Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-12
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF THE NEWS OF THE
EASTERN OR OLD WORLD.
The Gear on the Kishineff Massacres Famine
and Plague in Russia French Monks Dis
possessed by soldiers-The Pope and Lord
Salisbury III = French Steamer Sunk off
Maria leland

Marie Island.
The Marquis of Salisbury is i'll al
Hatfield house, his Hertfordshire seat.
but his condition is not thought Sc
rious.
Prince Ferdinand Maximillan, head
of the German house of Isemburp and
I Buddingden. was burned TO death in
( his castle at Wachterbach Friday.
The governor of kwang.si province
estimates that over LOCO coo natives
are starving in the territory under his
/ jurisdiction. The distress is most
acute. Children and women are freely
offered for sale. The rice harvest prom
/ ises well. but il will not be available
! for from four 10 six weeks. The popu-
lation of Kwang-si is largely agricul-
tural.
The bride of W. X. Vanderbilt.
formerly Mrs. Rutherford. will build a
hospital in Paris for the poor 1t viii
be the most complete that can be de-
vised. Mrs. Vanderbilt will have carte
blanche in everything and the hospital
will be called by her name During
her two years residence in Paris. Mrs.
Vanderbilt has done much work among
the sick poor.
The monks at the monastery of La
Blanchere, France, defying eviction,
were dispossessed by soldiers who
scaled the walls and reached the roof
and thus gained access TO the build
ing. The monks had barricaded the
gates and doors of the monastery with
paving stones. A crowd of GOO per
sons engaged in a demonstration for
and against the authorities.
In consequence of the death from
plague at the Berlin hospital of the
young Viennese physician. DR.. Milan
Sachs, the German government has de-
cided to issue decree forhidding fur
Their experiments with plague germs,
the risk of spreading infection being
considered more dangerous to the pub
lie health than the knowledge gained
in studying the deadly microbes JUST
fies.
The municipal corporation at Sligo, /
Ire, Saturday granted the freedom of
the town to Bourke Cochran of New
York, who delivered an address upon !
the future economic development of 7
Ireland, in the course of which Mr.. |
Cochran predicted that the island /
would become the clearing point for I
all products between America and Eu
rope. P. A. McHugh, VI. P, was ar
rested at Sligo that morning under
for contempt of court issued
year ago in connection with the politi-
al comments of Mr. McHugh's paper,
he Sligo Champion. When taken into
custody Mr.. McHugh was starting. for
Longford TO meet Mr.. Cochran.
Through the director of the Russian
police department the czar of Russia
las made this statement concerning
he Kishineff massacres: THE Rus
ian government is the first to disap-
rove of such horrid acts Of violence as
he massacres at Kishineff and other
,laces. but il cannot. in compliance
nth the requests of radical and rev.
lutionary press, give the Jews new
lights Of citizenship. as this would be
ure TO drive the Russian population
re hated by the peasants with such I
force. - The Russian
irector of police declares that the
DO rioters await transportation to ST.
eria.
The Insulaire and the Liban, passen-
er steamers OF MarseilleS, france,
ere in collision near Marseilles Sun
ay. The Liban sank, carrying down
18th her more than 100 of her passen-
ers as we'll as her crew. The Liban
as on her regular passenger trips 10
astia. Corsica, and was run down and
lnk by the lnsulaire off the Marie is
Inds. A wide rent was cut in her side
nd she headed for shore but within II
Linutes of the collision and while still
,me distance from shallow water the
,repart of the steamer plunged be-
cath the waves and few minutes
tier she had entirely disappeared.
essels nearby picked up 81 passen
ers, many being badly injured. The
1llision was due to the fact that the
land, at the entrance to the port, hid
lie vessels from each other until it
as too late to avoid collision.