Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-22

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procity Convention.
1t is believed that loss of life in tn
Colorado mine disaster will not excee,
, 25.
There is no prospect of settlemen
with Miss Stones abductors. Mr.
Dickinson is to leave Sofia this week
The 10Th annual meeting of the Bap
tist congress for the discussion o
current questions is being held in Ney
York this week.
Ethan Allen lodge of Masons, No. 70
Junction Tuesday evening by tn,
grand master of the state.
Serious riots are occurring a
Athens, Greece, caused by agitation
against the proposal to translate th,
gospels into modern Greek.
Cart. John Lawson, who built the
first locomotive engine in England
and who was the Oldest engineer in
the United States, is dead at St.
Louis, aged 96 years.
Many of the manufacturing indus
tries of the United States were repre-
sented at the national reciprocity con
vention, which began its session at
Washington Tuesday
A special from Budapest yesterday
asserts that Queen Draga and King
Alexander of Servia recently quarreled
and the king slapped the queen 5
face. The latter thereupon drank moi
son, but her life was saved by physi-
clans.
Rev. DR.. Frederic Burgess of Grace
I,.l, Ii Ill, 1
the special convention of the diocese
of Long Island to be the second Prot
estant Episcopal bishop of Long Is
land, in succession to the late Bishop
Littlejohn.
-Four hundred switchmcn of the New
| York. New Haven and Hartford rail
road have struck and its freight yards
at New York are tied up. The strikers
predict IA general freight tie up of
the road within n hours. This would
involve strike of 5000 men.
Seventeen cases of smallpox. the
largest number reported in one day
since the present outbreak, which be-
gan in September, were announced by
the Boston board of health yesterday.
Two cases have appeared in Cam
bridge and % have developed in Buf-
falo, n. Y, in the last 10 days.
The Filipino central committee has
sent an appeal for independence to
President Roosevelt. They are fight
ing in the spirit of the American col
onists, they say, and ask him to give
their cause a hearing. Aguinaldo asks
to 90 before congress and express the
wishes of his people.
NJ; -,,1,I , Dpp
foot cliff over trails lined with poi
they attacked the rebel stronghold at
Sojoton, Samar, November Z, and de-
stroved three camps and many stores.
4 detailed account of the attack has
Just been cabled.
Richard Croker dares his enemies
to prove the charges they made
against him and Tammany during the .
He says They know they
lied Every dollar | have, | have .
earned honestly. They have accused .
me of all kinds of crime Now let
them come forward and prove their
charges or back down publicly. |
dare them. | defy them"
The fifty-second annual meeting of
the Vermont State Teachers associa
tion was opened very auspiciously in
Yesterday A large perCen-
tage of the 400 and more state educat-
)rs were present, and visited the Bur
Iington schools in the morning In
the afternoon there was the largest
exhibit of school supplies ever held at
4 state convention.
President Roosevelt has announced
hat all his appointments to places in
he insular possessions will be made
strictly in accordance with civil ser
vice rules: he also signed an order
to civil service rules the
places held under the army admins
ration by civilians, which had been
aiken out by President Mckinley 5 or
Ter.
There were 200 delegates present in
to the call issued by the Ma
-ional Association of Manufacturers ,
1t Detroit last June. The convention {
is representative of all sections, and (
its object is to give expression to the /
view of the manufactures generally
IN the subject of reciprocity. ID. A. |
Tom kins of Charlotte, n. c., was
,hosen temporary chairman, and The I
,dore S. Search of Philadelphia was Y
made permanent chairman
The Yukon insurrection story is not !
without foundation. A scheme for
orcibly deposing the government and !
olce in the Yukon, somewhat similar :
o the historical Jameson raid in the Z
'ransvaal was formed but was discov- I
red and suppressed by Maj. Wood of
he Northwestern mounted police, q
american officials at Skagway co-ope-
ating. 1t is said the scheme origi- l
ated in Seattle, and $3.50, 900 was L
to aid the venture. v
Mrs. Annie Howard of Burlington V
,as badly burned Wednesday evening. V
he was alone in the dining room when b
be accident occurred and has since g
cen unable to give an account of the V
fair but it is thought she either G.
ropped the lamp or knocked it from v
ne table. Her son, Enos Howard, n
no was upstairs, heard her cries and e
lshed to her aid, but before he could +
xtinguish the flames, she had been b
.riously burned about the face, neck, b
rms and shoulders. L
During the recent capture of Colon, .
olombia, Gen Patino, the leader of 7,
lie Liberal force; Judge Joen, of the I
olon criminal court, and at least ten
-hers were killed: Senior Muskus. the Il
lstrict representative of the Interior ~
apartment, was mortally wounded r
nd some thirty more on both sides - =
ere wounded. Instructions have =