The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-29

maud. reached a point within fifteen
kilometers OF Havana, when General Marin,
with 81 800 cavalry and four guns, drove
the enemy to Tapaste. A Spanish column
has routed the band Of the rebsl leader
Castillo near Cienfugos. In the fight Cas-.
tillo was killed.
The sum of 5000, 600 roubles has been
appropriated by the Russian government
Tor naval constru ction during the year 1896.
The main object of Russia is tn at for every
new warship, especially of the cruiser class,
which England shall add to her fleet, Rus
STA shall produce one equally good or su
perior. Seven vessels are now in course of
construction for the Russian navy.
The thirty seventh birthday of the en-
press OF Germany was celebrated last Mon
day with great ceremony Divine service
was held in the morning in the castle
chapel, and later grand reception was held
In the white hall of the Schloss, which was
attended by large number of guests, in.
Guiding foreign diplomats, a number of
royal and reigning princes, ministers of
state and many Others of the high govern
ment officials.
The Dominion government intends to 90
ahead with the remedial legislation in con-
nection with the Manitoba school question,
and bill will soon be introduced into the
Dominion parliament along this line. 1t is
stated that Lieutenant. Governor Mackin.
tosh withheld the Northwest school ordi-
hobbo aitoI buo ldSb sbSblOu vi
without royal assent and on his own re-.
sponsibility. The Dominion government
did not advise him to do 50.
The Argentine government has Cancelled
the concession granted the English Gable
Company to land at La Plata, on the ground
that the company had failed to sec IRE right
| fully the other landing points necessary for
its successful operation. This action, it is
understood, is taken in concert with Brazil
and has direct bearing upon the Trinidad
Island dispute. Argentine denies Eng.
lands right to the Falkland Islands, and
will join Brazil in resisting English claims
to those islands and to Trinidad.
! ALL the daily papers of London express
| their approval of the speech delivered last
Saturday night by Right Hon. Joseph
| Chamberlain, secretary of state for the col.
onies, at the dinner of the Birmingham
jewelers. and silversmiths' association.
| The STANDARD says it thinks that Mr.. Cham
berain makes somewhat optimistic est
mate of the feeling in the United States
against Great Britain. The Chronicle says
that Mr.. Chamberlain's admission that
Great Britain does not wish an inch of ter
ritory in America beyond what she already
rightfully possesses, means that she for
mally accepts the Monroe doctrine.
MORE than sixty families have embarked
from Santiago De Cuba, during the past
week, for Jamaica, Hayti and Venezuela,
| fleeing from the persecution of the Spanish
authorities. In some instances the wives
and daughters of men who are serving in
the revolutionary army have been subjected
to gross indgnities, and the whole com.
munity is terrorized. Those who cannot
| get away themselves are sending their
daughters abroad for safety. Many mere
youths have been thrown into prison for the
simple reason that their fathers are absent,
| fighting under Maceo or Gomez In Bara-
Goa and Holguin several prisoners thus
held have been shot without the formalities
| of couit-mattial.