Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-07
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

at Colorado Mine-New York Grand Jur
Indicts Engineer Wisker for Manslaughte
in Connection With the N. Y. Central Tun
mel Disaster-Prof. Loeb to Continue HI
Experiments in Producing Life by Artificial
Means "A Triumph of Surgery Grea
Floods Cause Loss Of Life and Property il
the East and South.
Gen. Lukban, the Filipino insurgen
leader, was captured on Washington y
Birthday by Lieut.. Stribler of thu
Philippine scouts.
Judge John III. Reagan, the only sur
viving member of the Confederate
cabinet, is i'll from pneumonia at his
farm in Anderson county, Tex.
M. Marcoui, who has just returned
to this country, will build perma
nent wireless telegraph station on the
coast of Cape Breton, which will prob
ably he the principal station in North
America.
Matos, leader of the Venezuelan rev.
olutionists, landed on the island OF
Trinidad Saturday night, and will di-
rect revolutionary operations, leaving
soon for Venezuela. The revolt is
spreading rapidly.
A new trans continental railway is
planned with Eureka, CAL, for the
Pacific terminal. 800 miles of track will
lead westward into Idaho, connecting
with the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern and will run into Nevada to
connect with the Union Pacific. 1t
will be called the Eureka and Eastern
railroad.
James L. Chaplin, postmaster of Lin
coin, Mass, for over 43 years, is dead.
He was appointed in 1858 by President
Buchanan and opened the first store in
Lincoln the same year and had contin-
ued to conduct both ever since. John
Wanamaker, when postmaster general,
wrote to Mr. Chaplin that he was the
oldest postmaster in the United States.
Major Appel, chief surgeon at Fort
Bayard, N. NJ, is confident that the
cure for consumption has been found,
and says that they have demonstrated
it beyond doubt. The main features
of the treatment at the government
soldiers sanitarium at Fort Bayard
are life out of doors, carefully selected
and nutritious diet and absolute rest
in the case of reduced patients.
A mountain of arsenic has been found
in mountain range 80 miles southeast
of Tacoma, Washington. This, it is
claimed, is the first important body of
arsenic ever found in America. The
supply heretofore has come from Corn
we'll. The United States now imports
nearly 81, 600, 900 worth annually. Prep
arot;ppo olraaJv haipr, do for
putting the article On the market.
The birthplace of Abraham Lincoln
near Hodgenville, KY, will be sold for
payment of taxes. 1t was bought some
time ago by eastern capitalists for a
public park and it was believed the
government would spend thousands of
dollars on it, but the scheme fell
when the cabin in which Lin
coin was born was carried to Central
Park, in New York city. The place
has been uncared for, and it's value is
not more than enough to meet the
taxes on it.
Mrs. Kate Soffell, wife of the Pitts
burg Jail warden, who assisted in the |
escape of the Biddle brothers and was
wounded during the battle when they |
were recaptured, has fully recovered |
and has been released on bail of So,
700, which her father furnished Three
charges are made against her: One al /
leging the crime of aiding in the es-
cape of the murderers and two alleging
felonious assault and battery. Her
father did not sign the bond voluutar-
lily but through the persuasions of his
wife. Mrs. Sotfel went with him to
lis home.
Signor Marconi has made a contract
With the Canadian government by
which the latter is to contribute $50
700 toward the erection of station in
Nova Scotia and is to enjoy in the
lear future the rate of ten cents
word for ordinary transatlantic tele-
,Iaphlc messages with press rate of
i've cents a word. If the company is
it will transmit general
messages at rates fully 60 per cent
ess than present rates for cablegrams
Canada and Great Britain
The latest wireless record is 2.099
niles, messages having been received
" the steamship Philadelphia, which
las just reached New York from Cher
'ourg, nearly all the way across from
he Cornwall station, at distances
angling from 250 to 2,099 miles. Yes
els that go amiss, like the Cunarder t,
Jmbria, need now no longer remain .
0 long unheard of, if fitted with wire :
ess telegraphy instruments.
Following the presidents cancella- I
ion last week of his invitation to Sen $
tor Tillman to attend the dinner to t
'rince Henry, came a telegram to the t
resident from Lieut. Gov. James Till
ian of South Carolina, nephew of I
enator Tillman and chairman of :
opular subscription committee, prac- :
cally cancelling the invitation pre- r
iously given for the president to pre- q
ent a sword to Major Micah Jenkins, E
gallant member of the LIST U. S. Vol =
avalry, on the occasion of his visit to ;,
lie Charleston exposition Mr.. Till n
ian said that contributors to the !
word fund requested the presidents a
ithdrawal of his acceptance of the in 7
tation. On account of this telegram, :,
Jenkins, Saturday, refused to a
,cept the sword. 1t has been rumored 8
lat this incident would cause the !,
resident to give up his trip to the ex- r
,sition, but authoritative statements II
e that no attention will be paid to a.
e matter. n
Serious loss of life, and property u
mage to the extent of millions of &C
liars, have been caused by floods in m
New Jersey, New York, s
and in the southeastern eN
If states, due to the warm rains of pi
'iday and Saturday. The Schuylkill ci