Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-23
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

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Paris Experiments Confirm Success OF Nieo'
tine Naturalization The Coronation OF the
Spanish King and Discovery of Plot Against
Him-Russian Author Tolstoi, Pleads Peas
ants Cause to Czar-Arms for Chinese Reb-
els.
M. Deutsch, president of the Aero
club of Paris, frightened by the fate
of M. Severe, the Brazilian aeronaut
who was killed by the explosion OF his
balloon recently, has abandoned ar
ship experiments.
Although the Chinese foreign Office
reports the Chi Lii rebellion quelled,
the rebels are receiving arms and hos
tilities continue. The insurgents now
number 30, 600 under the leadership OF
Tsin Min Pin, the military mandarin.
A plot against the life of Emperor
Francis Joseph of Austria has just been
frustrated. When the emperor was go
ing from Vienna to Budapest a bomb
covered with paper was found IN the
compartment, evidently intended to
explode the moment the emperor en-
tered the car
The wife and child of Rev. Ludwig
Wolff, a German missionary, have been
slain by natives for cannibal feast at
Paparatava, New Guinea. Reys
James Chalmers and G.. +. Tompkins
were also killed for the same reason,
The guilty natives have been cleared
from the neighborhood of Paparatava,
80 being killed and 10 captured. All
the plantations in the district were
destroyed.
The British have just made one of
the biggest drives in the war against
the Bechuanaland blockhouse line.
Gen. Hamilton and others have gath
cred in 400 prisoners including 100
rebels and recalcitrant Beers who have
caused much trouble in the past. A
brother of General Delarey and sew
eral other commandants, are among
the prisoners The Beers surrendered
without much fighting. Five hundred
escaped in the earlier stages of the
drive There were no British casual
ties
Experiments at Paris by various
French physicians confirm the success
of the discovery which neutralizes the
nicotine in tobacco, so that cigars and
cigarettes, while retaining their per
feet aroma, are absolutely uninjurious
to the health. DR.. Gautier smoked 30
large black cigars in II hours without
any bad effect and usually three
smoked successfully make him i'll. DIR.
Bouisson made boy of -, non
smoke four cigars during an
afternoon, and the pulse of the boy
a ia nj ri aud he ytyuG mot nDi1Gnatp6
Fastidious amateurs have failed to
distinguish the neutralzed cigars from
the ordinary ones. The process is Sc I
bacco leaves for several hours in some !
liquid compound.
In letter to the czar beginning, /
Dear Brother" last week, Count .
Tolstoi, the Russian novelist, plead
-he peasants cause and received gra
,ious reply which admitted there was
much truth in bis observations. The
etter referred to the abolition of serf
ION by Alexander III and held that
he only possibility of raising the peas
mt to the position rightfully his as a
rec man is by speedy help from the
hrone 1t argued that the czar would
De relieved of great care and burden If
lie would let the peasantry represent
heir own interests and advance their
,wn claims, these words referring to
he advsability of constitution for
he empire. 1t also suggested the pur
base of land for rental to peasants at
practicable price.
Alfonso Mi was made king of Spain
saturday afternoon in the chamber of
equities at Madrid, before an immense
including all the members
{ the Cortes, Spanish grandees and
oreign representatives. The ceremony
as simple. less than ten minutes be
~ required to transfer one who that
ay reached his 10th birthday into a
ller of $1,000, 600 of people. The
Dung monarch swore on crucitiX to
bserve the Spanish constitution and
lie coronation was over. No crown or
Their sign of authority was given. +
fter the oath. the king received the
of the cardinal archbishop
Toledo at the cathedral San Fran
SEQ, returning TO the palace to re
live congratulations of foreign en-
oys. Friday the young king was in
ested with the English order of the
arter by the Duke of Connaught;
lie Siamese royal order by the Grown
rince of Siam, and with the Gordon
leu of the order of the Seraphim by
rince Eugene of Sweden. An an
chist plot against King Alfonso has
zen discovered, and six arrests, in
uding that of Gabriel Lopez. an EN-
oye of an insurance company, have
zen made. Dynamite cartridges were
und on the premises whore Lopez
as apprehended. Lopez says he re-
lived a package of cartridges from an
her anarchist with instructions to
row them at the moment of the pas
ge of the royal carriage in Saturdays
ocession. The police have had an
killing of this plot since March.
,ain is said to be in a greatly i'm
owed state since the war. King ALL
$50 is the youngest ruler in Europe:
e only unmarried king in Europe: =
oroughly educated and speaking En- 4
sh. French, German and Italian =
entity; was an able tactician at II !:
d loves the army: hopes to recover ::
aims national greatness and has !:
ne of the most marvellous palaces in ):
: world. !:
,ursions to San Francisco and Portland. s
Iay % to June I, the Nibkel Plate =