The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-11-17

outcome OF the court martial. Our govern
mept has not assented to the claim by Spain
to the right to try the men In this manner,
but, OF course, In the event of an acquittal
OF the prisoners, which 10 not regarded as
improbable there will be no occasion for re-
monStanCe.
IT is said in official circles at Vienna that
there is noticeable GOODNESS between the
Austrian Embassy and the Porte, owing to
the high-handed action attributed to the
local authorities of Mercina, Asia Minor,
toward the agent at that port Of the Austrian
Lloyd Steamship Company, a merchant
named Brazzafoli. The Austrian cruiser
Leopard " has been sent to Mersina,
which is the port or Adana, the capital Of
the vialyet of that name, with instructions
to protect the Austrian Consulate and the
Christians of Mersina.
The planters in the Sandwich Islands
have thrown off the yoke OF the sugar
trust and have set Mr.. Spreckes at def
ance by leaving both out in disposing of the
1898 crop. The contract with the trust ex-
pired November and will not be renewed.
Instead local combination Of planters has
contracted to deliver 80, 900 tons of sugar in
New York, and another large block at a
new refinery to be erected at Port Costa,
Cal. The deal was consummated in New
| York and California last week, and the con-
| tracts have been received at Honolulu by
steamer
AN angry mob broke into and looted the
Office of the Republican at Rio Janero, last
week. Although the plan was generally
known to the police they were powerless to
prevent the attack The Republican had
made itself particularly obnoxious by its
criticisms on government policy in con-
nection with the recent campaign against
the fanatics and by its attacks upon Presi-
dent Moraes and Gen. Ricardo Bitencourt,
the minister OF war who was fatally stab
bed during the disturbance that followed
the attempt upon the presidents life last
Friday afternoon.
THE autonomous institutions which Spain
proposes to establish in Cuba are lower
and upper house. The lower house will
consist of sixty members, all elected on the
basis of universal suffrage. The upper
house will be virtually council of admin
istration, as Senior Canovas proposed, but
with extensive attributes. Half OF its mem
beers will be elected by popular suffrage and
half will sit by right of the offices they hold
Great reserve is maintained as to the inten
tions of the government in the settlement
OF the Cuban debt, but it is believed that
the debt contracted for the present war will
be considered national, the bulk OF the bur
den to fall upon Spanish tax payers anC
Spanish budgets.
A TERRIBLE accident, resulting in the
death of thirty people occurred last Thurs
day near Belostock, Russia. A wedding
party of that number was returning from
the church to the home OF the bride. AL
were in one wagon, a huge vehicle drawn
by eight horses. The road along which
they drove crosses the railway track on thu
level and the driver, either through care
lessness or ignorance of the train schedule
pushed his swiftly moving horses upon thu
crossing just as the express was coming up
The locomotive struck the vehicle squarely
killing many members Of the party outrigh
and mangling others so that they soon ex
pired in frightful agony. Not member o
the party escaped.
THE report that native officer ant
thirty-five Sikhs belonging to the Kurrul
column has been intercepted by the tribes
men and killed is officially confirmed. II
appears that they were assisting in recon
naissance up the Kurmana river. Taking
short cut down hill, they came to ravin,
where the grass jungle was burning. Thu
flames spread 80 rapidly as to completed.
cut off their retreat and the tribesmen, see
ing their predicament, swarmed on tn
higher ground, hurled down rocks upoI
them and closed round them, and the who'll
thirty-six were shot or cut down. TIL,
Sikhs fought heroically until the very last
their officer killing two rebel chiefs with hi
own hands before he fell