Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-22

bequeaths the whole of his vast es
tate to his son, Clarence Hungerforo
Mackay.
Carmencita, the Spanish dancer who
! first appeared in this country II years
/ ago. at Niblo's theatre, New York, is
reported dead of yellow fever at Ric
Janeiro, Brazil.
Vivien Sartoris, daughter of Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris and granddaugh-
ter of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, is to be
married in Coburg, Ont, August %,
to Frederick Roosevelt Scovel, cou-
sin of President Roosevelt.
The value of the cereal harvest of the
United States for 1902, estimated from
the government crop report, will be
s., 600, 600, 900, in bushels as follows
Corn, ., 422, 900, 600: wheat, GA, 600, 600
oats, S06, 600, 600 This, if realized, will
be the largest total production of ce-
reals ever recorded in the country.
Mrs. Bridget French, said to have
been the originator of more inventions
than any other woman, is dead at Roch
ester, n. Y, aged - years She was
the inventor of 3G devices, holding pat
ents for them The most important
was the French burglar proof lock,
from which she got considerable money.
Lieut.. Richard Strong, of the army
medical corps, is making excellent
progress in the study of the cholera
bacillus in the laboratories established
by the bureau of insular affairs in the
Philippines. \ bacteriologist and a
pathologist will be sent to Manila next
month by the bureau, to assist in the
work.
The Standard Oil company, after a
two months test of fuel oil as sub
stitute for coal oil at its Bayonne, \.
j., plant, has obtained supply of
soft coal and abandoned the use of
oil 1t has decided that the cheapest
grade of coal-pea and dust mixed With
coke obtained from its refining stills
is both better and cheaper than fuel
oil
Thomas W. Lawson of Boston, stock
operator, copper king and millionaire
yachtsman, is the author and publisher
of a history of the Americas cup, is
sued in "A private edition of 5000 cop
les. A year of labor on the part of
compilers, artists, engrayers, printers
and others working with Mr.. Lawson
has gone into the book, and 800, 600
also.
fudge Caron in the superior court
at Quebec, last week, discharged from
custody Col. John +. Gaynor and Capt.
Benz ID. Greene whose extradition
the United Estates wants, in connec-
ton with alleged frauds in harbor
work for the federal government in
volving millions of dollars. The Unit
ed States government will now insti
tute new eytradition proceedings,
The first negro exposition ever held,
the Middle States and Mississippi Val
ley Exposition. opened in Chicago
Thursday night, President Roosevelt
pressing a button in his library at
Oyster Bay as signal. The exposition
will close September Ii and will show
the progress of the negro from the
abolition of slavery, 40 years ago. Over
2Ostates and territories are represented.
Santos Dumont, tho aeronaut, who,
is was expected, would make flight
in his machine from Brighton Beach
to the Battery, New York, sailed for
France last week. He said the expect
not been put up and that as he is not a
lltl1 IlluI Ilt CouItI ApL llldht tlIC VAL
bition. He will return to this coun
try in time for the airship contest at
the St. Louis exposition.
An Internal machine, containing
several pounds of gunpowder in highly
concentrated form was recently sent to
II. f. Pattison, ex-governor of Penn
sylyania and the present Democratic
nominee for that office. The plot to
assassinate Mr.. Pattison was divulged
by anonymous letters, and leaked out
because one of the senders became in
toxicated and talked too much. The
senders of the package have been ar
rested.
\ small party of Moros surprised an
outpost of the 9th infantry at Camp
Wears, Mindanao, August II. Sergt
Foley and Private Carey were killed
and Private EanDorn was severely
The Moros. who numbered
only a dozen. were armed with spears
and swords. They escaped with pos
sibly a few wounds. They were all
from Bacoclod. The American sen
tinels were terribly cut by the swords
and spears.
The president has ordered that here
i
the army who die in the Philippines
be cabled to this country once in every
two weeks. 1t costs an average of 81 80 .
to cable news to this country of the
death of an officer in the Philippines.
and about $50 for each enlisted man.
This difference is due to the fact that
5he war department has code numbers
or all its officers while the names of
he enlisted men, together with their
company, regiment, etc. must be sent
n full
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Fair of San
Francisco were killed while riding in
racing automobile near Evreux,
france, Thursday. The machine was
unning at the rate of so miles an hour
When one of the pneumatic tires burst,
he automobile sweryed to one side and
rashed into tree. Mr.. Fairs head
vas crushed in, his wife's skull was
pitt and the chauffeur became insane
rom shock. Charles Fair was the son
f ex-senator Fair of California and :
rother of Mrs. Hermann Oelrichs and
1rs W. X. Vanderbilt, Jr.. of New ,
'ork. He was disinherited by his father
or his marriage in 1898 to Maude Mel I
on in San Francisco. In 1896 be won '
suit for his share of his fathers enor- '
nous fortune of over $50, 600. 600. after !
sensational trial
Prof. W. J. MCGEE of the govern !
lent geological survey declares that
be Great Salt Lake of Utah is vanish