The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-09-08

there collapsed last Thursday burying a
number of workmen in the ruins. Seven
dead men had been recovered and seven
others seriously wounded had been re.
moved from the wrecked building.
TWENTY women were killed last week
the apparatus used for raising water from
the river.
The Sultan OF Turkey is following the
events in India with the closest attention.
He has ordered Turkish representatives in
different countries to telegraph full reports
of anything bearing on the situation with
out delay. The arrests OF Armenians
continues. 1t is rumored that Murad Bey
has either fled or has been done away with.
GEN. STEWART L. WooDFoRD, United
States minister to Spain, arrived at San Sc
bastian, last Wednesday. Extra precau-
tions had been taken by the authorities to
prevent any hostile demonstration being
made, but these, apparently, were unneces.
sary as the behavior OF the crowds that
gathered to witness the minis er's arrival
was perfectly satisfactory.
EDITOR KIsHALKAR of the native news
paper published at Islalpore, India, has
been sentenced to transportation for life
and the proprietor and publisher of the pa
per, Harmolkar, has been transported for
seven years. The sentences were imposed
IN consequence Of the publication in the
Mdhrdm OF seditious article applauding
the propaganda Of committees in India and
elsewhere in favor Of independence.
GENERAL AzcARRAaA, the new Spanish
premier, announced at the cabinet meeting
held last week Friday at Madrid that he
would follow in the footsteps Of the late
Premier Senior Canovas del CASTILLO. Contin-
uing, General Azcarraga announced that the
| government had full confidence in Captain
General Weyler's political and military con-
duct OF affairs in Cuba. Personally the
| premier was aware that the instruction OF
| Cuba was approaching an end, and, IL the
United States made any demonstration
which he hoped would not be the case, he
said Spain would do her duty.
DURING national fete, held last Thurs
day at Montvideo, President j. Hiarte
Borda war shot and killed by an assassin,
used q reveler. The assassin is youth
named Arredondo. President Borda died
almost Immediately after he was shot.
Senior Custas, president Of the Senate, has
assumed the presidency OF the Republic ad
interim. At the time OF Senior Borda's cleo
ton in March, 1884, he belonged to the Of
fetal party and was elected by a very mar
row majority The leading papers of
Uruguay deplored the election OF Senior
Borda and declared that it marked reac-
ton in the country's progress.
II is reported at Havana that 1t was the
intention OF Captain General Weyler, as
the result Of quiet and friendly influence on
the part OF Consul General Lee, to issue an
order dismissing the case OF Evangelina
| Cossio Cisneros in short time, but in view
OF the publicity given it and the many con-
Trajectory assertions made in regard to it,
the Captain General has decided to post
| pone action for the present. The military
commander Of the Isle of Pines recently
stated that many Of the statements made
| with reference to Senorita Cossio Cisneros
were without foundation, and that so far as
he could judge, no extreme sentence would
be imposed upon her.
The body of Captain Henry Arkwright,
aide-de-camp for the Lord Lieutenant OF Ire
land, who was killed by an avalanche on
the grand plateau Of Mont Blanc in Octo-
Der, 1866, was found lin the ice last week.
| nine thousand feet below where he died
All except the feet and hands were recov-
cred. The right hand was marvelously life.
like. The ice had preserved in it the red
tint of blood. From the pocket of his gray
waistcoat was drawn white blue bordered
handkerchief as good as new with his name
on it. The dead officers collar had in it a
gold stud and in his shirt front was a larger
one stuck with diamond star. The frag.
ments OF silver cigarette case were in his
pockets, and his gold watch and chain were
on the ice where the body was found.
BY the recent floods in Japan thousands
OF houses were destroyed, and many lives
were lost. All the bridges ON the Oshima
railway in Higashi Eubiki district were
broken down by floods, and the roads also
damaged in many places. Over forty houses
and twenty go-downs were swept away by
waters, and twenty.four lives lost in the
villages of Matsugaski, Sado district. By
the swelling of the Agano river / 300 houses
in Sanjo Machi and 700 houses in the vii
lage OF Ichinikdo were submerged. At
Izimukais, one shrine, two go.downs, four
temples and half score of dwellings were
crushed by landslides from the mountains
and five lives lost and ten persons wounded
A dispatch from Maoetzsu says that the
houses flooded numbered 1000 and the
killed and wounded 300, while 600 persons
were saved from drowning.