The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-01-22
Foreign.

REPORTS of severe restitution come from
all parts OF the coast OF Newfoundland.
The Telegram, the government organ, &C
knowledges that thousand families are
starving in the city OF st. Johns.
THE Spanish steamer " Ciscaria," from
Hamburg for Spanish ports, was sunk near
Calais, France, last Wednesday by being
in collision with the German steamer
Nereus." Twenty-one of the crew of the
"Ciscaria went down with the vessel.
A SERIOUS disaster occurred last week In
a coal pit at Ostrau, Silesia. A number OF
the miners were imprisoned, and were
either suffocated or burned to death. Fiji
teen bodies have already been recovered.
1t is feared that others are still in the pit.
DR.. JAMESON and his officers will be con-
veyed as prisoners to England, where they
will be arraigned before the proper tribu-
nails. The rank and file of DR.. Jameson's
invading party will also be sent to England,
to be dealt with as the government Of Great
Britain may see fit.
The following cable dispatch was re-
| ceived last Wednesday at the rooms in Bos-
ton of the American Board from the chair
man of the relief com mittee in Constantine
Pile: Weather, severe; many dying from
| exposure and starvation. Distribution
doubled everywhere"
THE leading Russian newspapers are
| unanimously protesting against the estab
| lishment of an entente between England
and Russia in regard to the Transvaa or
upon any other question. The Moscow
Gazette urges Germany to curb Great Brit
ms aggressive policy in Africa
IT is said on unquestoned authority that
political, military and financial circles in
Madrid entertain the gloomiest views re-
| garding the situation in Cuba. The press in
| that city continues to attack the operations
now being carried on, and even predicts
a political crisis and an early resignation Of
the cabinet.
A DIVISION of the CHILEAN army has been
ordered to occupy the passes of the Cor
dillera bordering on the Argentine Repub.
lie. This is in connection with the bound
airy dispute between Chill and the Argen-
tine Republic 1t is reported that an under.
standing between Chill and Brazil exists
Oh this subject.
The London Globe says the Manitoba
| separate school question is the most serious
| that has arisen since the federation. 1t
further adds: If the Manitobans remain
| obstinate, they must either be compelled to
yield to federal forc9 or the government will
| connive at an assertion of states rights,
which will threaten the integrity of the
Dominion"
teen Of the British vessels which had been
at Salonca as part of the combined Eu.
ropean feet, and which it was supposed
was to make an effective demonstration
| against Turkey, but which did nothing but
ride at anchor week after week, miles from
the Turkish capital, is taken as a pretty
strong indication that the new squadron is
not going to Turkish waters.
A TREATY was signed last Thursday by
representatives of Great Britain and France
which settles the Mekong dispute. Each
power agrees upon the Mekong river as the
boundary of British and French territory
from the north of Siam to the frontier OF
China, and that the upper Mekong in Siam
shall be the sole buffer between the terrific.
ries Of the two powers. The question of q
buffer state was eliminated from the contro-
versy.
TIE Johannesburg Stock Exchange has
decided that shares belonging to the per-
sons who were recently arrested at Johan.
nesburg by the Boer authorities on charges
OF treason cannot be dealt in, the Exchange
holding that such shares are not good de.
livery. 1t is also stated that President
Kruger will demand $1,000 indemnity on
behalf of the relatives Of each Boer killed
in the recent fight with DR.. Jameson's
raiders