The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-03-11
Foreign.

THE official press of Berlin is agreed in
saying that the failure of one Italian gen.
eral will not induce Germany to sever her.
self from the triple alliance to which Italy
has steadfastly adhered. II is stated that
the triple alliance is valid for series of
years, during the which the powers COM
posing it are bound together.
REPUBLICANS and socialists organized in
several of the principal cities and towns Of
Italy, last week, and denounced the African
policy OF the Italian ministry. A crowd in
Milan, in attempting to burst through a
Gordon of troops, became so frenZied that
they hurled themselves against the bayo-
nets Of the soldiers. One man was killed
and seven wounded.
FIRE broke out last Thursday in coal
mine at KattomitZ, Prussian Silesia, and
over 100 miners were entombed. Seventy
one bodies have been recovered. They in
cluded the bodies OF four volunteers, who
had been engaged in the work of rescue and
who were overcome by the heat caused by
the fire in the mine. 1t is believed that
about fifty miners are still unaccounted for.
THE Calcutta correspondent of the Lon
don Chronicle telegraphs that the Mahara-
jah was deposed without being given
hearing, contrary to his treaty rights, and
that the British politicalIagent has given the
state to the Maharajah's opponent thereby
causing deep discomfort among the natives.
The Chronicle denounces the action of the
tyranny.
GARDNER WILLIAMS, an American man.
ager of mines in Kimberly, South Africa,
is under arrest by orders of the government
of Cape Colony on the charge of having sup
piled arms to the Uitlanders of the Rand
who urged and threatened revolt against
the government of Transvaal. 1t is said
that Williams sent supplies Of arms to Jo-
hannesburg in trucks, the ammunition be-
ing placed in the bottom OF the trucks and
covered with coke.
THE Italian losses in the recent battle
with the Abyssinians was 10000 killed,
wounded and taken prisoners. The London
Daily Neaos publishes a dispatch from its
Berlin correspondent saying that the defeat
of the Italians at Adowa by the Abyssinians
absorbs all political interest. Nobody is
blind, the correspondent says, to the fact
that the italian defeat may lead to total
revolution of political affairs in Italy
| whereby the existence OF the triple alliance
may be endangered.
THE Armenian relief committee at Con-
| stantinople has sent to the British consul at
| Bitlis money for the relief OF Guendij, a
| large district near Sassoun, the inhabitants
| of which have been forced to accept Islam
ism as means of saving their lives. Mr.
Hampson, the consul, telegraphed that
fifteen families in the Guendij district who
had embraced the Moslem faith had re-
canted and returned to Christianity, where
upon they were all murdered. Fifteen
zeitounls, who had ventured to go to the
town of Albestan for the purpose of buying
grain, were all killed by Kurds.
THE Yachting World, published In Lon
| don, accuses the New York Yacht Club of
| having shown vindictiveness in the expul-
sion OF Lord Dunraven when 1t was sure
| that his lordship's resignation was on the
way. "We expect" 1t says, that the
yacht societies of Great Britain will express