The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-09-12
FOREIGN IN BRIEF.

CHOLERA is spreading at a fearful rate in
Russian Poland. The weekly average of
new cases there is 5000, with fifty per cent
fatal.
The Count of Paris died last Saturday at
Stowe House, London. The count was an
exile of the French republic, and served as
a captain of volunteers in the Union army
during the late war.
FIVE leaders in the recent conspiracy at
Port-au-Prince, Jamaica, have been con-
demned and shot without the formality of
a courtmartial. The incpient revolution
has been crushed in all parts of the coun-
try where it showed its head.
THE Chinese government is offering $50
taels, equivalent to Sl6G per month, and a
guarantee OF 1000 taels in the event of death
in the service, for volunteers in the navy
A large number OF Europeans, employed in
the Chinese customs departments, have re-
signed their positions and joined the navy
A LARGE number of arrests have been
made in Russia in connection with the
nihilist plot at Kaluga, where a printing
press used for the publication of nihilist
literature was recently seized. Among the
prominent persons arrested are three we'll
known journalists named Poplawski, Pie
truski and Potocki, and leading physician
Of Warsaw, DIR. Szmurlow.
JOHN e, REDMOND speaking in Dublin
last week. declared that the great political
CIlnei lut aDdnuOnmenI OF MI. Harnell
had resulted in the corruption of the real
Irish party and in the bending of its knee
to England. This generation, he said
would not see the end of Ireland'S suffer
ings. With the suppression of Mr.. Parnell
Ireland ceased to have a national leader or
national organization.
VIOLENCE has been offered ex- Premier
StambOulott OF Bulgaria. because of bis
having libeled Prince Ferdinand in inter-
views with newspaper correspondents. On
a recent occasion, when coming from the
court of justice, he was surrounded by ex
cited people who barred the way to his car
riage. He finally succeeded in reaching
the vehicle, but as he did So stones
crashed through its windows and splintered
its sides, and man aimed a blow at him
with heavy club. The club struck SIAM
bOuloif glancing blow and did him little
injury. The coachman dashed his horses
into a gallop, but the carriage was pursued
and pelted with stones. The military
finally came to Stambouloff's assistance,
dispersed the crowd, and escorted him to
his residence,
RECENT advices from the Orient give
particulars of a Chinese outrage for which
there appears to have been no excuse.
When Mr.. Arakawa of the japanese consul
late at Ten-Tsin was about to leave Taku
for Shanghai on board British steamship
with officials of the consulate and about
twenty Japanese women, the Chinese SOL
dlers taking advantage of the temporary
absence of the Japanese men, rushed into
the place where the women were and took
them away by force. together with the bag
gage OF the party. Several of the ladies
We're wounded. That night they were CON
fined in the Chinese barracks and set free
ON the following day. On the news of the
outrage by the Japanese foreign office, the
authorities at once transmitted message
to the American minister, asking him to
make urgent representation to Ii Hung
Chang. The American minister acted
promptly in the matter, and the foreign Of
ice received message to the effect that
the viceroy signited his great regret for
what the Chinese soldiers had done, and
offered repeated apologies, and moreover
promised to restore the seized articles to
their owners and inf1ct severe punishment
ON the soldiers who were guilty of such
conduct.