Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-12
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS
Pacific Island Destroyed by Volcano Russian
Landslide Kills 700 Persons-A Scheme Tor
Working midas Iron Mines-Mt Vesuvius
in Flames Earthquakes in India and
d. In, La.

Working midas Iron Mines-Mt. Vesuvius
in Flames = Earthquakes in India and
France-Floods in Japan,
Prof. Rudolf Virchow, the famous
pathologst, died at Berlin Friday at
ternoon.
The anniversary of Kossuth's birth,
Sept 10, is to be generally celebrated
as a national festival throughout Hun
gary.
4 special despatch from Naples, TIA +
ly, says large volumes of flame were
issuing from the crater of Mount We
suyius Saturday evening.
Germany is to have extensive militia
ry manoevers this fall, in which ~, e
600 troops will engage. Operations
will extend over territory 30 miles long
by 30 wide.
Five persons were killed and 10 were
wounded in a conflict Monday between
the troops and strikers at Canela, a
small town of Apulia in the extreme
southeastern part of Italy. -Four hun
dred peasants have struck there on ac-
count of dispute with land owners on
the question of wages.
An earthquake shock has been felt
throughout the province of Assam and
the Chittagong division of Bengal, In
dia. The inhabitants were panic
stricken. Terrible commissions of ma
ture are prophesied. A shock lasting
six seconds was felt at Pau, Bass
Pyrenees, France, early Monday morn
ing
Commercial museums are to be es-
tablished in the large cities of China
and the United States to bring the two
countries into closer business relations.
Chinese products will be shown in Chi
cago, New York and San Francisco and
American products in Canton. Pekin.
Singapore, Hong Kong, Hankow and
other Chinese cities
The ceremony of restoring the civil
government of Tien Tsin to China
took place Aug. Il, but international
jealousy causes a hitch in the with
drawal of troops. No power wants to
march out first Germany is said to
have stated that unless all four states
are absolutely agreed, there can be no
serious talk of evacuation,
4 remarkable petition has Just been
forwarded to the Pope, asking him In
the interests of civilized society and
lut uOibI vi ItllHIDu III llulA. u
grant plenarv indulgence to all priests
or monks who shall wash themselves
daily, with extra partial indulgence 10
those shaving regularly at least three
times a week during a specified peri
cd
A millionaire Parsee of Bombay
named Tatta has completed a scheme
for working the enormous deposits of
iron ore known TO exist in the central
provinces of India. He has the sup
port of the Indian government in his
project Many people believe that ow-
ing to the cheapneSs of labor in India
the new works will be able eventually
to supply the world with steel.
Floods have caused heavy loss of life
and property in Japan. In Hiroshima
70 persons lost their lives and % We're
injured, while many houses were
washed away and vessels were wreck
ed. In lamanusgha IS were drowned,
ID crushed to death, II washed away
with their houses and Il injured
Several thousand houses were inun-
dated. In Samoa province, n persons
were drowned and four crushed to
death.
The Berbers have risen against the
sultan of Morocco, Africa. aud made
another attack upon the Jewish quar-
ter of Mekines, The gates Of the city
have been closed and 600 troops have
been sent there from FeZ to quell the
Instruction. The rebels have murdered
two couriers TIE Berber9 have at
tackled Mekines twice previously; the
first attack was reported September ,
and the second September }. The rev
olutionists are in favor of Mohammed.
pretender to the throne and brother To
the sultan of Morocco. Mohammed had
been imprisoned at MeKines, but was
released when the second attack was
made. Mekines is - miles from Fee.
The island of Torishima. between
the Bonins and the Seven Isles of
Idsen in the Pacific. was destroyed by
a volcanic eruption Aug. 1915. All
the inhabitants, about 30 in number.
who were housed in four long build
ingS, must have persisted. The build
ings have disappeared and the entire
face of the island is changed. II is
buried beneath debris. The island is
about III miles long and mile wide.
Is composed of volcanic rocks and its
chief product is guano. \ submarine
volcano is sending huge columns Of
" dttE anu OlutG substances TO q utl4lI ,
IF about GOO feet at intervals of 10 or ,
ID minutes a little south of the island.
The waters in the immediate neigh !
oorhood of the disturbance are dark :
iellow.
A landslide supposed to have been Y
iue to seismic disturbances. destroyed i
ome % villages in Titlis, Russia, Au '
rust Il, killing nearly 200 persons. a
Carly in the morning, subterranean q
disturbances were noted at the water +
ng place of Tmenkan. on the northern 5
lope of Mt. Kasbek, where hundreds Il
we're bathing in the hot springs. At c
light, the entire valley was filled with e
deafening noise resembling thunder, e
he valley stream swelled to the dimen- C
ions of a mighty torrent, and sweep Fl
ng down, it carried with it huge blocks
f rock and ice. The bathers were I'M f,
BILE to escape. The entire northern a
lope of Mt. Kasbek, with the glacier ST
bove, began to move rapidly. Village ST
fter village was swept away and every
hing in the path of the landslide was
estroyed. Within few minutes the lc
illey, which is nearly y miles long, al
ad been devastated by wall of rock. r
,e and earth. The valley was com IA
letely filled up in some places to a S
epth of nearly 1000 feet by the mat ii
er which was hurled into it. \ fierce if
urricane ragged at the time of the land
ide, and the bodies of people and an l.,
mails were flung by the wind to a great y.