Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-08-13
NOTINGs.

American Federation Of Labor hav
decided on determined fight for tn,
passage OF q rigid Chinese exclusion
act by congress.
Admiral and Mrs Dewey have en-
worth, Portsmouth. n Il, for par
of August Toe admiral is well
known in that city, Hs his first wife
IVES Portsmouth woman. However,
this v i'll be his first visit since the
battle which won him fame.
In accordance with Mr. Bryan s
earnest entreaties, the Democrats,
Popoulists and Silver Republicans of
Nebraska have decided to continue
their fueion. Together last year they
numbered 5000 less than the Republi-
cans.
II no yacht can be found to race
against the Independen by Sept 3,
toe owner. Mr. LAWSON, has ordered
that she be broken up.
Carrie Nation 5 husband hes brought
bill for divorce. Carrie says she is
glad of it, that her husbard was al.
ways too slow for her.
DR. Vim A Newell, the first RepubIi.
can governor of New Jersey, 1857 To
90, before that serving tao terms in
congress bni one four years later,
dieu Thursday ut Ills Allentown
home, aged SO. his career had been a
notable and interesting one. He vas
the physician Who attended John
Quincy Adams when stricken in the
house, and he was the family physi.
clan IF Presideot Liocoln with whom
he had formed an intimate friendship
while they were IN congress together
back in the forties. In 1877 be was
Jersey, but he was defeated by Gen
Mcclellan. In 1850 he was appointed
governor Of Washington Territory by
Hayes, and four years later was made
Indian commissioner for that territory.
he remained in the West for many
J ears and in 1896 was Candidate for
the populist nomination for governor
in Washington. He also served as
mayor of Seattle. Two years ago he
returned East and resumed the prac.
ice OF medicine in bis native place. |
He was the father of the present
United States life saving service,
the system and Introducing
he bin which resulted in its estab.
ishment. He also invented the 5, s.
,em Of securing connection with a YES
lei by means Of shot attached to
inc and fired from mortar.
The Hawaiiaus are up in the game.
Cheir legislature has forwarded to the
ecretary of the interior a resolution
,raying that congress tax all coffee
Imported into the United States from
ther countries, land in this way
'rotect that industry in Hawaii"
An old acquaintance, Jerry"
simpson, has turned up in the new
ettlement in Oklahoma, and will
tart another career. Evidently
'estern Kansas is played out With
he aid OF the Democrats from Texas
nd the populists from the Northwest,
Ii Simpson, it is presumed. hopes
0 90 to congress as the OklahomG
elegste. 10 this way he may yet
each the Senate.
1t is conceded that the Chinese
nverted gunpowder. They are also 6
reditei with the knowledge of the s
rinciples of the telephone years be- 7
IRE Prof Bell fashioned the 8pplI. t
noes by which lo1g speaking could !
g carried. They also tell us thst a
lie "A-ray principle was c1mmon to b
wants in that country years ago. Q
nd now they must needs take the r
urels from the brow of Faust ard t
Gutenberg. ln the statue of Budda. {
! the palace of the empress dowHger, /
Chinese note has been discovered.
was of the printed variety and
ust have been produced from NOV
lie types. The date of the note is .
6I-thus antedating the discovery
Gluten berg q hundred years. D