Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1889-10-04
FOREIGN NEWS.

The temple of Heaven at Pekin, contain.
ing the dragon throne, has been destroyed
by fire.
A dispatch TO the London News from
Athens says that Christians are dragged,
bound hand and foo, through the towns of
Crete, and that many have escaped into the
country.
The Mexican consul at Antwerp who COM
mtted suicide recently, was ruined by losses
at the gaming tables.
An extensive strike of dock laborers has
begun at Rotterdam. The strikers demand
an increase Of 25 per clnt, and a higher
rate for overtime. The strike began by 900
lighter men stopping work Later the strike
became general The socialists have prom
ised to assist the strikers So far there has
been no serious disorder.
The Cologne Gazette says: Gen. Obrout-
chefR the chief of the general staff OF thu
Russian army, submitted to the Car last
summer report urging that a second line of
rails be laid to the western frontier. In
spite of the opposition of the minister of
finance, the proposal is being carried out
Eight million pools of rails and 30 locOmo-
tive5 have been ordered for delivery in May
This measure completes the strategic net
work of Russian railways increasing their
capacity to mass troops on the German
front en-
Fig hteen thousand miners employed at
Sankt Johann Germany have addressed
a petition to the authorities Of Bonn set
ting forth their grievances and asking that
measures be taken for their redress.
The time of The passage of the Inman line
steamer City of New York, on the last trip
to Queen town from New York, was days
hours AMI 25 minutes.
Prince Bismarck received on the 23d over
a thousand tele9rams of congratulation on
the twenty y-seventh anniversary of his ap-
pointment as President of the Prussian Cabi-
net. The streets of Friedrichsrhue were
cded with bunting in honor of the occa-
sion, at night there were iluminations and
the town was generally Ell fete.
The laborers at the landslide at Quebec
heard slight moan under a heap of wreck
age, and digging vigorously, soon reached
Joseph Kemp, who is 72 years of aga, and
was still able to speak, after having been
buried 10S hours. Stimulants were ad-
ministered, and hopes are now entertained
that he will recover.
A story has reached London on what APP
pears to be credible authority that just be-
fore the czar's departure for Copenhagen a
chest of dynamite exploded at the Peterhof
station. The station was badly wrecked,
and railway signalman was killed 1t is
fully believed that it was intended to have
the explosion take place when the Czar
passed through the station on his way to the
Il ain, but through some miscalculation it
occurred before the time of his majesty's de-
parture.
The Leeds (Eng.) News says that William
H. Smith, the first lord of the treasury,
anonymously paid for a church recently
erected at Portsea, the cost Of which was
g22 600.
bo LOT Iii
ncuuce that the Portuguese have surveyed
route for railroad from Quilamane, on the
coast to the junction of the Zambesi and
the Shire rivers, and thence up the Shire,
the purpose being to connect the sea with
Lake Nyassa by rail.
About the middle of next month the first
party of engineers and railroad builders will
leave Brussels for the Congo, TO start the
work of building the Congo railroad.
The Kreuz Zeitung states that the
Reichstag will be dissolved before the end of
the year, and that there will be no time for
the consideration Of the military bill
By the treaty between Italy and King
Menelek of Shoa, the latter engages to'com-
municate with other powers only through
Italy.
1t is announced that Queen Victoria will
be unable to go to Dublin in the spring. The
Prince of Wales will be asked to open the
art museum.
John Burns, the Socialist and labor agita-
tor, has sent 9300 to Rotterdam to aid the
strikers
The grand cross of Commander of the
Legion of Honor has been bestowed upon
M. Thomas A. Edison. NJ Spuller, minis
ter of foreign affairs, in comforting the dec
grafton upon Mr.. Ellison, said it was given
i'll honor of the service, rendered by him
to science and for the part taken by him in
the Paris exposition. NJ. Spuer also said
that America was splendidly represented at
the exposition, and t1at the pres Ance of her
exhibits testified to the indissoluble bonds
which bind France and America together.
Chief Bell, of the Secret Service is advis-
ed by Agent Shaw of the St Louis District
OF tho arreSt at Solomon City, Kan, of A.
NJ. MiCkinin, a manufacturer of counter
felt coin. Over e., 600 in counterfeit gold
and silver coin was captured and all the
tools for manufacturing them This spuri-
GUS coin has been put in circulation in the
West recently, and this arrest will undoubt-
edly cut off the showers sourc3 of supply.
The president has received what is proba-
bly, the largest petition ever gotten up in a
single county. 1t bears the names of 4 900
of the 6,0)0 Republican voters and 642 of
the $40 Grand Army men of Niagara, and
prays for the appointment of James Comp
of Suspension Bridge.
In few days Secretary Proctor will send
a board of army officers in company with a
committee OF the Indian Rights Association
to conclude the purchase of the tract of land
in North Carolina upon which Geronimo and
his Indians now in Alabama will be placed.
This tract is in western North Carolina near
the Tennessee line from which it is sapar-
ated by the Great Smoky mountains 1t is
now occupied by number of Cheroltees, the
remnant of band which refused to go to
the Indian Territory, and by Quakers.
During the trial of Mrs. Ann NJ. Row
land, charged with embezzling $50 from
Dr.. A. w. Hammond while acting as ma
tron Of his sanitarium, she testified in her
own behalf that she had contracted bills
of goods bought for the table because DR..
Hammond did not give her money enough
TO pay them and because she believed she
had ri hit to make them. When she left
Washington last July she went TO Pnila-
delphia to get two servants, While there
she met young friend who was in n.trouble
and she went with her to Minneapolis
where the girls mother lived. Then Mrs.
Rowland said she had NJ money with
which to return to Washington and she
went to work to earn some. While thus
engaged she was arrested