The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-09-07
Foreign

MANY persons nave been killed and a large
number of houses sacked during the progress
of riots against the Jews in various towns in
Hungary and Russia. Collisions between the
military and the rioters were frequent.
A FETE at Paris, given under the auspices
of the French press, in aid of the sufferers by
the Ischia earthquake, Melted 10000.
THE emperor of AMMAN has yielded to the
demands of the French, agreeing to the es-
Enlistment of a protectorate, the payment
of the war expenses and the recall Of the
troops from Tonquin.
THE queen of Madagascar is dead.
LARGE bands of peasants, armed with guns
and axes, entered Zalaloevoe, Hungary, and
plundered thirteen Jewish shops.
THE court-martial trying the soldiers who
participated in the massacres at Alexandria,
Egypt, sentenced thirteen culprits, who
were charged with having organized the mas
sacres, to be hanged opposite the police
station, and two to fourteen years and six to
five years penal servitude.
SEVERAL towns in Java nave been dam
aged by volcanic eruptions proceeding from
an island near by.
A CoREAN embassy, composed of men Of
high rank, has been appointed to live in
Washington. The Corean embassy will be
the third Eastern nation that has fixed a lega-
ton in Washington, Japan and China already
having plenipotentiaries there and numerous
subordinate attaches.
ENORMOUS loss of life has been caused by
volcanic eruptions and tidal waves on and
about the island of Java. Several towns on
the island were swept away by a tidal wave
and the lighthouses as well as a noun
tain in the Sunda Straits nave disap-
peared. The tow of AMER was destroyed.
Whole districts were ~depopulated, large
sections of land disappearing with its inhabi-
tants in an instant. In Batavia, out of a
population of $500 Europeans and Americans,
about 800 persisted. Outside of the town, out
of 10000 Cinnamon fully $4,000 lost their
lives. The total loss of life in Java and in
~neighboring islands is estimated at not less
than $1,000.
THE plate on the coffin of the Count de
Chambord is inscribed with the following
words "Henry the Fifth, by the grace of
God King of France and Navarro" The
Count of Paris has notified the courts Of
Europe of the death of the Count of Cham
bord. The circular of notification is signed
Philippe, Count of Paris"
THE annual session of the German reichstag
has begun.
DURING the terrible volcanic eruptions in
Java and vicinity the mountain of Papan-
dayang, 1904 feet high, was split into seven
distinct parts, each part being a separate,
flaming peak, looming up to a great height.
One of the queer incidents of the eruption
was the sudden rising of fourteen new vol
canic mountains in the Straits Of Sunda,
forming a complete change in almost a
straight line between Point st. Nicholas, on
the Javanese coast, and Hoga Point, on the
coast of Sumatra, almost on the tops of
what had been the Merak and Middle
Islands, which sank into the sea.
So serious are the changes in the coast, and
the entire formation of the Straits of Sunda,
that the British government and the Lloyds
telegraphed from London to all foreign
points warning vessels that navigation of
these waters had become exceedingly danger
Gus. In the city of Bantam, where 800 per-
sons were at first supposed to have persisted.
the bodies of some $500 have already beer
recovered.
DESPITE the proclamation of martial law at
Egerszeg, Hungary, the anti-Jewish disorders.
continued. A band of 400 peasants destroyed
by fire the property of Jews at Sgoetoer.
Acts of incendiarism are increasing in num-
Der. Forty-eight houses Of Jews have been
burned at Szepeth, and thirty-six at Bezere1.
and their crops have been destroyed.
FRANCE has acquired a number of valuable
privileges by its treaty of peace with AMMAN.
THE steamer Ludwig, for Montreal, has
been sixty days out from Antwerp and her
owners have abandoned all hope of her safety.
There were seventy persons on board, twenty
four of whom were passengers.
MORE than 5000 men are at work on the
Panama canal, which is being pushed for
ward with great energy.
News has just been received that the Dutch
Arctic expedition which left Norway in July,
1882, bound for the mouth of the Yenisei
river, in Siberia, foundered July 4 last in
the Kara sea. The men reached the Danish
exploring steamer D%ijmphna, and later were
rescued by another steamer. TIL object of
the Dutch expedition was to establish a sta
ton at Port Dickson for purposes of observa-
ton.
HUGE LAND slides followed the volcanic up
heaval in and about Java. Sections of a
mountain that had been rent apart went
crashing down into the valley, carrying death
and destruction with them. Later estimates
put the number of lives lost at $4,000.
A TERRIFIC gale which prevailed on the
Grand Bank of Newfoundland swamped over
800 dories belonging to fishing vessels, and
about eighty fishermen lost their lives. Many
larger vessels also went ashore or were
wrecked, and the coast for thirty miles was
trewn with wTeckage.
KEY WFsr turne1 out 75,COO, COO cigars last