Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-29
WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY,


Cost 366 Lves-''Prince of Starters Dead
AGuatemalan City Destroyed by Earthquake,
Unwilling of Rochambeau Statue DEATH
of Lord Pauncefote,
Dudley Morgan, a negro, who is al
legged TO have criminally assaulted tht
wife of Section Foreman Mckay Of
Lansing, Tex. was burned at the
The negro confessed and was identified
by Mrs. Mckay, who witnessed the
torture to the last.
The executive committee of Tam
many Hall, New York, have voted tc
name a triumvirate to manage the af-
fairs of the organization in place of a
single leader, Lewis Nixon having re-
signed the position. The triumyirate
selected is Charles 7. Murphy, chair
man, Daniel f. Mcmahon, Louis F.
Haffen.
The Chicago Hull House woman's
club has condemned as unfit for iuve-
nile reading war books. all but two of
Kipling's writings, Jules Nerne's tales
and the whole range of dime novels.
"Gulliver's Travels, Robinson Cru
soe'' and the average Sunday school
book were declared to be the right sort
of reading for the youth of the coun-
try. Louisa NJ. Alcott's works, 'Alice
in Wonderland and other books were
condemned.
James f. Caldwell, prince of start
ers,' died at Saratoga Thursday of
apoplexy. He was 90 years old and
connected with the turf all his life.
For the last quarter of a century he
had acted as starter at practically all
the leading race tracks in America.
For many years he received a salary of
so, GOO a year, which was only part of
his income. He was without a peer in
the position. AT the Brooklyn handi-
cap of 1891 he got u horses off as if
they had been but one with but brief
delay at the post.
Fierce storms damaged many sec
tions of the country Thursday and Fri
day. A snowstorm which ragged for two
days killed fully 300, 600 ewes and lambs
valued at 81, 800, DOC on Utah farms
along the Wyoming line. Two lives
were lost in floods which swept the
Iowa valley between Conover and De
corah. Oklahoma had the greatest floods
in its history. In Niles. Mich, a ter
rifle wind and rain storm accompanied
by a waterspout, did much damage to
crops over a wide area. Several schoon-
ers were wrecked or disabled in a
heavy gale on Lake Ontario Thursday
night.
The Chicago Tribune has been tabu-
lating figures to justify the prophets
of disaster for the current year. With
alI,+,n,, 70 lr;,n ~, o,.,,~ - -
the moment of writing it is shown
that thus far in 1902 volcanic eruptions
and earthquakes have destroyed As, 45O
clones 300, floods 1873, a%yalanches 22S,
w~aterspouts 1S-a total of 30, 51l. If
to these fatalities from natural dis
turbances could be added those due to
&C., the grand total would be still
more startling.
The city of Quezaltenango, Guate-
mala, was wholly destroyed by the
earthquake of April Is, partial reports
which have already been given. Sew
eral other towns were partly destroyed.
Several thousand persons were killed
and property loss Appropriated $50
600. Business is entirely suspended in
Guatemala and a great part of the
crop has been destroyed. Quex-
had a population of about
%, 900 people, was handsomely built
and we'll paved. The Guatemalan au-
horities decided to construct the city
Of Quezaltenango on a plain some dis
from the site of the original
place.
The general assembly of the Presby-
5erian church at New York Thursday
the report of the committee on
revision making changes in the creed. )
IN account of misapprehensions which
,ome from unguarded statements in !
he confession and from unwarranted
differences from those statements. The l
main changes made are The elimina- !
ion of the doctrine of infant damna- {
ion the elimination of certain para |
in which the pope is referred to l
Is the antl-Chrlst mentioned in the l
the creed still declares against
he pope as assuming to be the head /
+ the church. The changes proposed
rill go now to the different presby- I
for ratification. t
Two hundred and fourteen bodies in |
II have been recovered from Frater- /
lille mine, at Coal creek, Tenn. Will D
lam Morgan, the only man in the I
line who escaped alive at the time of :
be explosion, died Saturday, making !
be total fatalities PIG. He was blown ,
ut of the mine by the force of the II
xplosion. Five of the dead men found V
ad written letters before life became n
One of these letters gave the o
lme of day as , 80 O'Clock, thus indi- v
that these and other entombed iC
lived many hours after the terri r
lie explosion. The letters indicated Is
lat the men were gradually strangled o.
death by the gaseous air. One let :.
II pleaded to everybody to change IL
Heir way of living. At least 80 min "
IS are believed to have been lost in an \
at Fernie, B. c., IS bodies o'
ave been recovered. The interior of &c
lie mine is wrecked. D,
Lord Pauncefote, ambassador ex-
aordinary and plenipotentiary for
reat Britain to the United States, pt
ed at Washington Saturday of govt, III
implicated with stomach and liver ia
oubles. Funeral services were held &c
ednesday in st. Johns Episcopal q
and the body will be placed dc
mporarily in a receiving vault at 10
ock creek cemetery. The funeral C'
i'll be of a state character. Sir Ju- 70
IN Pauncefote was born in 1928 and AZ
as appointed British minister to the IN
nited States in 1889. When the rank IN
the office was advanced IN that of an