Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-18
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

ham Most's Sentence Affirmed-A Stori
Phenomenon Successful Test of New En-
balming Fluid-A Fortune in an Old Chest
Haytien Rebel Shot - Tune Wanted 70
merica'-Death of Rev. T. Dewitt Ia
mage.
Robert j. Wynne, the Washington
correspondent of the New York Press
has been offered and has accepted tn
Office of first assistant postmaster gen
eral.
Attorney General Davis has decided
to investigate the beef trust. He viii
make thorough preliminary surve.
of the situation with the intention o
preparing the strongest possible case
then making a decision on the advisa
bility of taking the Issues into court
Gen Nicholas Baptiste, the com
mander of the Haytien insurgents, who
took Jacmel and retired to the hills
after holding the town "a hours, wa!
captured after his troops had been de
feated by the government forces. Gen
Baptiste was tried by drumheaC
court martial, condemned to death anC
was shot at once.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett
Townsend, the novelist, is patient al
Riverview sanitarium at Newburg, n.
Y, suffering from neuritis, a nervous
disorder with tendency to partially
paralyZe the lower eXtremities. She is
now able to walk without assistance.
Next week she hopes to take up work
on her new book and play.
Mark Twain" has bought the Capt.
Casey place at Tarrytown, one of the
finest country seats along the Hudson,
for permanent residence. 1t is on a
high point of land commanding fine
view of the Hudson. is built of stone
and surrounded by spacious verandas.
II was built about Is years ago by
Capt. Casey, formerly in the seventh
regiment Consideration, SAT, 800.
The Rhode Island Cincinnati society
last summer appointed committee to
see whether suitable tune could not
/ be found for the national anthem,
"America. - That committee has just
offered a gold medal to the author of
such tune as may be determined upon,
"but it must not only have unusual in
trinsic merit, but also meet the sever
est criticism of musical critics and OBJ
tain popular approval when sung or
played. "
A phenomenon in the way of storms
occurred at Penn Yam, N. Y. Satur-
day. The appearance of heavy clouds
in the west was followed by sharp
rainstorm, and this by storm of mud.
Persons who were on the streets were
covered with mud spots, clothes hang
jInpS SmnarpH and tho
sides of houses spotted with the same
substance. The storm lasted only few
moments, but attracted cons iderable
attention.
The first quarterly report of the Ne
braska banking board issued Thursday
shows prosperity at the high water
mark. Deposits in state banks now
exceed S34, 600, 600, an increase of 81,
100000 over three months ago and $40,
100000 increase over year ago. In
Guiding the national banks the total
deposits exceed $50, 600, 900. The banks
themselves are also stronger financially
than ever before. over 40 per cent. of
all deposits being held in reserve.
Eugene F. Ware of Kansas has been
selected by the president to succeed
Ii. Clay Evans as commissioner of pen
sions. Mr.. Ware is best known by his
sobriquet of Ironquill, under which
pen name he has written much verse
of both humorous and pathetic ma
ture. He is a lawyer and prominent
in his profession. Mr.. Ware served
throughout the civil war. He has been
prominent in the politics of Kansas:
served five years in the Kansas senate
and sat in two national Republican
conventions.
The body of John Leek, an aged ne
gro, who died at Battle Creek, Mich.
six months ago, and which was turned
over to an undertaken in order that he
might test a new embalming fluid, has
been eXhumed. The body has the con
sistency of vulcanized rubber, and
might readily pass for statue If black
marble, as the petrified flesh is hard
enough to take a polish. There is not
the slightest trace of decomposition or
wasting, the features retaining their
fulness. The experimenter says the |
fluid will preserve the body for centur-
les. 1t was recently discovered by an .
Eastern chemical company, and this |
test was the first to be made.
Rev. I. Dewitt Talmage, the noted
divine and writer, died at
his Washington home Saturday night
death was due to heart complica-
tons induced by severe attack of
grip. DR.. Talmage became famous as
pastor of the Brooklyn Tabernacle
which pastorate he held for % years.
and during which he was one of the
most popular and talked of clergymen
n the country preaching to an i'm
nense congregation. His pilgrimage
o the Holy Land attracted as much
attention as did that of Emperor Will
lam. After leaving Brooklyn he asso-
lated with the Rev. DR.. Byron Sun.
lrrland as pastor of the aristocratic
first Presbyterian church. Internal
discussions caused him to resign his
harge His sermons were first pub
ished in the Christian Herald in 1879,
nd have appeared in that publication
weekly since. DR.. Talmage became the
ditor in 1890. 1t has been estimated !
hat through the aid of the American
'ress association his sermons for a
reat many years reached at least 90 I
90, 200, persons weekly in this country, '
nd many more in Europe DR.. Tai
lage leaves a wife and several chill !
ren.
Gen. Wade Hampton died Friday
lorning as the result of a general
reak down, at the advanced age of "a. 7
len. Hampton came of distinguished '