Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1888-10-12
FOREIGN NEWS.

order to facilitate the export of grain and
-four.
The socialist trial at Hamburg has resulted
in the sentence of Bahst to three months i'm
prisonment and Wuerfel, Friche, Rohde and
Noack TO two months each. Six others were
| acquitted
Pasteur's method for preventing anthrax
among sheep and cattle has been tried in
New South Wales and has been found to be
a great success.
The French board of trade OF Montreal
has passed a reso ution requesting wholesale
merchants to refuse discharge 10 any man
burned out whose stock is not insured to the
amount of at least 60 per cent.
William, king of the Netherlands, will
probably be the next European monarch to
shuttle Off his mortal coil. He has been
hopeless invalid for long time, and his con.
dition is now sa to be critical. He will die
possessed Of larger wealth than any other
ruler in the world.
Harry Fox, a landed proprietor OF Somer-
set aud noted foot ball player, was lost re-
Gently while travelling in the Caucasus
mountains. A party of guides is also miss.
ing.
Cardinal Moran, archbishop Of Sydney,
n. s. w, upon the occasion of the presenta-
tion with the freedom of the city of Dublin,
declared that Australia together with Ire
1t is officially stated that the French gov
ernment was much surprised by the impress
sion produced abroad by president Carnot's
decree in regard to foreigners intending to
reside in Franco II is pointed out that for
mer cabinets have ex mined the question
and come to favorable conclusion in regard
to it. No foreign power has offered any OBJ
servation TO the government in relation to
the decree, the legality of which is based
uDOn art All of the Oanal code
The British Medical Journal referring to
the Whitechapel murders, says: "The
coroners theory that the asSassins work
WIGS carried out under the impulse of
pseudo scientific mania has been exploded by
the first attempt at serious investigation. 1t
is true that a foreign physician inquired a
year ago as TO the possibility of securing Ger
! tain parts Of the body for the purpose Of
scientific investigation, hut no large sum was
offered, and the physician in question is Of
! the highest respectability, and came exceed
| ingly well accredited.
| At the session of the Americanist congress
| in Berlin, Mr.. Morse of Boston read paper
| on 'rhe anthropology Of the ancient and
modern Pueblo Indians" Mr.. Baxter of
| Boston presented the researches made by Mr.
! Bandelier of New York of Spanish docu
ments relating to the Pueblo Indians. Prof.
| Virchow lectured on "The Anthropoiogy of
! Ancient and Modern Savages of America -
! In the course of his lecture he said that art
| had produced cranial deformities among
certain tribes Of American Indians similar
to those existing among various peoples Of
Asia and Europe,
Three similpr packages, addressed to three
ladies, were sent to Gait Ont, recently.
! Mrs Cherry was first to get her package,
and she gave its contents, six chocolate
drops, to her three children Shortly after
eating the drops all three of the children
were taken with convulsions. and, although
medical aid was at once procured, one of
them died OF he othor two, ono 10 in a
critical condition and the third will recover
The news of the poisoning spread rapidly
and reached the other recipients before the
drops contained in their packages had been
| eaten. The packages bore the Toronto post
mark. There is no cue to the sender.
! The New Free Press (Vienna) referring to
the visit of Emperor william, says: IA
! JOYOUS cry rises from the whole nation, and
rings from end to end Of the monarchy. The
| friendship and alliance between Germany
and Austria Hungary are indissoluble.' The
whole press comments in a similar strain.
The North German Gazette Berlin and
most Of the German papers, contrast En-
peror Williams cordial welcome at Vienna
with bis formal reception at st. Petersburg
The czar and czarina and czarewitch have
arrived at the capital of the province of
!
presented the czar valuable gifts.
A dispatch from Milan states that guides
are searching for a New York artist named
George Rudd. who recently disappeared. It
is believed that he was lost in the Alps.
A dispatch from Paris says: "Mrs. Paran
Stevens, a wealthy American lady, has
charged her maid, an Italian named Anita
! Celan2a, with robbing her of diamonds val
ued at 10000, The girl has been arrested.
| She gssertS that her mistress sent the dia.
monds TO London"
| The Russian government has authorized
| the Imperial bank TO make fresh issue of
| $4,000, 600 roubles IN temporary credit notes
| guaranteed by gold belonging to the bank.
| Sir Thomas Esmoude unveiled monument
erected in the Kininor graveyard, near Ark
| low, Ireland, in memory of John kinsella
who was killed by emergency men last year.
A legend on the monument says that Kin
sella was "Foully slain while in defence Of
home and country"
Natives have informed the British agents
at Zanz bar that the quarrel with the Ger
mans is due to needless interference with ma.
| tive customs, and that the hostility shown is
entirely personal, and is directed against the
| German East Africa company, the German
| government being held in the highest re-.
spect. The agents say that the rupture, by
stopping trade, entails serious loss on the
| SulIdn OI DhllHtDdT, ana Inab Oel many
would best promote her own interests by
stopping the company's abuses and compel
! ling it to act justly toward the natives.
| NJ Chauviere a municipal councillor Of
Paris, arrived in Belgium recently, to con-
fer with the socialists in regard to the reor
! ganization of the international society. His
mission became known to the authorities,
| and, on his arrival at Jumetz he was ar
rested and ordered to leave the country. The
| rf,,, Of do
| test against the expulsion of M. Chauviere,
but their appeal was without avail
Mr. John Dillon has written a letter on the
| Irish land question, in which he says Re
cent events add new courage to the evictors
and rack renters, who last spring were ut
| terly beaten, but who now seem to be in
| opired with new hopes. The land courts are
rapidly becoming branches of the machinery
for the expressing of the tenants, to whom
they are a delusion and snare"
The Vienna correspondent OF the News
says: Emperor Francis Joseph expressed a
wish to see Emperor William on his return
! from Italy, but the latter's time will not al
| low him to revisit Vienna. Further chamois
hunting is impossible owing to the snow
The two emperors attended mass in the
| pal ish church.
Not less than eighteen bills relating to In
! toxicating liquors were before the British
House of Commons during its late session.
A Chair of Temperance in the Catholic Uni
versity at Washington, d. c., will be en-
| dowed by the Catholic total abstinence Socia-