Connecticut western news., 1900-10-25
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

The complete suppression of the revo- lution in Santo Domingo Is officially am nounced.
 Final figures show n government ma- jority of 130 in the new British house of commons.
 Sir Roderick William Cameron, the well known New York fnancicr, has died In London.
 Johanna, Rarnum X Bailcy's famous gorilla, has just died of pneumonia at Nuremberg.
 Fire in tenement house In Montreal resulted in the death by suffocation of five children.
 The Norwegian steamer Callandra was run down in Japanese waters and S3 per sons drowned.
 Twenty.nine persons were injured in collision on the newly 6pehed under ground railway ln Paris
 Lord Alverstone, better known as Sir Richard Webster, has been appointed lord chief justice of England.
 A severe earthquake has occurred ae Jodhpore, in Rajputspa, India, doing great damage, although causing but slight loss of life.
 The Times in nn editorial dealing with the South African situation announces that Sir Alfred Milner will be appointed governor of the conquered republics.
 The Dutch cruiser Gslderland, with President Kruger on hokrd, has sailed from Lourenco Marques. She will call at Dar-os-salaam, Tansa, Jihutil and Marseilles.
 The entire spanish cabinet has resign ed as a protest against the appointment of General Weyler as captain general of Madrid. General Azcarraga has formed q new cabinet
 Diamonds have been discovered in the May district of South Africa, near the village of Postmansburg, which is A2 miles from Griquatown. A regular pros pectlng boom has started in the district.
 Mir. Andrew Carnegie has presented the town U Hawick. Roxbursh county. Scotland. with the sum of kl0,000 for a public library. Hawick Is situated at the confluence of the Teviot and the Silt. rig, 53 miles by rail from Edinburgh. A dispatch to the London Times from Auckland, New Zealand, says that the Earl of Ranfurly, governor of New Zea- land, landed al the Cook islands on Oct. and formally annexed them at the unanimous request of the chiefs and peo- pie.
 The state department has received otfi- cial confirmation of the report that Prince von Hohenlohe has retired from the office of chancellor of the German empire and that Count von Bulow, minister of for eign affairs, has been appointed to sue. ceed him.
 The Tribuua of Rome publishes. core spondence from Asmara, southwest of Massowah, describing the massacre of an expedition to Lake Assal. The expedl- ton is said to have boon composed ot British, but it Is more likely that the members were French, as the lake Is sit- uated in possessions ceded to France by Emperor Menelik of Abyssipia. The St. Pierre schooner Fiona drifted ashore in Fortune bay during the recent gale on the Newfoundland coast, and her entire crew of 20 men was drowned. The schooner is total loss. The schoon- CTS Amelia, Rosebud and Angler, with crews aggregating lS men, were also lost. The schooner Huntress h ashore on the Labrador coast. Five of her crew were | drowned. Count von Zeppelin gave his airship another trial nt Frisdrichshafen. and achieved notable success. After rising the airship remained poised at heikht of GOO meters for three-quartors of nu hour It then made series of taeks and per formed sundry turning mapeuvers, after which it was steered against the wind, lt finally headed toward Immenstad, whore | the inventor landed after a trip that lasted about an hour.