Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF THE NEWS OF THE
EASTERN OR OLD WORLD.


Prison Relics Sold at Auction Distress in
Southern Italy-Labor Movement in Russia
Saxon Crown Princess Louise Enters San
itarium.
The Finnish national relief commit
tee has received up to the present SIG, :
600, 600, most of which came from
America.
Edna Lyall, the novelist, author Of
"Won by Waiting" "We Two" and
many other books. died at East Bourr e,
Eng. Monday of pneumonia. Her real
name was Ada Ellen Bayly.
A London despatch says that the
new liquor selling act, said to be the
most stringent in the world, put into eff
feet short time ago, is keeping the
habitual drunkard in terror and re-
sulting in reduction Of licenses and
of the police force
Father Lottoli, Jesuit priest, and
one of the foremost experts of our day
in the Chinese language and litera.
ture, is dead at Shanghai, China, aged
II years. He has left behind him "A
manuscript dictionary of the Chinese
/ language, which, ii printed, will fill
from 10 to II volumes.
A British force of 1000 men and "a
officers under Colonel Morland has been
despatched from Zungeru to Kano. in
northern Nigeria, to punish the recall
ctrant emir who sheltered the murder
ers of Captain Moloney, the British res
4 ident at keffi. Kano is nominally but
subordinate sultanate of the Sokoto
empire. which, in turn, is, of course,
under British protection. It's people
are slave raiders in spite of every Brit
sh attempt at repression.
The historic hill of Tara was sold at
auction Thursday for SIS, 800. The
purchaser was woman whose name
was not announced. Until the 10th
century Tara was the chief seat of the
! Irish kings. 1t was also the Druids'
headquarters, and the site of King
Cormac's splendid court. The last i'm
portant gathering on the hill of Tara
was in 1913, when a gigantic meeting
was held there under the auspices OF
/ Daniel Council, who urged the repeal
of the union.
The relics of old Newgate prison
which were sold at auction at London
last week hardly brought the value of
scrap iron. There was some competl-
ton for the old oak, the hangman S
key. and the cupboard mentioned IN
Barnaby Ridge" which brought
s62. 30. The old death bell fetc med
$500. The staff on which the black flag
was hoisted went for $50, copper wash
bowls used by the prisoners were sold
I for s. each, nine plaster heads OF per
sons executed were knocked down at
so, and the main entrance door, which
was broken down by the Gordon riot,
ers, brought $50. - ~ II -
! Much distress and poverty exists IN
the southern provinces of Italy. and
| two schemes of relief are being consid-
cred by parliamentary committee.
Baron Sonnino, describing the situa-
tiou, says: agriculture is perishing,
the country is being depopulated, and
the only thing which prospers is the
/ blood sucking octopus of usury. The
emigration from the Neapolitan prov
inces in 1902 touched nearly 20 out
of every thousond of the population.
The Bank of Naples and the Bank OF
Italy held by foreclosure landed prop,
erty in the Neapolitan provinces valued
at over 80, 100000. VI
The trial of Gennarol Rubino, the
Italian anarchist, on the charge of hay
ing ATTEMPTED to assassinate hing Leo
pold Nov Is by firing three shots al
his majesty while the latter was re-
turning from the cathedral where he
had been attending TIE Deum IN mem
orv of the late Queen HeDriette, was
opened at Brussels, Friday. The prs
oner declared that he had intended tc
make an attempt on the life of the kine
of Italy and of King Edward. he glo
ried in his crime and denounced so
ciety loudly. Rubino was found gull
ty Tuesday and sentenced to life I'M
prisoument at penal servitude
Earl Cromer. British agent in Egypt,
pavs high tribute to the work of Amer
lean missionaries in the Soudan where
he saws the natives are learning thai
foreigners visiting them are no Longer
Slave dealers but bitter opponents o.
slavery. He made special favorable
mention of the American mission or
the Sabat River and the Austrian es
Establishment on the White Nile. one a
Catholic, the other a Protestant. Lore
Cromer speaks highly of the recent ma
terial. moral and intellectual develop
ment of the Soudan, holding out thu
hope of early communication with Sua
kim, which will open up the Soudar
provinces of the worlds trade He re
ports prospects of finding coal IN thu
region south of Khartoum, which, un
der the circumstances, would be mor'
valuable than gold.
The Grown Princess Louise of Sax
onv and her lover, NJ. Giron, separated
at Geneva Friday, owing to the anX
ietv of the princess to see her children
her son. Christian, being dangerousl,
i'll. She was refused everything unles
she Quilted Nj. Giron. The Saxoi
court. influenced by the Empero
Francis Joseph, has refused to consen
to n divorce, She was offered a small
yearly allowance and the promise of nj
legal proceedings if she separated iron
her lover. After the separation, he
request TO see her sick son was re
fused. The princess can never return
to the Saxon court but may possibly Ell
feet a reconciliation with her owl
family. She has entered the santa
rum at Nyon, on the shore of Lake lie
neya. her anxieties having caused grea
physical and mental depression. TIT
: princess is said to have sent an ureen
appeal to Giron to return, after fail
ing to obtain permission to see he
sick child. 1t is also reported tina
she attempted suicide Tuesday by fir
ing two shots at herself from revol
yer, She is said to be wild with DIES
pair. Her father, the Grand Duke
Ferdinand " of Tuscany, is willing t.