The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-09-11
Foreign.

The Japanese government has ordered
the construction of five war ships in the
shipyards at Glasgow, Scotland. Their
cost will be S1,0o0,000 each.
THE editor of the socialist organ in Der.
lin was arrested last week. and all copies
of his edition of Sunday, September 2, were
seized and destroyed. The charge against
him is high treason.
A TERRIFIC typhoon struck the harbor at
Kuchmatsua, B. c., last week, destroying
all vessels in the harbor and wrecking
nearly every house in town The loss of
life is reported as enormous.
Thus far this season Is, COO persons out of
$4,000 attacked have died in Japan with the
cholera. In China far worse state of af.
fairs exists, and it is authoratively reported
that $1,000 are dying daily in Pekin
MABEL STANLEY, alias Vaughan, the
American woman who was arrested at Liv-
erpool last month as she was sailing for
New York, has been sentenced to one years
imprisonment for stealing jewelry valued at
$500, from her landlady. She pleaded
guilty.
THE Italian cabinet has decided to only
make some slight reduction in sentences of
the leaders Of the riots of Sicily on the oc-
casion of the fetes to be held September 20,
in celebration of the twenty-fi fifth anniver-
sary of the occupation of Rome by the
Italian troops.
IT is said that the Russian police have
discovered another widespread plot against
the life of the czAr and other members of
the imperial family. Some of the leaders
were quietly arrested. Bombs, arms and
revolutionary pamphlets have been sez ed
by the police Of Moscow during domiciliary
visits.
OWING to the activity of the nihilists at
st. Petersburg it has been found necessary
to guard the movements of the car as com
pletely as his fathers steps were watched
IN the most perilous period Of his reign.
The cZarlna, who is in a delicate condition,
is suffering from nervous prostration in con-
sequence OF the danger to the czar.
The eastern part Of Mexico was visited
last week by the heaviest flood for ten
years. The Mexican National railroad lost
ten bridges north of Saltillo and great dam.
age was done to the roadbed Between
Monterey and Laredo at least ten miles of
telegraph wires were washed away and al
most every bridge was carried away The
loss will probably be 100000. The Next
can National railroad and the Gulf railway
are totally crippled toward the east.
AN interview was held last Thursday in
London between Lord Salisbury and Rus
ten Pasha, the Turkish ambassador, regard
ing the American question. The latter was
informed that If the sultan persists in his
refusal to inaugurate the proposed reforms,
the powers will undertake the reforms and
rest satisfied. II the Porte resists, Lord
Salisbury added, it will be the signal for the
Acknowledgement of Turkey. The report OF
the interview caused great uneasiness in
Gonstantinople.
SERIOUS disturbances are reported from
Dhula, India, growing out of the enmity
between the Hindoos and Mohammedans
The trouble began on August "a, when the
Mohammedans attacked and routed a Hin
doc procession, Last week the Hindoos
held another procession, which was headed
by band of music. A mob Of Mohamme-
dams INSTRUCTED the way Notwithstanding
the efforts of the police who escorted the
paraders. Then some one ordered the
police to fire, and the command was
otbeyed. Ten Mohammedans were killed by
the volley and fifty more were wounded.