Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1902-10-18

WEDNESDAY, Oct. is, 1902.
Laborers forced into coal mines es-
cape and bring legal action.
More dynamite plots discovered In
the coal mine territory.
Son of eX-Mayor Schroeder OF Brook
lyn kills himself on a train in Georgia.
Course at the naval academy to be
three years, instead of four.
Use of antitoxn estimated to have
saved nearly 1000 nves in Massachu-
| setts in seven years.
Capt. p. A. Nickerson presented with
a silver service by Boston & Philadel-
phia o,eamship company.
Grover Cleveland says tariff reform
is the Democracy's opportunity.
j. p. Morgan declines to give a dol
lar to New York Republican campaign
fund.
Crown prince OF Siam sees astonish-
ing feats of h0rsemanship at Fort
meyer.
Guayaquil is infected with yellow
fever.
Dartmouth college trustees have At
ted up fine hotel, called the Hanover
Inn, at Hanover, N. II.
Market specials: Pig iron very firm:
tremendous prices for coke.
The 4.ev. w. b. Barr installed as pas
tor Of United Presbyterian church,
Quincy.
George M. Tufts of Allston kills him
self rather lnan face charges of lar
ceny.
much interest in Franklin and Wren
than, MASS, but no new facts regard
ing b. H. Guilds death. '.
Charles A. Richardson of Pelham, N.
H., an expert engineer, disappears mys-
teriously in Chicago.
Venezuelan government forces salu
to have won decisive victory.
Two Boston poncemen charged with
brutal treatment of South Boston
man.
Strong petition for pardon OF j.
l.ichard Mulvey presented to governor
of Massachusetts.
On the first registration day for the
coming election in Porto Rico thou
sands of protests were lodged. In all
parts of the island members of the
Federal party refused to register, thus
retiring from the election.
Five aneged gambling houses in the
"Tenderloin' district in New York
City were raided and over 100 persons
were arrested. Among the houses raid
ed was that of which Honest John"
Kelly is the alleged proprietor
John ODonnell, Nationalist member
of parliament, has been sentenced by
the crimes act court at Birr to three
months Imprisonment at hard labor
and to an additional three months in
default of bail for good behavior for
intimidation and melting to boycott
ting.
THURSDAY, Oct. 1s, 1902.
William MacRae of East Boston.
aged IA, is locked up at Station for
playing cowboy with a borrowed"
horse.
New record for registration in Bos-
ton; heavy registration in other cities
Coal mines being put in readiness to
start very soon.
Second Mollneux murder trial begins
in New York; six jurors selected.
Twenty machines finish the automo-
bile reliability run in New York with
out stop charged against them.
Missouri seeks to wrest tract of
5000 acres from Nebraska.
Surg.-Gen. Rixey urges appointment
of a woman's nurse corps for the navy.
Bond offerings made to treasury de-
partment rejected by Secretary Shaw.
Thousands of New York school chill
dren afflicted with contagious disease
of the eyelids.
Army to be reduced from $1,000 to
minimum of $1,000.
Amateur dynamiter in New York
fails in attempt to rob two women of
their diamonds
Two-year-old Michael L. Leonard
falls 40 feet out of window In Bos-
ton and escapes without scratch.
Lispenard Stewart of New York has
resigned as president of the state COM
mission of prisons. owing to pressure
of private business.
The strike at the coal mines Of the
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad COM
pany, which has been in full force for
the past 10 days, was settled at Bir-
mingham, Ala, and the men will re-
sumo work at once. The terms of set
tlement were not given out.
Charles G. Gates and his partners in
the firm of Harris, Gates & Co. of New
York City. the friends and customers
OF that firm, who took part In the
Louisville & Nashville coup, are said
to have cleaned up approximately $18.-
100000 in profits.
NJ. ]. Dwyer of New Haven npd An.
gust Faust of New York wrestled for
one hour at New Haven without fall
By the terms of the match, Faust was
to throw Dwyer twice within an hour
or forfeit the purse.
The British cruiser Calypso, from
Devonport, Eng, has arrived at st.
Johns. She has been commissioned as
Il permanent training ship in New
foundland waters.
James A. Bounty, an American so
journing in Brazil. has discovered a
tree growing for miles along the Anna
zon river, the juice of which promises
to rival rubber in the worlds mar
ket.