Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-10-25
NEW WORLD.


Against anarcnis,s-The New Cam"
Treaty CoUgregatiOnali.t Act on
| Divorce Quxstion-katRl .AUuom0blie
| Accident-another Philippine massacre
| bank Defaulters' scheme to Escaps
Punishin.n,-Ysle's Bi.centsnni"i Cels-
| brstion.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, eldest daueh
fer of the President, will GONE out
at the New Year reception. Elaborate
preparations are 10 progress Tor the
OCCASION.
| The supreme council of Scottish Ma
sons. the mother courcil of the world,
met in biennial session ut Washing
ton Monday.
The Duke and Duchess of York left
Halifax. N S, Monda7 for their voyage
back to England. $4,000 people lined
the wharves and water front.
The city councils of Piilsdelphi a
have voted to permit the Liberty bell
to be taken to Charleston, S L, for eX-
hibition at the exposition there.
A campaign for annexation to the
nited States has been started by
Cuban business men, who believe that
the reciprocity movement Will amount
to nothing
Augusta De Forest, tho we'll known
actress. who played leading roles with
Alexander Salvini, John Mccullough
and EdsIu Booth, died at New YORK
Sunday, aged 81.
John s Pillsbury, governor OF M 10.
pesots in 1879 and famous maker OF
-four, oied Friday morniog at Mlnne-
apolis, MINI. He WIS born at SUIT
ton, n II, on July 30, 1928.
The general convention of Univer-
salists opened its biennial session AT
Buffalo, last week Thursday. Inc re-
ports showed steady growth OF UGl-
ycrsulism all over the country.
Joseph II Cboste, American amhas-
sador at the court of st james Lon
oon. has returned to his summer home
in Stockbridge, Mass, and VII re-
main in this country until New lear s.
Desuatches from Grand Caymsn, ia
maica, announce the tinulng or VBl-
uable treasure in gold and silver bars
at a poiut where the sea breaks ana
where the remnants Of an ancient ship
wreck ara still seen.
sydney. G b, town of $1,000 ana
oueratious. was almost swept out OF
existence by fire Saturday. over ~ or
the best buildings in town are IN
ashes with less of half million dol
lars.
rhe hay lands Surrounding La
Crosse, Wis, ou which thousands OF
tons of hay are stack ara on me
and, being beyond water serv ice, the
hames cannot be chect ed. The loss
will probably be very great. IrampS
are believed to have set the tire.
Gen James A Walker, distin-
pulshed Confederate soldier and former
n,ember of congress from Virgins,
died at Wytheville, Va, Sunday. lie
succeeded "Stone aall" JACKSON in the
command of his brigade and was adj
mire1 for his brilliant acts of braV-
cry.
The Congregational national trlen-
NAL conference which closed at Port
land Me, last week, adopted resolu-
tions urging upon its ministers the
duty of refusipg to solemnlZe the
marriage of persons divorced unless
shown to he innocent in the divorce
proceedings.
The draft of the nav Hay-Paunce-
forte treaty will he resdy for congress
in December. Its salient feat ures are
thcs9; 1t superse1es the Clayton Bull
wer treaty; the principle of neutral
ity is guaranteed, the United States
being the sole guarantor and the right
to fortifv the canal is secured 10 the
United States alone.
Five men were killed and two in-
jureo Saturday morning, when an
enormous mass of rock weighing about
$50 tons ,aved from the side OF the
rapid transit tunnel, in course of cor
struction on Broadway, New York. 40
men were working in that section OF
the tunnel at the time, at a depth OF
lO5 feet from the surface.
Fiske Warren, the prominent Boston
anti .imperialist, was the first man
forced to take the oath OF alleglacce
required under the recent act of the
Philippine commission OF all suspectS
attempting to land. lie has been
closely identified with Sixto Lopez
and had many reasonable and int1am-
natory proclamations IN MS baggage
Fire Saturday night destroyed the
New England building at the Pan
American Exposition at Buffalo, N \.
Among the furnishings of the New
HAMPSHIRE room, destroyed, we're an
tioues which cannot lie replaced gath
cred from all over the state, belonging
to Gen Wa Spaldiug Of Nashua, and
worth $40, 900. The bulldog cost $50,
600.
Leading police chiefs of the country
are preparing recommendation to
congress urging legislation defining
anarchy and authorizing all police Off
Gers to pr osecutc such offenders under
that Law who may be found within
their Jurisdiction: also an spproprla-
ton of $50, 900 for the maintenance OF
the identification bureau and dlssem
inatiou of criminal information.
Walter j Travis of the Garden City
golf club, who has held the amateur
golf championship of America for the
mast two wears, won the Westbrook cup
Saturday at the annual invitation
tournament of the Westbrook club,
rear Great River, L |. Thursday he
established new competitive record
of l54 for the SO holes. Friday be won
the gold medal for the best score in
the qualifying round.
The trial of ex-Se,retary of State
Caleb Powers of Kentucky for com
plicitv IN the Goebel assassination is
being held at Georgetown, Ky, this
week. He denies that he ever con
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