Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-14
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY

Route-A Broken Rail Causes a Shockin
Railway Accident in Texas Secretary Lon
of the Navy Resigns, Congressman Mood
of Massachusetts Takes His Place-Tida
Wave Disaster on Mexican Coast 10
Waller to Be Court Martialed for Execut
ing Filipinos without Trial.
David Crear of New York city ha
sent the sheriff of Hodgeville, KY,
check for the taxes due on the OLE
Lincoln homestead near that place ant
it will not be sold.
w. H. Taft, governor of the Philip
Cincinnati where Tuesday he submit
ted to an operation for an old trouble
from which he was recently so i'll il
Manila and for which he underwent
an Ineffective operation there.
Secretary Long Monday handed hi.
resignation as secretary of the navy tC
the president, to take effect May l.
The portfolio was rendered to Congress
man W. H. Moody of Massachusetts,
who accepted it. 1t is said that Sec
rotary James Wilson, of the depart
ment of agriculture, will be the next
to retire. He is the last of the original
Mckinley cabinet.
BY direction of the attorney general
of the United States bill was filed al
st. Paul Monday in the Circuit court
of the United States for the district of
Minnesota in the case of the United
States against the Northern Securities
company, the Great Northern Railway
company and others, to test the legal
ity of the alleged combination or mer-
ger of the two roads and Others named
in the bill. ~ -: ~.
G. H. Vessels and A. ID. W. VOL
marans, Boer delegates in this coun-
try, leave for Europe March 20, after
visiting Chicago and other places.
They called on President Roosevelt
Tuesday President Kruger. they say,
is not seeking Intervention, but re-
quests that civilized warfare be in
sured in South Africa This request
they have laid before the American
government.
The protocols negotiated last spring
with Nicaragua and Costa Rica, where
by these countries outlined the terms
upon which they We're prepared to en-
ter into permanent treaties with the
United States. conveying the neces-
sary rights for canal construction, are
no longer of effect. 1t will be neces
sary to draw up new protocols, not
only for the Panama canal with Co
lombia, but for the Nicaragua canal
with Costa Rica and Nicaragua, in
pursuance of the state departments
policy of placing it within the power
Of congress to choose freely either
route.
Ex-Gov. Altgeld of Illinois died sud
denly after delivering an impassioned
pro-Boer speech at the Joliet theatre,
Tuesday night, from an apoplectic
seizure of the brain followed by cere-
bral hemorrhages. He was born in
Germany, was famous free silver
champion, an able defender of the So
cialist branch of the Democratic party,
and author of several books on social
and political economy. He was sue
cessful lawyer, states attorney, Judge
ernor of Illinois in 1892. His pardon,
while governor, of Fielden, Schwab,
and Beebe, the condemned anarchists,
excited wide comment.
Miss Alice Roosevelt, the daughter
Of the president, with several friends /
and accompanied by a maid, left Wash
ington Monday for visit to General
and Mrs. Leonard Wood at Havana,
going by rail to Florida. Mrs. Harriet |
Blaine Beals and Captain Philip were
also of the party. Miss Roosevelt ex-
poets to return to Washington the lat
ter part of the month She has aban-
doned the idea of attending the coro-
nation of King Edward, having found
it practically impossible for her to go
simply as an American girl as she
wished and not as the daughter of the
president When her status became the
natter of international discussion and
when it was learned that visit to the
ierman court would also be expected, (
t was thought best to give up the Eng
ish visit to the household of Ambas-
ador Reid. E;
Two stories illustrating the boldness
If wild creatures when suffering from
hunger ale told this week: A muskrat,
lriven from its home by the floods, at {
acked John O'Connor on the streets
# Newark, n. j., and sunk its teeth !
nto his leg, intiicting an ugly wound.
lie kicked it out into the street but it d
ashed at him again and again, seem |
ngly trying to reach his face, until he '
ucceeded in killing it with stone. q
lie had the wound cauterized. Swarms q
f ravenous crows on Elk mountain in I
pennsylvania, maddened by hunger $
uring the late blizzard, attacked a
attic and Sheep in barnyards and were S
riven away with difficulty. They at a
icked the horse of Scranton peddler a
ear Forest City, which was saved only .
y the peddler's throwing a big bundle II
sheepkins from his sleigh to the II
ungry horde. a
A court-martial has been ordered to h
y Major Littleton W. T. Waller and 5,
lieut.. John II. A. Day, Marine Corps, A
Manila March II, OF the charge of 81
natives of the island of II
imar without trial. One native, it ri
charged, was tied to tree and pub d.
ely shot in the thigh. The next da- II
, was shot in the arms and the third V;
~ in the body. The fourth day the ccl
an was killed. Friends of the two d
icers attribute their conduct to in
IS of mind, due to the privations m
ey suffered when separated from G.
cir party last December, in crossing pe
mar. Swollen streams and other OBJ ed
icles retarded their progress, their
DIVISIONS gave out and they reached
lsey exhausted physically and men, Ia
lly, to send a relief expedition after DIR
elr comrades, ten of whom were H.
yer found. Major Waller has bril-
mt record. One officer of the corps tr
lieveS that cigarettes. which he -,