Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-11

President Charles NJ. Schwab of the
United States Steel COZ poration and his
wife will spend 500, 900 in giving pool
children of New York an outing al
Richmond Beach, Staten Island, dur
ing the hot weather this summer. Mr..
and Mrs. Schwab have no children.
Relics and souvenirs of the White
House at Washington are in great de
mand, now that the interior of the an
cient mansion is being dismantled.
The hand made nails, said to have
been imported from England 100 years
ago, are especially priced by the SOU
venir hunters, and pieces of board, lath
and even plaster are picked up by
sightseerswhenev opportunity offers.
The Boston q Maine railroad is look
ing up Pennsylvania bituminous coal
land and will endeavor to buy fuel
supply large enough to render the road
safe against possible future squeezing
by great coal combinations. With coal
of its own the company will be able,
not only to meet its own requirements
at large saving, but also to supply a
lines.
Members of the Senate committee on
Porto Rico and the Pacific islands will
go at once to Hawaii to investigate
economic conditions there. Among the
subjects to be investigated are taxation,
water rights, finance, the land ques-
tic rand the banking system. The com
mittee is to make report with view
to the enactment of general legislation
for Hawaii at the next session of Con-
gress.
The Chicago Inter-Ocean says that a
combination of all the gigantic com
panies controlling the packing indus
try of the United States has been con
the central figure in the financial part
of the negotiations This arrangement
the Swift and Armour inter
ests, which have recently gained con
troll of the other packing concerns
throughout the country.
Benjamin S. Platt, enrolling clerk of
the Senate, has prepared a statement
which shows that the past session of
Congress was distinguished by the
large amount of business transacted.
In the House, -, 092 bills and Joint
resolutions were introduced and in the
Senate G450. There were sent to the
president 800 bills originating in the
House and 547 Senate bills. total of
loO3. The Senate passed 1000 of the
measures originating with it and the
House 1886 of its own bills.
The Democratic Senator Vest of Mis-
souri, is physically unable to return TO
ais western home at this recess of Con
yress. he has for some time been un-
ible to walk unattended, and although
lie has been one of the regular attend
tnts upon the sessions of the Senate,
lis eyes have grown so weak that for
ome months he has refrained from
Using them except when absolutely
Necessary. Newspapers and the pro-
of Congress are read to him.
His mind is as keen as ever
The strike of motormen and conduc- I
DIS on the Union Traction company,
Providence, r. l., which has been in .
orce since June 3 was declared off .
the compa. Y having granted .
he main demands of the men. The .
ompany notified the strikers that it
,ould grant the 10-hour day as re-
uired by law. pay 20 cents an hour,
III NOW ha ~ an 20 80 T. pro,;iaea
1+bnnob ~ ~ - ~ NV - 81. Dd lu.nlo
az 80, ap.o " .i,I q. W..
ba stril,a '' oo'i'"ns >" IA Gun 'nue
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Figures have been obtained from Of
GERS who had charge of payments for
Military purposes, showing that Gen
laximo Gomez received $50. 900 from
ne Cuban treasury while American
oyernment for the island ey;stad IN (
aep him and his associates on;at TIE
onev was Maid on account If services {
.ndered in disbond;ng and nacifving I
,e Cuhan army hut ia r.vnnent waS
,pt ouiet, lesf If should railsa 3isron- .
pt among others Who got NO INV ,nd /
# the Cnhans sbonld loso faitb in
eir leader and tbinI, h;,, narnan,rv l
'',' nv i
Word has been received at Newark, c
j., that William Clark, thread man @
acturer, died Monday in England. /
+, Clark was one of the largest thread Il
IN the world. He was I
I'm at Paisley, Scot, in 1911, He S
me to tins country in 1864 with his i
The msn1f,ct,Ire = 90 e ea,ali va" 49, ne
a littla hnild,no IN ia Laoils - go +%a "
,ssair river in tbs n,,tar ,ant IS ~ NV ~
j, From that bea;pppi , pa" +ha W. 1, ro d
a Great work. hsvina ' hranai, ~ " =
is7ar Soot al a. ri.5 !" "la ;1L IA \
.nse hnildinoS man 80 ioH IN III :,
los Of The paSsaic in Nauerl, 'ii '0Vii -
80 " ~ "77"i0 =" -'e"' ~ =
Senior Buencamino, formerly secre- i,
y of war under Aguinaldo and who q,
'tltied interestingly before the Sen =
2 Philippine committee recently. ~