Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-06-13
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY
Audubon Society Aggressive in Chicago-GeI
Gomez Refuses Annual Pension from Cub
Maj, Glenns Trial Concluded More vo
cano Results-The Coal strike-Beef Trus
Admits Defeat.
The historic liberty bell was removed
fromits special building in the Charles
ton, S. c., exposition grounds ant
started on its return to Philadelphia
Monday.
Sir Thomas Upton has detinitel.
decided to challenge for the America I
cup in 1903. The challenger will b,
I designed by William Fife, Jr., anC
will be built by Denny Bros.
According to news brought to Seattle
by the steamer Bertha Mount Redoubt
Mount Llama and Mount Augustine
in Cook Inlet, Alaska, are all in erup
tion. They have been throwing smoke
and steam for the past several months.
John F. Jewell, of Galena, H., the
new consul to Martinique, is lawyer,
30 years old, unmarried and a graduate
of Ann Arbor university. There was a
surprising number of applications fol-
the consulship, Notwithstanding the
tragic fate of the late incumbent.
Missouri University, Columbia, Fri
day conferred the honorary degree of
bachelor of laws on Mark Twain, the
Hon. James Wilson, secretary of agri
culture; the Hon. E. A. Hitchcock,
secretary of the interior, and B. p.
Galloway, chief of the bureau of plant
i dustry.
The junior order of United American
Mechanics presented President Roose-
welt Friday with a cane which Repre-
sentative Blackburn of North Caro-
lima, who presented it, said was made
from wood taken from San Juan hill,
where Col Roosevelt and the Rough
Riders took such prominent and gal
liant part in battle.
The Davis monument association has
selected the design of Louis a. Guide
brod of New York as the model for the
arch to be erected at Richmond, Va,
to the memory of Jefferson Davis. The
the object being to meet
lHt tApTeSStu views VI MIS-. DdNlS HOl
to give the idea of triumph.
Upwards of 1000 lives were lost and
half the city of Ratalholen, Qua
temala, was destroyed by the recent
of the Tacana volcano. Earth
luakes have continued daily since the
great disturbance in April when the
city of QueXaltenago was destroyed.
Residents of the entire region are in a
state of terror and little is being done
% repair the damages.
The three officers of the Chicago, re
emily arrested and imprisoned in Ven
ce, will be tried by court martial, by
of the court of in
luiry. No further action will be taken
n the cases of Cadet kress and Pri-
ate Langley. Admiral Crowninshield
lisapproves of the opinion where it is
diverse to the officers on the ground
hat the evidence is insufficient.
Senior Buencamino, formerly Aguin-
ldo's secretary of war, is authority |
or the statement that Aguinaldo's |
rison at Manila is palace as large |
5 the White House, for the rent of |
hitch the government pays $500 a
lonth, and in which Aguinaldo lives
18th his family, retinue of servants,
physician at his disposal, a carriage
nd an allowance to provide food.
Members of the Illinois Audubon
ociety, after years of attempted moral
lasion, Thursday began aggressive
ction to stop the sale of birds and
ird plumage in Chicago for millinery
urposes Notices citing the law and
prosecution signed by
ANY prominent Chicagoans, members
the society. Were sent to every mil
ner and dealer in millinery goods in
lie city. The law forbids the killing
: catching of other than game birds,
nglish sparrows, crows, blackbirds
I'D chicken hawks.
General Maxine Gomez has pub ,
shed an open letter in Havana in :
hich he refuses to accept the annual :
ension of $4,000 provided for him in
now before the Cuban House
Representatives General Gomez =,
Us it would be unfair for him to ac- :
pit money so long as the other Cuban !,
ldiers have not been provided for. He !;
serts he has a bill against the gov !
nment for war services which some -
y Will nave W De pau, DuJ lHdt NE "a
willing to wait until such time as =
lba can pay all her soldiers. -
W. c. Baker and G. E. Denzer of {
eveland, O. were arraigned at Staple a
D, ). l., Friday to a swer charge n
homicide in having caused the il
ath of Andrew Featherstone and k
hn G. Bogart. Featherstone was in n
lntly killed in the recent accident q
at occurred at the automobile speed
ais on the South Shore boulevard
d Bogart died the next day from the
ects of his injuries. Mr. Baker was c
ing as driver, with Mr.. Denzer as N
istant. The hearing was adjourned tc
Monday when it was again post ST
ned to to-day, pl
The advisory board of the federation Y
American Catholic societies at Cleve- al
d Sunday, adopted resolution NJ
ich will be sent to President Roose- &c
t, embodying protest against the ST
duct of the Philippine school sys- ~
!, the claim being made that it is I'd
system which seeks to to
IN Catholic children from their bi
tn and that considering the Fill az
os are Catholic people, but scant m
ignition has been given representa- la
IS of that church in the appoint ra
1t of teachers and other methods tn
d in teaching the Filipinos. ST.
sergeant, two corporals and four n;e
rates of the 9th United States cav ~ ~
: were decorating the graves of w w
erican soldiers at Binanponan in w