Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-25
THIS MORNINGS NEWS
THE GIsT OF THE LATEST DISPATCHES.

Rear admiral George W. Melville
chief of the bureau of steam engin
eering in the navy. will be the guess
of Assistant Secretary Darling, at Ben
nington next week.
1t has been reported at Tucson, ,triZ.
that 30 laqui Indians We're lined VI
and shot at Torrin, in Sonora, Satur-
day. They had been captured in the
mountains the day before. Some OF
them were mere boys.
Royal Elisha Robbins, of Boston, who
was practically the founder of the
American Waltham watch company.
and for 81 years its treasurer, as we'll as
owner of the controlling interest in the
corporation, died Tuesday of old age.
Methodists have purchased the Royal
Aquarium property facing Westminster
Abbey in London on which they will
build great hall which is to be called
the central headquarters of universal
Methodism. The price paid was f30,
/ 600.
Harry Tracy, the outlaw, made his
appearance. fresh, rested and unwound-
ed at logging camp near kansaskat
Wash, this week. He has rifle, two
revolvers and plenty of ammunition.
/ AS usual at his appearances, he ate
dinner
Magnificent coronation fetes will be
held in Delhi, India, from Dec. % to
/ Jan. 10. Lord Curzon, viceroy of In
dia with the ruling chiefs, will make
state entry into Delhi, mounted on
elephants, with a procession six miles
long. to the camp.
Another Boxer uprising has taken
place to the west of Lin Ching, China.
due to the governments attempt to
collect tax with which to pay the
Boxer indemnity, Troops have been
sent to suppress the uprising. In one
district Boxers are said to be still car
rying arms and expressing Christians
Riots have occurred in Paris this
week in connection with the order of
the prime minister to close the schools
of the unauthorized congregations,
Three hundred persons were arrested
in Tuesdays demonstrations. In sew
eral places peasants have gathered In
front Of the nuns schools and declare
they will not let the nuns be expelled.
The commander of the Lanao, Min
danao, expedition has arrested the sui
tan of Binadayan as a hostage for the
delivery to him Of the two Moros who
attacked two Americans June D. The
sultan ordered the Moros produced and
one was finally brought, horribly mu-
tilated, to the American camp. Before
dying, he confessed TO taking part in
the ambush.
The court martial in the case of Mai.
Edwin +. Glenn, 9TH infantry, found
him guilty of administering the water
cure to natives or permitting il to be
done and he was sentenced TO | month 5 /
from duty and fined $50. |
Lieut.. Norman +. Cook of the Philip /
pine scouts was aca dted n a charge |
Of giving orders to kill three Filipino |
prisoners,
The abstract right of Mr.. Clements
followers in Vermont to set him up as
a boiling nominee for governor will |
not be disputed. The wisdom of this
procedure is quite another thing If
the Republican state convention, at
June 10, had ignored the
license issue and refused to take steps
to test the sentiment of the people. then
Mr.. Clement and his followers might
have had plausible pretext for break
ing away from their party and running
4 campaign of their own. But the Re
publican state convention did not do
his. 1t met the issue frankly and l.
'airly. Boston Journal