Connecticut western news., 1900-01-11
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Count de Benomar. the Spanish ambass sador to Italy, died at Rome.
 The miners strike at St. Etienns, France, practically Is at an end.
 The Colombian reyolutionists have tak- en Pamplona and Bucaramanga without a fight.
 Adyices from Guatemala state that a revolt at Tecana, on the Mexican border. has been suppressed.
 The gold yield for 1890 In New South Wales was 509,Ils ounces, an increase of l6S,e25 ounces over 1898.
 The wrecked Hamburg American liner Patria was foated In English channel. but foundered again, drowning Ave.
 The Brazilian minister of finance has been ordered to burn 100000 of papor money every week until 50,oo0,000 are destroyed.
 The British steamer Borghese of GIas- gow foundered off Cape Finistere during n hurricane. Twenty.two of the crew were drowned.
 Mir. Francis Schnadhorst. who from 1885 to iSa2 was the chief organizer and adviser of the Liberal party in Enalabd. has died in his sixtieth year.
 William Waldorf Astor has sent Eb.0o0 to the fund for eauippins the corps of London volunteers. This brings MT. As. tors total war contribution Co f12.o00.
 The schooner Puritan was driven ashore on Cabot island of the Newfound. land coast In heavy gale Monday, and eight out of her crew of nine were lost.
 The French government has cabled the commandnnt of the naval squadron in the Atlantic 10 proceed immediately to Sante h aFn n ae nl claim,
 The executive committee of the Istsr. national Peace society has sent . teie- gram to President Mckinley asking him to intervene with a view of ending the war in South Africa.
 A new American banking concern has been opened In the City of Mexico under the title of the United States Banking company, with S1o0. 900 paid in capital. George J. Ham Is manager. It Is believed in scientific circles in the City of Mexico that that there win be series of earthquakes in North AmeriQa in the coming months. The seismic cycle Is said to be approaching.
 Mime. Bazalne widow of the famous French marshal who died some years ago in exile in Spain, has died at a private hospital in the City of Mexico after un- dergoing an operation for cancer. Mail advices from the Carolinss say that typhoon on Nov Q destroyed much property In the islands. especially in the island of Yap. The German warship Jaguar narrowly escaped destruction. Thirty-tiye lives were saved at seq on Saturday by the British steamship Geor- ginn. The rescued were Captain Strange. bis wife. two children, a nurse and the crew of 90 men of the German steamship Ella. A dispatch from Picking states that an English missionary of the name of Brooks has been murdered at Ping Yin, in the province of Shangtung, hy mem. bers of seditious society known as Boxers" According to news received from the orient by the steamship Queen Adelaide. the troops of France have been routed ignominiously. with loss of 90 killed, in a battle with natives In the province of Kwangtung, In southern China.
 The Venezuelan government has con. rerred the Order of the Bust of Bolivar on Admiral Sampson, Captains Taylor. Cook, Slgsbee. Chadwick, Goodrich and Commanders Mead, Dayton, Symonds and Todd of the United States navy.