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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28

The volcano of Kilauea is showing
signs of renewed activity. VISITORS 10
the crater last week found newly risen
lava and great heat.
The dowager empress and the EN-
peror of China granted a new year
audience to the diplomatic corps
Thursday The diplomats on. entering
the hall rushed toward the throne;
scramblng for sight of the imperial
party. The officials said the emperor
sneered noticeably several times, as IN
the case of the first audience. Their
majesties were subjected to the opera
ton of cameras, which the Chinese
consider undignified.
At meeting of the Marconi Wire
less Telegraph company at London
Thursday M. Marconi said that his
system is now in permanent use on 10
ships and there are % land stations;
that the defects with reference to Sc
recy have been removed and that he
would challenge the interception of
messages that his next series of trans
Atlantic experiments will include the
transmitting of words and sentences,
that there is nothing now to prevent
the company from undertaking com
mercial communications with ships at
sea. Marconi sailed for Canada Sat
urday.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone, the American
missionary, who, with Nine. Tskilka,
was captured by brigands in the Dis
trict Of Salonika, September 3, has been
released and arrived at Strumitza,
Macedonia, Sunday. Nobody was at
Strumitza to meet Miss Stone, as the
brigands had given no indication where
they proposed to release the prisoner.
Nine. Tsilka and her baby were also
released at the same time. They are
all well. Miss Stone Immediately made
herself known to the authorities at
Strumitza. The ransom of S67 200, sub
scribed in the United States, was paid
over two weeks ago. The American
delegates who paid it will not tell
where or how the money was paid, ow-
ing to the necessity of protecting in
nocent persons who assisted them. But
it is said to be practically certain that
the money goes to the Macedonian
committee, and that the capture and
punishment of the abductors is not
likely to be attained. Spencer Ed
dy, who had charge of the negotiations
for her release, arrived in New York
Sunday on the Kronprinz Wilhelm from
Constantinople. He says the kidnap-
ping was political matter planned to
raise money for the freeing of Mace
donia from Turkish rule. They wished
to get money and to attract the atten-
ton of the world to their captivity. 1t |
is now said that the story of the arrest |
of Rev. Tsilka for completely in the
kidnapping was Paris fabrication.
Miss Stone will rest for a few days at
Strumitza before starting for Constan-
tinople. U. s. Minister John G. A.
Leishman, who has been much criti-
cised for trusting the brigands with
the ransom money before the release of
the captives, is now being congratu-
lated on the success of his action.
There is great rejoicing at the head
quarters of the American Board of Mis-
sions at Boston over Miss Stones lib
grafton.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28
Saved Him From Torture.

There is no more agonizing trouble than
life inl"h rib e No position Is confortsble
he tortufe IN uncensiDg. Dewiit's Witch
Hazel SAILS t cures piles vi once. For kin l..
eases cuts. burns. bruises. a kinds of wound.
IL j. uneql allied. j. S. i'erall, st Paul. Ark,
saws: FRI m 1865 ! suffered with the protru,i-
iny. blee ling piles ami could find nothing to
Ia lp me Until | used DeWiit's Witch Hazel
Salve. 4 few hoxes completely cured me-"
Beware If counterfeit. Gree ue's Drug Store.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28

