The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-05-20
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OWlNG W grave l6dTS Ou VIC DdIb vi buo
authorities at Barcelona Of a renewal of the
anti-American demonstration, the police and
the civil guard have been concentrated and
official vigilance to prevent disturbance has
been resumed. Especial precaution has
been taken against an attack upon the
United States consulate, at the door OF
which two civil guards, with loaded car
bines, have been posted.
Miss CLARA BARTON has cabled from Con-
stantinople to the national Armenian re-
lief committee as follows " Dispatch from
DR.. Harris dated Zeitoun, May 7, reports
the number Of refugees 1000, more than
half women; 1,400 sick of malaria and
dysentery; 600 sick of typhus Hospital
work increasing rapidly. We send in five
more doctors Monday We are in great
need OF funds and cannot abandon our work.
Send help at once"
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, the British secre-
tary of state for the colonies, in an address
at London last Thursday, said that Eng
land lost the American colonies which now
form the United States by mistakes which
would not be repeated. Nevertheless, Mr..
Chamberlain declared that he was inclined
to think the loss blessing to both nations
If, as he devoutly wished and prayed, the
two great Angle Saxon nations should go
forward in continued peace and amity.
ADvIcEs have been received at San Fran
cisco from Japan that an entente has been
established between Japan and Russia with
reference to COrean affairs. The details OF
the arrangement have not yet been def
nitely settled, bnt its general outlines are
that the two powers will henceforth CO.
operate to preserve good order in Corea.
Members OF the American commission sent
from Tien Tsin to Sechuen last year have
now returned from their long and tedious
excursion. They speak in highest terms OF
the courtesy and kindness shown towards
them by all Chinese officials along the route
ADvICEs from Havana to the Madrid
| Nl,aN Al,A
troops in Cuba are being reorganzed, but
that none of them can be spared to conduct
operations against the rebels in the interior
of the province of Pinar del Rio because of
the risk that the towns will be burned by
the insurgents if the garrisons are with
drawn. Twenty additional battalions of
endorsements to the Spaniards are ur-
gently needed, The volunteers now in the
field are absolutely useless. The fact that
many expeditions in aid Of the Cubans were
successful in landing in Cuba during the
month Of April is suppressed by the govern
ment. The insurgents are well supplied
with munitions of war.
THE meeting of the troopers recently
held at Buluwayo to censure Earl Gray, adj
ministrator of the British South Africa
Company, for refusing to promise that the
company would compensate the troopers
for the time they were employed in the de-
Tense of the town against the rebellious
Matabeles, has had the effect of opening the
company's eyes to the value OF the services
rendered by the troopers, A dispatch from
Bnluwayo says it has been officially an
nounced that the company will fully com
pensate the troopers. This has had the
effect of removing the disquiet among the
people of the town arising from the threat
| of the troopers to no longer support the
company against the Matabeles.
A DISPATCH received at New York from
the city Of Mexico states that a committee
has been constituted in that city for the
purpose of organizing Mexican Cuba party.
The programme of this party is the annexa-
ton of Cuba, which it is proposed to divide
into three Mexican states, with Havana,
Puerto Principe and Santiago de Cuba as
their capitals Whether the Cubans are
willing to be annexed or not is first to be
| ascertained by popular vote. Should the
| latter prove favorable it is proposed that
the following offer for the acquisition of the
island be made to Spain: guaranteed
indemnity based upon the value of public
buildings and public works, and treaty
granting such commercial advantages that
| Spanish business interests will gain rather
than lose by the loss of the island.
A PRIVATE telegram received last We'd
nesday at Berlin says that the sentences of
Colonel Francis Rhodes brother of Cecil
Rhodes, ex. premier OF the Cape Colony;
John Hays Hammond, the American min
ing engineer; Lionel Philips and George
Farrar, who were condemned to death by
the high court at Pretoria upon charges OF
treason in being active members of the
Johannesburg Reform Union, which was
held to have instigated DR.. Jameson's raid
into the Transvaal, have been committed to
Imprisonment for a term of five years. The
sentences OF other members of the reform
committee who were found guilty in con
nection with the conspiracy and raid and
were condemned to imprisonment and ban
ishment and to pay fine of $4,000 each
have been reduced to one years imprison-
ment.