Connecticut western news., 1900-01-25
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

The sultan of Turkey Is reported vio- lently insane.
 Rudyard Kipling and wife have sailed for Cape Town.
 The proposed new German navy will cost S652. 100000.
 Canon Henry Twells. a we'll known writer of hymns, has died in London.
 Many people have been killed and much damage done by earthquakes in Mexico.
 Nineteen men were killed and 0S in- jured in the collapse of a church In Rus sia.
 new franchise regulation of Vsncou- yer. B. C., permits married man to vote twice.
 A colliers' strike extends throughout the whole of northern Bohemia. Seventy two thousand men are idle.
 News has been received in. Cairo that Osman Digna, principal general of the late Khalifa Abdullah, has been cap tured.
 Seventy thousand Austrian miners have gone on strike, their employers hay. ing refused the demands for higher wages and an eight hour day.
 An electric locomotive for towing ca nal boats between Berlin and Stettin has been introduced, with extremely satisfac- tory results in respect of cheapness.
 The Spanish transatlantic steamer Leon XIII has arrived at Barcelona from the Philippine Islands with former Spanish prisoners and their families.
 A Caraeas dispatch published in Paris said that anarchy prevailed In Venezuela. Bank directors, including foreigners. have been imprisoned for refusing Co lend the government money. The government of British Columbia has declared its intention of SO amending it's alien exclusion law as to hereafter permit Americans to hold claims pur- chased from Canadian locators. The American line steamer Paris has been successfully foated out of the dock at Milford Haven, where she had been undergoing temporary repairs after hay. ing been ashore off the Manacles.
 Signor Gunrini of Brussels has patent. ed an apparatus which is apparently an improvement upon Signor Marconi's method of wireless telegraphy. It will be tested between Brussels and London.
 News received from the state of sono. ra, in Mexico, indicates that the laqui Indian revolt, which has caused the Mex. iean government a vast amount of trou. ble and much loss of life, Is now prscti- eally ended.
 The Swiss bundesrath, abrogating tho previous regulations, has granted pcrnis | sion for the importation Of dried Ameri | cnn fruits and also fresh fruits on condi. | ton of their examination at the Basel | custom house.
 Professor David Edward Hughes, in' ventor of the Hughes printing telegraph | instrument, now in use on all important continental lines in Europe and on all submarine lines between England and the continent, is dead. Francis Paul Charles Louis Alexander, duke of Teck, who In 1866 married Prin. cess Mary Adelaide. daughter of Prince Adolphus Frederick, duke Of Cambridge, seventh son of King George III, has died | in his sixty-third year.
 II Is reported by passengers from Puer. to Bnrrios that Major Laliande, chief of police of Guatemala. was murdered in . small mining village north Of Guatemala some days ago. Major Lallnnde was an | American from Michigan. Richard D. Blackmorc, the novelist, has died at Toddington, In England. He | was born at Longworth, Berkshire, in 1923. graduated at Oxford In 1S47 and was admitted to the bar In 1852. Among his best known works are Clara | Vaughn" Lorna Doone" and "Crippa | the Carrier" besides poems and transla- | lions