Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-03
THE WINDHAM COUNTY REFORNER FRIDAY OCTOBER B.
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS
Hundreds OF People Drowned in Terrible
Storm in Sicily Improvement OF Fee Prs
ons by Sultan OF Morocco Uprising in Mon
astir Against Turkish Towns-Queen Maria
Christina of Spain Marries Count de la Es-
cosura Successful Experiments in Wireless
Telephony Death of Novelist lola
The emperor of Korea, last week re-
ported dead. is said by later des-
patch to be alive and we'll.
A novel engine for marine propulsion
has just been patented in London which
the inventor claims will reduce the
crossing of the Atlantic to three days
journey,
The evacuation of Manchuria has
been begun by the Russians who have
already returned the railway The ter
ritory up the Lao river will be com
pletely evacuated by October 5,
The Siamese are said to have poi
soned the Raiah of Ptni, kidnapped
some time ago: and to have sent war
ship after the Rajah of Tulobin, who
will be compelled to sign document
by which he virtually abandons his
right to the kingdom of Siam. Intense
indignation prevails among the Malays.
The inhabitants of all the villages in
the viayet of Monastir, Macedonia,
have risen and the revolutionists are
marching against the Turkish villages
More troops are being sent to suppress
the rising, but the situation is regard
al Tho u 1trlC p,,l +r
be only waiting signal from the
Vildiz Kiosk to begin plundering and
massacre.
Ernest RUNNER, the psychist, has
been following the line of Prof. Ora
ham Bells experiment with light, in
wireless telephony, on the Wannsee
lake, Germany, and has obtained en-
couraging results His invention is
said to act on the principle of the
transformation of light waves by using
a searchlight and a microphone. Clear
and loud sounds were heard at dis
tances of about two and a half and
four and a quarter miles respectively.
A Buddhist uprising is threatened
in Ceylon due to the act of the British
officials in threatening the Dissertation
and destruction of ancient shrines in
Anuradhapura which is to the Budd-
hists as great as Mecca is to the Mo
hammedans or Jerusalem to the Chris
tians. For 300 years this historic city
on account Of its hallowed associations
has received the homage Of five hun
bred millions of Buddhists of China.
Japan. Siam, Gambodia, Burmah, In.
dia, Thibet, etc.
The sultan of Morocco is carrying
out his promise to improve the pris-
ons and the condition Of the prisoners.
At Fee, the prisons have been cleaned.
and drainage systems and a supply of
fresh running water introduced, Food
is now supplied to the prisoners by the
government. Inquiries are also being
made in regard TO the charges under
which the prisoners are held and
large number have been released. The
officials have been instructed to insti
tute similar reforms throughout the
\ terrible earthquake i reported
from Russian Turkestan occurring Aug.
~. the shocks continuing until Sept. 3.
loo persons were killed at kashgar. in .
eastern Turkestan, 400 in the village
IF Astyn, 30 at Jaugi. while the town
IF Aksuksitche was completely DIES
troyed. The disturbances wrecked .
many villages in the northern part of
The province, the total of killed being
1000. There were no premonitory signs
cut a pronounced rise in temperature
the principal shock The
own of Artush, west of Kashgar, was
'educed to ruins. 667 persons killed
md 1000 others were injured