Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-05-09
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY


Roosevelt to Take the Stump Next Fall-Th
Brooklyn Back From the Asiatic Station
New England Building Enterprises Nor
Fort Captured After Fierce Battle-Th
Beef Trust Bill.
The Gloucester mackerel catch las
week was the most successful in a gen
Grafton. 10000 barrels were carried in
to New York.
Revolutionists have captured Sal
| Domingo, the Dominican capital. Pr
ident Jiminez sought refuge in tn
French consulate.
Yale university bestowed the degre,
of IL. ID. on William Thompson, frs
Lord Kelvin of England, Monday after
noon. Lord Kelvin is rs years old anc
distinguished scientist.
The mission which is to represent
France at the unwilling of the Roch
ambeau monument in Washington
May "A, sailed from Toulon on the
warship, Gaulois, Monday.
A board of inquiry at Lucana, in
Tayabas province, the Philippines, is
investigating the charges made by
Maj. Cornelius Gardener, the governor
of that province, Col. Theodore j.
Whit being presiding officer of the
board
The young sons of Rear Admiral
William l.. Sampson and the late Rear
Admiral John w. Philip, the hero of
the Texas, failed to pass the examina-
tions as candidates for admission to
the Annapolis naval acadamy last week.
The president will now have an oppor-
tunity to fill the vacancy. Young
Sampson was promised the appoint
ment by President Mckinley.
The president has ordered the trial
by court martial of Maj. Edwin f.
Glenn, Fifth Infantry, charged with
participating in the administration of
the water cure as testified to before the
Senate Philippine committee recently.
The court will meet at Catbalogan Sa-
mar, p. l., May u. and will be headed
by Brig. Gen. Frederick d. Grant, U.
S. A., with Maj. II. c. Carbaugh as
judge advocate
A company has been incorporated
with SO, 600, 900 authorized capital. as
road from Duluth, Mimi, to Dawson
WY, III lut hlDuulht. ne TDdu Is 10
cost $50, 600, 600, and James j. Hill,
the Northern Pacific and the Canadian
Pacific roads are behind the scheme.
The line will go long stretches through
a wilderness, and in some places 300
miles from any other railroad.
At conference at the White House
at Washington Thursday night attend
ed by President Roosevelt, Represen-
tatives Hull of Iowa, Overstreet of In
diana and Sherman of New York, who
are members of the Republican con
gressional committee, Senator Spooner
and Secretary Root, it was decided
hat the president will take the stump
lext fall in the south through which
le expects to make quite an extended
our.
The first experiment at picking cot
on by machine will be made in Wash |
ngton county, Miss, next fall. A
man invented the machine /
experiments near Green I
lille. The machine, he admits, is value /
ess except on the level uplands, low /
alleys and prairie grounds, but even if .
t should prove successful with this
llulJ, lbS tlItClS On lDc IdDOT question 1
n the south will be very marked.
H. G.. Squiers, secretary of the lega-
ion at Pekin. has been selected by the
resident to be minister to Cuba and
len. f. S. Bragg of Wisconsin has
cen selected as consul general at Ha-
ana. Gen. Bragg is a gold Democrat,
erved for several years in Congress
nd afterward as minister to Mexico.
lie is Is years old. Gen. Bragg en-
cred the Union army as a captain in
SCI, and was promoted through sue
essive grades until he became brig
Jane Toppan, the Massachusetts
urse accused of poisoning at least ten I
ersons, and who has been declared
lsane by board of experts. will new
rtheless be tried for murder to re- l
eve the case of legal mplcations. '
Liss Toppan is said to be suffering
ON an incurable form of insanity {
nat will grow worse as long as she {
yes. The Judge will instruct the jury i
and she will then be placed |
an asylum for the insane. a
The first sale of shade-grown Suma- G
a tobacco leaf was held in Hartford, L
t., Thursday, all the shade-grown to- /
lcco raised in the Connecticut valley c
the season of 1901 having been !,
ought in, by agreement of the grow u
S, to be sold by auction. The sale ?
as a disappointment as prices were L
lily fair and the bidding not lively.
was expected that this sale would 7
( the market value of this tobacco, Il
lich before had not been in the mar l.
It but many growers withdrew their "
is and will hold them for better u
tie. u
W. S. Schley was presented q.
tn a magnificent silver service, con :,
sting of a chest of tableware of 100 :,
eces, two candelabra of beautiful de- n
IN, one epergne and loving cup, I
airing a bias relief of the admiral on ri
e side and of the cruiser Brooklyn r.
the other at Memphis, Tenn, last p
eek, where he was received with n
eat attention, banquet being given
lted to 1.-THE hero of Santiago, on
half of $1,000 subscribers to fund RI
: that purpose from Arkansas, Mis- Ell
sippi, Alabama and Tennessee. II
The cruiser Brooklyn, flagship of 10 10
ar-Admiral Remey, has reached New ~ ~
rk after an absence of 2 years and 7 Il
nths, in which she has steamed CO., -
miles. The Brooklyn has been at - -
; Asiatic station, was in China ~
tiers during the troubles which fol- y,
,ed the Boxer uprising, and in her ne
-apJaJ nruica hoe vicitaJ tho MaJi L.