The Lamoille news. (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1877-1881, 1879-05-28
Foreign News.

The town of Halas, on Lake Halasto, seven
ty-fiye miles south-southeast oil Pesth, Hun
gary, has been inundated in consequence OF
continuous rains. Floods have destroyed 800
houses in Kottori. The harvest prospects IN
that district are ruined
A London dispatch says that 1900 colliers
met In conference at Barnsley, the center of
the Yorkshire mining district. They decided
to demand an increase OF ten per cent. on their
pay, and il refused to stop work throughout
the country. Another conference will be held
in Birmingham in five weeks TO fix the date tor
giving notice of strike. The interval will be
devoted to agitation,
A great fire at Povnah, India, destroyed
about sixty houses.
Queen Victoria is now eat-ggandmother,
Princess Charlotte OF Prussia, the wife OF
Prince Bernhard OF Saxe-Meiningen, daughter
OF the Crown Prince of Germany and grand
daughter of England's queen, having given
birth to daughter.
In Toronto Richard Casey, aged five years,
John Casey, aged three years, and John Emard,
aged five years, were burned to death in shed
which they fired while playing with matches.
The same playthings started a fire in Montreal
recently that swept off forty buildings.
Five persons were killed outright and sew
eral others were injured by boiler explosion
in Wallsall, England.
Late advices from the war in South America
state that the Bolivians have retaken the city
| of Atacama, and that Is, 900 Bolivian troops
were marching to attack the Chilians.
Jacob Staempfii, a well-known Swiss politi-
clan, three times president OF the Swiss Con-
federation, and subsequently member OF the
Geneva Court OF Arbitration on the Alabama
claims, is dead in his sixtie4h year.
Several large fires have occurred in East
Russian towns, causing great distress. They
are charged to the Nihilists, and in Orenbure
alone seventy arrests for incendiarism have
been made.
The International Congress to discuss pro.
ects Tor Il ship canal across the Isthmus OF
Panama met at the Grand Hotel, Paris. Nj
| 4 eIdinand de Lesseps, engineer oil the Suez
canal, was elected president. Rear-Admira
Daniel Ammen, OF the United States navy
was chosen one OF the vice-presidents. All o.
the powers applied to sent delegates, including
England, Italy and Russia. 1t was resolved
to divide the members into five committees tC
discuss the undertaking.
Two Rotterdam trading companies with un
pronounceable names have failed, with tota
liabilities placed at nearly $4,000,O0O.
The greater part OF Lublin, a city of 10000
inhabitants in Russian Poland, has been de
stroyed by fire.
At meeting OF striking miners representing
forty collieries, held at Consett, England, i
was resolved to resume work.
Switzerland has just had an election on tn,
question of restoring capital punishment, thu
vote being l9l, 1877 Tor to III 1913 against.
The Ameer of Afghanistan has agreed to al
of Englands propositions. Among the prin
cipal points Of the agreement are the Britisl
command OF the passes, with sufficient terri
tory to constitute scientific frontier, the ap
pointment OF British resident at Cabul an,
the control OF the foreign relations OF Afghan
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