The Middlebury register and Addison County journal. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1883-1885, 1883-04-13

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coast six fishing smacks we're wrecked and
forty sailors drowned.
BY n boiler explosion at st. Dizier, France,
twenty-six persons we're killed and thirty
eight injured.
SERIOUS floods have occurred at Charkoff,
Russia, and vicinity. A number of persons
ave been drowned.
In attempting to capture a band of Nihi-
lists in st. Petersburg the police met with q
stubborn resistance. During the fight three
officers were wounded and one Nihilist, ind
lag capture inevitable, committed suicide on
the spot. The eight remaining conspirators
we're arrested.
PRINCE BrsMARoK'sI sixty-eighth birthday
was brilliantly celebrated in Berlin, the en-
pe7or visiting him in person and military
bands playing national airs before his resi-
dence.
The returns for The last financial year
ending March 81 show that the revenue of
Great Britain was $780, O4, 600, and that the
total expenditures were $50, 5000.
Az exhibition of marine products and
fishing implements has been opeted in
Toxic, Japan. There were displayed 5000
varieties of fish and other productions from
sea, lake and river.
THE British government, owing to the fire.
Guent Unlawful use of explosives, is taking
active measures for the protection of prop
erty, especially in London, where the war
office, gas buildings and other public edi-
fees are guarded day and night.
MoNrENEGRINs have murdered twenty five
members of the Castrati tribe on Lake
Scutari.
Mr.. PARNELL has received word that a
land league is to be formed in Australia.
EDWIN BooTH, the American actor, has
been we'll received in Vienna.
EARTHQUAKE shocks have occurred near
Mount Etna.
The king of Ashantee has relinquished the
throne, and the entire coast of Western
Africa is in a state of confusion.
FIVE of the socialists who signed the
placards calling a public meeting in Paris
and urging resistance in the event of inter
ference by the police, were convicted of hav-
ing instigated the riots which followed, ant
we're sentenced to three years Imprisonment
each.
INTENSE excitement was created in Grea
Britain by the discovery of a secret dyna
mite factory in Birmingham and the arres
of five men-four in London and one il
. Birmingham-with a large quantity of dy
Mantle in their possession. To add to tn,
=, excitement a supposed attempt was made OF
the same day to blow up the large govern
, ment barracks at Newry, Ireland the sentine
on guard over the powder magazine discov
, ering a man trying to scale the walls
.,,,, e,,r m n nIrn - @.I~. g.,
r the protection of government property
Not only was the postoffice and the neigh
Y boring government property put under al
increased guard, but the royal residence a
Windsor was supplied with a large force o
sentinels, who were sent thither in a private
and transformations manner. This was rem
dered more necessary because a report wa
! received that some conspirators were alread.
on their way to Windsor from Birmingham
, At the latter place a dynamite factory wa
foundin full operation. The premises hat
Teen taken two months ago by an Irish
> American, who called himself White
o head, and who was arrested. An
other man, who gave his name a
Norman, was followed from Whitehead
f place in Birmingham to London, whittier h
bad gone with a box of explosives, an
f there arrested, together with two other per
sons who had called for him at his lodgings
= The fourth arrest in London was that of
man named Henry Dalton, who came flor
r the United States a fortnight ago, and wa
; taken into custody at the American exchang
= rooms.
II FORTY persons were killed and many MOI
injured, some with fatal effect, by the explC
sion of a powder depot near Rome, Italy.
ALL persons who assisted the crews of tn
Jeanette and the Rodgers search exped
ton have been awarded decorations by ii
car of Russia.
u On the fourth day of the Socialist congrei
n at Copenhagen it was closed by order of tn
~ king, and all the delegates from foreig
countries were ordered to leave Denmark
Four delegates to the congress-, who are ais
Is members of the Ger nal reichstag, were Al
~ rested at Kiel by order of the German go,
. eminent, and their papers contiscated, aft,
which they were released.
y NOTWITHSTANDING numerous protests whic
&c are being received from America again!
the injustice of prohibiting the importatio
of American pork into Germany the govern
ment will enforce the statute making sue
>, importation unlawful.
y A VIENNA dispatch says that the who
=" Hungarian colony at Bukowina, numberin
y about 2O,0C0 souls, has determined to lea,
/" the place, owing to the insufficiency of crol
to feed the population.