Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-10
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS,
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

"a"ao oeieated with Heavy Loss Nations
woman Golf Champion Salvation Arm
Ten Booth Here-T Mormon Book Fran
Secrets of Buried Nippur- EARTHQUAKES i
1uam-ultimatum Sent to Sultan of Bacc
ciod-The National G. A.R. at Washington
The tobacco war has been ended h.
the amalgamation of American an,
BRUSH interests in the form of ney
company known as the British Ameri
can Tobacco company.
Inc military manoeuvres al For
Riley, Kan, have been postponed O,
account of the heavy rains which hay,
turned the dirt roads to mud and rem
dered them impossible.
The first snow of the season fell a
Denver, Col. Thursday. one of tn,
heaviest snowstormS ever known at thi,
season OF the year prevailing in tn,
mountain regions of the state
Miss Genevieve Hecker of Rye. Y
IT, won the national womep's COL
championship at Brookline. Mass, Sat
ura,aay' IN the match with Miss LOUISE
Nelis OF brookllne. four up and three
to play.
The entire ID regiment of New Yorl
has been ordered out by Gov. Odell tC
protect the property of the Hudson
Valley Railroad company upon whose
lines strike has been in progress fol-
some weeks. Additional troops will be-
sent. if necessary.
Prof Frederick W. Atkinson. the
first superintendent of public instruc.
tion at Manila, has resigned his posi-
tion aud Is coming home. When ap-
pointed by Judge Taft. he was princi-
pal of the high school at SPRINGFIELD.
Mass. 1t is not known why he has re-
signed after so short a stay at Manila.
Chancellor E. Benjamin Andrews has
declined TO accept the offer of an in
crease in salary from 50. 600 to SC, 600 a
year as head of the University of Ne
braska. on account of his knowledge
that economy is necessary in the uni
versity's management. The offer was
made because of the report that Wis
consin had protfered the presidency at
Madison to DR.. Andrews last summer.
| The Massachusetts Republicans. in
convention at Boston Friday. nomi-
mated John L. Bates Of Boston for GOV
ernor and Curtis Guild, ir. of Boston
for lieutenant governor. Their plat
form Endorsed President Roosevelt 5
policy in the Philippines, in Cuban
reciprocity and toward the settlement
of the coal strike. The American peo-
pie, they thought. should unite to
solve the coal strike question. The
gold standard was Endorsed and Gov.
Cranes policies commended.
The coroners jury in the case of the
murder of Capt. j. II. Craft in a New
York restaurant last week. have re-
turned a verdict that Craft came to his
death by. violence at the hands of
Thomas Tobin. Alexander McAnerney
men,were committed TO the Tombs with
out bail to await the action of the
grand jury. In the court Of general
sessions Wednesday T. ]. Sharkey, ac
cused of the murder of Banker Nicho-
las Fish. pleaded not guilty to the in
dictment His bail was reduced from
SO. 600 to SO, coo.
Gen William Booth, the head of the
Salvation Army. arrived in New York,
Saturday, on the Philadelphia from
Europe He was given an enthusiastic
reception. Twelve tugs and three pas
senger boats, laden with 2,00o officers
and soldiers of various eastern divis-
ions of the Salvation Army. met the
steamer at quarantine. The booming of
cannon, explosion of giant crackers,
with accompanying cheers and singing,
made as much noise as on the occasion
of Dewey's arrival from Manila. After
the landing there was a big parade
which was reviewed by Gen. Booth in
front of the headquarters on Fourteenth
street The general will travel 10000
miles before returning to England next
February.
Proof that Joseph Smiths Book of
Mormon. the foundation of the Nor
mon Church. is fraud is claimed by
the Rev. J. Z. Mahatfey Of Granite
Vile. s. c., to be in his possession.
DR.. Mahatfey is prominent figure in
the South Carolina Methodist church
and has spent 10 years in his investl-
cation. He says that Joseph Smith
probably stole the manuscript in Ohio,
the writings of Rev. Solomon Spauld-
ing having mysteriously disappeared.
The original Spaulding manuscript
having been discovered at Honolulu,
it is found to be identical in
MANY features. with the Book of Nor
mon Proof is found that Spauldlng
rewrote his story several times and 1t
is believed that Smith appropriated
final revision of the romance from an
old trunk at the house where smith
worked.
Professor Herman V. Hilprecht of
the University of Pennsylvania. who
has been abroad year and half en-
gagged in excavating, at the cost OF the /
university. the buried city OF NIppur' (
in Babvlonia, has returned TO Phlla-
lelphia. He says that q, 600 tablets
have been unearthed which, he VIII
make it his life work to declpher.
Their contents. he says. will show that
1eonle knew in 23O0 B. c. that the .
Earth was a globe, and that their as
ronomers took the same view of celes-
-;al pbenomena as we now take. The .
nscrintions are in cuneiform charac-
-ers. Their deciphering Is matter OF
much difficulty, for we have no BABY I
oman alphabet; we must NOT Only
-ranslate. we must discover the alpha
oet. which is the key to the transIa-
ion. Nippur is, in fact. 10 cities one
milf above the other. We have by no
means reached the lower of these bur
ed cities. Much of the temple libra,
v has been taken TO Philadelphia, and
: now in the museum of the unlver-
ity. L
4. retired. died at his home IN SANDY
snrinp. Md. last week Wednesday.
:, - fro,, DISTINGUISHED family.