/ Gen. Frederick Funston, in discus
sing at Kansas City the "water cure,
form of torture charged against thu
soldiers in the Philippines, said thai
he had never seen the water cure
applied, but he had heard it described.
The victim is bound and a canteer
forced into his mouth. His head is
thrown upward and back and his nose
grasped by the fingers of the torturer.
Strangulation follows as matter OF
course. When the victim is about suf-
located the application is released and
he is given chance to talk on recov-
cry or another dose of it, The ope ra-
ton is brutal beyond a doubt, but
hardly fatal. The general denies en-
phatically the charge made by soldier
that he had helped administer the
"water cure" to 100 soldiers.
For the third time since New Years
day Park Avenue, New York, was Sat,
urday the scene of loss of human life
by "a fire, which started in the Seven
ty-First regiment armory at Twenty
third street and then spread to the
Park Avenue hotel, where IS persons
were killed and so injured 1t was the
WOiSl uobcl uIe SIuCe tue w lHuSOT was
destroyed. The money loss is estimat-
ed at 81, 100000. The armory, gran
lite structure, one of the finest in the
city, was totally destroyed. Guests
to the number of 600 were in the
hotel when the fire broke out and
there was great panic among them in
attempting to escape as the lights all
went out and the building was full of
smoke. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by sparks from the ar
mory fire, whose origin is a mystery.
Among those who lost their lives in
the hotel was Mrs. Salome Foster, the
Tombs Angel" who had worked in
behalf of female prisoners in the
Tombs and other city prisons for many
years. Mrs. Foster was the widow of
John W. Foster, and had lived at the
Park Avenue hotel for the last five
years. Her income, which at one
lime was considered large, was for the
most part expended upon the deserving
Door. Other victims were Col. Alex |
lnder Piper, U. S. A., retired in 1891, |
md Col. Charles Burdett of Hartford,
read of the first Connecticut infantry
md at one time mayor of Hartford. |
The Park Averue hotel was built in
he early seventies by A. T. Stewart as
women's hotel armory. 1t cost $780,,
90 and occupied the entire block on
Park Avenue from 33d to 34th streets.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28
H AII. DS.
CENTRAL VERMONT RY. CO.
Southern Division

Trains leave Brattleboro as follows:
5.23 a. m. Daily for Springfield and New York,
40 a m, for Millers Falls. Palmer and New
london. Connecting at Millers Falls with
Boston ~ Maine X. r., at Palmer with Boston
Albany r. R., at New London with n Y, N.
H. &. II. r. r.
VIC a. m, for Springfield and New York
ton. s
2'l2 p m, for Springfield and New York.
I'D p. m, for Springfield and New York Daily.
435 p; m. for Millers Falls and stations On
Fltchburg Division Boston & Maine r. R..
Talmer and New London and New York via
Norwich Line. W"
Narrow Gauge trains for South Londonderry
leave Brattleboro at Z 80 a. m, and i az n. m;
subject to change without notice.
rams run week days only except as noted
T. H. FITZHUGH. V. P. and G.. Nj. ST. Adams.
). W. CUMMINGS, G. p. A, st. Adams,
Corrected to Nov. a. 1901.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28
Notes.

The House committees on territories
Friday unanimously voted to report
bills for the admission to the union of
the territories of New Mexico, Arizona
and Oklahoma and ub-committees
have been appointed to prepare such
bills.
The condition of things in Indian
Territory was brought up in the House
at Washington last week. 1t was de-
clared that 397, white men there
had no voice in the government, and
80, 600 children of school age had no
schools. The action of congress was
demanded that territorial form of
government be set up there. There are
80 towns and cities whose wealth
amounts to $50, 900, 900.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28

The presidents son, who has been i'll
with pneumonia at Groton, Mass, was
taken safely to Washington, Saturday,
accompanied by Mrs. and Miss Roose-
welt and DR.. Rixey. He continues to
improve.
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylva-
MIA, Connecticut and Long Island were
visited by the worst storm of the win
ter Friday night. 1t was a storm that
coated everything with ice and tele-
graph, telephone and train service was
practically at standstill for "a hours.
Much damage was done by high winds.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28
THE PROFESSIONS.

RACON 8. HOOKER Attorneys at Law. IL
- and II Ullery Building. 25-tf
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-28

What's the secret of happy, vigorous
health? Simply keeping the bowels,
the stomach, the liver and kidneys
strong and active. Burdock Blood Bit
tiers does it.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
TRADE CONDITIONS.
II. q. Dun n Co.'s Weekly BuIIetIn--s
Business Is Satisfactory.

