Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-18
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY,

eral Anderson Disagrees With Admiral
Dewey on Manila Attack-The Johnstowr
Mine Horror.
Gen. Davis has turned over the com
mand of the American troops in Min
danao island to Gen. Sumner. The two
generals are at Camp Vickers where
the Americans face the Moros.
Urah White, who conceived the idea
of establishing Ocean Grove as a camp
meeting ground. died at the state hos
pital for the insane at Trenton, n. j.,
Friday. He had been an inmate of
the asylum for several years.
The skeleton of very large whale
found on the desert of Yuma has been
mounted and placed in the museum of
the University of Arizona. There is
also in the same museum the tusks
and lower jaw of an elephant found in
the Yuma desert
Attorney General Knox will go to
Paris in August at the request of Pres
ident Roosevelt to examine the title the
Panama Canal Company desires to
convey to the United States for Sl0,-
600, 600. His duties in France will de-
tain him for the greater part of sum
mer and fall.
The census bureau reports the lum-
Der industry of the United States as
fourth among the great manufacturing
industries of the country being exceed
ed in value of products only by the
iron and steel, the textile and the
Strengthening and meat industries. In
1900 there were 33, 065 establishments
with total capital of s61l, Gil, 524.
Ferry Chesney, negro, the Oldest
Oldest in the United States, died on
Copper Ridge, Tenn, on July 4, at the
age of l2G years. Chesney was born in
slavery in Virginia, on July 4, l776,
the day independence was declared
For 80 years he had lived hermit's
life, and it was four days after his
death when the body was discovered.
Announcement was made Saturday
of the engagement of the Right Rev
Henry Goldman Potter, bishop of New
York, to Mrs. Alfred Corning Clark of
New York and Cooperstown, n. Y. one
of the richest women in New York.
Her late husband, who died in 1896
controlled the Singer Sewing Machine
company and she has lavishly main
tanned many charities founded by him.
Sir Thomas Upton, Bart, an
nounced at Southampton, Eng, Sat
urday, that he should compete again in
1903 for the Americas cup. Fife and
Watson are understood to have collab-
Grated on the design for the new yacht,
Shamrock Ill, and the Dennys, who
constructed Shamrock H., will build
her at Dumbarton, Scotland. There
will be only one skipper this time and
no amateur yachtsman will be permit
ted on the new boat
The national encampment of the G.
a. R., which is to be held in Wash
ington October 6, and s, is expected
to be the largest and most memorable
in the history of the order Monday
President Roosevelt is to be present
and there Will be an elaborate display
of fireworks; Tuesday there will be
picturesque parade of Sons of Veter-
ans, militia and regulars and Wednes-
day parade of veterans. Numerous
excursions will be made to points of
interest
The Most Rev. Patrick \. Feehan,
Roman Catholic archbishop of Chicago
and the oldest and most widely known
prelate in the West. died of acute con
gestion of the brain Saturday. Arch !
bishop Feehan, who was born in Coun-
ty Tipperary, Ireland, was 73 years
old. He was ordained to the priest
hood in 1852. and in the same year
came to the United States. He has
been archbishop of Chicago since. 1880
Before that he went through two yellow
fever epidemics in the South, and was
for many years bishop of Nashville.
The state department has applied to
the charge d'atfaires of the British en-
oassy for the extradition from Canada
If John F. Gaynor and Benjamin d.
Greene, who are wanted in this coun-
ry in connection with charges of mis-
appropriation and embezzlement arts
ng out of the river and harbor frauds
It Savannah, for which Oberlin NJ.
Carter. once an army officer, is now
erving term in prison, The depart
nent of justice claims that obstruc
ions were placed in the way of the
canadian proceedings by reason of con
lections between counsel for Messrs. t
ireene and Gaynor and crown officers. I
Liang Chen Tung, secretary of the
>hinese embassy to the coronation of !
King Edward, was Saturday appointed
Ihinese minister to the United States. l
Jew ministers to Russia, France and {
italy have also been named. None of the |
ppointees has held any important Of :
ce, showing that the dowager EN- q
ress regards the diplomatic service as :,
important Liang Chen Tung is
raduate of Yale university and is able, a
ignified and honest. He is the first :
the body of students sent to Amer Il
"a in the '70's to receive recognition e
eftting their accomplishments, the j
'hinese officials having disliked them n
ecause of their progressive views. I!
Prof. A. G. Bell at the convention of a
ne National Education society at Min I
eapolis Friday, declared that wireless Il
Biography will never work we'll on land n
lough for the ocean, where the rays l.
re unobstructed, it is likely to sue n
eed cables. Prof Bell is one of the !,
w inventors who have profted great 81
out of their labors: his patents in f,
with the telephone and il
raphophone, both of which he in r.
,nted, have made him wealthy. He nj
now 81 years old, and intends to de- h,
,te the rest of his life to the educa- O
on of children having defective hear II
g, sight or mentality. He is at the a,
Fad of the Volto bureau in Washing h,
n, the greatest institution in the W
Orld as regards scientific study of the of
,af. n,
A thousand Indians from the Creek, tn
hippewa, Flathead, Lemhi, Black IN