Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-25
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

Syndicate Raises $4,000 Fund for Santos
Dumont-New Episcopal Bishops Appointed
"A Novel Suicide Successful Removal Of
Larynx- Airships for North Pole Trip
The Three Van Wormer Brothers Sentenced
to the Electric Chair-An Old and Famou
Murder Trial Strangely Recalled-Death o
the Originator Of Valentines.
Admiral Dewey has been invited tt
Denver as the guest of honor at a ban
quet which the first regiment, Colorado
National Guard, will give to Genera
Frederick Funston, Colorado, on May
/, the anniversary of the battle of Ma
Mia Bay.
Engines and framework for three bis
air ships are being constructed in Chi
cage. In these ships, Patrick E. Me
Donnell hopes to reach the north pole
next summer. He is confident that the
machines will work, as the model has
proved very successful.
The president has appointed Arch
bishop Ryan of Philadelphia, a mem
Der of the board of Indian commits
sioners. He succeeds Bishop Whipple,
an eminent Episcopalian, who died re-
Gently, and is the first Catholic priest
appointed on the board.
One of the first of the foreign gov
ernments to recognize the new regime
in Cuba and to enter into diplomatic
relations with the new republic will be
Spain, according to suggestions made
by several Spanish newspapers which
| the foreign Office seems willing to
adopt
Booker T. Washington denies the
statement published last week, that he
has bought summer residence in
South Weymouth, Mass. For several
years. he says, he has rented small
cottage in Massachusetts during the
summer, so as to be near the work to
which he devotes himself during that
season.
The annual celebration of the histor-
ical achievement of Paul Revere in
warning the farmers from Boston to
Concord on the approach of the Brit
ish. April 80, 1775, and the opening
fight of the American Revolution, was
generally observed in Massachusetts
Saturday as patriots day, though, as
is always the case. interest centered
about the towns OF Lexington and Con
cord.
Because he was refused something to
eat Thursday at the home of Joseph
Allen of Springfield, o.. tramp, in
the absence of the parents, threw
stick of dynamite on a stove which was
surrounded by Aliens six children. A
u year-o old boy in an effort to save the
others, seized the explosive. His hand
was blown oil and the other children
badly burned about the face. The
tramp escaped
A syndicate. tentatively supported
bv the officials of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit company. is preparing to offer
Santos Dumont a fund of S75, 600 for
the purpose of enabling him to navi-
gate a new dirigible balloon out to sea
from Brighton Beach, up the Narrows,
around the statue of Liberty. up the
East river above the Brooklyn bridge
and the new East river bridge and
back again to Brighton Beach.
Tho En;soona1 bonsa of b;ebons at
Cincinnati has appointed these new
bishops Salina, Western Kansas, Ma
thanlel Seymour Thomas, rector of the
church of Holy Apostles, Philadelphia,
and son of the late bishop OF Kansas;
Honolulu, Henry Bond Restarick,
rector of st. Paul's church, San Dl-
ego, California; Porto Rico, James
II. NanBuren, formerly of Lynn, and
later of San Juan. The new bishops
cannot be consecrated for two or three
months, awaiting the approval OF the
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The life of Aaron johnson has been
saved at the San Francisco city and
county hospital through an operation
lever before performed on the Pacific
coast: the complete extirpation of the
arynX on Whlch mere was a cahcerous
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