Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-12-20
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY.

Consumption Iheory disputed -eafneSie
Gift Not in Cash Deaths by Railroad
Wrecks-The Six Day Bicycle Race-Pro-
posed Arbitration for Labor Troubles Sat
urdays Great Storm
Can't. John \. Thurston, the oldest
policeman in active service III lhls
country, died Wednesday morning after
fifty-six years of police duty IN Lynn.
The American Federation of Labor
concluded its annual convention at
Scranton, Pa, Sunday with the addl-
tion of important resolutions on trade
autonomy and the reelection OF Iresi-
dent Gompers and the other officers.
The Colombian government will
claim an indemnity from the Panama
railroad for alleged assistance TO the
rebels in the recent fighting on the
isthmus: the United States battleshlp
Iowa has sailed from Panama.
Luigi Storti, the murderer of Mich
ele Calucci, was electrocuted at the
Charlestown state prison Iuesdayy'
bearing up bravely und der the ordeal
He is the first subject in the electric
chair under Massachusetts law. Death
was instantaneous.
Mrs. Lola Ida Henry BONNIE charged
with the murder of James Seymour
Avres, Jr.. in the Kenmore hotel IN
Washington on the night of May Is
has been acquitted and set at liberty
at Washington. The prosecution mad
no evidence to prove its case and Mrs;
Bonnie did not testify during the trial
last week.
Bloodshed is feared during the com
ing presidential election in Costa Rlca.
The republic has for several years been
sinking into poverty, business IS at a
standstill. the government Is without
funds and hundreds of workmen are
idle. The bitter feeling between the
government, republican and national
parties grows more intense every day.
Chili's answer to Argentina was pre-
scented to the Argentine minister at
Santiago Saturday, and offers new
and final proposition for settlement
while pacific assurances are repeated
in both countries, each is calling MS
reserve forces to arms: the friendly OF
fees of the United States and of Brazil
have been rendered to both countries.
After four days deadlock over the
election Of "A president the National
baseball league at New York Saturday
elected A. G. SpaldinE to that posi-
ton. Spalding had announced that
if elected. Andrew Freedman must be
wiped off the baseball map, lie
charges Freedman with being traitor
and a marplot, and says that revolu-
ton is the only hope for the National
league
Andrew Carnegie's gift of $4,000,
900 to the nation last week, for the adj
vanced study and research of science
was not of cash, but of bonds OF the
United States Steel corporation. The
offer of these bonds is embarrassing to
the administration, owing to the com
plications which might arise If the
government accepted them. The pres
ident is consulting members of his
party as to what course he shall take.
Miss Emma King of Brooklyn, the
Young woman who allowed herself to
/ be inoculated by DR.. George ID. Barney
with tuberculosis germs from an IN
/ fected COW on November y, is said by
/ DR.. Barney to have developed fully the
\ disease proving DR.. koch's theory
wrong and showing conclusively that
mankind can become infected with con
sumption from the animal. DIR. Barney
says he is absolutely sure that he viii
cure Miss King.
The new American Federation OF
Catholic societies, after a session Of
three days last week adjourned to meet
July 10, 1902. The new constitution
was adopted. officers were elected anc
plans for field work considered. There
seems to be an unwritten law that tn,
organization is not to be connected
with the hierarchy or with politics
All of the officers and members of the
committee are laymen. The only eX
ception is that of the spiritual adviser
The present headquarters will be il
Cincinnati.
Failure on the part of a conductor
to obey orders is supposed to have beer
the cause of a hcad-end collision OF
the Illinois Central between Irene anC
Perryville, H., Sunday morning, The
two trains were the east bound passen
ger train and through freight from
Chicago, going west. As result,
eight people are dead or missing and II
injured. The temperature was 20 de
grees below zero and the injured, with
out wraps. suffered terribly A wreck
also occurred on the Great Northern
railroad near Essex, Mont, Sunday
morning. due to spreading of the rails,
in which one man was killed and II
persons injured.
Robert Malthour of Atlanta, Ga.
won the six-day bicycle contest at
Madison Square garden, New York
Saturday night. Five teams of riders
made the final dash. These team,
were composed entirely of American
riders. During the week they had
beaten off their European opponents,
English, French, Swiss, German and
Italian alike being relegated to the
rear The prizes the riders contested
for were seven in number: First, 81,
500: second, $1,000; third, $3.50
fourth, $500; fifth, $780, sixth, $3.50
seventh $3.50 In addition, the man
agement agreed to pay the training ex-
penses of all men who remained in the
race the allotted six DAYS.
/ Guglielmo Marconi, the investigator
of wireless biography, announced Sat
urday that he had received wireless
messages from Lizard Point, Cornwall,
England, thereby demonstrating the
/ feasibility of wireless telegraphy across
the Atlantic Ocean. The Lizard is a
/ bold headland near Lands End and
the southern and western most point of