The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-05
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kilograms relating TO the matter.
THE powder magazine at Funfkirchen,
Budapest, exploded last Thursday. Five
persons were killed outright and over 100
were injured. The magazine was located
but short distance from the square in
which the market Is held. Thursday was
market day and the square was crowded
with rustics when the explosion occurred.
Among the injured are many of these.
The Italian warship Roma " was struck
by lightning and set on fire, last week, dur
ing heavy. thunder-shower. The flames
spread rapidly and were approaching the
powder-magazine The commander or
dered a torpedo attached to the hull of the
vessel, all hands abandoned her, and the
torpedo was discharged. A great hole was
torn in the hull and she sank. Nobody was
hurt.
MONSTER petition to the government,
praying for further restrictions on Chinese
Immigration to Canada, is in circulation.
The petition recites that the Chinese la.
borer is driving out the white working-men,
that the United States, realizing this, has
excluded the Mongolian coolies, and that
canada should adopt, measures to keep
them out. 1t urges that tax of $50 be
levied upon each Chnaman entering the
Dominion as means of lessening the num-
| Der.
THE exhibition buildings at Montreal
were almost totally destroyed by fire last
Thursday morning. The flames broke out
| in the power house of the Montreal Park &
Island Railway Company. The power
house, main exhibition building and ether
| buildings were reduced to ashes in short
time. The remaining buildings quickly fol-
| lowed. The total loss is estimated at $780,
600. 1t is not believed the conhagration
will retard the opening of the exhibition in
| September next.
THE Turkish government has made COM
| plant to the government of Greece regard.
| ing the alleged shipment Of arms and am
munition from Greece to Crete for use of
the insurgents there. The Turkish govern
ment has decided to allow Cretans limited
concessions and grant them representation.
1t is stated that the powers have agreed to
send note to Greece declaring that the
government of the latter country must sup
press the matters complained Of by the
Turkish government, adding that otherwise
the sultan of Turkey will be left to restore
order in Crete,
THE existence of secret Cuban commit
tee has been discovered in Madrid and GER.
tain Cuban exiles who were in that city
have vanished. AS result of certain acts
OF INSTRUMENTATION among the last 5000 men
embarked for Cuba and the discovery that
secret procamations were being circulated
among the soldiers, and, in view of the no.
torious reluctance of the troops to go to
Cuba, the re-enforcementS, 10000 strong,
who will be embarked at the end of August
will be shipped without arms, through fear
of mutiny among them, aud their arms
will be forwarded by other vessels.
THE cases of DR.. Jameson, Major Sir
Colonel Fl. F. White, Major r.. White and
Hon. Henry f. Coventry, who took prom
inent parts in the recent raid into the
Transvaal, were concluded in the high
court of justice at London last week. The
jury found the defendants guilty and the
QarItpnppl Il IN M bSt
imprisonment, Major Sir Willoughby to ten
months, Colonel II. f, White to seven
months, and the other defendants to three
months Imprisonment each. None of the
prisoners will be compelled to do hard labor
during their incarceration
THE immense ship-building yards OF
Harland & Wolff on Queens Island, Ire
land, covering eighty acres and employing
! 5000 hands, were damaged by fire last
week to the extent of over S1,250,000. An
immense quantity Of valuable machinery
| belonging to vessels in course of construc-
ton at the yards was ruined, as were also
the tools and machinery belonging to the
various shops. The Harlapd & Wolff works
were not only the largest in Ireland, but
the equal OF anything in the United King
dom. All the vessels of the White Stal
line, the Majestic" Teutonic' " Brit
"Vendam" and "Spaardam of the
Netherlands line, were built there, as
were also fifty other regular liners now il
the transatlantic trade.
LATER details of the rising among tn,
political prisoners on the Isle of Pines, nea
Cuba, show that $50 prisoners were engaged
in the conspiracy. They had partially sue
ceeded in their plan of making away witt
Colonel Berriz, the governor of the island
having overpowered and bound him pre-
paratory to hanging him, when they wer
interrupted in their work by patrol whicl
nor from their hands. The plotters IN
tended to gain possession of the capital O
the island, Santa Fe, and to capture tn
Spanish gunboat Fradeva," on board G
which they proposed to cross to Cubs
about fifty miles away, and join the insul
| gents. When the revolters found that thei
scheme had miscarried all who could &c
! away fed to the woods in the interior {
? the island.