Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-06

John Beck, an artist, Struggled him
self into this country from Hamburg
Germany, in wooden box, which was
put in the hold of the steamboat shiI
Palatia. His provisions gave out and h'
was nearly dead when found Monday
The financial distress of Costa Rici
is increasing. The country is unable
to meet the interest upon its foreign
Indebtedness and is experiencing dith
Guilty in paying its public employees
The revenues have lately decreased
considerably.
The trial of Col Robert l. Meade o.
the marine corps on charge o.
violating naval regulations was con
cluded at New York Monday and the
opinions of the eight members of the
court will be sent on to Washington
where the verdict will be given out.
Frank Jay Gould, youngest son Of
the late Jay Gould, and Miss Heller
Kelley, daughter of the late Edward
Kelley, were married at New York
Monday evening. Only members OF
the two families were present. The
marriage unites two families, whose
heads, Jay Gould and Edward Kelley,
were bitter enemies, both personally
and in business
A meeting of section of the com.
mittee of 20 appointed at the last
Presbyterian assembly to revise the
creed of the Presbyterian church so as
to make it more popularity understood
has been held at Washington the past
week. The object was to secure a
formal expression of doctrine which
will be more definite and convey to
the lay mind clearer understanding
of the subject than the present declar-
alton.
William Fitzhugh Whitehouse, Jr.
of New port, r. l., intends starting
from London in a few weeks on fresh
expedition to the heart of Africa, &C
companied by Capt. Powell Cotton OF
the Northumberland fusilliers. They
intend to go in a Belgian gunboat up
the Congo to Basoko, thence through
the Pigmy forest to the north, avoid
ing the usual forest route, to Uganda,
and then they will push on and ex-
plore the unknown portions OF Lake
Albert.
The smallpox outbreak is undated
in Boston. Seventy-four new cases
were reported Monday, and IA Tues
day, and the disease is now cpl
demic in serious form. Employees
on the steam, surface and elevated
railroads, and the clerks in all the
great department stores, as well as
city employees in every department,
are being vaccinated as fast as pos
ible. Gallup's Island quarantine sta
stion is becoming overcrowded and new
fumigation boilers are being ut in.
The insurgent general Lukhan of
Samar has offered to negotiate terms
of surrender with General Smith but
the American commander replied that
the time for negotiations has passed.
Lukban is responsible for the massacre
of a company of the ninth regiment
In connection with the policy of starv-
ing out the rebellion, all male Fill
ipinos have been ordered to leave the
coast towns for the interior. One
hundred natives have volunteered to
fight the insurgents in order to bring
peace to Samar.
All is quiet at Colon. Both liberals
and conservatives are gradually resum-
ing their customary intercourse. There
is no undue Boosting on the part OF
the victors and there have been no dis
turbances. The terms of the last
weeks surrender provided that the
liberal soldiers at Colon should be
surrendered to Capt. Perry of the U.
S. warship Iowa. while he should
later hand over the men and their
arms to Gen. Alban who in turn guar
anteed life and liberty to all men re
Gently in arms against the conserva-
tive government of Colombia. Diplo-
matte relations have been severed be
tween Colombia and Venezuela.
Carl H. Hoffman, the former stem
ographer to the isthmian canal com
mission was arrested in New York and
has been turned over to the custody of
the United States marshal at Washing
ton. The affidavit in the case alleges
that Hoffman carried away the final
report of the isthmian canal commits
sion to the president with intent to
steal. He is said to have tried to sell
one copy to the French ambassador,
while the other he offered to New Iork
newspaper The newspaper bought
the stolen goods, but the ambassador
promptly called the United States gov
ernment's attention to the case, and
his action led to the detection and
arrest of the culprit.
The Chinese in their native country
are said to be much alarmed over the
attitude of the United States relative
to the exclusion law. Many who are
entitled to return to the United States
feel that a new law will be enacted OF
such stringent nature that many of
the privileged class will be barred
from returning. Hundreds are prepar-
ing to rush to this country before the
law expires. The Chinese in San
Francisco are preparing for vigorous
fight against its re-enactment. A proc
lamation has been issued by the Chi
nese Six Companies requiring every
Chinese person in the United States
to contribute at once the sum of 81,
the funds thus raised to be used in
the effort to defeat exclusion. Pen
alties are prescribed for the non-pay-
ment of the assessment.
"About five years ago was troubled
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