Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-13
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY
Successful Tests of the Holland Submarine
Boat The Halo OF Hevelius Observed
Santiago Bounty Money-Keeper of Libby
Prison Dead New Bible for Episcopa
Churches Water Found in DESERT
Great Labor Congress,
The coroners' jury last week decided
/ that the disastrous collision on the
i Wabash railroad near Seneca, result
/ ing in the loss of nearly hundred
lives, was due to negligence of the
Wabash Railroad company and the
trainmen of No. 4.
Secretary Long has ordered the com
manders of the battleship Iowa anc
the gunboat Machias to leave the
isthmus of Panama. The Marietta and
! Concord will remain at their respective
stations for time but they, too, will
leave the isthmus if affairs remain
quiet
Rev. DIR. Francis f. Clark, president
of the Worlds Christian Endeavor,
will sail for Europe January 4, to give
his personal efforts to establishing the
society more firmly on the continent,
especially in Central Europe, Scandl-
navia, France, Spain, Italy, Holland,
Bohemia and Bulgaria.
The motion to quash the indictment
for murder against Roland b. Moli-
neauy was denied at New York Friday,
and he must stand trial second time
if the new district attorney thinks
chances of obtaining a conviction are
sufficient to warrant the expense
which will be entailed.
Miss Helen, daughter of Secretary OF
State Hay, is to marry Payne Whitney,
of New York, second son of former
Secretary of the Navy William {.
Whitney in February. Besides pos
sessing many society accomplishments,
Miss Hay has made herself place in
literature, having issued two volumes
of verse.
L. Storti, the murderer, will be eXecu
ted in the electric chair at the state pri-
son in Charlestown, Mass. within two
weeks, his motion for "A new trial based
on newly discovered evidence and the
contention that the murderer killed
his victim in self-defense having been
denied. Thus ends one of the most
stubborn legal battles ever fought in
the state.
The international six days bicycle
race is in progress at Madison square
garden, New York, this week, seven
teen teams, representing all nations of
the world, having entered the contest.
The prize money will be divided as
follows First, $780, second, $1,000 ;
third, $50: fourth, $500; fifth, $3.50,
and sixth, $3.50, The contest ends at
10 p. m. Saturday.
The bounty money in connection
with the naval battle of Santiago is
now ready, Admiral Sampson gets
S25, 1871. A, Capt. Chadwick slS, S47. %,
Admiral Schley $500, Commodore
Wainwright sl35. 6S and Admiral
Dewey 80, $40. Admirals Sampson and
Dewey also have suits pending for
prize money which, if won, will give
the former Sl2, 600 more and the latter
$1,000.
Capt. Richard R. Turner, who was
keeper of Libby prison during the
civil war, dropped dead in his Virginia
home last week, aged 63. When taken
prisoner at Richmond by the incom-
ing federal troops, who were told of
the harsh treatment of Union soldiers
by the prison officials, Capt. Turner
was locked up, with the promise that
he should be hanged the next morn
ing His hair turned white during
the night.
Jane Toppan, the nurse suspected of
wholesale poisoning, was indicted at
Barnstable, Mass, Friday, under
three counts of murder in the first de-
gree. She is charged with causing the
death of Allan p. Davis and his
daughters. Mrs. Gordon and Mrs.
Gibbs of Cataumet by the admins
tration of morphine and atropia. Miss
Toppan pleads not guilty and was in a
state of collapse when arraigned. The
alleged motive for the murders is
money
More than 300 murders have come
before the military authorities of the
Philippines most of which are fero-
cious ones, showing a propensity to
beat women, children and sick men,
and to deal savage blows with clubs,
stones and other blunt instruments.
Sometimes the victim is bound and
hacked to pieces with the deadly bolo.
A fayorite species of diaholical murder
seems to be burying victims alive. No
murderer has, as yet, been executed,
A flow of pure cold water has been
discovered in the very heart of the ia
nous Desert of Death which ex-
tends in one direction from Oklahoma
almost to California, and is the most
arid waste in the United States. 1t is
from an artesian we'll, and was made
in boring for oil, and will be more
valuable than if oil had been struck,
as the finding of we'll water means the
irrigation of the miles and miles of
waste and the probable reclamation of
the ground to agriculture.
Rev. Frederick Odenbach, S. j.,
professor of physics in st. Ignatius'
college, Cleveland, Ohio, observed Fri
day the great sun circle or halo of
Hevelius, which has only been OBJ
served three times before, and prob
ably never so perfectly. Preceding
period of low barometric pressure,
halos are often noticed about the sun.
The commonest of these halos is one
that appears at distance of % de
grees from the sun. An outer halo,
at a distance of 40 degrees, is also oc-
casionally noted But the great halo
of Hevelius, at a distance of 80 de-
grees, is great rarity.
The submarine torpedo boat Fulton
was tested for the benefit of the Royal
Norwegian navy at Great Peconic bay,
Long Island, Saturday For the first
time in her history, while completely
submerged to depth of ten feet and
speeding along under the full Roadway