The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1901-10-23
FOREIGN.

hONOONJ OCt. Id Inc United
States government Will insist that Tur-
key Immediately make good any deficit
in the subscriptions forlthe ransom OF
Miss Stone" says the Constantinople
correspondent of the Daily Teleqraph.
land also refund the full amount sub
scribed."
tit is supposed that the brigands who
captured Miss Stone have Withdrawn
into the interior of Macedonia in the
direction of Nevrokop." says a de-
spatch TO the Daily Telegraph from
Sofia. "Former members OF the Mace
donia committee who were arrested on
suspicion Of completely denied before
MAGISTRATE any knowledge of the af-
fair"
The Times has the following from lis
Vienna correspondents: The Sofia cor
respondent OF the Poster LLOYD saws
that Todariff the driver who accom-
panied Miss Stone when she was kid
mapped has been arrested on suspicion
OF connivance. He is O Bulgarian
Protestant from Macedonian village
and his statements are regarded as
authentic. Todarif asserts that Miss
Stone accompanied by Zirkoff and bis
wife by Dmitriff aud three women
teachers, all Bulgarians, were stopped
by brigands September towards six
O'Clock in the evening IN narrow pass
in the road leading from the village of
Bankso to Dlnmaa in Turkey. The
brigands took Miss Stone and Nine.
Zirkof away and left men to qua the
others. This guard, however, disap-
peared the following morning, leaving
all the luggage and horses behind.
Todariff's attempt to represent the
brigands as Turks is considered sug-
picious. The fact that the brigands
left the luggage untouched is held to
confirm the belief that their sole OBJ
iect was to fill the empty pockets of the
Macedonian adyeuturers. Todariff de-
clares that the closing of the frontier
in those districts is quite illusionary, as
he crossed without passport and de-
clares that he did not meet with any
frontier guards.
SOFIA, Oc'. 16.-Some time during
the night letter was paied TO The door
OF the home OF the parents of Nine.
Tsilks, Miss Stones companion in cap
tivity, notifying them that their daugh-
ter had liven birth to child and both
are doing well.
Tarsdoff's driver, who was with the
Stone party at the time of the capture,
has been arrested for connivance with
Tarsdoff's attempts to represent the
bandits az Turks. This is considered
suspicious.
CAPE Town, Oct. 1S.-In brief
fight at Twenty Four Streams, near
Piquetberg on Thursday Captain Bel
lew and four other British were killed
and several others were wounded.
The British having surprised several
camps, the Beers axe now in the habit
of shifting camp by night. Lately the
British columns after long night march
es have arrived at their detectives only
to fms the Beers gone.
Brit sh columns penetrating Orange
River Colony miles from the railways
find fields OF maize or freshly plowed
lands, the Beers making off at their
approach d returning when the col
umns pass on. TIE herds on the nigh
veldt still seem TO be numerous. The
Beers are living on cattle and meal
stored in out of the way places.
LONDON, Oct. 1S.-The September
reports OF concentration of camps in
South Africa show the following: Men,
1000; women, 38,022; children, "a
1926; deaths during the month, 40S;
men, 1913; women, 10; children, 81.