The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1896-08-19

were drowned by the sinking Of a boat at
Tatura. Overlooking water from the river
washed out q breach seven miles long in
the Nizam of Hyderbad's railway.
The British House Of Lords has agreed
not to oppose the lower house in its action
on the Irish land bill and has voted to &C
cept all the reamendments except one,
which, however, was later also agreed to by
q vote OF seventy-four to sixty. nine, de-
spite the opposition of the landlords. The
fact that the House Of Lords had accepted
the bill was formally intimated to the
House OF Commons, which briefly discussed
and finally disposed of the measure. The bill
will now become law.
THE rebels in Cuba have blown up
another train with dynamite, near San Car
los, province Of Matanzas. Three cars were
bio wn from the track, but no one was fatally
injured. The towns OF Agulcate, province
OF Havana, and Candelaria, province of
Pinar del Rio, were attacked by rebels last
Thursday. The troops succeeded in driving
the insurgents off, but not until they had
burned q. number OF houses in the out
skirts. The losses of the rebels are UNI
known. The troops sustained no losses.
DIR. NANsEN, the arctic explorer, arrived
at Vardoe, Sweden, last Thursday. He
says that his expedition attained one OF its
objects In traversing the Polar Sea to q
point %northward Of the New Siberian
Islands, namely, to latitude eighty-six de-
grees and fourteen minutes north. No
land was sighted north of latitude eighty
two degrees. After reaching the parallel OF
sc. IA the expedition went south to Franz
Joseph's Land, where it spent the winter,
the members subsisting on bears flesh and
blubber.
A TERRIBLE tale Of rapine, murder and
wanton cruelty comes from far Formosa.
The burden Of the story is that Japan, see
ing nothing to be gained in Formosa by
legitimate methods of warfare, has en-
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the object being to crush out all signs Of
discomfort and, as far as possible, to ex-
terminate the native population. AS a re-
suit OF this policy, determination has been
~zealously pursued from the beginning of the
campaign, and what with the destruction of
the crops, the burning of villages, the desc
Grafton of the graves of loved ones, the
violation of wives and daughters and the
butchery OF innocent children, the people
Of that unhappy country are driven to the
expedients OF desperation.
On June 20, 1897, Queen Victoria will
have reigned sixty years, much longer than
any previous sovereign. Many schemes
have OF late been proposed for a proper OBJ
servance of the occasion. Most of the plans
advanced provided for the commemoration
of the event before the full sixty years had
passed, but they have all been disposed OF
by an official intimation from her majesty,
who makes it known that while she is
gratifed by the evidences Of loyalty and
affection displayed by her SUBJECTS she
wishes that should she be spared to rule for
sixty years any celebrations shall be re-
served until that period shall have been
actually completed. This expression by
her majesty must put at rest any rumors
that she is soon to abdicate.
NEws has been received at Vadsoe, Nor
way, from Spitzbergen, that Professor s. A
Andree, who intends to find the north pole
In a balloon, has discovered four rents in
his air ship. Professor Andree's original in
tention was to nave his balloon inflated and
ready for his trip to the pole the first week
in July, but owing to various causes Of de-
lay the balloon was not filed until July q,
After that the intrepid explorer waited in
vain for the favorable southerly winds and
clear sky which he considered essential for
a start that would carry any hopes of sue
cess in his object. TIL accident to the bal
loon will probably end the prospects for the
expedition this season, as the period OF the
which Professor Andree did not intend tC
attempt his experiment, has almost passed