The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-12-26
FOREIGN IN BRIEF.

THE emperor of China has granted pleni
potentiary powers to Chung Yen Kwang,
vice-president of Tung Ii va men, to make
peace with Japan. That official has already
departed for Japan.
CAPTAIN WIGGNs, the arctic explorer,
and party have arrived at Archangel. Five
had been severely frostbitten and are in a
hospital. All forty had suffered great hard
ships durn their overland journey of
thirty-two days from Chabaova to Pesto-
zersk.
A DISPATCH from Constantinople says
tina the Turkish government has offered a
Spanish explorer residing in SaSsoon large
sums of money ii he will minimize the de-
tails published in Europe of the Armenian
outrages. The plan is to have the explorer
deliver series of lectures in England and
on the Continent belittling the troubles in
Armenia
THE colonial party at Berlin is calling
loudly for German protectorate over
Samoa. 1t regards Robert Louis Steven
sons death as the removal of one of the
chief obstacles in the way of German influ-
ence. 1t is expected that the debate in
Reichstag on the colonial est mates will be
utilized to inaugurate an anti English cam
paign in Samoan affairs.
A TERRIBLE railroad accident occurred
last Saturday at Chelmsford, Eng. A high
wind started a freight car down grade on
sidetrack and sent it into the main line as
the Chelmsford express pas ed. The freight
car drove two carriages off the track and
the next three carriages in the express were
tumbled after them. Thirteen were killed
and seventeen are in the hospital.
DIR. BALFoUR of Edinburgh, uncle OF
Robert Louis Stevenson, does not believe
Stevenson is dead, but thinks his wife is.
Mrs. Stevenson said to relatives when in
Edinburgh last spring, Do not believe any
report about Louis unless | write you"
No message has been received from Mrs.
Stevenson, although there has been ample
time since Mr.. Stevenson was reported
dead.
ADvICEs from Kingston, Jan aica, state
that new and important developments in
the Buefields affair may soon be looked
for. For several days past there have been
secret conferences between eX-Chief CLAIR
ence, some of his followers, and the British
representative. Great Britain, 1t is re-
ported, has determined to restore Clarence
to power at Bluefields, and arrangements to
that end are now being perfected,
The to*n of Oravicza, near Buda-Pesth,
was visiuea by a violent shock of earthquake
last Friday, which wrecked large number
of houses Roofs fell, walls tumbled down,
and in many cases the buildings ,re re-
duced to mas es of debris. The inhabitants
fled to the open country. At midnight
another shock was felt, but it was less vio-
lent IL an the first one, A number of per-
sons were injured, but as yet no fatalities
are reported,
A SPECIAL dispatch from Shanghai TO the
A ssociated Press says: The Japanese
have completely outhanked the Chinese
army in Manchuria, which is now shut out
on the eastern side of the g eat wall from
the central portion of the empire 1t is re-
ported here that besides marching from
Niuchwung, in the north, the Japanese are
also approaching Taku from The south. For
eign ladies who lately returned to Picking
are flying ba * to Tien-Tsin."
THE inaugural speech of Henry Brisson,
the new president of the French chamber of
deputies was we'll received and enthusi-
astically applauded. After thanking the
chamber for the honor conferred upon him,
and eulogizing his immediate predecessor,
M. Brisson dwelt upon the fact that the prog
ress made by the republic was due, in a
great measure, if not entirely, to liberty of
discussion. The union of all republican
forces, he declared, was vital to the inter-
ests of democracy.
THE steamer Munster" conveying the
mails and ful load of passengers from
Holy h.t ru X u,ston, Ireland, was in col
lision in the channel with an unknown
steamer last Friday morning. The stranger
struck the Munster on the port side,
carrying away her port wheel, and then
vanished in the darkness, leaving the
"Munster " helplessy drifting There was
great CONSERVATION among the passengers
aud the confusion was increased by the de-
rangemeni of electric wires, leaving the
steamer in darkness. She was picked up
three hours later and towed into Holyhead