The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-10-05
Foreign.

AN explosion in the rocket factory at the
Woolwich arsenal, England, killed two men
and destroyed several buildings.
GREAT BRITAIN has been urged by Stanley,
the explorer, to exercise a protectorate over
the Congo country, Africa.
Two rebellious chiefs in South Africa have
been sentenced to death by the Beers.
ODoNNELL, slayer of Carey, the Irish in
former, was arraigned in the London police
court. Carey's son created a sensation by
tostifying that after the shooting O'Donnell
said he was sent to do it."
ALDERMAN S. C.. HADLEY has been elected
lord mayor of London for the ensuing year.
YELLOW fever is reported on the decline in
Mexico.
a HEAVY gale greatly damaged crops,
plantations and houses in several parts of Ire
land. The old town hall at Limerick, used as
a corn exchange, was blown down.
A FIRE in the kad Keni quarter of Con-
stantinople destroyed 800 houses
THE official report of the fatalities conse-
quent upon the late earthquake on the island
of Ischia states that 800 pers ons We're killed
and 314 injured.
ANTI JEWISH riots have broken ont again
in Russia and Hungary. AT Nowomoskowsk,
Russia, only synagogue and three Jewish
houses have escaped demolition, and 200 fami-
lies were rendered homeless. Order was re-
stored after five rioters had been killed and
thirty arrested.
ORANGEMEN prevented meeting of home
rulers at Dungannon, Irelanl.
IL, Ill
from Alsiers, North Africa, for Tonquin,
China.
Mr.. BRADLAUGH has informe Sir Stafford
Northcote that he will again demand his seat
in the next house of commons.
THREE diplomas have been awarded to
American exhibitors in the Electrical exhi-
bition at Vienna.
A CAPTAIN who arrived in New York few
days since gives details of the terrible devas-
ta,ion wrought by hurricane at San Do
mingo. The coast of San Domingo was
strewn with dead bodies and wreckage. At
least onehalf the village of Azua, which has
population of G,000, was in ruins. All the
small vessels of the coast We're destroyed. At
Acre the sea destroyed the plantations,
tore up the docks and swept away
every building in the place. From
Acre to Savanna la Graade, thirty
miles, twenty-three bodies were washed
q hors. At San Domingo al the shipping
suffered severely. OF three brigautines
which were lying outside nothing remained
save a few spars and pieces of wreckage The
vessels had foundered and the crews had been
drowned
A MAGNIFICENT statue of Germana was
unveiled near Rudesheim, in the Ri ne by the
Emperor William in presence of an immense
crowd of spectators, numbering nearly 250,-
600 perso ns, and amid the changing If TIE
bells in all the adjacent villa res and the
thunder of artillery. The villages and castles
along tie river Rhine We're Illuminated at
night, and bonfires and blue lights were
burned on all the heights. Twenty steamers
profusely decora ell with flags, were anchored
in the Rhine in trent of Rudesheim. The
contiguous towns and villages were decorated
and their streets thronged with stra lgers
Nearly all the German sovereigns and princes
We're present The monument attains the
height of 10 feet, consis ing of substructure
a quadrangular stone ba sc containing relief
celestial and the figure of Germania, the latter
being about thir y-three feet in height. It.;
cost was bout $3.50, 900, and it was erected to
typify German unity and the German Wet ry
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