Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-21

The United States marines were with
drawn from Panama Tuesday The Co
lombian government has 1000 men on
the line of railroad and Gen. Perdomo
believes he can maintain free transit.
President Roosevelt enjoyed days
bear hunt last week in the former favor
lite hunting ground in Mississippi, of
Gen. Wade Hampton, the famous leader
Of the Confederate black horse cavalry.
Before the war. Gen. Hampton is said
to have killed more than 30 bears in a
single season, some of them with a
knife. The president returned to
Memphis on the morning of the 10th,
and participated in the celebration
in honor of Gen. Luke Wright, vice
governor of the Philippines. delivering
a speech. Nov. -, he will attend the
exercises of Founders day at Philadel-
phia, returning to Washington the next
day.
The ceremony of depositing the ashes
of Christopher Columbus in a special
mausoleum was carried out in the ca
thedral at Seville. Spain, Monday with
betitting solemnity. The coffin contain
ing the ashes of the illustrious naviga-
tor was borne on the shoulders of a
party of naval seamen, and behind it
walked in procession the archbishop of
Seville. the cathedral chapter. the min
lister of marine and number of other
dignitaries. After mass had been per-
formed the captain-general of Cadiz
and the archbishop took the coffin in
to their charge, and it was deposited
in the mausoleum where it will remain
permanently.
Lieut.. Emmons. who was sent to find
the Russian boundary monuments in
Alaska, went over the very line of
stone monuments spoken of by De
Blondeau as the boundary monuments
and says they are not boundary monu-
ments. but stones placed to mark In
dian graves \ well-known Vancouver
citizen has complained to the authori-
ties that the United States government
has erected number of houses of ref
uge on the north shore of Portland ca
nal in territory in dispute between the
United States and Canada. These
houses of refuge are of stone, and each
has a tablet stating that it is United /
States government property. The mat
ter will be investigated.
1t is now suggested that Mrs. Kath-
crime Adams. of whose murder Roland
B. MolineuX has Just been acquitted,
may have been the victim of drug
harmless when pure, but poisonous /
when decomposed or after having been .
kept under improper conditions. The I
case of Miss Ida Halporn of New York .
is recalled in connection with the case
NJ ISIS Halporn was taken violently i'll .
after small dose of the etfervescent I
powders which she had taken in a drug
store for a headache. Investigation
showed that the powder she had taken
had decomposed and contained a large
quantity of cyanogen. She was i'll for
three years. The makers of the pow
lers paid 81, 800 to compromise the mat
ter out of court. Miss Halporn is said
10 have been poisoned exactly as Mrs.
dams was. 1t is said that nothing
more will be done in the Adams case
md that the mystery is closed by the
officials.
Rev. Pablo Martina, parish priest of
fesca. Mexico. makes remarkable re-
,ort to government authorities of the
discovery of hidden Aztec treasures. \
party of Americans, he says. headed by
IN archaeologist named Heverick. went
nto the mountains from lesca. guided
~ MeNicans and a chart claimed to
lave been copied from an Aztec tablet
n the national museum of the City of
'lexico. They located vast cavern in
he mountain. Immense stone images
TODD about the chamber. In one end !
vas a handsome altar above which
burned a bright flame supplied by nat
Iral gas from a crevice in the wall In
chamber adjoining the main temple
ras found a great store of ornaments !
nd utensils belonging to the Aztecs !
r some prehistoric race. These articles !
rere shipped to San Francisco by the : !
americans. As such articles cannot be
emoved from Mexico without the con-
ent of the government, an investiga
ion is in progress.