New York, May 24.-R. G. Dun &
Co.'S Weekly Review of Trade says:
Many minor labor controversies have
been settled, but the situation in the
anthracite coal region has assumed IL
more serious aspect. Railway earn
ingS continue satisfactory, roads re-
porting for two weeks of May show
gains of 61 per cent. over last year
and 1874 per cent. over 1900.
No change is reported in the iron
and steel situation, former conditions
merely becoming intensified by the
threatened decrease in supplies of
fuel and the labor controversies in
certain branches of industries.
The railways are seeking rails,
rolling stock and other equipment,
while contractors require much struc-
tural material.
Slight concessions are now obtain
able in some lines of footwear, al
though the market as a rule is fairly
steady, but dull. Leather is firmly
held, especially desirabl weights adj
vancing.
Print cloths are quiet at last weeks
decline.
Quiet conditions have prevailed in
the cereal markets, with only a mod
crate volume of option transactions
and fractional changes in quotation.
Exports of wheat, including -four.
were only 1868, SOS bushels during
the past week from all ports of the
United States, against 5,225,13O bush
els in the corresponding week last
year. Small receipts of corn, amount
ing to only 1,263,1SS bushels for the
week, against 2,efT,Gf2 year ago,
held the spot price at about 70 cents.
Dispatches from correspondents of
r. G. Dun & Co. indicate satisfactory
progress with the new corn crop and
a material increase in acreage.
Failures for the week numbered
1872 in the United States against $50
last year and 12 in Canada against
% last wear.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
DISTINGUISHED VISITORS.
President Roosevelt Meets the Guests
of the NatIon-They visit w ashing-
toms Tomb,

Washington, May 23.-Surrounded
by the members of his cabinet, and
by officials high in all the branches of
the government, President Roose-
welt yesterday received as the guests
of the nation, the distinguished
Frenchmen sent by President Loubet
to take part in the Rochambeau ex-
ercises. The arrival in the city of the
brilliantly uniformed French army
and navy officers, and their escort
through Pennsylvania avenue by a
troop of United States cavalrymen,
gave picturesque interest to the occa-
sion, and to this was added the inter
national significance of an extremely
cordial exchange of greetings be-
tween the representatives of the two
nations.
After the presidents reception at
the White House, the French visitors
exchanged calls with members of the
cabinet and Lieut.. Gen. Miles and
Admiral Dewey.
In the afternoon they iOurneyed to
Mount Vernon, where Gen. Brugere,
of the French army, placed Il laurel
wreath on the tomb of Washington
and Count de Rochambeau planted a
tree taken from the battle-ground of
Yorktown. Last night President
Roosevelt had the French party as
his guests at dinner at the White
House.
Annapolis, Md, May 24.-The lunch
con given yesterday on board the
French battleship Gaulois in honor
of President Roosevelt was one of the
most memorable incidents of the Wis
it of the distinguished French sol
tiers and sailors to this country.
The president was welcomed by
Ambassador Camdon in the name of
President Loubet, to which President
Roosevelt responded briefly.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
100 MEN ENTOMBED.
Gas Explosion in a British CO.
lumbia Mine.
Little Hope Entertained of Rescuing
Any OF the Unfortunate Wen
Alive Eighteen Bodies
Found--Eictims Are
Foreigners.

Vancouver =. C., May 24.-One of
the most terrible mine disasters in
the history of the frequent accidents
in British Columbia occurred Thurs
day night in the Crows Nest Coal
Co.'S mine, at Fernie, b. c. Over 100
men are either dead or imprisoned in
the mine, and little hope is enter
tanned of rescuing any who may yet
be alive. Fernie is 300 miles up coun-
try and the limited telegraph facili-
ties have not enabled complete de-
tails of the disaster to be sent out.
The management has a list of 1913
men who are known to have been in
the mine, and there were probably
others. Of these only 24 are known
to be safe. 1t is feared that few, il
any, of the remaining men are now
alive.
What caused the explosion has not
yet been definitely ascertained. Many
of the miners were ignorant for
eigners and one of the mine shafts
was always more or less gaseous
The true cause of the disaster will
probably not be positively ascer-
tanned, for it is doubtful if any man
who knows will ever reach the outer
air alive, or be able to tell the tale.
The explosion took place in No.
shaft, being repeated in few sec
onds in No. with which it was con-
nected.
From all available sources assist
ance is being rushed to the scene of
the calamity. Already the work of
liberation has been begun with such
means as are at local command and
Is bodies have been taken from the
mine. The presence of coal damp
makes the work of rescue very dam
gerous and is seriously hindering the
efforts of the workers.
These are the outlines of most
heartrending calamity, the only dis
aster which has occurred in British
Columbia exceeding it in magnitude
being the death of 157 men in Well
ington mine IS years ago.
The Is bodies already recovered
were those of men who had been en-
gagged at work not a great distance
from the mouth of the tunnel, and
the fact that they were overcome
would seem to indicate that there is
little hope for those further in the
mine.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
RIOT IN WORKHOUSE.
One Wan Killed and Two Others Are
wounded at Canton.

