The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-10-07
Foreign.

A CIRCULAR issued by the Young Turkey
party has been secretly distributed through
out ConstantinOple. 1t condemns the ac-
ton of the sultan as being contrary to the
principles Of Islam, and cites the Koran to
prove this. Continuing, it declares that
such action entails the caliphs dethrone-
ment and possibly his death
AT the corOner's inquest held in Montreal
last week on the body of Lee Tung, a
Chinaman, medical evidence was presented
showing that death had resulted from
leprosy. He had been living in Montreal
for over year. The jury asked the health
authorities to take all precautions to pre-
vent the disease from spreading.
GREAT excitement has been caused at
Cairo by the attempt on the part of the Brit
ish to induce the banks to advance 26 000,-
900 francs against the Egyptian revenue for
the purpose of defraying the expenses of
the Dongola expedition. 1t is said that the
committee of French bond.holders will re-
sist by law the attempt to raise the loan in
the manner proposed.
DURING the performance at a theater at
Aberdeen, Scotland last Wednesday night,
fire was discovered. The audience became
paniC-striCken, and in the rush for the exits
many were thrown down and trampled on.
1t is estimated that about twenty persons
were injured. The theater was burned to
the ground. The bodies of several have
been taken from the ruins.
A FIRE broke out recently at Jacmel
which destroyed two-thrds of the town and
made homeless 1000 people. The city of
Jacmel is in the Island of Hayti ON the
southern coast, about twenty-five miles
southwest of Port au Prince. 1t has steamer
connections with Kingston, Jamaica, and
the Virgin Islands, being about 255 miles
sail from Kingston. Its population is about
5000.
AN extraordinary tribunal at CONSTANT
nOnla week Cnnvintp1 /.
men for the murder of Armenians. 1t sem
fenced them to fifteen years Imprisonment.
At the same time long list of Armenians,
suspected OF taking part in the outbreak,
were condemned to death The latter in
cludes the Armenian handed over to the
Turkish authorities by the Belgian govern
ment on condition OF his release as soon as
examined. The mission of Atrin Pasha, to
reconcile the Armenians, is not making
progress.
MAIL advices received at Marseilles,
France, from the Island of Madagascar,
bring further news Of lawlessness there A
company of Haussas were surprised by in
surgent Fahavolas near Antananarivo re-
Gently, and several of the former were
killed. Two officers were wounded. 1t is
also stated that the insurgents are making
continual attacks upon conveys Of provis-
ions, etc, and that several conveys have
been pillaged The porters, in each in
stance, were killed. 1t was also rumored
that when the mail left Madagascar
thousands of Fahovolas had surrounded
Antananarivo and attacked the suburbs
TAYLOR SMITH and others of Forest City,
Ark, who arrived at Philadelphia from
Liverpool, last week. tell sad story of the
want, misery and hunger suffered by the
negro southern colonists who sailed from
Savannah in the Laurauda " last March
to try their fortunes in the black republic,
Liberia. Mr., Smith stated that nearly one
half OF the POP persons taken to Monrovia
on the Horsa," which left Savannah some
time before the "Laurauda," were dead
and buried long ago. Luckily for him, he
took with him $500, which enabled him to
return home. When he left, old friends,
half naked and crippled by disease, hob
bled out into the surf to bid him what they
all felt would be last farewell
ALL the train dispatchers on the Canadian
Pacific system were ordered out on strike
last week by L. M. Pearson, assistant grand
chief of the Order OF Railway Telegraphers.
The dispatchers claim to have many griev-
ances against the company. Some operators
who are employed as station agents COM
plain OF having to sweep out the Office and
either scrub the floors or pay women to do
il for them. Others state that their profess
sion is degraded because they are obliged
stations and fire up now and then to pump
water for trains. There are in many cases
demands for increased pay or statements
that the former rate has been reduced The
order to strike affects over 700 men.