The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1899-01-11
Foreign.

The insurgents at Manila refused, last
week. to liberate prisoners at the demand
OF the Americans, claiming that this might
be construed as an act of submission to the
United States. With regard to liberating
the monks the insurgents intent to nego-
tiate with the Vatican directly. Gen. Rios
has now opened direct negotiations with
the insurgents concerning the prisoners.
ALARMING reports have been received at
London from the upper Yang Use Kiang re-
gions in China. Disturbances are increas-
ing in the provinces OF Szechuan, Human
and Hupe. The Dowager Empress, it is
further asserted, is curiailing the authority
OF the viceroys, especially in the Yang Use
Kiang and Han-Kou districts. A body of
Chinese troops was sent to attack the rebels
but they are said to have fled before the en-
envy. The viceroy has been reinforced by
three gunboats and 5000 men.
ANOTHER serious calamity has recently
befallen the unfortunate town OF Hankow,
China, About 1000, If not many more. OF
the inhabitants have met death by drown
ing. About noon on December 3 half a
street OF houses extending along the edge of
the river Han suddenly broke away and
tumbled into the water on the top OF all the
people in them, disappeared in q moment.
About one hundred buildings and the same
number OF boats are gone
THERE was a renewal last week of
the uproarious scene in the lower house Of
the Hungarian Diet. While the premier,
Baron Banffy was defending the govern.
ment's policy, he said the government in
tended to steadfastly carry out its duty and
re-establish parliamentary order, being con-
WINGED that the ministry was defending
Hungarian parliamentarism and the consti-
tuition. The rightists shouts OF "Eljin"
were almost drowned by the uproar of the
leftests.
TERRIBLE crimes have recently been
committed at Seoul, the Corean capital by
the anti Russian party. The COrean official
who safeguarded the removal Of the Corean
emperor, his wife and other Coreans were
mercilessly tortured with view OF COM
pelling them TO confess to false charge of
poisoning the emperor's coffee, in order to
shield the real criminals who are among the
high government afficials. The ex-drago.
man was finally brutally executed, mutt
lated publicly and made sport of in saw
age and disgusting manner.
New SOUTH WALES had a terrible ex-
perience last week Reports from forty
eight places show temperatures ranging
from 100 degrees to 1913 degrees in the shade.
This heat was whitening the grass and kill
AT Sydney with the Thermometer register
ing 100 degrees, a dust storm swept through
the city, the wind blowing forty miles an
hour. The people were compelled to shut
themselves up In their houses and breathe
through wet sponges. In many parts OF
the country rivers have dried up, and in
their beds are the bodies of animals that
went there to drink, and finding no water,
laid themselves in the mud and died.
AN American syndicate has obtained the
right to build railroad in Ecuador, con-
Meeting the seacoast belt with the rich in
terror, heretofore almost cut off from the
other side OF the world. Details OF the con-
tract have not been officially published.
As an incident to tho execution OF the con-
tract the company has found 1t necessary OF
expedient to buy the entire national debt OF
poration assuming liability for about 81, 800, :
900 to bondholders. The company has also
received concession to establish bank in