Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-12-18
FRANCE TO DIVIDE SIAM
KOREA FEARS IMMINENT EXITING.
TION IN PEACE OR WAR.

Spanish Arehbishop's Peculiar Bequest
Jewish Emigration to America
, Russia's Reply to Japan--To Secure
Paradise Lost Ms. for Britain.
Dispatches from Indo- China report
the massing of French troops ON the
Siamese border, in anticipation of war
Officials in Indo- China are quoted as
saying that the occupation of a large
slice of Siam has been decided upon.
Authorities in Paris do not believe a
rupture with Siam will occur and say
the measures taken are merely precau-
tionary.
Despite American threats and Japan
csc pressure, Russian influence over
the Korean government is apparently
mistaken and it is expected that Korea
will procrastinate in dealing with the
matter and may possibly refuse event.
ually to act at all. The feeling of I'M
rest is growing among the Korean peo-
pie. who fear whether there Is peace or
war between Russia and Japan, that
extinction of the empire is imminent
More rioting has occurred at Mokphe
and Monday a Japanese mob wounded
II Koreans. High Korean officials are
hurrying to Mokphe to try and quell
the disorders. So far Russia has not
interfered. U. S. Minister Allen has
demanded definite answer from the
Korean government in regard to open
ing the port of Wi Ju.
Spain will not participate in the st.
Louis Exposition. This decision was
reached at a cabinet council, the rea-
son given being that there would not
be sufficient time to complete prepara-
lions.
| Tod Sloane, the American jockey,
who sued the French Jockey club for
warning him off the French turf, has
won his suit. The court condemned
the club in costs. Amount of damages
to be awarded Sloane will be decided
later.
1t is stated that an unprecedented
emigration movement of the Jews to-
ward America is in progress in the
northwestern part of Russia. They
are leaving practically en- masse, all
classes and ages. Special steamship
agencies have been opened in several
towns to facilitate the movement.
Minister Allen. at Seoul Korea, re-
ports considerable rioting and uneasi-
ness and at his request the state de-
partment at Washington has suggest
ed to the navy department that war
ship. be sent to Corean waters. 1t is
probable the Wilmington will be de-
tailed for the purpose.
The text of Russia's reply to Japan's
recent communication has been re-
ceived but the strictest secrecy is en-
Joined as to its nature. 1t is believed,
however, that a peaceful issue will re-
suit. A high authority is quoted as
stating that Russia has practically con-
ceded to Japan's demands and that
negotiations have reached the stage
where only signatures to the docu-
ments are lacking.
Authors and editors and others pro-
minent in the world of letters are urg-
ing the British government to secure
the manuscript of Milton's Paradise
Lost for the nation and to keep 1t from |
going to the United States as neither
the British Museum nor the two great |
universities have sufficient funds at
their disposal to purchase it. Should |
the government not respond to this
appeal a public subscription is sug-
gested.
The will of the late Cardinal Her
reroy Espnosa, archbishop of Valencia, |
Spain, who died Dec. 8. contains, ac- |
cording to a special despatch from Ma |
drid, an extraordinary bequest of S10,-
900 to the First Spanish general land |
ing in United States territory with an |
army sufficiently strong to avenge the |
defeats of Cuba and the Philippines"
Pending the happenings of this event
the legacy is to remain deposited in the |
bank of Spain.
Letters addressed by Lord Curzon, /
the viceroy of India, to the dalai lama /
at Lhasa Tibet have been returned. |
The various units of the British expe- T
dition to Tibet are concentrating in /
the Crumbi valley, where Coils. Young
husband and Macdonald are awaiting
them The locality is Is days march
from Lhasa. The monks at Lhasa do
inmate the situation and use their in
fuence to suppress the sentiment fav-
orable to granting to India any Tibe-
tan trade facilities, TO the aprosatlon
of which the present expedition is at
tributed.
A monarchial paper published in
Bologna, Italy, says it has received
news from a trustworthy source that
the Dowager Queen Margherita, during
a recent journey to Norway. contracted
a morganatic marriage with an eng1-
neer who is 80 years of age. The
Dowager Queen is 81 For more than
a quarter of century the Dowager
Queen Margherita of Italy has been the
idol of her people. Throughout the
reign of King Humbert she shared in :
his popularity and had the distinction
of being known as the most beautiful
of all the royalties of Europe. When
King Humbert died by the pistol of an
anarchist on July 20, 1900, all Italy felt
the deepest sympathy for the Queen
mother Reports came from the royal
palace that the Dowager Queen was
so stricken with sorrow that she might
never recover from it.
The existence of well-organiZed
Armenian revolutionary plot in the
hoe Jaa, off ciaIIy recognized