Connecticut western news., 1900-10-18
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

The Hispano.A American congress win meet in Madrid Nov. II.
 The relations of Colombia to EcuadoH and Nenezueln were reported strained.
 Final figures show n government ma jority of 1S0 In the new British house of commons.
 Hope of the return of the Peary steam CT windward this fall is practically abandoned.
 Lord Alvarstone, better known as SiA Richard Webster. has been Appointed lord chief justice of England.
 Mexican troops In the field against the Mayi Indians have been ambushsd sev- eral times recently and suffered considI erable losses.
 A severe earthquake has occurred at Jodhpore, in Rajputana, India, doins great damage, although causing but slight loss of life.
 Mir. Andrew Carnegie has presented the town of Hawiek, Roxburgh county, Scotland, with the sum of f10,0o0 for public library. Hawick Is situated at the confluence of the Teviot and the Slit rig. 59 miles by rail from Edinburgh.
 It Is estimated, according to the Pister- maritzburg correspondent of The Daily Mall, that from s.000 to 5000 Boers htt northeast of Lydenburg, with four Long Toms and % other guns. The corre- spondent understands that their Long Tom ammunition Is almost exhausted.
 General Butler bade farewell to his troops Oct. and departed southward. There was a striking farewell demonstra- ton. The troops gathered on both sides of the road for miles and cheered Butler yociferously. The British forces have re- occupied Smithheld, Rouxville, Wepener and De Vets Dorp, Orange River Colo ny.
 The Tribuna of Rome publishes corrs. gpondence from Asmara, southwest of Massowah, describing the massacre of an expedition to Lake Assal. The expedi. tion k said to have been composed Of British, but it Is more likely that the members were French, as the lake Is sit snted in possessions ceded to France by Emperor Menelik of Abyssinia.
 The St. Pierre schooner Fiona drifted ashore In Fortune bay during the recent gale on the Newfoundland coast, and hef entire crew of 20 men was drowned. The schooner Is a total loss. The schoon- CTS Amelia, Rosebud and Angler, with crews aRgregating IS men, were also lost. The schooner Huntress Is ashore on the LAbThuoI NoasAs h'' VI ANs NtNN "~s~ drowned.
 The London Daily Times publishes the following dispatch from Vredefort, Orange River Colony; 'srhe British col. umn had n three days fight. from Oct. . 10 [ inclusive, with General De Vets commando of 1000 men and five guns. It took place in a veritable sea of mountains near here The Boers were dislodsed and dispersed, and they fled demoraliEed. The British casualties were slight
 The United Fruit company of New Or leans has received telegram from Port I.imon, Colombia, giving the following list of houses and stores burned there in the fire which broke out Sunday, United Fruit company, office and mer chnndise store; Port Iimon bank, E Sang Lan. FitHche Bros, Lindo Brosp Atlas line office, Rhormoset & Go. and Grand hotel. The cause of the fire i not stated. The loss Is believed to be S2,o0o0o0. .-
 A dispatch from Victoria, B. C., says that Nagasaki newspapers received there have interviews with two Belgian jour nalists confirming the reports of massa- cres on the Amur. They say that as re- suit of orders from General GHpski the Chinese In Blagovestchensk were round. ed up by the Cossacks and escorted by them to a point seven verste from the city, where they were robbed and then driven into the river. Five thousand were killed. All towns along the Amur were destroyed by the Russians and the inhab- itants put to the sword.