The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-12-09
Foreign.

A LONDON cable dispatch to the Boston
Herald says that public subscription has
opened in London to present Ambassador
Bayard with national Christmas gift in
view OF his approaching departure. The
idea is to present him with the finest edi-
tions OF Shakespeare and Chaucer. The
amount wanted is $1,000
LORD SALISBURY is making very strong
representations to the Spanish government
with reference to the detention in Cuba, by
the authorities there, of Richard and John
Beatty, residents of British Columbia who
were,recenty arrested in Havana for being
in some way connected with the Cuban rev.
olution. The British government claims
these men as subjects, and will protect
them. Should it be necessary their uncon-
ditional release will be demanded.
The strike committee at Hamburg, Ger
many, has called out all the Hamburg har-
Dor workmen, irrespective Of the character
OF their employment, in order to assist the
strike of the dock laborers. This makes
10000 men on strike. 1t appears the en-
ployers, in justifying their refusal to settle
the strike by arbitration, said that the men
were becoming weaker and receiving
neither domestic nor foreign support, and
that the capitalists would continue to con-
tend for supremacy. The new move is an
answer. In the Reichstag the minister of
the interior has expressed sympathy for the
employers, but the social democrats scored
them.
THE arrest of persons in Constantinople
suspected Of being concerned in plots
against the government continues. Many
OF those taken into custody have been
seized while in bed and taken at once to the
central prison. The suffering and distress
in the city are increasing. A meeting of
the central committee was held last Thurs
day at the residence Of Sir Philip Currie,
the British ambassador, for the purpose of
considering methods for the relief Of the
orphans in Turkey, Of whom there are
known to be 10000. s.
The commander of the German cruiser
Arcona," which is lying at Manila, the
capital of the PHILIPPINE Islands, telegraphs
to Berlin that the situation there is critical.
The dispatch further stated that the action
of the Spanish authorities and forces was
confined to the defense Of Cavite and Ma
Mia and that an attack by the rebels was
daily expected upon those places. Prepare
tionS were being made for defense of the
towns. Most of the foreign residents in the
vicinity of Manila are moving into town.
ADvICEs received at kingston Jamaica,
show that disastrous cyclone has swept
the Windward and Leeward Islands. The
wind blew with terrible violence and was
accompanied by very heavy rainfall. The
many mountain streams on the various
islands were soon transformed into tor
rents that swept down into and over the
valleys, carrying everything before them.
but as yet it is impossible to say how many
persons persisted, and it will probably be
several days before even the approximate
number will be known, as reports from the
smaller and more remote islands will be
difficult to obtain.
THE London Daily NeaoS is authority for
the statement that the powers will shortly
consider project having for its object the
occupation by Russia of the northwestern
corner of Turkey, formed by the Bosphorus
and the Black Sea, to about half way down
the Bosphorous which together with the
Hellespont, will become entirely free to the
vessels of all nations. The forts along the
Hellespont will be dismantled and the
powers will assume the protection of the
Hellespont and Constantinople. The paper
adds that the project provides for the sui
tan retiring from the rulership of Turkey.
GREAT anxiety is felt by the public al
Madrid, Spain, regarding the situation in
Cuba, and persistent rumors of cabinet
crisis are in circulation. The ImparciaP has
received dispatches from private persons
residing in the vicinity of Havana in which
others are made to care for members Of the
Spanish forces in the island who shall be
come disabled by wounds or Illness The
Inp0rcidPs advices state that a number o
skiImishes have taken place in the Matanzt
province, the apparent object of the insur
gents being to divert attention from thei
operations in the Pinar del Rio province.