Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-29


Revolution.
president Grover Cleveland ha
been very sick with threatened at
tack of pneumonia, but is rapidly recov
ering.
Canada has offered to raise frest
force of 600 mounted infantry fol
South Africa and the British govern
ment has gratefully accepted the offer.
honors at the New York horse show last
week, his stable breaking all known
records for full show. He carried
off 33 ribbons and awards to the
amount of over $1,000.
Prof. John Montgomery, principal
of the public schools at Cawood, Mo. ,
was fatally stabbed last week by -four
pupils, all yet in their early teens.
He reprimanded one of the boys and
was at once attacked by the quartette
with pocket knives.
Gen. Chaffee has been instructed to
deny Aguinaldo's request to be per-
mitted to appear before congress and
to continue to hold him a prisoner
/ The activity of the Filipino insurgents
urges this course, lest any attention
shown Aguinaldo stimulate them to
renewed activity.
/ Santiago Inglesias, the agent of the
American Federation of Labor. who
was arrested in San Juan Porto Rico,
about a fortnight ago on charge of
conspiracy. has been released on $, 600
bail. The bail was furnished by Sam
n nf ha A
can Federation of Labor. 1nslesias
will be tried December ,.
A suspension bridge is planned to
cross the Strait of Canso, from Cape
Porcupine to the vicinity of Port Has
tings, n. S. The bridge as planned
will have a span of 1000 feet, will be
the highest in America, and will cost
about 1000, 600 The building of such
bridge at the points stated would
favor Sydney as the Atlantic fast line
port.
A Columbian resident at San Jose,
Costa Rica. has been arrested and will
probably be exiled from the country
on account of an anarchist speech
made at meeting of labor union
recently formed there. The speaker
praised the deed of the assassin of
Mckinley and hoped that the same
fate would befall President Inglesias
of Costa Rica.
Mrs. Adeline Sullivan, known in
army circles as The Angel of the
Transports, " died at her home in
Pennington, n. j.. Saturday, aged o.
At the beginning of the war with
Spain Mrs. Sullivan became connected
II, IIn1 Ia FTr
the sick, wounded and destitute sol
kept up the work undermined her
health.
Charles johnson, negro, drove of
half dozen baggage wagons in New
York city the past week, and stole the
trunks. He is believed to have Sc
cured % trunks the contents of which
would aggregate in value nearly so,
900. In one of the trunks the police |
recovered was a mink boa, valued at .
81, 600, and sable mutf worth $3.50. .
About so per cent of the stolen goods .
has been recovered.
During his recent visit to Santiago .
de Cuba Gen. Wood bought for the .
government the principal part of the
San Juan battlefield, including San
Juan hill, the site of the block house
and Bloody bend. The tract com
prises POO acres and cost SD. 900. 1t
will be considered a United States res
ervation and the government intends
to lay out a beautiful park on the old
Harvard defeated Yale in the game
for the intercollegiate football cham
on Soldiers field, Cambridge,
Mass. Saturday, by a score of - to 0.
Yale was outplayed from the start and
was compelled to play five substi-
tuteS, some of her men being carried i
from the field severely hurt. Harvard
played the game without change.
Forty thousand persons witnessed the
game, which was the last great foot
)all game of the year and the most
sensational.
A northeast gale, blowing at the
ate of seventy-tive miles an hour,
aged over Long Island Sound Satur-
lay and Sunday morning, and did
damage to the extent of $3.50. 900 along
he northern shore. Old residents say
t was the worst storm in forty years
It is feared, when all reports are in,
hat they will show that number of
IVES nave btfn lOSl l. ne SlOllIl dlSO &
wrought ruin all along the Atlantic :
,oast The damage on the Connecticut ,
hore is $50, 600.
The first annual convention of the !
American Federation of Catholic So
,ieties of the United States is to be
leld at the Cathedral, in Cincinnati, 5
December 10, for the purpose of l
ringing all such associations into one I
body. 1t is anticipated that .
ully 1000 delegates will be present. l.
The Catholic societies in the United $
states of all nationalities have more q
han a million members. The fedora L
ion will consist of a central body, II
nth leagues in every state. a
The strike on the New York, New d
Iaven and Hartford railroad was de- |
Jared off Saturday night after a four il
ours conference between the road h
iicials and a committee of the men. "
he union leaders had told the men I
nat they were wrong and that the Il
.rike was unwarranted. The company $;
yrees to take back all the old men as o.
ION as places can be found for them. tC
othing is said in the agreement 81
bout the men whose removal was de-
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