Semi-weekly Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1897-1901, 1901-10-08
REVIEW OF The week.
OLD WORLD.
A SUMMARY OF CURRENT NEWS

rhtuA's Vast Coal fei"s-"
Returns from EIiie-Austr"iias S"u
rsnsan Laks-Quesn Wilhe'm'"a
for social RefOrms-Presl"e"t
Es,,,ug-RumOrs OF King
Iunsss-Msrriage ofMiss Gle" Ho'
Mesmerist Ann o'DonA D''
Locked Up In London.
This wears harvest in tue SCUM VI
Ira,.nd 10 stated to be the best On
nsrienced for a quarter OF ceh'u's'
The asphalt controversy Vnaia Is ' do
,ada such trouble in Venezuela IS 10
ha submitted to arbitration accofu
inc to Fridays advices.
DR. Rrockaman, who was lately con
,,;otad Of treason at Pretoria, was s"o1
raSterdsy Further arrests on trehsou
oharges have teen made ut Johanhes
burg. :. Acc.
A,o,, recent discoveries In Aus
~ ~ subterranean lake whicn
la Of depth of 300 feet balo" tne
na level ard whcss water Is pure
ana sweet. .
The Copenhagen newspapers m u"
reyiyed the rumors that Ming Iu"au
IL in a serious condition from caucei
of the tongue, without aouucins "N'
evidence to that effect
The Jury in the naval inquest a.
Iondon on the loss of the Cobra nnus
nat the vessel was too lightly bullt,
ord that she broke in two; anu NV
that her loss was due to fauity ha'i
CATION. u-.,o;s
Ct, lanes Reid and Sir francis
Iakino, distinguished ply sicians, nave
h"an enmmoned to Balmoral to see
KIM Edward. His Majesty IS reporteu
:, he suffering from an attack OF rheu
matism.
Tho Yellow River is the most err
ratio stream in China. Durlns .ue
last century is has changed It's course dSe
% times. Its present mouth IS wv
,n;las distant from the point "he ae
# aoued into the sea in loOO. In d Ivy
vaays its Hoods have drowned Hun
people. ..,, -,
A story is circulating at Amsterdam
If the disco, cry in French Guiana o.
. pold field which promises to De one
of the richest in the world. LII lies
along mini creek. 20 days lourne!
f-om CAYENNE. 1t is stated tnat
prosnector collected 10 pounds OF soie
in two weeks.
Tho wedding of Miss Helen Morton
dannbter of levi P Morton, ex-vie'
nresident of the United States. to Coun
Rnsnn de Perigord, son of the duk'
of Talleyrand-Perigord, was ceieorate'
Saturday at st Mary's Catholic church
Chelsea. England. The counts mothe
has given him fine house in Parls an'
100000 in cash.
Queen Wilhelmina OF Holland l
planning social reforms lncluulhe ~
suppression of gambling anu ~
bringing about of compulsory lusu,
ance against accident, sickness an
old age She also wishes 10 a"ahe
better religious feeling in the arm
and navy, and 90 wnat she o"n w"
ards controlling alcoholism.
Noah f Drake, professor OF geo u,
ia the Imperial university OF liz
Tsip SAYS that in the neaft OF ul
developed China, mined by the mos
primitive of methods and waiting oni
for enterprise and capital 10 make
accessible to the world. lleS sa'
field of coal, $4,000 square miles, au
containing $50, 900, 600, 600 tons.
The Boer president at Nitversum
growing weaker, physically ana mel
fall. Ills slowness in reaching u
cision Oh important questions Is louu
to be a serious hindrance TO mo
working in Europe in behalf OF u
Boer cause. With the sllgnteSI que
tioo regarding his health, Mr. hrug
exhibits intense irritation ana Neu
mently denies anything wrong
IT, il reported at Paris that hlr
otto of Bavaria, after 20 years OF mop
lass insanity, has recovered his resso Q
He does not know of the deaths OF n
mother and brother, Louis IL: anu
not aware that he rimselt IS KING
sneaks of the events Ct 1876 as II th'
happened yesterday. 1t IS tnouShl
he a brief moment of lucidlty prepar
tory to fatal issue of his disease.
A valuable discovery of coal q
bsen made in Dover, Eng. 1t is o
lieyed that this seam is the begl
Ming of the long -sougbtfor and sn
nosedly valuable coal field which 6
nlopists held ran under that part
ENGLAND as the continuation OF
P.s de Calais field, English al
Erencb experts regard the dlscoVe
a, most important, and anticipate IL
ther important discoveries.
Ann Odelia Diss De Bar, the won
who served a term on BlackwelFs l
and about ID years ago for swlnoil
Luther c Marsh, and who has sin
been in prison at Joliet, Ill, and IN IN. l.
" for impostures similar to those VIM
she practiced on Mr. Marsh, is IN cus'
DIV in London on the charge OF consp
ing to defraud women Of iewelry a
mo- by fortune telling; She is NJ
married to a man named jackson
the couple pass as Theodore and Lau
Horos. Both are mesmerists.
Arab Pasha arrived in Cairo II
week. He was net by large GRO
of natives at the station. his pTa
of and gratitude to the British hs
no limit. The commander OF
Egyptian army which rsvolted agai'
the Khedive of Egypt and was was, d
parsed at Tel-el -Kebir, IN lsS2,
Lord Wellesley, was bapished fr
Egypt for life He had spent. Is ye
and half in Ceylon, until he