Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-23
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS


demnity on Gold Basis Steamship Lahr
Ashore Near Gibraltar.
Italy has proposed to establish the
Marconi system of wireless telegraphy
between Pekin and Taku.
Official figures show that AHA per,
sons lost their lives and that 33, IL
houses were destroyed as result OF
the recent earthquakes at Andijan,
Russian Turkestan.
Henri de Blowitz, Europe's most ia.
nous newspaper correspondent, died
at Paris Sunday, aged 10 years. He
was for many years correspondent OF
the London Times in Paris. He WELD
ed great powerwith his pen.
Leading firms representing South
African interests have agreed upon a
war contribution to England of $50,
900, OO0, payable in three annual in
stalments of $50, 100000 and covered
by a loan not redeemable for 10 years.
The first instalment will be issued in
1904.
The Austrian government proposes to
complete financial measure in the in
PRODUCTION as early as possible, of the
] VI.
sued on a silver basis will be with
drawn at the end of February and re.
placed by notes issued against the gold
/ reserve.
Baron Speck Won Sternburg has been
appointed charge d'affaires for Ger
many at Washington. He said to a
press correspondent at Berlin Thurs
day: His majesty has been pleased
| to commit to my care one of the dearest
objects of his external policy that of
extending our friendship with the
United States. "
The Chinese government has con
fessed to the powers its utter inability
to pay the Chinese indemnity on gold
| basis under present conditions. The
| foreign ministers at Pekin, with the
exception of United States Minister
Conger, have signed note informing
! the Chinese government that failure TO
fulfil its obligations in this way would
entail grave consequences.
The dedication at Pekin Sunday of
| the Baron Won Ketteler memorial arch
erected by China was an impressive
ceremony Baron Won Ketteler was
the German minister who was killed
by Boxers at the outbreak Of the Boxer
trouble. The dedication took place in
the presence of a brilliant assemblage
of diplomats, many Chinese officials,
all the military officers in Pekin and
the entire foreign community of the
city.
Cardinal Lucido Mary Parocchi,
widely known as sub-dean of the sa-
cred college and ice-chancellor of the
Catholic church, died of heart disease
at Rome, Thursday. He was born in
1888 in Mantua and created cardinal
by Plus TX in 1877. He had been prom
inently spoken of as the most probable
successor of Pope Leo XIII since the
latter's illness In 1889. The Pope was
greatly affected when he learned of the
cardinals death, and said; These
frequent deaths have made me an old
man. ~. r... s....-s s.., ~ -.
A strong and rapidly growing anti
European sentiment in Fee, Morocco,
necessitated the hurried departure
from that city last week of the Ameri-
can missionaries. For couple OF
days prior to their departure the wo-
men were openly cursed in the streets,
the Moors shouting as they passed
whats this filth in our streets:'
When the American missionaries from
Meauinez arrived at Fee the Moors
exclaimed: "Oh God! we thought
they we're sending the cursed dogs
from us, but they are coming back. y
Subsequently a body Of armed noun
tanners met the women and wheeled
round and cursed them in chorus,
About 10000 people are affected by
a famine which has reached an acute
stage in northern Sweden The starv-
ing people are eating pine bark, which
is dried, ground to provender, mixed
with stewed Iceland moss and made
into a kind of bread. The crops and
fisheries have failed and the ptarmi-
gans, usually plenty, have almost en-
tirely disappeared. The expenditure
of Sc, 300, 600 will be necessary to save
the population, to say nothing of the
cattle and supplying seed for the
spring sowings. About 100000 has
thus far been subscribed, sl2, 800 of
which was sent by Swedes in the Unit
ed States. The peasants make a fod-
der of finely chopped twigs of birch,
willow and ash. The mixture is boiled
and fed to the cattle warm. but 1t is
found that the milk of cattle thus fed
leads to typhoid fever. This and other
diseases are certain to spread unless
relief is fastened.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Lain. bound for New York with 100
saloon passengers, mostly Americans,
and about 700 emigrants from Italy,
went ashore Sunday morning at Tu-
mara, five miles east of the Rock OF
Gibraltar. She was fast on sand
bank and all attempts to pull her oil at
high water failed. The passengers re-
NAMED on the vessel, the Gibraltar
life-saving service having boats at
hand all day in case the wind shifted
to the east rendering the position dan
gerous. The accident was due to the
weather and heavy rain. The Lain is
a steel, sipgle-screw steamship with
two stacks and since the appearance OF
the latest crack vessels of the North
German Lloyd line, has been running
between New York and Italy. On Aug.
80, 1899, she completed trip between
the Needles, outside Southampton. and
Sanity Hook lightship in 6 days, y
hours and AZ minutes, winning the
blue ribbon of the Atlantic. She has
had famous commanders, like Capt.
Pohle and Capt. Helmers and has car
ried many noted Americans. The Lain
was safely fioated at daybreak Tuesday.