Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-14
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A RRrEr RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

Governments Cancer Research-NeWs lroi
the Bxaldwin-Zeigler Polar Expedition -Ce
Gil Rhodes Critically Ill at Cape Town
Serious British Defeat in South Africa
Charges Against Minister WI Ting'fang'
The revolutionary movement IN st
Petersburg is spreading in all dlrec
tions and assuming serious proper
tions The unrest has reached man.
parts of Siberia.
There is talk in Spain of prolongini
the regency of the queen for five years
or of forming a sort of kings councl
in order that the king may complete
his education by travel, etc, before
exercising the functions of sovereign
Cecil Rhodes is said to be in crit
ical condition at Cape Town from an
gina pectoris; his heart is enlarged
and is encroaching on the lung space
Relief is afforded by the periodical ad'
ministration of oxygen.
A great fire in the government ar
senal at L'Orient, fortified seaport
at the mouth of the Scorf, on the Bay
of Biscay, France, has destroyed doc
uments, plans and reports of great I'M
portance. L'Orient was made free
port and one of the four stations OF
the French navy in ITO.
The international sugar convention
at Brussels signed treaty last week.
The proceedings were supposedly Sc
cret, but it is reported that the con
ferrees have agreed to abolish all boun-
ties on beet sugar and adopt a uniform
customs tariff on imports of sugar of
81. l6 per 800 pounds, or about half a
cent pound.
Chinese merchants going from Port
Arthur to Shanghai declare that they
have been ordered to remove their
families from Port Arthur because
preparations were being made there
for war with Spain. Port Arthur,
the most strongly fortified port in the
Chinese empire, is held by large
body of Russian troops
A Servian revolt last week, said to
have been an attempt to restore the
karageorgevitch dynasty, was sup
pressed by the shooting of its leader,
Atlantic, at Shabats, west of Bel
grade, and the arrest of his followers.
Prince Karageorgevitch, now in Ge-
neva, denies that Atlantic was either
a relative or partisan of his.
Partisan neurotics are abandoning
the use of opium and ether and are
taking to smoking camphor, the wo-
men especially, because it is said to
produce a brilliant complexion, if tax
en- in small quantities. Its use soon
becomes a passion and produces som
Violence and apathy and weakness.
America is said to have introduced the
habit.
The death sentence of Osman Pasha,
son of the famous Kurdish chief, Be
draham Pasha, who was recently tried
at Constantinople for high treason,
will be committed to perpetual i'm
prisonment. He fled from Turkey to
Western Europe, and thence to Cairo,
out was induced to return to Constan-
-inople by the Sultan's promise that
he would be pardoned. On his return.
however, he was Immediately arrested.
The American legation at CONSTANT
lople Saturday presented to the porte .
he second note referring to the cap
ure of Miss Ellen NJ. Stone. In this
tote it is pointed out that as Miss
Stone was captured, the ransom paid
md the prisoners delivered in Turkey,
he brigands must be within the Tur-
fish frontier, and should therefore be
aptured. The note denies that the
authorities were ever requested to les
en- their vigilance on the frontier. and
sserts that only the movements of the
roops in the interior were interfered
18th.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
f Great Britain celebrated the 39th
anniversary of their wedding day at
Marlborough house, London, Monday.
t their marriage he was % and she {
as 10, She is the eldest daughter of {
ing Christian TX of Denmark. They {
ave three sons and three daughters:
lie eldest son died ten years ago, aged |
;, the second, now Prince of Wales. I
nd heir apparent to the throne, is 81: |
lie youngest son lived only one day. '
t the daughters, Princess Louise is |
lie wife of the Duke of Fife, Princess a
ictoria is unmarried and Princess I
aud is the wife of Prince Charles.
lie second son of the Grown Prince of i
/
nc N'ciilhu SoNeIIuleUl Will eStaD- -
81 cancer research branch in Berlin 7
i'd the budget committee of the Il
voted money last week for V
e work. Statistics of 1900 cases e
ere submitted, demonstrating posi- o
'ely that cancer is not hereditary. a
It doubtless contagious. Horses and u
tile seldom suffer from it. but cats a
d dogs frequently do. The disease r.
lacks its victims at an earlier age II
an formerly and although women are u
ire liable to the disease than men. 81
relative immunity of the men is II!
creasing. The government expects u
at the efforts of Prof. Ehrlich. of "
3 cancer institute at Frankfort on u
, Main, will result ultimately in the al
'coyery of certain cure. III
News from the Baldwin Zeigler en- III
lltlon 10 the north pole has reached tn
nstantinople. The vessels arrived of
Franz Josef Land after trying expe-
noes. August II, with all on board
IL. The expedition left Tromsoe, Sc
rway, July 16, last year, on the err
amers America and Belgica. The GU
lerica intends to winter at Franz ca
ef Land and then proceed north mi
I'd until stopped by the ice, when tn
party on board of her will start ga
ard the north pole. Mr.. Baldwin an
res that the America will reach So ce
rees north. Evelyn B. Baldwin is ce
commander of the expedition sent of
by William Ziegler, wealthy cit SCI
4 of Brooklyn, N. Y. who believed wa
north pole could be found and who biz
!, BE first at the north pole and | ne
foot the bills" COZ
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