Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-28
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS,
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY


iakes Command of Department of the Eas
-fure Food Experiments on ~ Youn,
Men-A Democratic Party Formed in Phil
ippines National Grange Declares for Wo
man Suffrage Panama Revolution Ended
Marriage and Divorce in Kansas.
Inc university of Chicago is +,
abandon co-education. AS the new
classes come In next year. they will bt
divided on the basis of sex.
DR.. Walter Reid, who traced the
spread OF yellow fever to the mosquito,
d!ed at the Washington Barracks hos,
pital Sunday, of appendicitis.
Justice Peckham of the United
states supreme court at Washington
upholds the mind cure or magnetic
healing as a lawful occupation.
James Stillman of New York has lust
gwen slOO,Oo0 to Harvard university
FOR professorship in comparative an
atomy. re has previously made note
worthy gifts to Harvard.
Further details of the damage done
by Guatemalan volcanoes state that
1000 natives We're killed. Some of the
coffee plantations nearly ruined were
worth more than Sl,000,0O0.
The national grange at Lansing.
Mich, Friday, declared in favor of
woman s suffrage and the checking of
lntemperance and easy divorces, but re
fused to indorse the initiative and ref
erendum.
The monument to mark the center of
population of the United States was
placed in position in Bartholomew
county, Indiana, last week, a large
crowd witnessing the ceremony. The
monument bears the simple inscrip-
tlon, Centre of population, 1900. -
Septimus Winner, who wrote 1.-The
Mocking Bird and hundreds of other
popular songs. died in Philadelphia
Sunday, aged 16years. He sold 1.-The
Moclling Bird" for So but the pub
llshers admitted years later, that they
had realized $1,000, 600 from its sale.
The Yale football team defeated the
HarVards % to at New Haven Satur-
day in the annual game for the Amer
lean championship The largest crowd
of people New Haven ever saw witness
ed the game and enormous prices were
charged for tickets by spectators,
In front of the Vanderbilt box at the
horse show, New York, Thursday, Car
RE Nation harangued the crowd on
the evil of immodest and eXtrayagant
dress She then went to the cafe and
expostulated with gentlemen who were
drinking wine, denouncing the caterer
in violent language. The police forced
her out of the building.
Nelson Hersh, editor Of the Sunday
World, New York. was instantly killed
while driving home TO West Brighton.
S. l., before daylight Thursday morn
ing. by being thrown from his buggy.
He fell on his head, breaking his neck
and fracturing his skull. He had been
newspapers of the country.
The revolutionary war on the 18TH
mus of Panama ended Friday in the
signing of peace treaty on board Ad
miral Casey's flagship, the Wisconsin,
between Gen. Herrera and the govern
ment commissioners. The terms were
favorable and honorable to both sides.
A dmiral Casey's conduct in connection
with the peace negotiations is greatly
praised.
A Democratic party has been formed
in the Philippines by prominent ma
tives. among them Gen. Lukban, who
led the insurgents in Samar and was in
of them at the time of the
massacre The new party
will demand a greater degree of self
government and the establishment of
two legislative chambers elected as in
this country
Gen. Adna r. Chatfee who has just
returned to this country after three
years absence on duty in Cuba, China
and the Philippines. has assumed com
mand of the department of the East to
succeed Gen. Macarthur. Gen. Chatfee
served in the Spanish American war
with distinction. He believes that
peaceful conditions will now prevail in
the Philippines, although ladronism,
which is causing considerable annoy
ance. will not be stamped out for some
years: and time and patience will be
needed to establish authority over the
Moro settlements.
Chief Wiley of the bureau of chems-
try of the agricultural department at
Washington, is this week conducting
series of experiments on II men for the
purpose of testing the physiological eff
fects of the use of the meat preserved
With borax and other chemicals. The
object is to decide what basis there is
Tor Germany's objection to American
meats on the ground that chemicals
used in their preservation are injurious
o public health The men are young
md vigorous. Six will he fed on pure
,oods and six on food chemically treat
I'd. The experiments will continue for
our weeks.
Robbers held up Rock Island train
-wo miles west of Davenport. Ia, FRI
Law night. The gang numbered II or
Is. They boarded the train as passen-
yers. captured the engine crew, de
'ached the engine and ran it to Rock
ngham. where they looted the safe
md made off. The loss approXlmates
500. GOO. of which not over $1,000 Will be
oss to the express company. Police
md citizens secured the woods Satur-
Law. The highwaymen are believed TO
rave taken the plumber to some, island
n the Mississippi, where they buried
+. then crossed to the Illinois shore
md are in hiding in the dense woods. |