Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-15

| Tower, MINI, unveiled Sunday, the
first monument erected in memory of
William Mckinley.
A snapshot with Xray photography
was given to the world by DR. Ill I
Pratt at Ct ioauo Saturday. 1t will
greatly aid science,
Pennsylvania was beaten by Harvard
Mt football on Franklin field, Philadel-
phia, Saturday. Score 80 to 6 II was
Penn sylvania's worst defeat since 1883.
President Castro has accepted the
offer of Chill to end the trouble be-
tween Vepezula and Colomb ia. He
hah previously refused the good offices
of the United States.
A Ames, mayor of Minneapolis, has
tenderfd Cole Younger, the notorious
bahdit now ont of the Min esota State
prison on par lie after serving 20 years
nf life sentence, posltion as cap
tain on the local police force. Cole
upon the advice # his friends has de-
cided to refuse the offer,
What seemed to he a very rich gold
strike was founi last week under the
new federal building at Helena, Mon
tana. The vein is from % IT, 40 feet
ide. assayers hotever, who have
since tested the ore, disagree as TO its
value. The mine belongs to the gov
ernment.
! 1t has been discovered that "Prince
| Ranii," who has been travelling with a
suite of twenty eight Orientals and pos
ing as IN East Indian Prince, is merely
curry COOK who left Sherry's restau-
rant in New York year or 80 ago, and
who is now preparing to open restau-
rant of his own IN the metropolis. His
real name is Ranii Smile and his retain
ers will be his subordinates.
Newell G Rathtun of Little Rock.
A rk, has heen detected in fraudu.
lent Insurance. scheme, and confesses
that be substitutedatothe man 8 body
for his own. This body, found in u
j fferso Vile, Ind, hot !. he says 10
that of W l. Ten Eycke but denies
that he killed the man. II will, how
ever, have to face jury on a charge
of murder as laudanum enough to kill
two men was found in the dead man .
stomach,
Work is about to be resumed at the
United States arsenal at Watervliet,
N Y on the new l6-ioch gun for Fo
Hamilt u, New York harhor. This
gun will be the largest in the world.
1t will send shot p miles, but 10
order to do so, the shot will assume
40 altitude as high as piEe's Peak.
Military men the world over are much
interested in the mechanism Of this
gun, as it will be an innovation for
coast defence.
A notable meeting was held in Ire
mont Temple, Boston, Monday in honor
of the memory of the late DR. Samuel
Gridley Howe, the founder Of the Per
kns Institute for the blind. DR. Howe
gave the best of his life and splendid
intellect to the relief of suffering. On
the platform were Senator George +
Hoar, Edward Everett Hale, Horatio
Stebbns, William Endicott and Julia
Ward Howe, the widow of DIR Howe,
with her children ard grandchildren.
Four hundred prisoners from the fed
eral per itsr tisry at Fort Leaven orth,
Kan, mutinied while at " ofk 10 charge
Of 80 armed guards, On the mes United
Ststes prison near there, last week.
One man was killed, five SOUNDED and
&c desperate nvicts escaped. The
mutiny was plsrr ed months ago.
Armen guards, with hloothouods, have
been securing the country about T. ers
ever since. Several of the conflicts
were CAPTURED next day, three being
killed and t. rec wounded; 8 are still
at large. They are supposed to be
making for Oklahoma and Indian ter
rit ry