Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-15
NEW WORLD.


An Extraordinary ge-Cresceu
Reduces the worlds Record-Royalty
In Toronto.
There are from 100 to $50 cases o
smallpox among the Indians in thu
western reservations,
The approximate total of claims
filed as a result of the late Cuban in
surrection and of the Spanish Ameri-
can war is 81, ISL, S07.
The oldest postmistress in the coun-
try is Mary anne Psschall, at Tren'
tor, Ind. She was appointed by Lin
coin and is 80 years of age.
Phil Sheridan, the only son of Gen
Phil Sheridan, is reported to be Sc
riously i'll with typhoid fever at
West Point military academy.
1t has been determined at the war
department to send troops to the Phil
ippines to take the place of those
whose term of enlistment expires.
Six thousand public school children
struck at Kansas City Thurs lay be-
cause the Beard of Education would
not allow them holiday to see the
Carnival parade.
The debt of the American Board of
Missions was wiped out at New Hav-
en-, CT, Thursday in two hours,
through the efforts of Rev S Parkes
Cadman, d d, of Brooklyn.
Or Won BloTitz has arranged for
coiopizing 65, ZOO Hebrews 10 Mexico.
He says he has bought a million acres
OF land in the state of Sonors, where
the first Hebrew colony will be estab-
lished
Ihe British ship Amphion, the sec
ond largest sh p on the Pacific station,
has been ordered to Panama by the
British admiralty to look after Brit
iSh interests during the progress of
the rebellion.
The scientific world suffered a dis
tirct loss in the death at Nashua. y
Ii, recently of Roswell L Smith,
whose skilful inventions in mechanical
engineering had given h IN an extensive
reputation, His age was -.
The Great Northern, Northern Fa
cific and Burlington RAILROADS are soon
to be consolidated, the majority in
tsrest being held by a coGtrolliug
company with $50, 900, 900, The Nor
gan Hill and Hartman interests,
once in opposition will unite in the
project.
President Council of the Negro Ag-
ricultural and Mechanical college Of
\ labama paid high tribute to the
integrity of the white wo
man of the South in his speech at the
Texas fair on Negro Day He said
She stands like rock in weary
Al, yni ,,,r IN nf hnr h
races in the South as far rs she can.
MAJ Gen Leonard Wood has Just made
his annual Cuban report. The general con-
duct Of the American troops is excellent
and yellow fever is nearly eradicated by
he war on mosquitoes. The abolition
Of the canteen is said to have worked |
great hardship on the soldiers and been
detrimental to military discipline. Re-
suits attending tests OF artillery fortiti- |
cations are summarized.
With a stock of gold in excess of |
$500 600, 600 in the treasury ana stead
lily decreasing, with the surplus &C
.umulating al a rate that promises an |
EXCESS for the year of more than $40,
100, 600 and with nearly Sl09. 600, 900 |
If money in government repositories |
10 keep it from gettiog out of the
reach of business men who need 1t,
Congress has problem to solve IS to
The proper remedy.
The Chilisn gift of bronze plate
designed to be alike to the Washing
on monument as an Indication Of in-
good will, has been re-
used. The Engineer Corps of the
army long ago decided that nothing
'urtner SAould be added to the monu
nent, but that it should be left in its
present simplicity. This decision was
as courteously as possible to
he Chiiian officers.
Jacob Berlinger, letter carrier EN-
oloyed in the brooklyu postoiice, is
he cause of much Comment amoug
i3ctorS. Seemingly he is in the grip
If Addison disease, which gives a
lark color to the skin. but the re-
narksble symptoms that have devel-
ped indicate that he is suffering from
omethiug new to the medical world.
lie is gradually turning to the color
# a negro yet other@iSs healthy.
Fifty unarmed sailors from the Ger
can cruiser Vineta we're mobbed Sun
lay at Porto Cahello, Venezuela, by a
rowd of 1900 people. They were res
ued by boatload of armed men from
be Vineta. The trouble arose from a
treet row in which police in civilian
Iress interfered, siding with the in
abitants, and tue fight became gen
raj The Venezuelan government has
sked the German minister to apologize
or the sailors conduct. The German
minister intends to ask Venezuela to
pologize.
Capt E W Hilliard of Metropolis,
IL, says that one night during the
arly part of May, 1865, a few weeks ,
fter the assassination of President :
lincoln, he with four other privates ,
Sheridan's army, removed the body ,
John Wilkes Booth from the Capt. !
d prison at Washington, and secretly
irried it on a stretcher to gunboat
aiting at the wharf. About ten
lilies down the river, they tied the '
ody securely in tarpaulin, weight n
I it and dropped it into the river. d
his vas done under orders and the b
len and officers concerned were the 0
nly witnesses. v
he PRECEDENT Wants Men of Integrity. \
Senator Mason of Illinois was urg- a
lg ulon President Roosevelt Thurs s
ny the cliims of a constituent, and b