Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-24
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS,
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

ioga-A Gas Fuel Fake Soufriere's Fourth
lerrlhe Eruption Alabama Race Riot-
Death OF Americas Oldest Naval Officer
Inc americas Cup Again C~hallenged-Th,
New Beef Trust Incorporated-Tragedy il
New York Law ce-Arbitration Court,
Ruling in Pious Fund Case.
Commander Mason of the u. S. crui.
ser Cincinnati, in Haytian waters fol
several Gays, reports that the provis,
n government of Hayti has crushed
me lrmlnlst revolution, and that the
election of Seneque Pierre to the presi.
dency is assured.
SPECIAL Justice Charles Hubbard al
Tlttsleld, has decided that Motorman
Euclid Madden and Conductor james
r. Kelly "unlawfully" contributed tc
the death of William Craig. Both
were arrested on the charge of man
slaughter and are under bail for trial
November /.
Arrangements have been completed
between the Morgan combine and New
York, New Haven and Hartford rail
road for the establishment of first class
British steamers between Boston and
Manchester. The service will begin
next January. vessels sailing either
weekly or fortnightly.
The house at Haverhill. Mass. in
which John Greenleaf Whittier. the
poet, was born, was badly damaged bv
lire Friday. The tenants saved the
many relics of the poet. The associa-
ton. which has been in charge of the
hnnGp which urnu n ,irit,.x ,1o.,. F..
slghtseers, states that the house will
be rebuilt, as the loss, $4,000, is COW
cred by insurance.
A race riot is in progress at Little
ton, Ala, in which three white men
and eight negroes have been killed.
The negroes in the place outnumber
the whites ten to me and are in com
plete possession Of the town. The ne
groes have captured a powder magazine
belonging to a coal company. A reign
of terror exists. Birmingham officers
have been sent to the scene of trouble.
The riot was precipitated by some ne
gro men throwing a white woman off a
bridge.
Louis Duvall, a barber of Dorches-
ter, Mass, has been arrested on a
charge of using the mails in further
anc of a scheme to defraud. He ad-
vertised a fuel which could be made
absolutely free of cost and offered to
tell anybody how to do it for 81. In
return for the dollar he sem by mail a
circular describing his water gas
fuel made of coal ashes and water.
his victim, who tried the fuel and
f,,,,l - ,,-.1,.- n,,,.l,;~,l &c +l-
fraud and caused Duvall's arrest,
After seven days of terrible fighting,
near La Victoria, Venezuela, 1000 reb-
els under Gen. Mendoza abandoned
the field, having retired from their last
positions Friday night, retreating in
the direction of Villa de Cura. Ac-
cording TO President Castro. the killed
and wounded number 5000. During
the last days of the fighting the tenn
perature rose to 1lG degrees. The vic
tory of the government troops. which
is said to be due to the personal cour-
age of President Castro, who twice,
with a Mauser rifle in his hand, charged
at the head of his soldiers, Is consid-
cred a serious setback for the cause of
the revolutionists.
The eruption of the Soufriere volcano
st. Vincent island, on October 10
and 16-the fourth terrific outburst
since the catastrophe of May has
plunged the colony into deeper distress
than before existed, crippling its agri-
cultural IL and completely de
atroying wide areas of growing crops
lands which had been considered
outside the volcanic zone. These crops
were buried under an almost unpene-
mass of hot sand, October IL.
Even the Mesopotamia valley, Il miles
the crater, is filled with sand and
travelling is extremely difficult. Many
refugees faint from fatigue, hunger
and thirst. while toiling through the
sand to a place of safety. No lives
were lost in the eruption, but the SIT
uation is desperate.
The annual report of the United
States commissioners of education shows
that the grand total of pupils in
schools, both public and private, in
the United States for the year ended
lime 30. 1901, was II. $50, go. an in
crease of PTS. 520 pupils over The pre-
year. The value of properly uSea
for public school purposes has risen TO
$40. 953. 0S9. from Sl2O. 5 IN lS'o'
and the expenditures, for the common
schools. excluding all institutions Tor
higher education. TO ozZo'-
"a 236. having risen to this sum from
%, 663. 395. &C in 1870. In 1870 the eX-
nenditures for school per capita OF the
POPULATION was 81. GA; the past year
vas - 90. the highest that 1t has ever
Deen. The average attendance of each
ounil was 90 days for the year, an in
,rease of "A days over the previous year.
Miss Ida Craddock, high prIestess
md pastor of the Church of 1oga
m Chicago. committed suicide FRIDAY
~ inhaling gas. She was to have APP
in court that day to be SEN
.enced for sending obscene matter
.hrouph the mails. Her mother was
tanning TO have her committed to an
,svIum She had served three months
n New York for circulating an obJec-
book and upon her release was
bv the federal authorities
ar sending the book through the mails
before that she was convicted IN n
and prosecuted in Philadelphia
Washington for circulating her
,ooks. which were alleged by the au-
TO be indecent. Miss Grad
lock came originally from Denver and
irst drew public attention by ner de-
'ence of the dance du ventre at the
fair. which she malhtalheu
a solemn religious performance
he was a woman of culture ana intel
Admiral Thomas O. Selfrldge,