Canton, May 22.-Three men were
shot in riot at the Stark county
workhouse Wednesday morning.
Guard George Jacob was instantly
killed and Guard Homer L. Stone was
fatally wounded. Stone was shot
twice. The shooting was done by
Charles Gigantic, prisoner. During
the riot, Gigantic was fatally shot.
Gigantic, a Stark county prisoner,
sent up for driving horse to death,
jerlled a revolver from the pocket of
a new guard named KlotZ and at once
opened fire. Immediately the whole
crowd of prisoners and officials were
in panic.
One of Gigante's wounds, it has de-
veloped, was self-intlicted in an ef-
fort to kill himself after he had killed
Jacob and wounded Stone. He has
made statement regretting the
grief he has caused others, but ex-
pressing satisfaction so far as he is
concerned. He expects to die. In his
statement he says that he was urged
to the act by other prisoners and
that it was a part of plot hatched
by a number of them. Workhouse Of
ficials do not believe this part of his
story, partly because none of the pris-
oners made hostile move after the
shot was fired.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
BURNED AT STAKE,
Negro who Assaulted IA White woman
Meets an Awful Fate.

Longyiew, Tex, May 23.--A man
hunt, which had been in progress
since last Saturday, ended yesterday
in the burning at the stake of Dull
ley Morgan, a negro, who assaulted
Mrs. Mckee, wife of a Texas d Pa
cific section foreman, at Lansing,
Lansing switch and arrangements
were made to burn the negro.
The negro was not taken from the
train on the side where the crowd
was, and when the engineer started
to pull out, several Winchesters were
leveled at him and others of the train
crew. They were told if they moved
the train an inch they would bo
killed. The prisoner was Identified
by Mrs. Mckee and several negroes
who worked on the section with Nor
gan. The negro was escorted by
about 200 men, armed with Winches-
ters, to the place of execution. As
he was chained to the stake he made
statement in which he implicated
another negro named Franklin
Heard, saying Heard was to get r4rt
of the money which was to be stolen.
Morgan confessed to having COM
mitted the crime and after he had
been securely chained to the rail with
his hands and legs free, the mob be-
gan to take railroad ties from a fire,
already started, and burn out his
eyes. They then held the red hot
and burning timbers to his neck, and
after burning his clothes off, to other
parts of his body. The negro
screamed in agony.
The negro's head finally dropped
and the ties were piled around and
over him. In half an hour only the
trunk of his body remained.
Mckee, the husband of the woman
assaulted, applied the match to the
faggOts.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
blaze at East Buffalo Causes a Loss
Estimated at S6OO,OOO - One Man
Killed,

Buffalo, May 23.-Fire which start
ed about midnight destroyed the
trasfer house of the East Buffalo
stockyards this morning. The flames
spread to the hundreds of cars sur
rounding the building and great
number of them We're destroyed.
Some of the cars were empty, but
the most of them contained valuable
merchandise. The transfer house was
a one-story frame building 1000 feet
in length. Owing to its location and
the crowded condition of the tracks
in the vicinity, it was nearly an hour
before the firemen succeeded in get
ting sufficient water to check the
rapid progress of the flames.
William Lester, switchman, was
struck by falling timbers from par
TALLY burned car and sustained in
iuries which resulted in his death be-
fore the arrival of an ambulance.
The car shops were saved. Nearly
500 cars werc destroyed. The loss is
roughly estimated at 100000.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29

Boston, May 23.-"Kosher meat"
disturbances broke out in the wesv
end section of this city yesterday.
About 800 Hebrews-men, women and
children-assembled in front of a
meat store, on Brighton street, and
threw eggs and decayed fruit at the
building The windows were smashed
and the stock of meats ruined. The
police interfcred and arrested two
women and one man, who were the
ringleaders. \ customer, who was
leaving the store with piece of
meat, was assaulted, and a woman
was injured during the stampede of
the crowd. Later crowds attacked
two meat stores in the North End.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
O'BRIEN TESTIFIES.
He Produces Dunn Dunn Bullets
Before the Committee.
Gen. CrOZier Says They Were the Reg
uiatlon BuIIet-NO Explosive Bull
lets Have Been Issued Since
the Petersburg COnyen-
tiOn In 1865.

