St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1898-10-12
LIVE FOREIGN NOTES.

With a view of adopting pohcy Oh
extreme protection in the colonies OF ror'
tupal. the government has issued a circu-
lar inviting the opinions OF experts on
the industries to be protected and upon
collateral questions.
italy has issued invitations to an inter-
national anti-anarchist congress WIFI
the object OF concerting such interna-
tional measures as may appear pest cal.
culated tor the suppression OF ANARCHIST
associations and the prevention Oh anar'
chist outrages. 1t is probable that ven
ice will be chosen as the place OF meeting.
At the funeral Of the "matriarch,' ke-
gina Deixner, which took place last week
in the Hungarian town OF Werschetz' no
fewer than 145 direct descendants OF the
deceased stood around her grave. AS
she was born in the year 1888, she had
reached the age OF III years, and had
not only become mother, granomoth,
er, and great-grandmother, out mao
even exceeded the rare distinction OF
| grandmother and at
tanned to the honors of threetold great.
great-gre ndmotherhood." She had
lived under the government of five En-
perors-Joseph H., Leopold H., Francis H.
Ferdinand ", and Francis Joseph l.
The Swiss courts have decided that the
assassin who killed Empress Elizabeth OF
Austria shall spend the remainder Oh MS
lite in confinement, at hard WORK. mere
is no capital punishment in Switzerland
and so they have done the best they
| oo,,lJ ,,nIav their awe
Queen Victoria had narrow escape
from death or injury Monday, Oct. 8. IL
was no Italian anarchist, but pair oi
boiling horses at Balmoral, Scotland.
The coachman lost control, but the car
rage caught between the trees OF the ior-
est before the horses had run tar.
A despatch from Paris says that the
ultimatum conveyed in the collective
note presented to the Porte by the repre-
sentatives OF the powers today demand
ing the withdrawal oil the Turkish troops
from Crete is very concise in its terms.
In effect, Invested of diplomatic verblage'
1t insists upon the completion OF the
evacuation within a month, the embarka
ton of the troops to begin within tort
night.
Reports from Pekin indicate that the
Emperor OF China is dead, that is, muir
dered by the Empress Dowager, who IL
a past mistress in the art of assassina
ton. Six leaders OF the reform party
!, have been beheaded since the Empress
Dowager has returned to power. Kang
Yuwel, the Cantonese retormer, who
: fled from Pekin to the coast and tool
! refuge on British vessel, escorted by ;
man Of war, has arrived at Hong Kont
:. and sought police protection. Chang
Yin Houan, Ii Hung Changes chi. foppo
:. nent in the Chinese foreign office, ha
been dismissed from service and ban
5 ished, and on every side there is abund
. ant evidence that the reactionary Rus
a d sian party now has the whip hand an
= that the reform party is temperate
:. suffering martyrdom.
1t The European powers having accepte
r Italy's proposal to call an internations
q conference to devise measures Of commo
d action against Anarchists, Venice ha
IS been decided upon as the place OF 1t
II meeting.
err A despatch to the London Daily New
IN from Berlin says that Herr Birkner,
land owner, has presented to Emper(
William an estate oil 5000 acres
Cadinen, West Prussia. There is
splendid manor house on the propert
e. and the estate is we'll stocked with gam
at Our consul at Frankfort has report'
ar to the state department that Germs
ed bicycle makers are raising such an on
in cry against American wheels that t
as government has decided that after ia
Id uarv next the tax on the latter shall
full increased from about 81, as it stands
ok present, to $4.76 each.
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