Connecticut western news., 1900-05-17
FOREIGN NOTES or INTEREST.

Thirty-four .ehoonsrs returning to vie- toria, B. C., have secured lo,6oo seal skins.
 Fire in Fukin, Japan, destroyed 1000 houses and many temples at an estimated loss of s2,5o0,oo0.
 The British ship Sierra Nevada Is re- ported wrecked near Melbourne, and 2a lives are believed to have been lost.
 Secretary Chamberlain has introduced in the house of commons a bill Co make Australia federal commonwealth.
 The sultan of Turkey has ordered eon- tracts signed with foreign shipbuilders to renovate his eight antiauated ironclsds
 The number of cases of the bubonic plague officially reported to date ln Aus tralia Is PIG. Of these T5 have proved fatal.
 Serious demonstrations against the gov ernment's financial policy are reported from Spain, and the ministry h said to be greatly alarmed.
 The American pavilion al the Paris sx, position was formally turned over op Saturday to the exposition authoritieA great throngs of Americans witnessing the ceremonies.
 Two expert American diamond thieves named Morton and Harsh have been af- rested at Lelpsic. Diamonds worth 7H- 900 marks were found among their bag gage and were seized.
 A dispatch to the Lopdop Daily Er press from Aecra, dated May 10, seys that Kumassi is still holding out. A dls- patch from Aocra. dated May Q, stated that Kumassi had fallen.
 The Norwegian ship Johannes. Captain Andersen, from Tonsbefs, Norway, May 8, fer Canada, has been wrseksd cu the island of oessl, in the Baltic. Of hew crew of 20 only l2 were saved. The ope hour bicycle race in Park bs tween Harry D. Elkss of oisns Falls, ", Y., and Edouard Tsyiore, the Preach champion. resulted in a victory for ElksS who covered bo kilometsrs and 4oo me tsrs.
 lieutenant Colonel Crosby, command CT of the Forty-eishth highlandsrs al l Toronto, Is dead. Two of his sons, Cap. tain Lorns Crosby and Lieutenant Nor. man Crosby, are with the troops in South Africa. The Netherlands Peace society has sd. l dressed an appeal to President McKlnivy begging him to further the peaceful obv | feet of the BoQr mission, to investikafv their case, to bring about arkstratiap and put a stop to the war in South Afrtea.
 The Victoria cross is to bs swspAsd e | Father P. M. 0'Leary, the Roman Oath. | ollie chaplain with the first Canadian con. | tingent in South Africa, and to French, | Canadian named Fiset, a surgeon, for conspicuous bravery in battle durjps the engagements In the Orange Free State. The governor of Colon has received . dispatch announcing the defeat of the in- surgents st Cucuts, department of San lander. The dispatch says that as Cu- cuta was the stronghold of the insupgsnts and their only stronghold this reverse wiD virtually put m end to the insurrsetion. Cholera continues to rage In the fsmizs camps in India. There have bees <Q% deaths In three days nt Mandives A numerous arc the cases at Godrs that h Il is impossible to collect the bodies. These | lie for days in the sun. The people have fed and cannot be induced to ns turn. A similar state of things prevails at Broach.
 A terrible accident, resulting in ths death of from 30 to 40 persons, took place at Ronciglione, Italy, on the Lake of Nico. during n celebration of the fets of St Lucie, whose chapel is on the shore of the lake. Two boats filled with young people capsiEed while returning from the chapel within 800 yards cf | the landing stage. Only 13 persons were saved