The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1895-11-27
Foreign.

JOHN hEDFERN, the World-renowned
tailor, died last Friday in London.
SIR HENRY F. PoNsoNBY, for many years
keeper of the privy purse and private secre-
tary to Queen Victoria, died at Windsor
Castle last Thursday morning, aged seventy
years.
The British government has decided to
support the project of fast mail service be-
tween Great Britain and Canada to the ex-
tent OF $4,000 annually. This is to be in
addition to the $750,000 voted by the Do
minion parliament.
THE rebel leader Maxine Gomez at Ha-
vana has issued an order commanding the
laying waste of plantations and the burning
OF buildings thereon, and threatens with
death all persons rendering assistant in
the gathering of crops in Cuba.
THE customs department at Ottawa, Ont,
has decided that wheat shipped in United
States vessels from Duluth to Buffalo and
stored in bonded elevators there cannot be
allowed free entry into Canada. This
method is declared contrary to Canadian
coasting and customs laws.
TWENTY villages in Armenia were burned
last week and the inhabitants massacred
The massacre at Marash took place in the
presence Of the Turkish governor. general,
who did not interfere to stop it. Upwards
of 300 persons were killed. The Kurds are
said to be gathering upon the Euphrates
and preparing to march into Syria for the
purpose o. massacreing Christians
THE rebel leader, Roleoff, and 1900 of his
| followers, have burned the town of Quiaa
de Meranda, Cuba, despite the resistance of
the Spanish troops. Forty-fv hundred in
habitants of that town have taken refuge in
the mountains. Thirty thousand troops,
under Generals Pando and Maxim, EN-
barked from Spain for Cuba last week
SEVERAL employers of shipping engineers
in Glasgow, Belfast, New Castle and Bar
/ have all
pose of fighting the Engineers Union The
continued struggle between the ship.
builders and the engineers, and the posi-.
bility of general lockout at any time, will
very likely lead to placing of orders for
war vessels in other than British yards.
ROBERT HARDING MILwARD, the Duke of
Marlborough's lawyer, who represented him
in New York, said in London last week
that the rumors current as to the amount of
the settlement are grossly untrue. de also
says that there is a heavy mortgage on the
Blenheim estates, and adds that the Duke
Of Marlborough declined to touch shilling
OF his BRIDES money and that the whole of it
is settled upon her in the ordinary way.
THE inhabitants of Tokunoshima, China,
are said to be in a very destitute condition.
A serious storm visited that island last
July and the sweet potato crop, the chief
staple of the islanders, was ruined The
rye was also greatly injured. The inhab.
duced to eating leaves and stalks of pota-
toes, various herbs, etc. Local officials ind
it difficult to relieve such large number
OF persons, and il is feared that many may
die.
A SPECIAL train in Cuba, on which Gen
eral Suarez Valdez was riding, was wrecked
last week by the explosion of dynamite car
tridges which had been placed upon the
track by rebels. General Suarez Valdez
was not hurt, but two OF his guards were
seriously wounded and twelve bruised A
band of insurgents stationed alongside the
track fred two volleys into the train as the
dynamite cartridges were exploded, but did
not hit any one. After the train stopped
the insurgents were dispersed by the Span.
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