Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-24

John d. Rockefeller has made gift
of another million dollars to the uni
versity of Chicago. Additional gifts
Will aggregate Sl,525,000.
Nearly 5000 Beers are coming to the
United States and will settle in Colo.
RADIO, New Mexico, and Texas. The
representative of this movement il
Gen. Samuel Pearson, late quarter
master general of the South Africa re
public, whose headquarters are in New
York
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell states
that during the past summer he has
made experiments with kites which he
expects will prove the solution of the
lying machine problem He says he
will make the details public before
some scientific body in the nea. flu
ture.
Daniel j. NJ. O'Callaghan, a lawyer
of New York, who refuses to give the
names of his clients, instituted pro
ceedings Friday against the General
electric company and the Westing
house electric and manufacturing com
panv for alleged violations of the Sher-
man anti trust law.
John the Baptist" as the Douk-
hobor leader is called is now in the
village of Terpinia, Man, where he is
still imbued with the idea that the
Messiah is wandering on earth in the
vicinity of Winnipeg, calling to his
true followers to leave all and follow
him. He is still agitating for revival
of the great pilgrimage
Three United States officers. includ-
ing b. f. Butler, supervisor of cleo
tons, were arrested at San Juan, Por-
| to Rico, Saturday, on the charge of
having Struggled Ga cases of liquor
from st. Thomas by the United States
tug Uncas and the lighthouse tender
Laurel. All the accused were released
on 81. 600 bail. This sort of smuggling
has been going on for long time and
1t is alleged that other arrests will fol
low The liquors were used at the
Century Club.
Rev. Mr.. Marks of Shelbyville,
Tenn, 81 years old, has a disease that
has batfied leading surgeons of the
United States. About four years ago
he noticed a growth on his hip bones,
Just under the skin. The growth
seemed to be thin layer of bone. 1t
has circled his body from the pelvic
bone to his chest, and is still growing
upward. He can walk and is in fairly
good health, but his body is as stiff
as though he were encased in coat of
steel mail.
Hosea NJ. Knowlton, attorney gen
eral of the state of Massachusetts from
1894 TO 1902, died Thursday night at
his summer home in Marion at the age
of 80, having been stricken with apo
plexy on the 9th. During his service
as attorney general he made consider
able reputation by his conduct of the
trial of Lizzie Borden on the charge
of numbering her father and step
mother. He had been put forward as
a candidate for the Republican nomn
alton for the governorship, but with
drew his name.
Rear Admiral Evans. who has been
in Chinese waters, will arrive in Ma
Mia on Christmas eve and anchor his
fleet in front of the city. The Admir-
al will sail for Subig Dec. 26, when /
the most important American manoeu-
vres ever attempted in the Orient will |
begin. The problems include the for
LITIGATION of base on the west coast |
of the island of Luzon by an attacking
fleet. the landing of marines and sail
ors. the unloading of heavy guns and /
the mounting of the same ashore with |
full supplies of ammunition.
The annual report of the commits |
sioner of education for Porto Rico says .
that the poorest schools there are as
good and in some respects better than
the poorest of the same grade in very
many parts of the United States. An
American free public school now ex-
cot tr in
co The school year closed last June
with S74 schools open, 40, 1913 pupils
enrolled and 923 teachers employed, an
increase of 10 per cent in the number
of schools, u per cent in enrolment
and 20 per cent in number of teachers
over the previous year. These fig .
ures show that under American civil
government the educational advantages
offered free to the masses of the peo-
pie as compared with the maximum
facilities provided by the Spanish gov
eminent have nearly doubled.
A Guatemala City correspondent of the
Associated Press says that the eruption
of the Santa Maria volcano, on account
Of its magnitude, may be regarded as
national calamity, The losses suffered
by German capital alone are not less
the present coffee crop having been de
stroyed. If the total destruction of
many other properties belonging to 4
other foreigners as well as to natives is
added to the amount the actual losses
aggregate to a huge sum. Besides the
loss of coffee, estimated at about 300,
100 quintals, the corn and wheat fields
are ruined. Business is entirely par
llvzed, owing to the high rate of eX-
and conditions are almost un-
0earable. Absolutely necessary articles
have reached inaccessible prices and
the poor are suffering therefrom.
Arbitration for the Venezuelan Dispute.
President Roosevelt has proposed to
-he allied powers that the Venezuelan
dispute be submitted to the arbitration
IF the Hague tribunal. The powers
have replied with a counter proposal
that President Roosevelt himself arbi
rrate the issues. The president will
consent to act in the matter
rather than see the dispute proceed to ,
extremes 1t is fully realized, how
ever, that decision rendered by him
would be sure to bring the enmity of
1ne or the other of the parties to the =,
King Edward issued a :
iecree, Saturday, declaring an embar- {
70 on Venezuelan ports. The blockade :
vas only partial for several days, Civ :
ng leeway to vessels sailing before =
Dec. 20. The British and German war ,