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

Some Notable Deaths-A Typewriter Will
Decision Another Terrible Eruption Of
Mont Pelee- Another American Cardinal
West Indians Agitate for American Annex
ation-The President in New England Ter
rible Wreck of Excursion Train il Alabama
The Resumption of Work in the Coal Mines.
Six hundred Indians on the Navajo
reservation in southern Utah are starry
ing. The secretary of the interior has
4 authorized the immediate expenditure
of $1,000, and relief will be sent at once.
The restitution is due to drouth.
/ Richard I. O'Brien. formerly cor
poral in the Twenty sixth Volunteer
/ Infantry. who has been confined in Jail
al Washington accused of perjury, on
account of his testimony before the
Senate Philippines committee, during
/ the last session of Congress has been
arragned. pleaded not guilty and was
released on 5000 bail. His trial will
probably be hel II in October.
The sultan of Binidayan, who was
held as n hostage by the American
forces at Cape Nickars, island of Min
danao, the Philippines. attempted to
escape from his guards Thursday and
was shot and killed by a sentry, The
sultan had been arrested after the re
cent murders of American soldiers in
Mindanao and was being held pending
the surrender of the murderers.
4 Kentucky Judge has just decided,
in an unprecedented case. that will
wholly written by the testator himself
for a
as one written by him with a pen or
pencil and that it is valid under the
laws of kentucky. The will in ques-
ton, that of Capt. Richard Vance, was
written by the testator on typewriter.
was signed by him with pen and ink,
and vas attested by one witness only
in the same manner,
John A. Robson, political econo-
mist and lecturer of Oxford. Eng,
who is considered the leader in the
new British school of evolutionary So
cialism. is to spend several months in
the United States for an exhaustive
study of American trusts and imperial
ism. which he considers inseparable
He will also visit the southern states
to investigate the new south and the
negro question. He will lecture at sew
eral of the leading universities
Ada GRAY. who for years played the
leading role, Isabel. IN East Lynne,
died in the Fordham Home for Incur
ables. New York last week Wednes-
day. and was buried 10y the Actors
Fund of America. She was about SO
wears old. She married in 1891 Charles
Tiugay, an English actor. The mar
riage was unhappy. her husband failed
to provide for her and her health Civ
ing way she has been for several years
practically supported by the Actors
Fund.
The engine and four cars Of an eX-
cursion train on the Southern railway,
while rounding curve on a high EN-
bankment near Berry Ala. Monday
morning. leaued from the track and
rolled over and over down the incline.
smashing the coaches into kindliug
wood and causing the instant death of
y persons and the injury to 81 others.
Physicians say that at the least - of
the injured cannot live. With two
executions the dead and injured are
negroes.
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