The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-01-31
FOREIGN IN BRIEF.

THE cholera is spreading in the frontier
districts of Russian Poland. In the prov.
ince of Radon there are 100 fresh cases and
twenty deaths daily,
| The French government has paid the
! Italian ambassador in Paris 5000 in
demnity for the massacre of Italian work
men in Aigues Mortes last year.
MICHAEL WALSH, who in 1882 was sen.
fenced to life imprisonment for shooting a
| constable in Galway, Ireland, was released
from Mount Joy prison last Friday. Walsh
and his brother were both indicted. His
brother was hanged. Walsh is i'll and will
| go to the hospital.
The Cauca Valley, on the Isthmus OF
| Panama, is inundated The flood is the
most extensive and most destructive of the
century. All of the crops have been swept
away, and the damage in other respects is
beyond computation. Widespread distress
is certain, and famine is feared
THE fact that the Congregation of Sacred
Rites has pronounced Joan of Arc worthy OF
generation has made deep impression in
Rome. The pope ratified the congregation q
decision as soon as it was presented to him
| by the projects. His readiness is thought to
further emphasize his willingness to sup.
port republican France.
JOHN REDMOND, leader of the Parnellites,
said, last Monday, in the house of commons.
that he would this week move two amend
ments to the address replying to the speech
from the throne. One amendment would
deal with the question of amnesty for polit-
ical prisoners; the other would censure the
Irish government for not making greater
efforts to prevent evictions and jury pack
ing.
The bakers and cabmen OF Pisa, Italy,
struck last week, and met in the open air to
discuss their grievances. Such violent Ian
guage was used that troops were sent to
dispense the meeting. The strikers stoned
the soldiers, but fled before the first charge
The project of Pisa telegraphed to the gov
eminent that the strike was the result of So
cialistic and anarchist agitations. Troops
were sent from Florence to help the Pisa
garrison preserve order.
A RECENT conflagration in the town of
Jeremie Port Au Prince, destroyed over
100 houses. 1t was at first thought the fire
was the signal for revolution, and many
people from the surrounding towns came in
and engaged in looting Prompt and vigor-
GUS measures adopted by the authorities re-
stored order. The people are discontinued
and restless, and the country is in general
apprehension of a revolution. The coffee
crop is poor, trade is dull, times are hard,
and want and misery prevail to an unusual
degree.
AN anarchist workman named Ramon
Marrull attempted to assassinate the civil
governor Of Barcelona last Friday. Two
SINUS WbIo ultu, Oh winch was
fatal. The governor was struck in the left
jaw by the second bullet. Marrull was i'm
mediately arrested. His object in shooting
Larroca, he said, was to avenge Pallas, the
anarchist who was shot for having tried to
kill General Martinez de Campos. After
ward he protested that he intended only to
brighten Larroca, The governors wound
is not dangerous
IT is said in diplomatic circles in Rome
that Mgr. Satolli, the apostolic delegate to
the United States, is to be recalled because
OF the failure Of his mission and his having
incurred the hatred of both Catholics and
Professionals. In Vatican circles the crcula-
ton of this report is taken as an indication
of desire to combat the papal policy and
to create confusion. The reported entente
between the Vatican and the Quirinal of
the question OF the patriarch of Venice is
not decided. There is little present hope
that the Italian government will grant ex-
equator to the patriarch.