Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-25
REVIEW Of The WEEK.
OLD WORLD.
. SUMMARY oFoURRENT, NEWS.

French Miners Secretly Armtng-Notori-
Qua Br,gand CRptured-Death OF inc
Old.st NIan-The Labor Problem III
u.vsi,-Th. Bosrs Rising an" Arm'hs
Mines Of the pharaOhs Newly DiscoV-
srrd-N.w Heir to the Chinese Throne
santos Dumont Wine the Deutsch
Prize.
Yokohama despatch accuses Whr
ouis Ito of rlotting to overthrow tue
.jrnapese Cabinet, The MARQUIS au
th6rizes a denial Of the report
The death is recorded at khutl' Al
haGis. OF Ismail lludJo, sala TO nave
bean 100 years old ard the Oldest man
in the world He leaves 200 descend
ants.
Twelve mere Boer leaders, including
Conmandant Scheepers, whose cap
ture WIS announced August Il, nave
been psrmanently banished from South
Africa.
The bubonic plague in its worst form
is ravaging Too Chow, and 'lclnity' IN
China. Nearly thousand corns are
being carried out of the city gates
every day.
Salvatore Quintavalli, who was al.
rested at Rio Marina, on the Island OF
Eliza. charged with being an accom-
plice of Bresci, the assassin or Ming
Humbert, has been senteucen 10 I'M
prisonment.
A syndicate of trsd asmen ubo Would
lose business in case of hlng 10 :
wards death, nave insured ms ire
with Lloyds until the coronation neXt
June for over G500, 600. The rate Is III
guineas for each tl00.
1t is said that officers of the German
field hospital in China, who have ar
rived ia Berlin, brought With them Tue
head Of the Chin8mau who murdered
Harou Won Ketteler, the Garman minis
ter. and who was executed IN feB ID
for tho crime.
Ii Hung Chang and other Chlnese
officials are accused of Rpproprlatlng
f,mioe funds sent from America. The
accusation is indursed by Episcopal
missionaries in Shsr ghai. 1t is SAID
that the nouey went TO buy decora-
lions for the Dowager Empress palace.
War Secretary Broderick has implored
King Edward to issue personal ap,
neal to the nation to PROVIDE oU,uUu
mounted volunteers IL order 10 elaole
Lord Kitchener II end the war pnt
the king, it ia said, refuses, and Is
angry at thu attempt to push nm INTO
al uncor Stitutional act
The labor problem is serious IN ha'
waii. The sugar and coffee industries
ara languishing for want of workers,
The natives ara dying off rapidly ard
foreign laborers are getting out OF the
country much more rapidly than they
are coming in. The encouragement OF
ChIrese labor is regarded as the most
promising solution.
A Young man has just died at Vi
emma, Aus. after a six months pain
full illness which puzzled the German
specialists. An autopsy shows tnat
the illress was caused by the hatcblng
of eggs of a blue bottle lily which the
patiept b adj swallowed, causing perfor-
alton to the intestines. The sufferer
was too weak to undergo an operation
The Santos -Dumont airshio made
successful trip around Eihel tower,
Paris, aud back Saturday,
NJ Deutsch. who offered the ioo, oUo
Traces for u successful dirlglole pai-
loon sent word to M Santos-Du
Monday. that he had won the prize by
his performance. Santos Dumont mas
expended about 400, 900 francs and
risked his life % times to win the
prize.
A mining engineer hrs newly dis
covered. betreeu the Nile AND the Red
SEA, the ancient mines of the Pha-
rhs. which were in existence long
before the time of tho exodus OF the
Isra.lites ard furnished gold for the
adornment of the Temple of Babylon.
He SAYS that Egypt furnishes prom
ising field for gold seekers. The pro-
jected railway will pass .'"ss to some
of the mines.
According to the convention when
III Hung and Nj LesSar. Russian min
lister at Pekin. are negotiating, Rus
STA agrees to return to China the
three provinces nrrth of the Sungari
river, and to Withdraw the Russian
troops from them within two years.
China agrees to employ Russian Off
GERS to draw the Manchu troops of
Tsisg Chi, the Tartar general of
Mukden.
The miners of Montceau Les Mines,
in France. are secretly arming, being
dissatisfied with the governments RS
ply to their demands for an eight
hour day, a minimum wage and pen
sion of two francs day after 20 years
work. They threaten to strike Nov l.
if their requests are not granted. En-
teusive military preparations are being
made for drafting strong bodies of
troops into the coal fields.
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The British Outwitted and Worn Out by
the Beers.
IL 10 ,a,oYta1 that MIR Kruger has