The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-06-15
Foreign News.

MESSRS. DAvITT, Ideally, M. r., and Qu1nn,
who we're sentenced last February to %confne-
ment in Kilmainham jail, Dublin, for six
months for making in1ammatory speeches,
have been released.
A SECRET inquiry into the riot which oc-
Cured in the streets of ST. Petersburg on
the evening after the czar's coronation in
Moscow shows that it was i~nstigated by Nj
hilists.
AN alleged attempt to blow up the Welland
canal in Canada by fifteen Fenians, who
came into st. GATHERINGS from the United
States, is said to have been frustrated by the
timely precautions of the Canadian govern
ment. According to the published accounts
the government at Ottawa received a very
secret warning several weeks ago that it was
the intention of the Fenian faction of the
Irish associations to send a party of their fol-
lowers into Canada on the day of the hang
ing of Brady in Dublin, for the purpose of
blowing up certain portions of the Welland
canal. A large number of men known to
be loyal subjects of the queen we're at once
stationed at a short distance along the banks
of both the old and the new canals, with in
structions to watch all the movements of any
suspicious characters who at that time might
be lowering about. On the day before Brady
was hanged fifteen suspicious-looking men,
each carrying a carpet-bag, jumped from the
train at ST. GATHERINGS, having come over
the suspension bridge from Buffalo. They
seemed to be making arrangements to carry
out an object which they had in view, but
discovering that they were watched they
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ADvICEs have been received from Sierra
Leone, Africa, that fifty persons were roasted
alive for witchcraftin the Sherbro district.
THE mayor of Moscow has been banished
to his estate in Tambow for having expressed
the hope in his speech at the banquet to may
ors of cities during the coronation f%estivi-
ties that the car would institute a constitu-
tional regime.
The Chimes army is being modified, and
active preparations are being made for war
with France.
AT Posen, Prussia, 143 soldiers were acct
dentally poisoned, their condition at last ac-
counts being dangerous.
QUEEN VIoToRIA's health is said to be such
as to occasion grave anxiety in political cir
Giles. She has gone to Scotland against the
advice of her physicians, and is having sue
cessive fits of depression.
ANOTHER Russian paper-the Moscow Tete-
grdph-has been suppressed by the govern
ment for printing Objectionable articles.
Mr.. KEENE's American colt Blue Grass
won the race for the Ascot biennial stakes,
a prominent annual English racing event.
PREPARATIONS on a great scale are being
made in China for war with France.
CHILL and Bolivia are once more at peace.
SuLEIMAN DAUD and Mahmud Sami, who
were accused of setting fire to Alexandria,
Egypt, at the time of the British lombard
ment, have been found guilty and sentenced
to death. Eighteen officers were found guilty
of completely in the same crime, and were
sentenced to various terms of penal servi-
tude.
SEVERAL fights have taken place between
the Albanians and Turks, resulting in heavy
losses on both sides.
AN English dispatch steamer-the Lively
has been completely wrecked near Storm
away. The loss is about $15o,00).
The Turkish gov rnre.t has informed
General Wallace, our min ster at CONSTANT.
nople, tat after the expiration If the com
mercial treaty between the two countries
which expires March ID, 1884, the
importation of all American meats, lart
and similar products will be prohibited
General Wallace has protested that the fore
going measures are arbitrary, and asserts
that American goods under the treaty o.
1880 are entitled to the Observation-Disclosures
treatment.
MORE than 2,00) Chinese laborers dice
during the past year in British Columbia
and at a meeting of Chinese firms in Victoril
it was resolved to advise the Chinese govern
ment to allow no more men to come to tn
country at present. =
The catch of seals by the Newfoundland
sealing fleet this season is reported at from
400, 00Oto 10000 seals.
APowDER magazine in Scutari, Turkey
was struck by lightning, and a tremen
dous explosion resulted, many persons beinI
killed.