The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1897-01-20
Foreign.

CoPIoUs rains have fallen in most of the
famine stricken districts of India. The bu
bonic plague is increasing at Karachi.
LUIS SoMEILLAN, the naturalized Amer
can citizen, who was found guilty in Ha-
vana of conspiracy against the Spanish gov
eminent, has been sentenced to imprison-
ment for life in chains. Someillian's law
yer will appeal to the supreme court against
the decision Of the Havana tribunal.
MINISTER TAYLOR has written to the Span
ish minister of affairs to the effect that un.
less Spain offers clear and reasonable terms
as q basis OF peace in Cuba before President
Cleveland goes out Of Office, the question OF
local self governmentiD the island will soon
disappear from American politics and the
only question to remain will be the imme-
diate and unconditional recognition OF the
Cuban republic.
The Prince Of Wales, in response to re-
quests made to him for advice as to the
most fitting plans for celebrating the sixtieth
anniversary Of Queen Victorias reign. has
caused to be announced that he Is conhdent
that her majesty would prefer that the oc-
casiou should be marked by works OF mercy
among the sick and suffering, embracing
any movement tending to brighten the
lives and ameliorate the condition OF the
queens poorer subjects.
DISPATCHES received at London confirm
previous reports of the massacre by wild
Benin of members of a British expedition
which left the coast of upper Guinea jan
uary 1. intending to proceed to Benin in
the Niger coast protectorate. The con-
firmatory reports say that all of the whites
comprised in the expedition. together with
243 native carriers were killed, and that
only seven KroOmen escaped.
THE Dominion government has passed an
order bringing into effect the new quaran-
tine regulations, as arrayed by the confer
ence between the Canadian and American
secretaries of Agriculture. AS it was
agreed this Encouragement should be made
simultaneously, the authorities at wash
ington are expected to follow suit imme-
diately. The arrangements provide for the
abolition of the cattle quarantine by both
countries
OUT of 1894 cases of bubonic plague in
Bombay 1856 have proved fatal. More
than $780, 900 people, half the population OF
the city, have fled. Many of the native
doctors, graduates of the college, have fled,
cases, or when they do attend them, Will
not touch the sufferers, dreading contagion.
Clerks and others whose vocations call
them to the city daily have fled to suburban
stations, where the people are mostly living
in matched huts. The cemeteries are filled
to OVERLOOKING and the wind spreads the
contagion.
CRArHERN & CAvERHILL's heavy goods
warehouses at Montreal, which extend from
Colborne street to Ann street, were totally
DESTROYED by fire early last Wednesday
morning. The building was stuffed with
all kinds OF hardware, from door hinges to
tar paper and the stock carried was said to
be worth fnlly 00,000, insured for about
5000, 900. The firm was probably the largest
dealer in general hardware in Canada, and
the whole of their stock, practically, was
carried in these warehouses. The stables
of the Dominion Transport Company next
door were saved by thick dividing walls.
The popular impotence at Madrid with
the Spanish government, because OF the
failure to suppress the rebellions in Cuba
and the Philippine Islands, is daily in
creasing. Thousands OF the young men OF
Spain have been sent to Cuba, where they
have met their death from disease or the
hardships OF the campaign. Their families
believe that they would yet be alive II IL
were not for the procrastinating policy OF
Captain. General Weyler, who, despite his
promises to put down the instruction, has
apparently accomplished little, while his
unacclimated troops have been dying by
thousands. The leaders OF both the con-
servative and liberal parties are distrusted,
and the political outlook is chaotic.