The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1894-05-02
FOREIGN IN BRIEF.

BY the breaking of cable in a coal mine
near Brussels, last Saturday, sixteen men
were precipitated to the bottom of the shaft.
Thirteen men were killed outright and the
other three will die.
THE Italian government is much pleased
at the report that the United States govern.
ment proposes to establish emigration Off
GERS at the principal Italian ports. 1t eX-
presses the hope that congress will respond
favorably to the request for an appropria-
ton to this humane end.
In consequence of the frequent and Sc
rious riots growing out of the strikes in the
factory towns of Russian Poland, an i'm
mediate augmentation of the garrisons in
Poland has been ordered and troops are al
ready on the way. The government has
already ordered the erection of seven new
military camps in Poland.
A GREAT strike of miners and iron work.
ers in Poland has precipitated riots Two
thousand troops occupy the town of Sosno-
wica, where the disturbances have been
most violent. Sixteen strikers have been
killed and large number wounded. The
prison at Sosnowica is filled with strikers
who have been arrested for rioting
THIRTY generals of the German army
and hundreds of other officers, have resigned
their commissions. The designations are
said TO be due to Emperor Williams deter
mination to replace the older officers of the
army with younger men. Appointments to
fill the vacancies are expected to be pub
lished next month.
THE 1900 strikers in Vienna were joined
last Monday by 600 men from the build
ing trade. These men have demanded
higher wages, but the master builders and
contractors have refused. Efforts are being
made to bring about an understanding be-
tween the masters and men, bat with small
.,.,1s
combined to make a great demonstration
May day.
HENRY LABoUCHERE, the radical leader
in the house of commons, has introduced a
bill providing that if measure be passed
by that body and sent to the house of lords
and be not returned within two months, it
shall become law the same as though the
lords acted upon it. The bill provides also
that the house of commons shall have ii in
its power to finally decide whether amend
ments made to bills by the lords shall be
accepted. The measure, it is said finds
much support and will, in all probability,
pass the lower house.
THE little village of st. Alban, forty.five
miles from Quebec, slid into the st. Anne
river, almost bodily, last Monday. The
river had been unusually high of late, and
had stealthily undermined the foundation
of the village. One family of four persons
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mated at S500,000 The ground which slid
into the river measured about six square
miles. Whole farms were destroyed, with
their stock and farm produce. The old bed
OF the ST. Anne river is now leveled, and
the river runs miles from where it coursed
before. Three bridges were carried away,
the st. Alban, st. Casimir and the St. Anne.
SIR THOMAS EsMoNDE has, in the house of
commons, asked the government to give its
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islands to New Zealand, the Samoans them
selves having repeatedly given expression
to their approval of such administration OF
government. This has aroused Germany g
ire, and it is stated on the authority of the
foreign Office that Germany will not permit
the annexation of Samoa to New Zealand,
which act would be fragrant violation of
the Berlin treaty. Germany herself is I'M
able to take over the islands without the
approval of the reichstag, and the present
composition of that body makes such action
on the part of Germany extremely doubtful.