The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-06-17


Maria Correspondence asserts that the
bomb was thrown by an anarchist named |
Changer, who committed the outrage in
Obedience to orders from the anarchist
propaganda.
REPORTS from White Bay, Newfound
land, announce that awful destitution exists
among residents there Their provisions
were exhausted over month ago and they
have lived upon seal fat and sea moss.
Several deaths from starvation have oc-
Cured. Two fishing vessels bound for
Labrador last week had to give the inhabi-
tants portion Of their stores.
ADvIoRs from Havana received at Madrid
say that the Cuban harvest this year will
be only one eighth that Of 1895. The au-
thorities are concerned regarding the con-
ditioD OF the laborers inlthe island and are
trying to prevent them from joining the in
surgents. Four months pay Is owing to
the army. The dispatch adds that the
forces Of Maceo are overrunning the Pro-
vince OF Pinar Del Rio.
The insurgents in Cuba have burned the
store at Bacuranco, have captured the milk
mems horses and burned the cane fields
They fred upon the forts at Barreras and
took the horses to the farm OF Sellaga.
Smallpox has broken out and is spreading
in Havana and Santiago de Cuba. Maxine
Gomez, after conference with the insur-
gent government at Malaria, in Puerto
Principe will return to the western part of
districts on the way
A DISPATCH received at London, Eng,
from Lisbon says that the Belgian steamer,
Princess Clementine," bound from Sar-
dinian ports for Antwerp, and the Swedish
bark "Waterfelt" from st. Francois Mart. for
Bordeaux, we're In collision recently in lati-
tude 46' north, longitude 90 west, and both
vessels were 30 seriously injured that they
foundered The captain OF the " Princess
Clementine was drowned, but the others
of her crew reached Cascaes The crew OF
the bark have arrived at Pauiltac.
THE British secretary of state for home af-
fairs, replying last Friday in the house OF
commons to the question whether Mrs.
Florence May brick was detained for murder
or for the administration OF arsenic with
intent to murder, said the prisoner was
serving imprisonment for life after having
been convicted of murder, and, he added,
the government did not see any reason for
further clemency, the sentence OF death
having been imposed upon her and subse-
quently committed to imprisonment for life.
AN iceberg blockade that did much dam
age to vessels occurred last week in the
harbor at St. Johns, N. f. Since then nav
igation along the coast has been unusually
dangerous, owing to the prevalence in i'm
mense numbers OF icebergs, exceeding in
number and size anything seen in the past
quarter OF century. Vessels from north
ern harbors report that countless bergs are
passing 10 bu6 bOubu. NOuo VI Uu6
dor fishing fleet has ventured to start yet,
fearing that they would be unable to reach
their stations
TROUBLE is brewing on the island Of An
ticosti which may lead to international COM
plications M. Menier, the chocolate king,
purchased the island, which is British ter
tory, under the jurisdiction of the Canadian
government. Now Menier and M. CONNIE
tant, his superintendent, have assumed to
forbid Canadian fishermen to come within
the threemile limit. Menier's men, it is
reported, have driven Canadian fishermen
from the island and have warned them to
come no more to Anticosti. The Canadian
government will investigate the affair.
MAoKo has an army of 10000 men and
four companies of woman soldiers strongly
fortified in the mountain Of Pinar Del Rio,
the Spaniards having utterly failed to drive
them from their strongholds. Maceo has
eight cannon, two of which were captured
from the trocha in his recent attack, when
it was reported that he was repulsed The
Cuban women have such dread of Span
ish brutality that many of then prefer
fighting on the battlefield, beside their hus-
bands and brothers, to being thrown into
forts at the Spaniards' trocha. In Maceo's
recent attack on the trOcha these amazOns
took part and fought fercely, using ma
chetes on the Spaniards.
A CYCLONE last week devastated the
town of Topaz, State Of Jalisco, Mexico. 1t
was accompanied by water-spout that de-
tached from the sides of the mountains
enormous masses of rocks. Earth and mud
was piled in the streets to depth Of eight
feet, and in some cases to the level Of the
lower branches Of trees, in which the in
habitants had climbed to escape the inunda-
ton of water and mud. Three.fourths of
the town was utterly destroyed. Thirteen
bodies have been taken out from under the
mass of earth, including children, and
many people were so seriously injured that
the last rites of the church were admins
tered More than thirty persons are miss
ing, and it is expected their bodies will be
discovered under the debris.