Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-06
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY,

EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY
To Revise the Presbyterian Creed-Gov. Tai
of the Philippines Coming Home-Gov. Jen
kins of Oklahoma Removed-Army ant
Navy Football Contest The First Sever
Masted Schooner Capt. lilly Honorable.
Acquitted Chinese to Fight the Exclusion
Law Financial Distress in Costa Rica-
Quiet at the Isthmus.
Andrew Carnegie has given 500, OOl
in aid of the aged and decrepit Scotch
poor of New York city.
Deputy Police Commissioner Dever,
| is on trial this week at New York or
charges of oppression. This case /:
virtually an investigation in the Tam
many methods of running the police
department.
q. Queen Liluokalani of Hawaii, who
was travelling incognito with her suite
was turned away from several New
York hotels Friday, the party belne
mistaken by the clerks for company
of negro players.
Judge William H. Taft, governor
general of the Philippines, is coming
home December 10, on account OF
i'll health. The operation of graft
ing skin on Gov. Taft's wound
has been successfully performed. His
old Cincinnati neighbors are planning
reception for him on his return.
In a collision of two ferryboats in a
dense fog in San Francisco bay Satur-
day night, twenty passengers were
more or less injured Three lives were
lost. The San Rafael, which went
down fifteen minutes after the coils
ion, carried 200 passengers but they
were all transferred to the other boat.
Comanche Indians, drunken from
their Thanksgiving feasting, drove sc
white people from their homes in
western Oklahoma Saturday. They
were led by White Nose, half breed
Indian chief who desired revenge on
the Indian agent. The Comanches are
in bad humor alleging irregular
payments by the government. One
white man was fatally shot.
The United States naval court at
Tutuila, Samoa, has honorably acquit-
ted Capt Benjamin F. Tilley, the
naval governor of Tutuila, of all the
charges against him. No evidence to
sustain these charges was presented to
the court Commander Uriel Sobree
has succeeded Capt. Tilley as naval
governor of Tutuila. The charges
arose from certain allegations made
by missionaries in Samoa against the
captain moral character.
The South Carolina Interstate and
West Indian Exposition was formally
opened at Charleston, Monday, and
will continue for six months. Sena-
tor Chauncey NJ. Depew delivered the
address and President Roosevelt
pressed the electric button to start
the machinery at the Exposition city.
The plan of the Exposition is to dis
play the industries of the South and
West Indian fields. There are seven
teen main buildings, covering an area
of 100 acres.
The largest schooner in the world is
now being built at the Fore River
shipyard in Boston, Mass. She will
have seven masts of great height,
three more than has ever appeared
from the deck of fore-and after.
| Six schooners, the size of the old
America which won the queens cup,
could be built on her deck. She will
cost about $3.50, 200, will carry 5000
tons of coal and will require a crew
of only l6 men. The seven masts will
be called, respectively, fore, main,
mizzen, spanker, jigger, driver and
pusher
Eight companies, A to H, of the
ODD u S. infantry reached New York
Sunday after three years in the Phil
ippines where they engaged in some
fifty or sixty fights. The 23d has a
fine record and is the only regiment
of U. S. regulars that has ever made
the circuit of the globe and the only
regiment now in existence that has
that honor These companies were
accompanied home from Manila by
about 200 men of the 18th infantry
and number of officers from other
regiments. who are home on leave or
for home assignments.
Gov. Van SAINT of Minnesota has
opened his war on the Hill-Harriman
railroad combine under the laws of
Minnesota A giant legal battle is ex-
pected that will make political issues
for the state. The northwestern mem
bers of congress are considering the
expediency of congressional action in
the matter The Nebraska delegation
especially are trying to arrange for
legislation by congress, which either
of itself will dissolve the merger or
will lead to the institution of proceed
ings in a federal court for upsetting
the Burlington end of the scheme.
The third army and navy football
contest between the West Point cadets
and the Annapolis naval academy took
place on Franklin Field, Philadel-
phia, Saturday. 1t was a plucky fight
and was won by the army boys, the
score standing II to 5. 1t was "A no
table social event, many distinguished
people witnessing the game. Among
these were the president, secretary of
war, secretary of the navy and other
members of the cabinet; Admiral
Dewey and Gen. Miles, Com. Richard
Wainwright, Gen. Leonard Wood,
governor general of Cuba, and many
other notables. Every seat was dis
posed of and requests for 1900 tickets
had to be refused.