Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-19
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS,
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

PRESIDENT Roosevelt Invites w. 7. c. I
Criticism-Fall Of Natural Wonder-A To
Trust-Two-Cent Postage Stamp to Enelan
The Countrys centenarians Rich Find @
Prehistoric Relics - Important Chemica
-Discovery-seven New Poisons.
DR.. W. Godfrey Hunter has resipne,
as minister to Guatemala and will en-
Ter the race for governor of Kentucky
George Sawter, United States consu
at Antigua, British West Indies. ha
neeh appointed to succeed the lat,
Ihomas Mast as consul general a
Guayaquil, Ecuador.
At meeting of the State Youn,
Mems Christian association. held n
Tacoma, Washington, last week. tn,
worlds record for the long dive wa.
broken by David Grant of Seattle lie
dove a distance of 10 feet. three inches
breaking the former record by sever
miles.
The self-styled "Bishop" Aglipay
continues the organization of his indie.
pendent Catholic church in the Phil
lpplne provinces. He has been conse.
Grated as bishop in the presence Of
hundreds of Filipinos, who recently
ssized chapel near Malabon. "Bish
OPP Aelipay occupied a high throne
and carried a mitre.
Andrew Carnegie, who has been
quite i'll in London from food poison
ing, returned to New York Thursday
with his wife and little daughter, Mar
garet. He dared the trip against the
advice of physicians, in order that he
might be here in time to present to his
little daughter the magnificent man
sion at Fifth avenue and 9lst street
which will be her Christmas gift.
A force of Moros attacked Camp
Wears. island of Mindanao, Dec. 8.
after 10 days inactivity. They were
repulsed without loss on the American
side. They approached stealthily at
midnight, but the Americans were not
surprised. 1t is believed that the hos
tiles were from the country east of
Lanao. which Capt Pershing has not
yet visited. Cholera is spreading
among the Lake Moros. and threatens
to prove serious.
Prof. Quilius Schlotterback, profess
sor of pharmacognosy in the University
of Michigan, has discovered seven new
poisons. Three of them are made from
Allegheny vine. He has named two of
the poisons adlamine and aldurdine.
and one is still unnamed. From the
caladine poppy the professor has ex-
tracted the fourth and fifth poisons.
styluphine and disphyline, and from
the japanese caladine the poison bac-
combine, and one yet unnamed.
The national reciprocity convention
at Detroit, Mich. last week, discussed
Canadian and Cuban reciprocity.
asked for ratification of the Kasson
treaties, the Hay Bond Newfoundland
treaty and declared for the adoption of
a reciprocity treaty with Canada. The
finance committee urged the organiza
ton of auxiliary leagues and the secur-
ing of the services of one or more organ
izers. A number of liberal financial
contributions were made. A commit
tee of four was appointed to further
the cause of Canadian reciprocity.
The Passaic, n. j., board of health
has discovered that lead pencils used
in the public schools are mainly re-
sponsible for the prevalence of diph-
liberia in the city. More than so cases
have been reported. The students in
the public schools receive pencil each
day. Before school closes these are
collected and put in a box together.
The contagion comes, the officers say,
from the children putting the pencils
into their mouths after other children
have done the same thing. 1t is now
ordered that each pupil shall use one
pencil continuously and have his name
marked on it.
The supreme court of Georgia has
decided. favorably to Christian Sci
ence, that parents are not compelled to
give medicine to their minor children
when they become i'll and that failure
or refusal to give medicine to these
children is not a violation of the laws
of the state. The case came up on ap-
peal from a city court where Chris
tian Scientist, who refused physician
or medicine for his sick child that af-
terward died. was fined $500 on charge
of failure to provide the necessary sus-
tenance to the child, a crime under the
laws of the state, and the only charge
on which they could prosecute.
William Hunter, son of the United
States minister to Guatemala and a
brother to Godfrey Hunter, jr., who
recently shot and killed an American
named Fitzgerald in Guatemala City
and who sought refuge in the Ameri-
,an Legation, says that the shooting of
was the result of deep /
laid plot. Mr.. Hunter alleges that |
when Fitzgerald was killed be had So
300 on his person which had been CIV
an him by officials of the Guatemalan /
as blood money for the
assassination of the son /
If the American minister. Mr.. Hunt |
ar saws he intends to bring the facts to /
he attention of the state department. /
Prof. Edmund O'Neill of the chem.
strv department of the University OF |
California, declares that he can pro-
luce potassium cyanide from the atmos-
,here at less than half its present cost. |
If he succeeds this will reduce the
leavy cost of producing gold ore. Us
ng simple apparatus, gas of petroleum
,r coal is mingled with the atmos-
,here. which is four fifths nitrogen.
Subject to the influence of an electric
,rc. the resultant is hydrocyanic acid.
This. when treated with potash, rapid
V Yields potassium cyanide. The pres
mt process of producing potassium cy-
,anide is so expensive that more than
=. 900. 600 is spent annually on imports
# the chemical. Its use is so genera
hat besides the amount imported 10
actories in this country turn out large
mounts of it yearly. Prof. OMEN
avs he can produce it for five cents
,ound. Under old methods 1t costs %