The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1889-03-13


lennium will arrive March 3, 1896.
The German government has decided to
prevent DR.. Peters expedition for the re-
lief of Emin Bey from proceeding into the
interior of Africa.
KING MILAN of Servia has abdicated, on
account of i'll health and threatened lunacy.
His thirieen-year-old son, Alexander, sue
ceeds to the throne.
KING HUMBERT of Italy has accepted the
new cabinet formed by Signor Crispi Pre-
mier Crispi and four of his colleagues retain
the portfolios held by them in the last cab
met.
GENERAL LEGITIME has sent telegram
to the European governments announcing
that the rebellion in Hayti has been crushed
and demanding recognition Of his govern
ment.
THE Madrid physician who made the post
norton examination of the body of Pigott
declares that he never saw such we'll
formed skull and BRAIN the latter indicating
a man of superior force of character and
imagination.
Mr.. GLADSTONE is reported to be consid-
ering proposal to move in the house OF
commons a refusal to vote supply to the
government. A refusal TO vote supply
would be tantamount to an Impeachment
of the ministry.
THE French government has instructed
the projects of the various departments to
prevent, forcibly if necessary, meetings of
committees of the patriotic league, Bou-
langers organization. 1t has also decided
to create a special ministry for colonial
affairs.
THE suicide of NJ. Denfert-Rochereau at
Paris last week caused panic in the copper
market. The deceased was prominent in
the management of a concern that had in
vested largely in the copper syndicate and
he committed suicide because of financial
troubles.
SIR JULIAN PAUNcEForE, the new British
minister to the United States, will start for
Washington about the end of this month
After short stay he will return to London
for the summer In the autumn he will
take his family to Washington for perma-
nent residence.
SERv1A has a new cabinet. NJ. Grives is
premier, Nj. Velimeirvics minister of public,
Nj. Milasavoli jeviCs minister of education,
and the balance of the cabinet is filled with
celebrities having equally monstrous and
unpronOunceabe names. If their heads
are as long as their names, they will make
a phenomenal administration.
A DEPUTATIoN from Boulogne visited
General Boulanger last week and presented
him with a sword of honor. The govern
ment has forbidden any similar demonstra,
tons in the future. 1t has also forbidden
! large Populations to visit General Boulan-
gers house, and has ordered officers not to
! salute or recognize him in any manner in
the Bots de Boulogne.
| The historian Mommsen, who is visiting
Paris, said in an interview that he did not
! consider Boulanger much of a Caesar. He
| knew him only by his negative qualities
for example, the absence of the moral sense.
| He thought it hardly possible for Bouanger
| to do anything very remarkable. There
! was, perhaps, more to see in the generals
horse than in the general himself. His sue
! tIn ttN.na hat tl.sw.
were no true republicans in Paris,
DIR. TANNRR, member of parliament, has
been convicted of violating the Grimes Act
and sentenced to three months imprison-
ment. He appealed. In connection with
| DIR. Tanners conviction it may be interest
Ing to state how Irish members have been
dealt with under the Crimes Act. All.
together twenty-five of them have been
| proceeded against, some of them uDon three
separate occasions In other words, the
i average of Notwithstanding individual
members alone and Lot the number OF
changes-is rather more than one for every
four members of the Irish parliamentary
party.
LETTERS from missionaries dated Zanzi-
/ bar January "A, have been received in Lon
don. They give the details of third revolt
in Uganda. 1t appears that King Kiwewa,
who was raised to the throne after the over
to poison his Arab supporters, but that
the plot failed. He then invited three of
them to IA private audience. A signal
from the king they were seized by execu-
TONER'S and the king speared two of them
and was in the act of spearing the other when
the Arab managed to free himself from the
grasp of the executioners and fired at the
king, who fled. King Kiwew, has since
been trying to induce the Christian chiefs to
assist him in regaining the throne, upon
which, after his flight, the Arabs placed
Kalema, son of Mutesas.
Washington Notes.
On Monday morning, March 1, Speaker
Carlisle declared the house adjourned sine
die.
PRESIDENT HARRISON signed the commits
sion of all the members of his cabinet last
week Wednesday and they were formally
sworn into office during the day.
IT is thought that Whitelaw Reid of the
New York Tribune will be the next United
States minister to England, and Murat Hal
stead, of the Cincinnati Commercial gazette,
to France.
THE report of the chairman of the finance
committee OF inaugural ceremonies shows
the total receipts to have been S125, 0i6. so.
There will be "A surplus of S25 900 above the
guarantee fund and expenses.
ALL reference to Senator Riddleberger's
maudlin performance on Saturday evening
was stricken from the Congressional Record
out of respect for his colleague, Senator
Daniels, who pleaded for the booty Virgin
ian with tears in his eyes.
AT half-past three o'clock P. NJ last week
Thursday the first cabinet meeting of the
new administration was held. 1t was an
informal meeting of the newly-appointed
officers called in order that they might be-
come acquainted with one another.
In the second session of the tiftieth con-
gress President Cleveland sent TO the senate
nearly four hundred fifty nominations, about
one-half of which were confirmed. or the
latter great majority were promotions in
the army and navy and presidential post
masters, the terms of whose predecessors
had expired or whose offices had become
presidential.
AMONG the measures which died with the
dying congress was the Oklahoma bill,
which remained to the end upon the senate
calendar. Some Of its provisions were,
however, incorporated into the Indian APP
preparation bill. No territorial government
is established, but an area of land embracing
about 5000, 900 acres in the Indian territory
is thrown open to settlement.
On Tuesday March 3, the names of Presi-
dent Harrison's cabinet as already an
nounced were sent to the senate and con-
tirmed in a ten-minute executive session.