Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-21
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY


Brothers Liberty Statue to Remain Light
ed-Sable Island Shrinking Volcanic Erup
ton From an Alaskan Mountain Three In
dictments Against Mrs. Soffel-Great Biz
card in the Northwest.
William NJ. johnson has resigned
his position as first assistant post
master general, on account of i'll health
and other personal reasons.
All approaches to Colon, Colombia,
are guarded and the government il
fortifying the town against another
rebel surprise and attack like that OF
last November.
The superintendent of Sable Island,
n. S., reports that measurements OF
the island, just taken, show in COM
parison with last years measurements
that the island is now 135 yards
shorter
The great Boston strike is a thing OF
! the past, nearly all the men having re-
turned to work the only friction now
being the refusal of employers to dis
charge non union help to make room
for old men.
Experts for Albert T. Patrick, now
on trial at New York for the murder of
Millionaire William M. Rice, all men
of authority, testified Thursday that
Rice's death was due to natural causes
and not to ,chloroform.
The secretary of the treasury has coun-
fernandez the order for the removal of
its electric light plant from the statue
of Liberty, on Bedloe's Island, New
V.,i, IL,
ment can make arrangements for light
ing and caring for the statue.
Andrew d. White, the American
ambassador to Germany, will retire
from his post next November. He will
then be 10 years old and his health is
not very robust, and he seeks the re
tirement from public life. Berlin
newspapers express great regret at this
news.
DR.. Emmanuel Pfefiier, the Bedford,
Mass, physician who contracted small
poX at Boston hospital where he
went voluntarily on a tour of inspec-
ton among the patients in order to
prove the truth of his vaccination
theories has recovered from the d.
sease after 10 weeks illness.
Andrew E. Watrous, for the last five
years leading editorial writer on the
New York Press and an able writer of
verse and fiction. committed suicide
by shooting last week. Fear of insan-
ity, brought on by a constant mental
strain and aggravated by a consequent
physical weakness, is said to have been
the motive for taking his life.
WI Ting Fang, the Chinese minis
ter to Washington, cabled to Pekin to
ascertain if there were any truth in
the report that charges had been filed
against him alleging that he had mis-
$50, 600 of the silver seized
at TienTsin by American marines.
Thursday he received a response that
no such charges had been made
Jim Younger, the paroled life CON
Wet of St Paul, wants to be married
but cannot, because in Minnesota a
life prisoner is civilly dead. Only
pardon will restore to him the rights
of living citizen. Another phase of
the law is that neither jim Younger
nor his brother Cole, who contemplate |
going into business, can be held for
any debts that they may incur.
The country delegates to Connect
cuts constitutional convention have /
adopted, by the necessary two thirds .
vote, that section of the proposed new
state constitution providing for one I
from each town and 60 .
This provides for house of .
representatives of 16S to 81 less than
the present house. The .
senate is increased from a to Co.
A letter from the Greek priest at
heneal, on Cook Inlet, Alaska tells of a
errific volcanic eruption in that yicin
ty about January |, The whole side
If an unnamed mountain seemed to be
'plit open and fire and lava were pour
ng from it,. The village of Keneal was
covered with ashes, and the earth
quake which accompanied the eruption
,aused several tidal waves, doing much
lamage
Seven members of the Monomy life I
aving station and five of the crew of
he barge Wadena which was stranded
N the Shovelful Shoal off Monomy
Point, Chatham, Mass, were drowned I
.Ionday by the capsizingof lifeboat
The life savers were trying to rescue
he five men on the barge which was {
by a sudden storm, when,
II lbV ltluih " oliOlt' q blS hdN I ga
lied the boat. t
Representatives of all classes of PEG {
lie in the state'joined at Chicago Sun |
ay in final tribute of respect to ex- {
iov. John p. Alteeld, who was bur '
ed in Graceland cemetery. In accor- I
ance with the wishes of Mrs. Altgeld
here was no military display For +
No hours in the morning, before the q
asket was sealed, a steady stream of +
eople viewed the body as it lay in a
ate in the public library building 3
lillian j. Bryan served as one of the =
onorary pail bearers. +
The bodies of six men have been =
,und in the Neches river near Beau i
ont, Tex, since January l, bearing Fl
,idence of foul play. Twenty or more a
rangers have recently disappeared
ION after reaching Beaumont and
attic Bennett, a negresS, arrested for
lie murder of one of the men, has con-
ssed that she is the head of a band r
negresses and white men who have a
rugged, robbed and in some instances r
He'd strangers who have come to the ~
ty. ~
Indictments in three cases against il
RS. Catherine Soffel, wife of ex- o
arden Peter X. Sotfel, growing out a
the escape of the Biddle brothers V,
ON Pittsburg, Pa, Jail were consd- b
ed by the grand jury and true bills OF
turned Should Mrs. Sotfel be con
cted upon the three charges the
aximum aggregate sentence that q
uld be imposed upon her is 16 years
prison and a fine of 50, 800. The III
argos are separate indictments for "
lonious assault and battery upon the Ill