The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-01-10
NOTINGs.

minister III NcneZuelu, IL ho'io ""
visit, and gives interesting lnforma
tion regarding Venezuela and her PEG
pie He says the disputed territory II
rich in mines and agriculture, ana li'
does not think it will be necessary fo
the United States commission to &c
further than Caracas to obtain Ger
tain proofs Of the Justice OF the Ven
ezuelan claims. Mr. Thomas says thai
President Crcspo is very rich, being
worth SO. GOO, 600 to SO, 600, GOO, and
is building IA $500, 900 residence, be-
sides an elaborate mausolcum.
One of the Washington corresponds
ents thinks he sees q Lodge prcsIden
tial boom in the air.
A marvellous triumph Of science is
reported from Vienna, where II is
announced that Prof. Routgen of the
Wurzburg University has discovered
light which, for the purposes OF Pho,
Biography, will penetrate wood, flesh
and most other organic substances.
The professor has succeeded in pho
| tographing metal weights which were
in closed wooden case, also man 8
hand which shows only the bones. the
flesh being invisible, 1t is said the
process is simple. The professor takes
a so-called Crookc's pipe, viz: a
vacuum glass pipe with an induction
current going through it, and by
means of rays which the pipe emiitts,
photographs on ordinary Photographic
plates. In contrast with the ordinary
rays of light. these rays penetrate
organic matter and othcr opaque sub
stances Just as ordinary rays penetrate
glass. He has also succeeded in pho
tographing hidden metals with cloth
thrown over the camera. The rays
penetrated not only the wooden case
containing the metals, but the fabric
in front of the negative. The profess
sor is already using his discovery to
photograph broken limbs and bullets
in human bodies.
Roy. Luther McSweeney says in the
Catholic World, that "a great manu-
featuring company iii Massachusetts,
recently paid their workrnen on Sat
urday evening 700 ten dollar bills,
each bill being marked. BY the fol
lowing Tuesday 40 of these marked
bills were deposited in the bank by
the saloon keepers Of the town. OF
course most Of the bills were merely
broken in paying for drinks, but the
test at least shows that the saloon was
the first place three fourths Of the |
men went to with their money.
Another revolutionary plot, claimed |
to he instigated by England. has been |
nipped in Venezuela, and ex- president |
Lopez, Gen. Goozales and other lead
ing men arrested as implicated. Even
the exiled Gen. Guzman Banco is
alleged TO have been approached by
British ctnissaries.
There was a sensational development
Saturday in the case Of Bat Shea who
was to have been clectrocuted Tuesday
for the murder Of Robert Ross in the
election fight at Troy, n. y, year
ago last fall, resulting from an attempt
IF citizens to stop the wholesale and
and his thugs. John McGeough, who
IS serving an IS year sentence for
shooting another man in the same row,
made confession that he, and not
Shea. was the man who committed the
murder. Coy. Morton has therefore re- !
,rieved Ross until Feb. for further :
Investigation, 1t is curious case, to
ay the least, for II reputable citizens /,
wore positively at the trial 10 seeing Il
Shea himself commit the murder and !
i've others swore 10 corroboratory cir !
umstances Moreover McGeough's :
tory is contradicted ut every point !
" his testimony at the trial Senator !
lurphy, whose lieutenant Shea was 5
n Troy politics, has interested him e
elf deeply in the case and it was only
fter Murphy's last plea with the gov i
rnor for clemcncy that the confession &
ppcared. Besides. Murphy's organ \
t Albany announced the confession o
overall days before its appearance and e
nc prison officials at Dnanemora II
rison before whom the confession was (,
lade are Murphy's henchmen. But Il
[cGcough insists that the confession Il
as voluntary on his part and his only
urposo was TO cave an innocent man +,
ON being executed for his crime p
DIR. Cyrus Edison, formerly Health al
of New York city. is il
repairing a report for publication in OF
ie Medical Record revealing the T
rmula ofor the PREPARATION OF Asepin, al
IS specific for the killing of germs of VI
and curing of blood NJ
,isoning and malaria 1t is said TO OF
I'VE been successful in more than 20 pr
II cent Of the cases of phthisic G.
Gated. VI
The fire losses in this country and st
lnada last year aggregated only W
%, $50, zoo. against SIPS, 2i6, 100 in tr
~ and sl56, i45, $40 IN 1893. 1t is
ry evident, - says the y. y, journal tic
Commerce. that improved methods tn
construction, the beneficial effects
schedule rating charges for de- h,
iencies, etc, and the wider use of Il,
tomato sprinklers and other fire APP an
iances are keeping the fire loss in Pr
eek. - IN
Canada has cabinet crisis. Seven
'mbers of the Bowel ministry have r.,
signed. with the evident purpose of mt
cling Premier Bowel from the lead In
ship of the Conservative party and
in Ills place Sir Charles =.
PIPER, now High Commissioner To an an.
ndon. The issue is that over Mani die
"a schools, Bowel is determined to tati
IS "A bill To restore the Catholics 10 m mi
; privileges which the Manitoba hay
islaturc took from them in 1880. and for
; three hy.clcctions bill in the last S WI
: weeks indicate that this policy Eui
II be disastrous 10 the party, as every or
" ''' az i'9N't'I ~ LioeIal 'lcto- ic a
! III l!arh of large conservative bre
joritics at every election heretofore. {
ere tnust under the Canadian con- ba,
luton he Il general election this fall foo
the Conservatives appear to be vii
all to go to The people on the Mani har
a issue. did
Charles Foster tells wei
Cincinnati Tribune positively par
lat Gen. Harrison * does not NJ
1t the presidential nomination, nor 81
nd he talie If IL il wer,. fendernd 70 nrS