The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-02-26
Foreign.


AN entire company Of Alsatians belong
ing to the Sixty ninth German Infantry at
Treves, Prussia, deserted in BODY last
week and marched across the frontier in
company order into France, wearing full
disarmed, but allowed their freedom.
TIE proprietors and editor Of La France.
published In Paris, have been each sem
fenced to one months imprisonment and to
pay fine OF 1000 francs upon conviction
OF having libelled 104 members Of the Cham
Der OF Deputies and others by declaring that
they were involved in the Panama Canal
scandal.
The young king Of Corea has arrived at
st. Petersburg, with the object in view of
seeking the protection of Russia for his
country. His visit is kept profound Sc
oret, but those who have been led into the
knowledge OF his presence there look upon
the news as OF high Importance in connec-
| ton with Russia's eastern policy.
W. W. CALDWELL, one OF the best ao-
countaRts in Montreal, has skipped leaving
many creditors. He 10 believed to be in the
States. Caldwell was a social favorite. He
| did large business as an accountant and
had charge OF many insolvent estates. He
had been drinking rather heavily for the
past year, and few days ago, when asked
to make the settlement Of an estate, was I'M
able to pay up. His shortage, 1t is said,
will amount to over $4,000.
THE Westminster Gazette urges Lord
Salisbury to reply quickly to the American
proposal in regard to the appointment of O
joint British and American Cancellation
commission The Gazette further says: I'VE
are free to accept the Cancellation America
proposes, and the only possible hitch Is the
possible objection Of Venezuela to the mat
| ter being taken out Of her hands and Great
Britain and the United States treating 1t as
q question between themselves"
FIRE broke out at q masked ball given at
Lis BON, Portugal, last week by the Artists
Club. 1t spread with great rapidity and
terrible panic ensued Despairing OF es-
Gaping by any other means, men, women
and children jumped from the windows Sc
riously. injuring themselves, Friends Of
the unfortunates rushed into the burning
building to aid in the work Of rescue, and
many Of them were caught by the flames
before they could make their way out again.
Thus far thirty-four bodies have been re-
covered.
The insurgents in Cuba seem to be con-
centrating their forces in Havana province.
Maceo entered the province week ago and
remained west OF San Felipe three days.
He then crossed the line between Havana
and Batabano at place called Vapor near
Quivican. He had rear guard skrmish
with Colonel Segueras' cavalry recently.
The latter followed Maceo east to the Guile
bra hills, where the rebels made a stand
and resisted the Spanish artillery fire. Tho
official report said twelve insurgents were
killed. The government losses were not
given.
The Dominion government is evidently
in danger OF immediate collapse unless
Premier Greenway will settle the school
question. Sir Donald Smith has been sent
to Winnipeg, Manitoba, by the federal gov
eminent and is doing his best to effect some
compromise on the vexed question, in order
to remove it from the federal arena Sir
Donald had an interview last Friday with
Premier Greenway and the attorney general,
but there is no prospect OF the local govern
ment yielding single point OF principle.
Sir Donald called on Archbishop Langevin
to talk matters over with him, but with
what result is not known.
EIGHT railway cars loaded with dynamite
exploded last week at Viendendorph, sub
urb OF Johannesburg. The cars were being
switched from one track to another when
the explosion took place. At the spot
where the dynamite exploded hole thirty
feet deep was made in the earth and every
house within radius Of half mile was
RACED. The number of persons killed can
not yet be even estimated. Forty bodies
have been found and the search is only Just
have been taken to the hospitals, where
several of them have died. Comparatively
few white persons were killed.
LATE dispatches from Constantinople
state that the releasing Of the arms by the
Armenians who for months held the city of
L0lUOuu against Uu6 luIkb mas D66n COIL
pleted. Five members of the Hintchaks,
an Armenian revolutionary society, who
were found in Zeitoun when the place was
conditionally surrendered to the Turks,
have been conducted to the coast for ex-
pulsion from the country. 1t is also stated
that Murst Bey, late imperial commissioner
Of the Ottoman debt, who fed for his life
; from Constantinople about the time " Lit
tie" Said Pasba sought refuge at the British
embassy aud who has sought refuge in
Egg pit, has been convicted in his absence of
treason and sentenced to death for issuing
attacks on the sultan.
The gravity Of the political situation in
France is increasing daily. 1t is believed
that the ministry has surprise in store for
the public, and 1t is even suggested that a
, coup d'etat is possible. The only obstacle
to the latter happening is General Saussier,
the military governor of Paris, who is a
conservative with the courage of his con.
vctions and ever alert to suppress a revo.
lutionary movement. Henri Rochefort, &C.
cording to the Pail Mall Gdzette's CORE
spondent, is credited with having remarked
that seven years ago two line paragraph
under the caption Down with the senate -
would have sent 100000 men to the senate
palace to carry out this mandate, whereas
now a column article would not be re-
sponded to by dozen men. The opinion
is expressed in radical circles that the op.
portunity is favorable to the success of q
pretender with nerve, but such person is
not in evidence,