Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-04-11
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS


: Many Killed and Injured by the Collapsing
a Crowded Stand at Glasgow - The Wi
, of Cecil Rhodes-The Battle at Doornbal
Farm-General Delarey Accuses British Q
, Cruelty - Macedonian Atrocities - Son o
Prince Ching to Visit United States -0rigi
nal Achievements in Surgery.
Sarafaf, leader of the Macedonia
malcontents, has invaded Turkey nea
, Karakolas with 1000 followers.
The Earl of Kimberly, liberal lead
err of the House of Commons, is dead
He was born in January, 1926, and hat
held many positions of trust under thu
government Next to Gladstone ant
Rosebery he stood highest in rank il
his party.
The people of Southern Mongolia are
in revolt against the severe indemnify
taxation, several villages have beer
strongly fortified and their nhabitant:
are determined to fight They claim
assurance of the assistance of 30, 0Ut
disatfected people.
A third attempt has been made tC
assassinate General Trepof, the pref
ect of police at Moscow a man sprang
upon the step of his carriage and tried
to stab him, but only succeeded in
wounding a policeman seated beside
him.. The man was arrested.
Natural gas, of which England was
generally supposed to be deficient, has
now been discovered and put to practi-
cal purposes in the little village OF
Heathfeld, Sussex. The operations
are in charge of an American engineer,
who is said to be representing Ameri-
can capitalists.
King Menelik of Abyssinia has APP
pointed Gen. Ras Makennon to attend
King Edward S coronation. Makennon
is the man who defeated the Italian
troops under Gen. Baratieri in 1896 at
Battle Adown, when 1000 Italians were
killed and wounded. He is the prin-
cipal general of the army and conf
Dental representative of his majesty.
Hadda Mullah (the fanatic who was
reported to be marching on Cabul with
80, 900 armed followersl reached Cabul
/ March %, saw the ameer, congratulate
ed him on his accession, and expressed
! the intention of returning home i'm
mediately, having accomplished the
/ purpose of his visit, which was solely
one of congratulation on his accession
and coincidence in the death of his ia
| Their.
Fourteen revolutionary bands crossed
the frontier from Bulgaria into Mace
donia last week. They were well armed
and provisioned. 200 Bulgarian out
laws were recently captured by Turks
in the mountains of Kirsev, several
being killed. The Macedonians are
accused of horrible atrocities. 1t is re-
ported that they skinned one Turk
alive, stuffed the skin, and carried it
about as trophy.
The struggle of the great crowds
which gathered at Ibrox Park, Glas-
gov, Saturday to witness the last in
ternational association football contest
between teams from England and Scot
land caused the collapse of portion
of one of the spectators stands, result
ing in the death of u persons and the
injury of go others. some of whom will
probably die. Seventy thousand spec
tators had gathered on the grounds
when the game began.
King Christian of Denmark who was
born April 8, 1918, Tuesday celebrated
his S4th birthday, surrounded by his
children and grandchildren. The oc-
togenarian monarch, who is well pre-
served in mind and body, entered keen
ly into all the festivities. Sixty mem
bers of royal families were present at
the palace for the occasion. Extensive |
celebrations of the kings birthday |
took place throughout Denmark, in |
Guiding military parades and feasting. |
President Kruger at Amsterdam has
received from Gen. Delarey narrowing |
stories of the cruelties perpetrated by
the British army, supported by atfida-
Wits. Delarey says the Boer women are
placed as human screen around the |
British as protection against attacks
by him. He declares that a number of ,
Boer women have already been wan
tonly killed. He also gives specific in
stances of the killing of wounded pris-
oners and women. He complains that,
owing to Lord Methuen's persecution,
his own wife, with six children, has
been wandering on the veldt for the
past year Gen. Delarey complains also
that his mother, aged S3 years, was
driven into klerksdorp after her cattle
mad been stolen and her house had
been burned.
Among originalites of surgery de-
;cribed at the session last week of the
twenty first Congress of the German
Jhirurgical association at Berlin was
he case of DR.. Tieze of Breslau, who, I
having removed section of diseased
bone from woman's shin, pieced it {
With joint from her great toe, thus {
lameness. DR.. Ruth of Luz {
zee gave demonstration of an APP '
,liance for administering oxygen with
rendering it possible to
nesthetize weak hearted persons. DR.. i
teernk of Freiburg described success s
ul operations on animals, by patching {
tomachs with pieces of intestines. Six
urgeons, four Germans and two
'renchmen, reported to the congress
he discovery of the cancer bacillus.
IS each report was quite different from I
be Others, and as none of these doc 6
)rs satisfactorily demonstrated their !.
iscoveries, not much confidence was (
lit by the examining committee. Many II
apartments as to the origin of cancer
re going on, the impression in scien-
tic circles being that fame awaits the o
iscoverer of the cancer bacillus a
10 the Waller trial at Manila Mon y
ay Gen. j. H. Smith, American com 9
lander in Samar, testified, deny ing !:
lat he ever gave Maj Waller power of e
fe and death exceeding General Or 2 2
er No. 100. Gen. Smith explained that
is order to Maj. Waller about not be-
e burdened with prisoners meant to OF
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