Connecticut western news., 1899-12-28
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

A slight disturbance in samoa is re- ported.
 Ii Hung Chang has been appointed acting viceroy of Canton.
 The massacre Of 2SO Armsnians hy a party of Turks has been reported
 Three thousand miners and r y500 lnes workers are on strike at St. Eti<nne. neaK Paris.
 Admiral yon Diederiehs has been sns pointed chief of the German naval Esn- eral stan.
 The pope on sunday inaururnted ths holy year with impressive ceremonies ns the Vatican.
 The official report from Pretoria states that the gold output for Hovsmbsr wzA 61. .7SS ounces.
 The czar of Russia has donated sf0.. 900 for the erection of an Orthodox Rus sian church in Chicago
 Sir Thomas Lipton has been ananl- mously elected rear commodore of ths Royal Ulster Yacht club.
 The steamer Empress of India. from Yokohama. reports numerous cases ef piracy in Chinese waters.
 Mir. Andrew Carnegie has given 21O0.. 900 to provide swimming baths and gymnasium for Dunfermlins.
 The Duke of Westminster. one of Eng lands richest peers. Is dead. His wealfh was estimated at x400 GOO. GOO.
 The distress in the famine districts of India is becoming more acute. Aboua 2. 2.2JO.OOO persons have received relief
 Upward of 40 school children were drowned in an lee accident af Frelinxs hcnl Belgium. near the French frunti@r.
 NJ. Numa Droz. the distinguished Swiss statesman and former president of the collaboration, has died in his sixty-sixth year.
 General Jose Hernandez leader of the Venezuelan rebels, has surrendered Max% acaibo It is now believed the revolutisa Is over.
 The osservatore Romano. the organ e1 the Vatican. says it Is certain that NeEus MeneIik of Abyssinia Is contemplating war against Great Britain-
 Two hotels, four ships. several villas and a monastery were destroyed by landslide at Amalh. Italy. Twelve per sons were killed and many injured.
 Colonel Mahon. at the head of British Egyptian troops. has occupied Fl Obeid. the capital of Kordofan. He found tks place only a mass of deserted ruins
 The appointment of Mgr. sbarreti to hs bishop of Havana may be cancelled owins to the protest of the Cubans to the sp- pointment of any but a Cuban to ths office.
 Professor ]. W. Glover. the eminent musician. has died In Dublin He had gained worldwide prominence for the edi ton of Moore's melodies which be bar. monized and edited.
 A Belgian syndicate has been granted permission by the Chinese foreign ofaes to extend the Luhan railroad from sw kow- Kiao. on the gulf of Pe-chi-h. to tha west gate of PekinK.
 M. Paul Deroulede. president Of fhs League of Patriots. on trial for eonsparmr cy against the French government. has been sentenced to two yearr' imprimon- ment on the charge of libeiing senators composing the high court of justice
 The Earl of Tankerville is dead H4 was sometimes spoken of as the ~Fsfh&f of the English Parliament" as he was not only the oldest member in point of age of the house of lords. but hs was ths last surviving member of the house of commons of 1852.
 Fog in England has caused q series of railway disasters The Caledonian en- press fell over an embankment near 0lass gow. Five persons were killed and many injured. A Pullman express telescoped the Continental express near Brighton. and three persons were killed and 70 Ia jured.