Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-07
THE WINDHAM COUNTY REFoRMER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER T. 1902

hunting wild turkeys near Manassas,
Va, Saturday, The party included
Secretary Root, Surgeon Gen. RiXey
and Sheriff j. I. Leachman.
Admiral Dewey has accepted the
presidency Of the Thomas Jefferson
Memorial association. the object of
which is to erect suitable memorial
IN the national capital TO the great
statesman.
ID. c. Montgomery, superintendent
of schools IN Oriental Negros. was muir
dered Friday by ladrones three miles
from Bacociod Six natives armed
with bolos and spears attacked the Su.
perintendent, killed him. mutilated
him and robbed him. This is the first
instance of teacher in the Philip
pines being harmed while in the dis
charge of his duty.
It has Just been discovered that the
streets of Altman, Col, in the Cripple
Creek district, are paved with gold
ore. The rock was taken from the
waste dump of the Pharmacist mine
An assay of some of it showed an aver
age of $50 in gold ton. Men have
been hauling away the street surface
and the Pharmacist company has stop
lt'' giving away lut tulnl
Thousands Of natives along the Arc .
tic coast north of Nome are dying Of .
measles. The march of civilization is .
said to have increased the death rate .
from Nome north, When the natives
began to wear civilized man 5 clothing
and drank white mans whiskey, their
decline began. Diseases unhcard of at
tackled them and not knowing how to
care for themselves, the people died
rapidly.
Miss Portia, daughter of Booker T.
Washington, failed to pass her eXamina-
tons for her second year at Wellesley
college and is now student at Brad
'ord academy. The faculty say she was
lot proficient in music, but among the
.tudents it is said that she was an I'M
desirable student to the faculty on ac-
'ount of the newspaper notoriety which
he gained: and that the difference of
ceiling about her in the school devel-
ped little race war among the girls.
Flames and smoke from the volcano
# Santa Maria last week swept the
tnole coffee zone of Guatemala causing
nOrmOuS losses. The eruptions. which
ontinue. threaten the destruction of
very living thing within reach of the !,
umes and fire. The volcano of Santa
1aria is located between Retalhulen Il
nd Quezeltenango The towns in the =
most likely to be de- i
,r0yed are san Flllpt. MaZatenango' r,
nd Quezeltenango. The volcano has ~
cen quiet many years. q
y man giving the name Of william d
. johnson, who says he is a sailor. p
as confe ssed TO the BROOKLYN uOlice -,
lat he Killed Albert |. Latlmer, who W
AZ my>lerlouSly shot in his home at re
Is Hancock street July :. johnson
aimed to belong IN PhlIadelphla' but {,
+ IS not known at the address given -
ld the other details of ms story 90 f.
u correspond win Facts known. lie 4.
believed by the police to be either -,
aAy or a clumsy mar, lie was held n,
ltll to day for the investigation OF in
: story. o.
ne me" o'"'e9 p"it'u VI tH"C"-
on mas just concluded scientific IN y,
llry,. result OF winch Will be the i,
undlng OF an entirely new system of f.
ucatlon for children. The bureau In
IDS that the present system Is entire ~,
wrong and injurious to brain, nerves GO
d body. Some very interesting sci i,
titic facts are set forth by the bu- NV
au officials IN their pamphlet, lnhl-
ton. One of these Is that eXceS-
'e brain exercise checks physical II"
oWth and that severe exercise units 60!
mental work. li i
George Parsons. an year-old boy of y"
n Francisco. Cal. who was kicked =,
the head week ago, is alive. with ~
VI ms pI"lh gone Inc PhE 9IciauS an,
re hopeless OF has recovery because rn.
) skull was crushed and large area he,
brain matter disturbed. They re W.,
wed several Spoonfuls of the de
Dyed cerehrum and pieces of the Sn,
Ill that had lodged there and closed nj
cavity with a silver plate. The op- tba
tion was performed while the boy loo
5 conscious. He did not seem to loo
] the pain. He has been progressing Inn
rapidly that the doctors say he will w., ',';i
N be able to play with his friends. "al
! gang of Ladrone- which has been fre
uniting various outraees recently, n'o
cred a small town near Caripara. ~
,te. last week. Here they captured Tb
beheaded the presidente of the the
n. murdered his Wife, whom they 9th
she'd with boloS. and abducted the bal
sidente's children. The motive of r
: crime is said 10 have been the ,a+t
sidente's friendlineSs with the cam
orleans. Ladro2es are again active ia,
the provinces of RlZal and Bulacan. ,,,a.
NlnD1hprS of tho n