Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-19
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

land Suddenly Disappears Fatal Picture
Book Wife Of Senator Stewart Killed in an
Automobile Accdent-The Moros.
Earthquake shocks occurred August
II along the coast of Alaska between
Muir and Yakutat,
Plans are being made to take the
Philippine census, the work to be in
charge of the Taft commission.
The big beef combine is said to be
practically completed at Chicago, to be
come an actual fact after the November
elections.
Justice Horace Gray, who retired
from the United States supreme bench
in the spring. died at his residence in
Nahant. Mass, Monday morning, of
paralysis. He was born in Boston in
1928.
Capt. W. Andrews of Boston, who
twice crossed the Atlantic in a l5-foot
cookie she'll, has been pronounced dead
by the Massachusetts court. The ia
nous mariner sailed October last,
from Atlantic City with his bride, to
whom he had been married by Mayor
Stoy in the presence of 1900 people.
An oil fire has caused 800, 600 loss
in the Beaumont, Tex, oil field.
Burning oil was spouted a hundred
feet high The fire was started by a
careless workman with lantern,
which caused an explosion. The oil
was drawn from the tanks as soon "a
possible and they burned themselves
out
Leading Catholics will request of
President Roosevelt immediate and
thorough investigation of the report
that ecclesiastical property and objects
of Catholic veneration have been
found on the U. S. army transport Blu
ford. If these things are church loot
they want the property returned and
the officers punished
The island of Bermeia, in the Gulf
of Mexico has suddenly disappeared.
No reefs have been found on the spot
formerly occupied by the island. which
was small strip of land in the Gulf
of Mexico Of which encyclopedias and
navigation and geographical treatises
took no note. 1t is believed to have
been without inhabitants,
The prohibition party Of Cortland
county, New York. has introduced a
proposition which demands that every
man who drinks intoxicating bever-
ages shall take out license costing
not less than - a year. Every six
months the names Of the license holders
are TO be published in the official
newspapers of the county. The lead
ers also propose TO introduce meas
ure of this nature in the legislature.
Forest fires in Oregon have destroyed
thousands of dollars worth of proper
ty, including houses, barns and stock
Smoke backed up from the coast in
solid bank Thursday night and caused
an unusual phenomenon, the setting
sun turning the sky to yellowish
green. Business throughout Astoria
generally was suspended and every
where lights were turned on. The girls
employed in a packing house ceased
work to pray.
Lieut.. r. L. Peary, the Arctic eX
plorer, is on his way home on the re
lief ship Windward. In message
from Chateau Bay, Labrador. he says
all on board are we'll Lieut.. Peary
sailed with his expedition TO the North
Pole July 4, 1898. He wintered at
Cape Sabine in Grinnell Land last win I
ter, and was to have made a final eff
fort to reach the North Pole in June
last The relief ship Windward, Capt. I
Dedrch in command, left New York
last July.
William Zeigler has cabled Evelyn
B. Baldwin, lea Ter of the Baldwin Zeig-
Ter expedition, to return to New York
at once. He wishes to obtain full par
ticulars of the voyage, but has no in
tention of abandoning the expedition
Rn1I Of
serted that he would not return to New
York until he had been to the North
Pole The maritime court of inquiry
has decided in Baldwin's favor in re-
gayd to the difference between him
and Johannsen, his former sailing
master.
The confederate veterans of New Or
leans last week declined the protfered
aid of Gen. Torrance, commander-in-
chief of the Grand Army, in building
4 home for INDECENT confederate sol
1iers in Alabama The army of the
Tennessee adopted resolutions referring
% Gen. Torrance's offer in the kindest
5erms, but saying: I'VE cannot ac
,ept even this generously protfered as {
;istance from any source save our own t
people. 1t is the duty of the South {
md the South alone, to provide for t
soldiers who may need as '
distance. l
Mrs. Sibby A. Paggett of Alexan- l
lria, Va, who claims to be the Bet e
ey Ross of the Confederate states,
having made the first Confederate flag, C
las just been buried at Alexandria, f
She made the flag for James Jackson v
# the Marshall house. As soon as it a
vas raised, Col Elmer Ellsworth, the a
Dung, impetuous friend of President c
lincoln, demanded that it come down. Il
ackson shot him as he was coming C
own the stairs with the flag. The s
,eapon with which the murder was f,
is on exhibition in the ma
ional museum. a
Prof. G. W. Hough of Northwestern d
University, Illinois, reports, from his re
lmmer observations from Dearborn IL
observatory, that in all probability OF
eople superior in intelligence to those II
the earth inhabit the planet Mars. c.
he conclusion includes the acceptance L
the theory of evolution, and the a
atements of leading astronomers that eS
imatic conditions of Mars are the
lme as of the earth. The possibility II
Venus and Mercury being inhabited n
admitted, because they have solidi- in
ed, and the intense heat resulting tie
ON their proximity to the sun may 81
i've been overcome by deeper cover in
g in atmosphere. None of the other at
anets, in the opinion of the profess in
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