Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-06-27
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

Death of King Albert of saxony-Europe'
Most Learned Man Dead = Ceremonies o
of Coronation Week Begun but Coronation
Indefinitely Postponed on Account of King
Illness.
The duke of Manchester who married
Miss Helene Zimmerman of Cincinna
ii, took the customary oath and hi:
seat in the English House of Lord:
Monday his financial disabilities av
ing been removed. He succeeded his
father in 1870.
Many thousand pounds were stakec
last week in Lon Ion in the coronation
gamble. The odds Civ N were 3 to ion
against the event occurring, or to use
the technical expression, the rates on
the risk of the king living until June
26 ruled at 3 per cent. premium.
Lord Acton, d. G. L., LII. d., pro
fessor of modern history at Cambridge
University, royal commissioner on his.
torical manuscripts, and trustee OF
the British museum, London, died
Thursday at Tegernsee, Bavaria. Sew
eral of the British papers describe him
as having been the most learned man
in Europe.
The French have purchased the
promontory Of katal near Macao, a
Portuguese settlement in the vicinity
of Hong Kong. The point was secured
for SO, 600, for the ostensible purpose
of establishing naval hospital for the
use of the French fleet in Oriental
waters English at Hong Kong are
much disturbed and have protested to
Picking government.
An American missionary named Can
right has telegraphed to Pekin from
Chengtu Flu in the province of Such
wang, saying that a Methodist chapel
there has been destroyed and 10 chi
nese converts have been killed by box
ers. Mr. Canright says also that the
boxer movement is spreading in that
region. Suchwang is the middle prov
ince on the western frontier of China.
1t is reported that the Chinese EN-
press dowager has undertaken the
choosing of a third imperial consort
for the emperor. She will succeed
Chen-Fei, who rumor says, was thrown
into a well by order of the empress
dowager, who had a grudge against her,
at the time of the flight of the court
from Pekin, in 1900 There is no evil
dence that the emperor was guilty of
this savage crime.
King Albert of Saxony died Thurs
day evening at Dresden after long suf-
fering from cancer. The Saxon minis
try has proclaimed Prince George,
brother of the late king, King of Sax
ony, and he has taken the oath of al
legiance. Saxony ranks third of the
states of Germany forming the empire.
King Albert was one Of the chief in
struments in bringing about that uni
fcation, and is the last of the chief
German commanders of the Franco
Prussian war In the proclamation of
the King of Prussia as German emper-
or in the palace of Versailles he was
figure and was made field
marshal. He succeeded his father,
King John, on the throne of Saxony.
in 1873. His reign has been tranquil
one King Albert married in 1858
Queen Garcia, daughter of Prince Gus
tav of Nasa, but there were no chill
dren Of the marriage The oldest son
of Prince George, who is now 70, is the |
next successor to the throne-the pop
ular Prince Frederick Augustus, who |
at Vienna in 1891 the Arch
ducheis Louise Antoinette Marie of
Austria, Prince George has a second I
son, Prince John George, and his !
son is Prince Macmillan, who /
gave up military career for the church /
and has become famous preacher.
being known as Father Max. -