Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-17

HaNtlan government forces attacked
the revolutionists at Montrouis. Satur-
day, from an armored steamship but
they were repealed and unable to effect
a landing. There were many casual
ties.
Abel Coleman. said to have been the
oldest Free Mason in the United States.
is dead at Ogdensburg. n. Y. He en-
tered Masonry over 60 years ago. He
was So years of age and one of Ogdens-
burg's oldest and most highly respect
ed citizens.
A tornado in Illinois. Sunday night.
blew down houses and barns at Quincy
and all sections south and east and
leveled entire orchards. Twenty five
residences were completely demolished
at Macon. Mo-, and other buildings
were damaged.
Gov. W. Murray Crane of Massachu-
sets. who suffered in the carriage ac-
cident of the president at Pittsfield
last month, was again thrown from a
carriage by runaway horse while
driving to his home in Dalton Satur-
day. He was badly shaken up. but no
bones were broken.
Comdr Robt. E. Peary is in Phila-
delphia undergoing treatment for his
feet which were frozen four years ago,
soon after he started on his last expe-
dition. An operation may be neces-
essary. Several toes have already been
amputated by the surgeon who accom-
panied the Peary party.
What is said by physicians at the
Bellevue and New York Post Graduate
hospitals to be the smallest living child
ever born, has been placed in an incu-
bator at the latter institution. The
child, a boy, weighs one pound and
seven ounces. 1t was taken to Belle
vue by John Clark. a carpenter.
The sultan of Bacoclod, Mindanao,
has rejected the friendly overtures of
Gen. Sumner, commander of the Amer
lean forces in Mindanao, in a defiant
letter. in which he invites war. Friend
" Moros report that he is fortifying
his strongholds and possesses many
rifles 1t is expected that an Ameri
can column will be sent from Camp
Wears to capture and reduce Bacoclod
strongholds.
Believing that he had swallowed his
false teeth during his sleep. and being
supported in his belief by the operator
of an X-ray machine. Frank Buettner,
a prominent Cleveland contractor. had
his esophagus opened its entire length
to recover the missing articles No
teeth were found but during the ope-
ration Buettner's sister n-law found
them under his bed The incisions
were sewed up, but the man is suffer
ing from laryngitis and may die.
Colombian government forces have
defeated the revolutionists at La Glen
aga and forced Gen. Tribe Tribe to re
treat to the interior. Castillo, who
at Cienaga. has also fled
to the mountains where scarcity of
food will probably compel him to sur
render. Gov Salazar is preparing
proof to show that the Panama rail
road company has not fulfilled the OBJ
legations entailed by its contract with
the government regarding the transpor
tation of Colombian soldiers and war
and it is understood that the
will bring lawsuit
against the railroad company for the
nonfultilment.
Seven persons were shot, six fatally,
on account of a quarrel between a
Henry Toews. and the
school trustees, at Altoona, Canada, a
little north of the North Dakota line.
last week. There had been complaint
about the management of the school
and the three trustees called at the
during school hours to talk
over the trouble. Hot words were eX
and suddenly Toews drew his
revolver and shot down the three trus
tees. He then rushed into the school
house, where he fatally shot two
daughters of one of them, aged eight
eight and ten years The 11-year-old /
daughter of another was then attacked |
but the bullet struck her in the arm,
breaking the bone The teacher then !
suicide. The people of the
village. few hundred in number. are
all Mennonites. as was also the teacher.
At the national encampment of the
G. A. r. at Washington Thursday Gen. /
Thomas ]. Stewart, adjutant- general
Of Pennsylvania. was elected command /
ar- in chief for the ensuing year. VII
liam NJ. Olin, secretary of the state of .
Massachusetts. was elected vice com /
nander- in chief. and James NJ. Aver /
i'll of Georgia, junior vice commander
in chief. The army decided. by a +
large vote. Friday, to hold its encamp-
nent in 1903 in San Francisco. The .
sessions of the Union Veterans union
Friday were marked by scenes of wild /
disorder and confusion. The proceed
ngs at times became so heated that
personal encounters seemed likely. The
i'll feeling was caused by an effort.
which was unsuccessful. to amend the
so as to restore the six
months service clause as basis for
in the organization and
also by the charges of use of arbitrary
power and in regard to his personal
made against Commander
IN Chief Dyrenforth. The executive
committee recommended his suspen-
sion. but Gen. Dyrenforth refused to
even recognize the committee or to
make way for another presiding off
GER. The anti-Dyrenforths then left
The hall those remaining rejoicing
and the seceders taking
steps to form new union.