Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-09-19
THE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1902.

Franklin j. Smith of Garvanza, Cal.
has invented device to obtain cleo
tricity direct from the atmosphere
without the aid Of dynamos.
The revolutionary general, Carreazo
who has been operating with stronl
force on the great plains east OF 80
gotta, Columbia, has surrendered. Coy
eminent authorities consider this an
assurance of the pacification OF the
whole eastern region.
President Roosevelt gave a reception
to the people of Nassau county, \. J.,
at his Oyster Bay home Monday. The
village was gayly decorated. About
700 neighbors shook the president :
hand. Lemonade was served in small
glass cups Inscribed, President Roose-
velt 1902, Oyster Bay" which were
kept as souvenirs.
j. p Reid. an inventor of Eliza
beth, \. j., has completed an airshir
which he will exhibit at the World s
Fair in st. Louis in 1904 and will en-
ter it in the class to compete for the
%, 800 prize. The airship is l. feet
long, weighs % pounds. 1t is worked
by four vacuum tubes, and by steam
turbine, which furnishes power to a
two blade propeller.
a disastrous gas and powder eXplo-
sion occurred in the big four mines of
the Algoma Coal and Coke company
at North Fork, W. Va, Monday morn
ing in which II men, mostly negroes,
lost their lives. The explosion was
caused by gas catching fire from the
lamp of a miner, and this in turn fir
ing six kegs of blasting powder. The
miners carelessly disregarded the SUI
perintendent's order against resuming
work until the air had been tested by
a safety lamp,
/ Memorial services for the late Pres
ident Mckinley were held in the
churches of most of the large cities of
the United States Sunday, and in the
Baptist church at Havana, Cuba. The
pastor of the Episcopal church at Oys-
ter Bay, in the presence of President
F.. Roosevelt, turned his eulogy of Mr..
Mckinley into a dissertation on the
danger of the trusts. lauding Pres
ident Roosevelt az the one sent by
Providence to combat this evil for the
people. The president appeared great
ly annoyed and embarrassed
Sarah Mccormick. Lowell, Mass,
woman, 30 years of age, an inmate of
the Medtield insane asylum, was killed
by another woman inmate Thursday
morning during the temporary absence
of their attendant Both women were
inmates of the ward for violent pa
tients The Mccormick woman was
strapped to her bed while the other
patient was engaged in cleaning the
floor. With the heavy iron polisher
she used at her work, she attacked her
helpless victim, crushing in the right
side of her skull by terrible blow
Miss Mccormick : parents will bring
the matter before the state board Of
lunaCy for investigation. Her assail-
ant was rational at times but had vio-
lent intervals.
The hostile Moros in Mindanao are
said to have been misled by false sto-
res, in their position toward the
Americans. Filipinos from Luzon told
them that Russia and Spain were at
war with the United States. One of
the sultans, when asked why be would
not be on friendly terms with the Unit
ed States authorities, said that the
Moros were all under direction of the
sultan of Stamboul, and they had been
informed there was enmity between
the sultan of STEAMBOAT and the United
States government. The warlike let
ter which followed considerable friend
~ correspondence. is now said, by a
Moro CHIEF, to have been forgery per
petrated by two of the dattos under
the sultan of Bacolod These dattos
were very anxious for war, one of them
claiming he could hold his fort against
any force that might be sent against it.