Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-08
NEW WORLD.
ITS NEWS HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF

Students Children Dying OF LOckjaw IL
st Louis-Disastrous Fire In Portland
Me.
The United States district court has
awarded to Admiral Dewey ard his
officers and crewa, rs prizes of war,
the shirs they took at Manila Bay.
Rigid quarantine measures will he
taken to guard against the introduction
through Atlantic ports NJ the plague
which has broken out at Liverpool and
Glasgow.
NJ Santos Dumont nov proposes to
travel in his airshi p, after tSo months
of preparation, from Monaco to Corsica.
distance of about lis miles, in half
the tune needed by the mail steamer.
Ex-United States Senator Henry l.
Dawes observed his eighty-fifth birth
day at his residence in Pittsfield, Mass,
last week. The aged chairman OF the
! Indian Tribes Commission is still in
quite vigorous health.
| Secretary Long has before him the
recommends tions Of the board of naval
construction looking to authorization
by Congress of the building of forty
more naval vessels of all classes from
battleships dom to tug boats.
Mrs Roosevelt holds au informal re-
ception to about 80 guests zach week,
thus meeting the society people IT the
capital without an Ehelmirg crush.
Tire Presi tent pursues the same pol
icy, receiving few callers eacn day
and sbolisning public receptions.
President Roosevelt has accepted the
invitation Of the South Carolina inter-
state aud West Indian exposition to at
tend the exposition Feb -, Lincoln's
birthday, and preparations will be made
at Charlestown, > G, to celebrate the
event with appropriate ceremonies.
Secretary Root received message
from Governor Taft at Manila Saturday
say ing that he had been successfully
operated on for minor trouble and
expected to be all right again in about
two weeks. Governor Taft's condition
will not necesstate his return to this
country.
A disastrous fire broke out Tues lay
morning in big grocery store in
Portland Ne. and for time it seemed
certain that the whole water front
would go, The loss will reach a quar-
ter of a million The flames spread
rapidly aut many nearby buildings
caught fire. Twelve persons we're
burned to death.
Gen Frederick Funston will soon be
granted leave of absence from the
Philippines and return to the United
States for visit. 1t is said that he is
recovering rapidly from the operation
for appendicitis recently undergone in
a Manila hospital Gen F ID Grant
will likely succeed Funston in command
of the San Fernando district.
A blue diamond, weighing over %
carats, sid t be largest of the kind
10 the world, and once possessed by the
Duke of Brunswick, has heeO i'm
ported to this country. At the custom
b Juse 10 New York, riday, it was APP
praised at $40, 600, on which thu i'm
ported paid 60 per cent duty, or s42, 900.
He stated that he valued it at $50,
900.
All testimony has been con >luded in
the Scbley court If inquiry this week.
The opening argument vas m sde Mon
day by + Z HauD8, assistant to the
judge advocate, 10 behalf of the gnv-
ernment. he presented nine questioCs,
up the charges of dilatori-
ness and disobedience az inst Schley.
Capt James Parker began his
OF the case for Schley.
Eleven children have died in st Louis !
recently, whose deaths are attributed to
lockjaw as a result of the adm mi tration |
Of di phtheria ant-ioxin manufactured by |
the city chemist. Eleven other children |
are suffering from lockjas, with slight .
ch ,nCes for recovery. The health depart
IN frDa Hisfr hn nE
tetanus antitoxin and has also announc.
ed that no more diphtheria sntitoxiu will
be manufactured by toe city.
A fad for eating and inhaling the
)dor of moth balls was discovered last
week among the young women students
IF Lawrence University, Winconsin.
No less than 80 of the "co-eds' are
victims of the habit. AT frs the odOr
IF the napthalin we're simply inhaled,
but the taste developed so that two
girls actually ate the druRged insect
Two sisters are responsible
Tor introducing the moth ball habit.
The Pan merican Exposition, VII Job
closed Saturday, was attended by
about $3.50, 900 persons. Its receipts
ire reported to have fallan short of its
by 50, 800, 600, and Con-
/, ess will be asked to help settle the
liabilities of the Expcsi-
ion Company. In all respects except
.s financial enterprise Buffalo's Ex-
position will pass into history as
great and unique success
Rev Jeremiah j Crowley, a recently
priest, was ordered to {
cave the Holy Name Cathedral, at
chicago. Sunday. He refused, when
he service was stopped and the 1000
eorshiprerJ fled out of the CATHEDRAL |
eaving Crowley alone. Monday be en-
cred suit for $500 against. the
har cellor of the Catholic Archdiocese I
f Chicago. Crn~ley was excomm uni
ated for violent and indecent charges I
gainst FIR MuldooL
John W Stoll, third class ele ,tri-
ian on the receiving ship Columbia, {
, ing at the Nav York Navy Yard, Oh $
be day of President McKinley's death, l
D the company of number of sail G
rs, is charged with havi declared 7
hat the President "should have been .
hot long ago." and to have added 7
ther pr fare expr- ssions of the same :
snor. He has since been arrested and I
ried and the following sentence was
imposed "To be confined one year on ?
he prison ship Southern, at Norf Tx,
a; to do extra police duty during that S
ime to lose all pay except % month e.
1r prison expenses, and the further q
I'm of 800 to be paid him at the ex.