Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-12
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY.

End of Mimic Wharf.-The President Goes
South Situation in Hayti
A Toxic despatch says that Capt.
Rosehill, the American who claims the
ownership of the Marcus island, arrived
there on July 81, and everything was
amicably arranged.
Henry W Grady. jr., only son of the
late Henry W. Grady, editor of the At
lanta Constitution, and prominent
citizen of Atlanta, disappeared Friday
from Norfolk, Va, as he was about to
return home with his wife and child.
No trace of him can be found.
A few weeks ago there was discover
ed to the east of Fresno, in the Sisrras,
the biggest tree in the world John
Muir, the great naturalist, visited the
tree, reports that it measured 100 feet
at the base and four feet above the
ground 81 feet in circumference.
The Duchess of Marlborough, for
merly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt of
New York, after brief season with
Newport society has gone to Hemp
stead, L. T.. the home of her mother,
where she will remain until September
Il, when she will sail for England
Maude Adams the New York actress,
is i'll and cables from Switzerland that
she cannot keep her autumn and early
winter engagements. Her ailment is
an impaired nervous system Her an
nual engagement at the knickerbocker
theatre is therefore cancelled and her
coming production of LAS You Like
IT, Indefinitely postponed.
The funeral of William Craig, who
was killed in the accident to the pres
ident's carriage at Pittsheld. Mass.
was held at Chicago Saturday Secret
Service agents took charge of the body
and heaped the coffin with flowers.
President Roosevelt sent handsome
floral wreath Mr.. Craig was to have
been married next winter to Katherine
Stuart Murphy the actress, sister of
Actor Tim Murphy of Washington,
Rev. Edward Eggleston, the well
known author, died September 3, at
his summer home "Owl's Nest Lake
George, aged So. He had done much
good work as "A Sunday school conven-
ton speaker and as an editor of va
rious religious publications. His health
failing. he retired to Lake George, re-
turning to literary work His novels,
depicting early life in Southern In
diana have been widely read and trans
lated into foreign languages, OF these,
The Hoosier Schoolmaster, is the
most famous, In ISIS. in connection
with his daughter, Mrs. Lille +.
Seelye, he began the publication of
series of biographies of American In
dams, for young people.
Theodore Roosevelt. Jr., has been
with party of railroad officers hunt.
ing prairie chickens between Airing
ton and Hetland, S. d., the past week
A special train consisting of half "A
dozen palace cars was side-tracked a.
way station, and the hunters did not
have to 20 far to find plenty of game.
Marvin Hughitt, Jr., was the head of
the party, which numbers -. The Of
ticials We're obliged to move the train
on account of the action of the Pupu-
list farmers of Arlington, who posted
notices preventing the party from hunt
ing chickens, as soon as they heard the
presidents son was there to hunt. At
one farmhouse, young Roosevelt sought
a drink and the dogs were set upon
him.
yea lSlulIh NOIlpI IIOlllNtS " ne a
very profitable crop for Cuba to offset
declining returns from sugar and to-
bacco. 1t can be grown there better
and in almost double the quantity to
the acre than in any other place of
which there is record. \ small farm
er's holding of 1913 acres will produce
l., 800 pounds of lint cotton which
would fetch So at present prices at
Liverpool. Deducting the cost of pro-
duction, and marketing, estimated at
1893, the growers profit would be g,
30. Cuba produces more cotton to the
acre and longer staple than that pro
duced in any other part of the world, I.
the length of the season and the humid
lty permitting the plant to grow to full
Rios, a fanatical leader of the irrec-
)ncilable natives, in the province of .
rayabas. Luzon, the Philippines, at .
acked the town of Laguimanoo Sept.
; at the head of 30 ritiemen and 100
men armed with bolos, The band wan
only killed two men and one girl and
wounded several other persons. \ de-
-achment of native constabulary rout-
I'd the bandits killing several and cap
uring 700 of Ross men, who will be
eleased after those guilty of compile
ty in the attack have been picked out.
)ne of these captives said Rios was a
iirect descendant of God and that it
vas beyond the power of man to in
ure him. The constabulary have also
aptured one of Ross mountain
trongholds and are now following the
main band of outlaws.
Pestilence of one kind or another is
aging in nearly every quarter of the
lobe. Asiatic cholera is devastating
nina, Western Russia and has ex-
ended into the Philippines Yellow
ever is prevalent in various South
american countries and is raging a
ong the Amazon Valley, leaving in its
estructive path a long line of deaths
nd prostrations. Egypt is threatened =,
18th a scourge of Asiatic cholera. 1t
as broken out at Moucha $50 miles
outh of Cairo and strong military l
ordon has been placed around the in d.
ected district. Plague is also preva-
mt in certain parts of Egypt, and the 1.
,me disease is taking the people off :
] large numbers in Odessa, Russia, in =.
ritish India and in Cape Colony. !
apan also has many cases of cholera
nd the plague has even been reported :
y the United States consul at Ten !
life, Canary Islands. y
Samuel Hawkins Napier, who dis c
Dvered the biggest nugget of pure gold c
the world, died last week in lone o