Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-07
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

Despoiled- -London's Deadly Epidemic o.
Grip-6OO Beers Killed or Captured by Brit
ish in Two 'Days-Colombia Stops Panama
Canal Sale-Miss Stone Reaches q. s. LIE
cation at Observation-Disclosures in Ala
bama.
Repeated earthquakes at Dochgar'
roch, near Inverness, Scotland, have
caused the greatest alarm along the
north sea cost.
The cold in Japan has been most ex-
ceptional this year. The mercury has
fallen 40 degrees below zero from Hok-
haido to the north.
In view of the Anglo-Japanese agree
ment, Russia has decided to make i'm
provements and alterations in Eastern
Siberia and to push the Siberian rail
road to completion.
The Spanish government is opposed
to the clause in the Spanish American
treaty prohibiting Americans from ac-
quiring property in Spain and vice YER
sa The treaty has not yet been
signed.
The dowager empress and emperor
of China gave the foreign ladies sec
ond audience Friday, conducting them
through the private apartments of the
| palace This reception was even more
democratic than the first which &C.
Cured February l.
|. The American Consul at Canton,
China, has requested the governor of
Kiangsi to provide military escort
for American missionaries, many of
whom are fleeing on account of a ris-
ing in the district in which the Tai
ping rebellion started
Historic Battle Abbey, at London,
is to be despoiled of many of its art
treasures, the gems, pictures and dec
orative furniture and the library to be
sold this week. Sir Augustus Web
ster, who bought the Abbey, has also
bought the tapestries, trophies, arms
and armor.
A series of festivities in celebration
of the centenary of the birth of Victor
Hugo, opened last week Wednesday at
the Pantheon in Paris under govern
ment auspices. The fetes, which lasted
five days. ended with the turning over
of his old home to Paris for Victor
Hugo museum The exercises cost the
city $50, 600
War Secretary Broderck announced
at London Friday that during the last
two days 600 Beers have been killed or
captured. Two thousand horses and
%, 600 cattle have fallen into the hands
of the British. The prisoners include
General Dew et's son and the generals
secretary. Mamie Botha, Boer leader,
has been killed.
The principal ceremony of the cele-
bration of the pontifical jubilee, in
honor of the oath anniversary of the
Pope's chapel was carried out in the |
Basilica of St Peters, Rome, Monday |
with extraordinary pomp, in |
the presence of the Pontif and an as
estimated to have numbered |
fully $4,000 persons.
A despatch from Constantinople |
Monday says that the United States
minister, John G. A. Leishman, has
presented note to the Porte regard
ing the capture of Miss Ellen NJ Stone
by brigands, demanding the punish
ment of the guilty parties The Porte,
in replying, repudiates responsibility
and denies all liability.
Lord Kitchener reports loss of 632
ultus hllltu, WOuuutu anu pTISOueTS.
10 the disaster to the escort of the
convoy of empty wagons at Vondonop,
Transvaal, recently. Two large forces
IF Beers boldly charged the convoy at
rear and centre simultaneously STAN
oeding the mules in all directions,
charging and recharging, and riding
Town the separated British units.
Albanian rebels are besieging the
seaport of Avlona, which is cut off
rom the outside world. Twenty six ,
Albanian towns have resolved to dem ,,
,nstrate their independence of the
ule of the Turkish sultan by refusing
o pay taxes. The rebels have com :.
'elled the authorities to open the iails
md release the prisoners in the dis
ricts of Ell Bassan and Tirany where {
narchy prevails.
The mining region of Spain is in q
and general strike is feared. q
Rioters Friday burned all documents +
n the tax office at Madidejos and cut t
he telegraph wires. Riots have oc-
urred in Finland, the Firms clashing :
nth the Russian police, 40 students =
nd townspeople being arrested. At {
It. Petersburg, 400 students have !
'ltCheu INC lnbtliOI VI NhUScOW uUl- T.,
ersity buildings. The ringleader of =
be rioters has been arrested All stu :,
ents connected with the rioting have :.
cen expelled from the university and =
Ugh schools. .
At meeting of the shareholders of n
ne new Panama canal company at n
aris, Friday, President Bo announced II
nat official notice had been served on Il
he French Panama shareholders by t,
le consul general of Colombia that q
lie company could not transfer its con v
ession to another nation without first, II
it'll the assent of Colombia, modify a
lg some stipulations of the agreement. OF
he meeting therefore decided to post il
one entering into any engagement. CO
ost of the speakers thought the mes ir
zee meant the collapse of the nego-
atoms with the United States. 81
A civil war has just been averted in be-
ally by the accidental discovery of tn
eat socialist plot in time for the gov be-
to crush it by the prompt mo- TO
lization of nearly 200, 600 troops and W
e government assumption of control er
all the railroads in order to avert NJ
tional strike. The socialists had en- ip
lied nearly all the workmen and ag- st
of Italy into leagues is
lich numbered 10000 with a mem Vi
rship of over a million. They were pu
out to declare a general strike when go
e plot was discovered. The govern of
mt has by decree dissolved all the tn
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