Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

More Stories Of Turkish Atrocities The Boxe
Leader in China Defiant Distress in Russii
Through Lack of Work-Cold Weather il
Europe British Scientific Association Meet
ing Important Diamond Discovery in soutl
Africa.
La grippe is unusually severe
throughout England this winter ano
many people are leaving London fol
India and the south of France.
A diamond discovery which is prob
ably the most important since that at
Kimberley has been made at Glands
fontein, So Africa Seven diamonds
were found in three shallow holes.
Bitter cold weather prevails through
out Great Britain. Gales and heavy
seas interfere with the channel traffic.
The fall of snow is general, including
the channel islands. Similar condi-
tions exist on the continent.
The select committee of the British
House of Commons Tuesday reported
distinctly against the principle of
granting steamship subsidies. Subsi
dies, it finds, restrict free competition
and facilitate the establishment of fed
erations and shipping rings
Industrial stagnation and CONNER
cial depression have caused widespread
suffering in Denmark, which is inten
sified by the unusual severity OF an
early winter The unemployed surpass-
es the record and seriously taxes the
resources of charitable organizations.
Fifteen fresh regiments are to go to
the Philippines to relieve the same
number of troops there, Feb. l. The
troops to go are the 18th, 18th and l4th
cavalry: the 10th, 3Sth, S5th and l0Sth
coast artillery; the 9th, 18th and 18th
field artillery and the 18th, 18th, 23d,
10th, and 18th infantry.
Lack of employment is causing I'M
precedented distress in the interior of
Russia. In Saratoff workmen eagerly
accept about II cents per day. Hosts
business houses, and the streets are
filled with sick and starving people.
pitiful details come from other
interior cities
A despatch from Rome says that 13
anarchists were arrested near Spezia
Monday night, after desperate strug
gle. The police surprised them at a
while they were in the act of
taking an oath with poignards to as
sassinate King Victor Emmanuel. One
of the anarchists and one of the police
were severely wounded.
The pretender to the throne of Mo
rocco is at Taxa and has assumed SOW
ereign rights. He has issued a mani
festo announcing that possession of the
treasury, batteries of guns and depots
Of arms, and saying that he intends to
attack the sultan army so soon as his
arrive. The sultan is
said to be preparing large army with
which to attack the pretender.
The United States and British am
oassadors at Paris have asked the
French government to reconsider the
case of the Passionist Fathers, who
were among the religious orders to be
expelled from France. 1t is difficult for
The government to act at the present
stage, the entire question of the con-
having been submitted to
the chamber of deputies.
Maj. Estes c. Rathbone, director of
posts in Cuba during the American oc
,upancy, is in Washington seeking a
investigation. He was
-ried, convicted, and sentenced in con-
lection with the Cuban postal frauds,
but was released under President Pal
ma S amnesty proclamation. He stout
~ asserts his innocence and has no 9TH
er redress than investigation by Con
gress.
The Chinese government has received
an insolent message from Gen. lung
Fuh Slang. the Boxer leader, who has
taken refuge in the walled city of
in kansu. He has strength
ened the wall and deepened the moat
and has 60 battalions of troops under
arms. In his message to the Picking
government he says he wants full
pardon, pay for his troops and position
Tor his adherents
The British scientific association has
accepted an invitation from the Brit
sh South Africa company to hold Its
annual meeting in 1905 at Victoria
Falls, on the Zambesi river, where a
lotel will be erected to accommodate |
he members. The company has al
oted 81, 900 for the expenses of the |
scientists. The only precedent for the
meeting outside of Great |
Britain is that furnished in 1884, |
when its meeting was held in Canada. /
Horrible stories of Turkish atrocities
n Macedonia continue to be published. /
Children are reported TO have been |
orn in pieces in the presence of their
parents, men have been roasted alive /
With red hot molds placed on their
reads. Parties of peasants are said to .
lave been starved to death. Russia and .
Austria are said to have agreed to
make a determined effort to end the
trouble by carrying out spec
al reforms under their combined con-
roll
Sir Thomas Upton has inspected
shamrock III and is delighted with it.
The trials of the new yacht will be be-
.un at the end of April. The first will
re made upon the Clyde, another in the
,olent, and a third again on the Clyde
,efore the yacht was dismantled. 1t is
aid that the trial races of the pres
mt challenger in American waters will
be against the Shamrock III,
nut if this is not possible Shamrock l
,ill be taken across for the trials with
he Shamrock Ill.
The Spanish premier, Senior Sagasta,
ling Alfonso last week. He said that
he opposition had treated him with
istrust and discourtesy which he did
OF deserve. The chamber of deputies
Zee. 2 censured the minister of marine
Or authorizing the contract for the
obstruction of two new training ships