Connecticut western news., 1899-03-30

Asoncillo. tine agent of the F1lipinos. has left London for Paris.
 The French steamer Burgundia has gone aground off Algeciras.
 Birket Foster. the English water color painter and illustrator. Is dead.
 Bandits have renewed their activity in Pinar del Rio province, Cuba.
 It is reported in Peking that u Hung Chang is about to return to power.
 Professor Gustave wiedemann, pro- lessor of physics and chemistry, died at Leipsic.
 The magnificent Hotel Beaurivage. at Interlaken. Switzerland. has been com pletely burned.
 The Hamburg American liner Bulga- ria, disabled at sea, arrived at Ply mouth, England.
 The American jockey. Tod Sloane won the Liverpool Spring cup on Lord Beresford's horse Grodno.
 It is reported at Rome that China has absolutely refused Italy's demand for a concession at San Nun bay.
 Trouble is brewing at Cornwall Ont, over the elections of chiefs of the St. Regis Indians. Troops may have to be sent there.
 Arabs are reported to be raiding the country around Ghardeia in the Sahara One hundred Europeans are said to have been killed.
 The officials of the Panama Canal company have decided to send agents to Jamaica for the purpose of securing 500 to 1 900 additional laborers for work on the canal
 The British. German and American ministers at Picking have demanded from the tsung-li-yamen a decision on the Shanghai foreign settlement exten- sion question.
 It is rumored that the arrest of the alleged British spies. Claeys and his wife, at Paris. has led to the discovery of an organized spy system operating in France in the interests of England and Germany.
 Tn convention between Great Britain and France delimiting their respective frontiers in the valley of the Nile has been signed by the Marquis of Salis- bury and the French ambassador, NJ. Paul Cambon.
 The committee of Lloyd's has decided to hestow silver medals on Captain Att kinson and Chief Engineer Duncan of the Cunard line steamer Pavonia, which recently reached Liverpool after most exciting experiences.
 Birket Foster, the English artist, is dead. He was a member of the Royal Water Color society and an honorary member of the Royal academy of Der lin. During the early part of his ca- reer he illustrated very many books, chiefly poetry, but in 1858 he abandoned illustrating and became a water color painter.
 Passengers who have arrived at Ca- dig on board the Spanish steamer Mon tevideo, Captain Moret. from Havana on March 12. assert that at the moment of their departure from Havana a num- Der of American soldiers killed a negro child who stole loaf of bread and that the populace thereupon attacked the soldiers, who. the passengers add, had to be re-enforced.
 Michael Davitt, Nationalist member of parliament for South Mayo, was stoned and several of his supporters badly in- jured at a political meeting in Charle- vile. County Cork, on Saturday. The rival supporters of candidates for the county councilorship joined in the melee with clubs and stones. Mir. Davitt spoke amid perfect hail of stones, which finally broke up the meeting.
 Sir William Mcdonald, the Montreal tobacco man, has made another dona- tion to McGill university. This time 1t is the school of mining which benefits. and the gift is large enough to provide the services of lecturer. a demonstra- tor. an assistant and a complete staff of mechanics. which. with his recent en- dowment of the professional chair, gives that department a complete stan. The amount of Sir Williams present dona- ton has not been made public. but it Is said to be in the neighborhood of sSO0,- 900 and raises the total sum of money he has given to McGiil to over s3 900. GOO