Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-05
THE WINDHAM COUNTY REFORMER FRIDAY, DECEMBER

congress by Secretary of the Treasury
SHAW are total $3.50, lS9, ll2: treasury
: department, SIP, 600, 600 anterior, 5lG3,
oOu,oOO: war, Sl3O, 600, 900.
Seven men were killed and fifteen
seriously injured Saturday by the ex-
ploslon of a boiler in the electric plant
of Swift IL Co, S packing establish
ment at Chicago 1t is feared that
other bodies are buried under the
wreckage. The injured were horribly
scalded
The exports of manufactures from
the United States in the nine months
ending with September, 1902, are larg-
er than those in the corresponding
period of any other year in the history
of the country. with the single eXcep-
tion of 1900. The total for the nine
months is S3ll, 1902, AL. against S29s
goo, Dol in the corresponding month of
last year.
j. Ogden Armour of Chicago will en-
dow a hospital with 50, coo, 600. To be
called the Lolita Armour Institute
of Bloodless Surgery" 1t will be an
institute of Prof Adolph I.orenz's
school of surgery and Mr.. Armour
wishes Prof. Lorenz to be at the head
of it. This hospital will be "A monu-
ment Of gratitude for the healing of lit
tie Lolita Armour by Dr. Lorenz.
The national, non-partisan reciproc
lty league has Just been formed in Chi |
cago. The result it aims at is reciproc- +
lty, primarily with Cuba and Canada, (
and eventually with the whole civil /
lied world. The league will hold its 7
first annual convention in Detroit, /
Dec. lO-1l, sending out more than 1000 .
invitations, among others to governors .
of states, members of the Canadian .
cabinet and parliament Gov. Cum
Minis of Iowa will address the conven-
ton on the Iowa reciprocity scheme.
A terrible eruption of Soufriere vol
cano, st. Vincent, took place last week
A volume of intensely hot water, 200
feet wide, descended on the windward
side. Residents of Georgetown and the
adjacent districts fled from their homes
on account of the excessive heat. There
was no loss of life. An eruption SINH
lar to this, took place seven months af-
ter the great disaster of 1872 This is
the fifth big outburst since the catas-
trophe of May !. Mont Pelee on Mar
Unique, was also in violent eruption
last week.
News has been received of the com
plete destruction of Quezaltenango
City, in Guatemala, Mexico, by the
volcano of Santa Maria which, at last
reports, was still in violent eruption.
a bout $500 lives were lost in Cham
perico. Absolute ruin threatens many
planters and the livelihood of thous-
ands of natives for months to come has
been taken away by the destructive
work of the volcano, Many people were
killed by poisonous gases and water
poisoned by lead, anthony and arsen-
ic, elected from the volcano.
Peter Dune of New York, interna-
tionally famous as newspaper humor-
ist chiefly by his Dooley stories. will
be married next month TO Miss Mar
garet Abbott of Paris. formerly of Chi
cago. The couple will live in New York
Mr.. Dunno began life as Chicago re-
porter of baseball games. Then, TAX
ing up the philosophy of James Nc /
Garry, a saloon keeper in Dearborn
street, he began writing Irish dialect
stories in which McGarry was known
as ." Mr.. Dooley.' Later he developed
this line of work into national ques
tions.
John l.. Smith, who was marshal of
the District of Columbia from 1861 to O.,
1860 and who bore "A prominent part in :
the arrest and trial of Mrs Surratt and T.
others connected with the conspiracy !
to assassinate President Lincoln was .,
seriously burned in fire which des :
troyed his nome at Hillsdale, suburb
of Washington. last week. The warrant ,
for Mrs. Surratt'S arrest was burned :
in the fire along with several other
papers issued and used in the same t
case. Smith served the warrant and /
kept it in his possession valuing it /
above all his other property
The annual report of the director of l
the mint at Washington, shows that !.
the plumber of pieces of money coined !
last year has never been exceeded in i
the history of the country but the ag- Il
gregate value of the coinage declined :
from sl36, $40, ISL in 1901 to S94, 526, 67S =
last year. The coinage of 100, 600 sill a
YER dollars per month. now required by {,
law, will soon come to an end by rea- !,
son of the exhaustion of the stock of u
bullion. The gold coinage of the coun- y
Try is now entering almost entirely in
to storage The treasury now holds y
about 500. 600, 600 of coined gold, prob
,blv more than will be called for in a e
generation to come. y
In answer to several newspapers r
which have connected his name with /,
matters. Booker T. Washing n
on makes a statement to the effect {
hat his life work is the promotion and =
education of his race: and that what
he has had with the presi. :,
lent or any public officials have grown -
nut of his position as an educator He :,
avs. "there are about nine millions of "
negroes in the United States who are g.
liable under the law for taxes and mil ~
tarv service and who are punishable ~
or infraction of laws. They have no "
member of their race in the national -
aWmaking body, and it is right that :.
hose charged with making and eXecut- !,
ng the laws of the land should at :,
lines seek information directly from -
he negro race when their interests and "
citations with the whites among whom a. =,
hev live are concerned. Such infor az
nation. he says, he has and will al -
vays be ready to give, to promote more ~
relations between the races. :,
Postmaster General Payne has just If
ssued the annual postoffice report for ir
he fiscal year ending June 30. 1t oil
bows the total receipts of the past year Ii
O be sl21, SiS, Oh 26: expenditures, Of
I24. 49,. 691. ca defic itfor the year, g, n,
81. 649 81. Compared with the year a
9Ol il shows an increase in receipts and n,
but decrease in the de- il
icit. The estimates for the coming Ia
.o,r Of 1Q09 arc RpceintS Sl32. Sl4, -