Connecticut western news., 1901-01-03
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST.

Supposed diamonds have been found in New Mexico.
 A new outbreak is reported imminent in Venezuela.
 The murderer of Baron von Ketteler has been executed at Picking.
 Nearly 100 lives have been lost In res cent marine disaster on the English coast.
 Nicaragua will secure to the United States complete control of the canal route in her territory.
 Boxer proclamations have been found in Seoul calling upon Korean Boxers to expel all foreigners, including Japanese.
 Major Alexandre Alberto da Rocha Sarpa Pinto, the African explorer, has died in Lisbon. He was born April 90. 1S46.
 The Earl of Hopetoun, governor gen eral of the commonwealth of Australia. was sworn into office with much cere- mony.
 The marriage of Queen wilhelmina of Holland to Duke Henry of Mecklenburg- Schwerin has been fixed officially for Feb. [.
 It is said that Sir George Newnes, the proprietor of a number of London news papers, will purchase Mime. Patt's cas- tie at Craig-y-Nos, Wales.
 The English colonial office has received news of native rising in the Gambia river region of West Africa. A punitive expedition is being organized.
 The Duke of York, Queen Yictoria's grandson and the heir presumptive, has been gazetted as rear admiral in the English navy. He Is passed over the heads of 64 senior captains.
 us1x. .t.a,,nr nkn Iat, Mnr,. hrfu pu nama that the Japanese training ship Tsukishi. ma Maru has been lost with ell hands. numbering 12i. near Mammalian, Japan. She was long missing, and the warship Midsasha was sent to search for her without avail.
 Queen vietoria's New Years honor list includes the name of Hiram s. Max i'm, who was born in Maine and who is the inventor of the automatic system of firearms He Is knighted. Sir Alfred Milner, the administrator of South Afri- ca, N made Knight Grand Cross of the Bath.
 The London and Globe Finance corpo. ration, limited, has suspended payment. When the brokers delivered stock pur. chased on account of the London and Globe and asked payment, they received checks which were dishonored. This was followed by the failure on the Stock Ex. change of Ia firms.
 The steamer Miowern brings advices from Queensland that prospector nam ed r. Klllane has been killed and, accord ing to the belief of the ships people. eaten by the natives. IL was reported that gold had been discovered near Apia, in Samoa, and that Mataafs Is becoming restless and on Dec. 6 called a meeting of native chiefs.
 Lord William Leslie de la Poer Beres- ford has died in London. He was born July 20, 1s47 This leaves the daughter of Commodore Price of the American navy a widow for n third time. Lillian Price was fret Mrs. Hamerslcy of New York, then Duchess of Marlborough and stepmothsr of the present duke. Lord William Beresford was Il son of the late Marquis of Waterford and a brother of Lord Charles Beresford.
 X dispatch to the London Standard from Berlin says that Captain Saxegaard. q Norwegian, has discovered and named after himself hitherto unknown island in the Pacific ocean, lying in latitude 2 deg. min. north and longitude 135 deg 30 min. east, between the Philippine and Caroline groups. It Is stated that m American gunboat commander has an- nexed the island, which seems to be rich- ly wooded and very fertile.