Twenty-one bodies
 have been recovered at Tamsongbatee,
 where it is believed that another 20 per
 sons have been killed. Advices from
 Rungli show great destruction in the tea
 gardens around Poomong on Monday
 night The landslides continued under
 the Rungaroon forest, the constant roar
 alarming the inhabitants.