Connecticut western news., 1901-08-22
FOREIGN NOTES OF INTEREST

The British surprised the Boers near hiddelburg, Cape Colony, killing 23
 The sultan of Turkey has exiled to Arabia Tf4 persons, many Of them wo- men.
 NJ. Nyssens, former minister of in. duetry In Belgium, has committed sui- eide.
 Sir William Laird. the noted Scotch ironmaster, Is dead. He was born in 1880.
 An American locomotive defeated an English rival in Il decisive test in Ja- maiea.
 Bulgaria demands that Turkish troops be recalled from across her frontier in a specified time. The Russian cruiser yariag, built at Philadelphia, has sailed from St. pe- tersburg for the Pacific.
 The British parliament has been pro- rogued, the kings speech being read to both houses at Westminster.
 Boer Commandants Erasmus and Ca- ehet were mortnlly wounded at Steyns. burg in fight with the British.
 A Brusse,s paper says Kruger has re- jected privateerlng proposals, but may use corsalrs under certain conditions.
 The Canadian census shows an in. crease in population of only 503. .s2T in ten years. The total population is B.. 337 ,166.
 General Plaza has been declared elected president of Ecuador, having received a majority of G5,ooo votes. | Famine is declared to be imminent in n large part of the best crop growing districts of Russia owing to insufficient harvests.
 The czar of Russia has accepted | President Loubet's Invitation to wit ness the French army maneuvers in September.
 The remains Of the dowager Empress Frederick have been inferred beside those of her husband In the mausoleum of Frlcdenskirche, near potsdam.
 Twelve Scottish workmen selected | hy popular vote at the instance of the Dundee Red Letter have sailed to in- vestigate labor conditions in America. Bands of maraudIng Rurds have de stroyed 12 villages in district of Ar mcnia. killing all the inhabitants save the young women, who were carried | off.
 The official final census returns show the population of France to be 3s,9s1.- 333. an increase In the last five years of 412,3B4. The increase is mainly in ur- ban centers. Four-fifths of the town of Farsund, on the North sea, has been destroyed by fire. The church, postotfice, stnte bank and schools have been gutted.. About 1,2o0 people have been rendered homeless.
 Lord Kitchener has cabled a con firmatlon of the report of the release of the peace envoy, AndrIes Vessels, who was said to have been shot. Vessels was prisoner in General Cellier's lauger near Kaalfonteln which the British recently surprised and cap | tured. The wife of Grand Duke Alexander i has given birth to son. Both mother | and child are doing well. The infant will be chrlstened Dlmltri. Grand Duke Alexander is a nephew of Elm. peror Alexander II and was born April | 13, 1866. He married Grand Duchess Xenla. who Is the reigning emperor's sister.
 The steamer Olympia, which has ar rived from the orient, brings advlces of the trial of three Americans before | the United States consul, Mir. Ragsdale, at Tien-tsin, charged with footing with violence in Chan-koe-chuang. a Chinese village 30 miles northeast of Picking. | The accused-Richard Leslie Butler, Alfred Plant and James winn-were each sentenced to four years lmprlson- | ment.