The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-01-26
FOREIGN N e wa.

CoNsTANrTNoPLE kilograms report that some
Circassians attempted on Sunday to assns-
snnte the sultan of Turkey. A woman
divulged the plot. The Albanian body-guard
met and defeated the Circassians in the
vicinity of the sultan's apartments. Several
mon were killed in the encounter.
PATRICK HrGGINs was hanged at Galway,
Ireland, for participating in the murder of
Joseph Hubby bailiff on Lord Ardilaun's
property in county Galway, and his grandson
Grandfather and grandson were serving pro-
cesses when they were attacked shot to death
and their bodies tied into sacks and throvN
into the waters of Tough Mask, from which
they were recovered after search lasting
twenty-three days.
DETAILS of the terrible dies truction of life
ut burning circus in Berditscheif, Russian
Poland, show that the fire broke out toward
The end of the performance, and that the au-
dience numbering 500 persons, rished to the
front door, but it opened inward and as
the crowd pressed forward it was rendered
useless. Arush was thea mpdcto the two side
doors, both of which were nailed mp, thus
compelling the people to take to the windows,
liOIi many HiIittil- liilD lht 9tIt'l VIII
their clothing sheet of flame. 1t is esti-
mated that ninety men, 100 women and sixty
children lost their lives. The victims in
clude the colonel of police and the vice
president of the Berditscheif bourse. The
audience consisted mainly of Jews.
PRINCE JEROME NAPOLEON (well-known as
"Plon-Plon'') has created some excitement
by publishing a manifesto declaring the
French republic failure and claiming the
Napoleonic inheritance. The manifesto
first appeared in the Paris Figaro, a morning
paper, and in the afternoon men
began FASTING the placards on the
walls. The police thereupon arrested
the billposters and tore down the
pacards. Many of them were forwarded to
the provinces and distributed. Figaro was
seized and Prince Napoleon was arrested and
acknowledged having written the manifesto.
The matter was discussed in the French
chamber of deputies, and the action taken
by the government approved. Prince Jerome
lis cousin of the late Emperor Napoleon.
He is not regarded as a man of much abil-
ity, and his manifesto is considered an at
tempt to obtain notoriety.
AN extensive railway strike in Scotland has
caused suspension of traffic.
FURTHER shocks of earthquake in Spain ar,
reported. At Murcia twenty-five shocks oc
cured and several houses were overthrow
The ship Undine which arrived recent.
at Colombo, Ceylon, lost overheard eigh
of her men during the voyage.
FEW days after Patrick Higgins execu
ton Thomas Higgins and Michael Flynn
we're also hanged at Galway, Ireland, 70
completely i'll the murder of the Huddys
They both walked firmly TO the gallows ant
died without a struggle.
COOPER, HALL, & Co., London merchant
and bankers, have failed, owing abou
900.
AT Constantinople there was an ARRAY be
tween two regiments of the palace guard
one of them composed of Albanans and tn
other of African Arabs, between whom bit
ter hereditary jealousy exists About fifty o
the combatants were killed or wounded.
The village of Marais has been destroyed
by great land slip. The movement of tn
mountain was so slow that the villagers al
had time to escape.
A GREATER part of Kherson, South Russif
has been destroyed by fire.
THREE successive explosions of gunpowde
in a mandatory at Muiden, Holland, un
rooted nearly all the houses in the town an
seriously damaged buildings in neighborin
! towns and villages About forty persons al
believed to have persisted.
FEARS OF a civil war in France are aroused
A large organization composed of legit
mists, Bonapartists and anarchists who al
opposed to the republic and intend to engag
in an uprising in the west of France, is re
ported to be in active existence. A dispatc
from Paris says: at is perfectly.true that III
Baron de Charette, aided by NJ Baudrl
d'Asson, member of the chamber of deputit
for La Vendee, and others, has organize
from Finistere to Tours thirty-two legation
; of 1000 men each, and has begun to arr
them"
PRINCE Frederick Charles Alexander
brother of the emperor of Germany, die
the other day in Berlin at the age of eighty
two.
=, A DESPERATE battle has taken place nea
Tehuantepec, Mexico, between a battalion O
heASdH tIOOIS anu large Ddnu OF INDIANS
The Indians lost eighty men killed and man
: wounded and We're routed. The troops los
fifty men killed, including their lieutenant
colonel.
: AN Ottawa (Canada) dispatch says it
asserted on good authority that the Prince G
a Wales and suite will visit Canada the frs
week in March next, remaining in this couu
try until after the meeting of the Scienc
-, association. 1t is also said that the part
I will visit the leading cities of the Unite
i States.
AN international exhibition of fine art
= has been opened in Rome by the king an
> queen of Italy.
AT an examination of twenty-one person
a in Dublin, charged with conspiracy I
murder officials an informer named Fare
Il swore that there was in existence a seer,
society for the assassination of men in oflic
and that committee of this society gay