Washington, May 22.-Corporal
O'Brien, formerly of the Twenty
sixth volunteer infantry, was before
the senate philippine committee
again yesterday, and produced the al
legged "dum dum," or explosive bull
lets. He said they were not like the
ordinary cartridges because they did
not have the letters ~. s." on them.
Gen. Crozier, chief of ordnance, was
next called.
Gen. Crozier, in the course of his
examination, said that the cartridges
produced by Mr.. O'Brien were not diff
ferent from the ordinary regulation
cartridges. Asked if they were "dum
dunn" or explosive bullets, the wit
ness replied in the negative. They
are perfectly normal bullets" he said.
The regulation Krag-Jorgensen bull
let, he said, often has practically the
same effect as a dun dunn" or eX-
plosive bullet. This effect was not al
way dependent upon distance. He re-
lated instances of laceration which
had come under his own observation.
He also said that no explosive bullets
had been issued since the st. Peters
burg convention of 1868.
O'Brien then was closely ques-
toned by Senator Beveridge, who
required the witness to go into very
minute details respecting his charge
that a number of American officers
had violated the person of a Spanish
woman at the time the town of lga-
baras was burned. The witness said
that in addition to her husband,
| there were several servants residing
in the house with this woman. He
had first heard of the woman in the
case because of the talk of her eNcep-
tional beauty, but that ne could not
remember whether the husband,
when he told him of the crime that
had been committed, had given the
name of any officers connected with
it. The man had stated, however,
that there were four of them en-
gagged in the affair.
Questions by the senator brought
out the fact that there We're then
Just four American officers in the
town of Igabaras. consequently" i"
said the senator, IF the statements
made by the woman's husband are
true, these four men are guilty of
the crime charged" The witness as
sented to this inference.
Senator Beveridge asked the wit
ness if he had made any report con-
cerning the treatment of the Spanish
woman. The witness replied that he
had not made such a report, "be-
cause" he said, II knew that if l
should have reported the affair l
would br dogged, and that my life
thereafter would be a hell"
"Why, then, did you volunteer a
statement in regard to the matter?'
81 wanted the committee to know
the facts as they had come to me-,
! he replied, land as | am now out of
| the army and a citizen of the United
States, felt that | would be safe in
reporting the matter"
He went on to say that it made no
difference how just the complaint of
a man in the army might be the man
who made it was sure to be bounded
| for doing so.
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29

Mr.. Robinson II the gentleman
will pardon me, this is not sick leave,
but vacation. In the first place, the
printing department in Washington
has no sick leave; they get an an
nual vacation of 30 days, but they
do not receive sick leave.
Mr.. Hemenway-I call the gentle
mans attention to the error he
makes-that there is a 30-days' sick
leave granted to other employees. The
table on page II of the report
shows that they do not get 30 days
sick leave; that the average sick
leave, over and above the 30 days an
nual leave, is only three days and a
fraction. Now, observe the state
ment You take all of the depart
ments at Washington, and the av-
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
Manufacture Of watches.

Washington, May ga special re-
port of the census bureau on watches
and watch eases was issued yester-
day, showing a capital of $22,754,4S3
invested in the manufacture of
watches and watch cases in the 43
establishments reporting for the
United States This does not repre-
sent the capital stock of any of the
manufacturing corporations. The
value of the products is S14,6O6.57l,
involving an outlay of $5s3,S for sal
aries Of officials, clerks, etc; $5,51l,-
SO for wages; $s89,9s2 for miscclla-
neous expenses,
Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-05-29
Murder and suicide.

South Bend, Ind, May 24.-John w.
Churry, aged 81, carpenter, shot and
killed his sweetheart, Susanne
Kecsltemeti, aged 16, Friday morning,
and then killed himself with the same
revolver. Churry and the girl, with
her parents, all apparently in good
spirits, sat on the porch until mid
night, when the parents retired.
About Is minutes later, the mother
heard three shots. She gave the mat
ter but little thought, however, and
went to sleep. At o'clock she awoke
and looking out saw The bodies of
her daughter and Churry lying on
the ground. The couple evidently
had planned to die together. They
apparently had lain on the ground
side by side. There was no indica-
tion of a struggle and no reason for
the tragedy is known.