Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1901-11-15
REVIEW OF The WEEK.
NEW WORLD.
ITS NEWS HAPPENINGS IN BRIEF

New Town Where Columbus Landed
The Largest Gun In the World
Mutiny and Escape of Depersts Don
vtcts-Rebel stronghold Captured In
ssmar.
The twelve principal structures for the
Worlds Fair at st Lonis will cover i26
acres and will cost IS, $50, 900.
Gov Crane of Massachusetts and coun-
ell have decided to give Storti. the con-
demned murderer, further respite un.
til Nov 30.
Mother Bickerdyke, famous for her
work among Union soldiers during the
Civil war, died at Bunker Hill, Kan,
Sunday, aged 81 years.
Mrs Guy Pimbell of Norwalk, Conn,
tried to fill with oil lighted lamp, last
week, and an explosion occurred, scat
terine the oil in all directions. She and
her three little children were burned to
death.
Peter Maher put sudden stop to the
champion ship aspirations Of "Jim" JEFF
fords of California Friday night in the
second round of what was to have been
a l0.round contest before the Eureka
athletic club at Baltimore,
President Roosevelt has purchased
through the A merlcan embassy Bernard
PartriGge's original drawing of the car
toon 10 Punch representing Mr. Roose-
welt as Rough Rider on the occasion of
his succeeding to the presidency.
There was recently celebrated thell2th
anniversary of Barrett's chapel in Mil
ford, Del, the oldest Methodist church 10
America, the bricks of which were
T. hf nd In no
fury. John Wesley preached his first SER
mon in the chapel.
John D Sarnighausen, So publisher of
the Indiana Stats Zetuug, and one Of
the Oldest German editors in the country,
died at Fort Wayne. Ind. Friday. He had
been editor of the Zeitung 40 years He
was widely known and had served In the
Indiana Legislature.
Paul Revere, vice-president-g OF
the Sons of the American Revolution,
died at Morristown, N j, Sunday, aged
45. He was son of Gen Joseph Warren
Revere, who fought in the Semi ole and
civil wars, and great grandson OF Paul
Revere of Revolutionary fame.
The Fair Haven, Mass, water tower
collapsed Saturday, the bottom fell out
and 1888 900 gallons of water washed
away the foundations, badly iDjuring
two boys and man who happened TO be
passing by. The wrecked structure was
the first of The kind ever built. IL was
POO feet high and cost $4,000.
Chicago capital is to build new town
i q Cuba on the spot where Christopher
Columbus once planted his foot A SYN
oicate has bought 100000 acres of the
land fronting on the harbor of Nuevitas,
on which it intends to lay out a city.
The land was known as the Sabinal Pc
ninsula Spanish land grant a d is direct
ly across the bay from the city of Nue.
vitas on the north coast of Cuba.
The 220th anniversary of the founding
of the collegiate school. the beginning of
Yale, was observed at Old Saybrook, ct.
Monday with appropriate exercises.
Saybrook point, where a bowlder has
been placed to commemorate the site Of
the old collegiate school, WAS In holiday
array. The buwlder has Just been marked
with a tablet inscribed "The first site
of Yale college, Founded l70l, removed
17l6."
John T Hayes, charged with murder
ing his former sweetheart, Miss WiDni.
fred Cook, at Winsted, Conn, last Fehru.
airy, was found guilty of murder in the
second degree Friday and was imme
dately sentenced to Imprisonment for
life. Hayes had been engaged to Miss
Cooke, and she had broken the engage
ment. He followed her one day and shot |
her dead. A the trial, his defense was
temporary insanity.
The Albemarle County. Va, court has |
decided that John Armstrong Chanler, |
ha ha r.
author, is sane, and has given him full |
control or his property. Mr. Chanler was |
placed in the Bloom in gdale asy lum, New |
York, few years ago by relatives, |
Their belief in his insanity was based on !
psychic Investigations of his. and the
actions of what ne calls his TX faculty..
which compelled him to pass into trance
conditions.
AT the meeting of the general com
mittee of the board of church extension
of tie NJ K church at Columbus, o,
last week, appropriations were made for
the Philippine islands and Hawaii, the
former being $4,000 and the Pacific
Japanese mission $500. 1t is the inten-
ton of the society TO erect at least
dozen churches 10 the Philippines dur
ing the year. This additional appropri.
ations we're made as follnws: Admins
tration and salaries of officers, S25, 900;
funds, S23, 900; contingent
expense, $500; sum total of all appro.
priation for next year, S345, 315, an in
crease of about $4,000 over last year.
The lost Tayapa mines, celebrated in
Spanish annals as having produced
SS0,000,000 in silver and gold in the
18th century, which are described on
Spanish maps as being situated in
north western Mexico, about 80 leagues
from the sea, near Dos Pilares, have
been found. As far back as 1859, Robert
celebrated French expert,
declared the location Of the Gienteguita,
10 the Saburia dist let, Sonora, to be
identical with the lost Tayapa. The
Spanish owners are said to have been I
by their Indian slaves near I
the close of the 18th century, and, it
is stated that for 100 years thereafter |
no one was allowed to enter that region. {
Explorers who have recently visited
Cienteguita report having discovered !
The old stone prisons, old smelters and :
also stupendous work accomplished by
he ancients. :
DR. Mary f Walker, the eccentric 5
woman suffrsgist who adopted mans at. a
ire many years ago, and who served as 7
surgeon of volunteers in the civil war, G
,reated some disturbance in an Oswego, 9
Y, railway station the day after the T
entencing of Czolgosz, by speech in /
which she is reported to have said: 1.-The b