Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-10-17
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF OLD WORLD NEWS

Scandal III Dresden-Charge Against EX-Pres
Kruger Denied-Another Horrible Arshi
Fatality Foreign Strikes Macedonian In
surrection Growing Prehistoric Graves o
Seven Foot Warriors Opened in Russia-Th
Sorrows of Royalty Gladstone Statue I'm
yelled in Glasgow.
The British and Canadian govern
, ments have decided to jointly establish
fast Atlantic steamship service be
tween Halifax. Nova Scotia, and Liver
pool.
Lord Rosebery unveiled statue OF
I, Mr. Gladstone in George square, elias
gov, Monday. representing the states
man as attired in the robes of lord rec
tor Of Glasgow university. An i'm
mense crowd was present, Lord Rose
berry made an eloquent address.
At a meeting held in honor Of the
Boer generals at Utrecht, Holland,
Friday night General Botha definite
ly denied the reports which have been
circulated that Mr. Kruger had car
ried off the state funds He declared
that on the contrary Kruger had con
tributed to the Boer cause.
Prince Henry made a formal visit to
his wife. Queen Wilhelmina, at The
Hague, Monday, returning immediate
ly to Aix-la- Chapelle, where he is tax
ing the waters against scrofula. 1t is
said that hereafter he will spend only a
few DAYS per annum with Wilhelmina
and in Holland, travelling all the year
round.
! 4 sensation has been caused at Ber
/ lin by the refusal of the Boer generals
to seek presentation to the German en-
peror through the British ambassador,
/ saying they would leave the emperor to
summon them himself. As this course
would put the emperor in direct opposi-
tion to Great Britain the proposed in
terriew was abandoned.
The North German Lloyd steamer
Kronprinz Wilhelm. bound for New
York. ran into and sank the British
steamer Robert lngham in fog off
Beachy Head on the English coast
Wednesday Oct. Sth. The 1ngham
went down almost Immediately but the
Kronprinz Wilhelm saved all her crew
of II men, The mate and the only
passenger on board were drowned.
Luccheni, the assassin who slew the
Empress of Austria, is likely to be.
come a hopeless, violent maniac in two
years according to a Genoa, Italy. dis
patch. He will not submit to prison
rules. When newspapers were refused
him he became so violent he had to be
placed in a straightjacket. He is now
under solitary confinement. Even the
doctor and the chaplain no longer visit
him.
The Macedonian instruction is grow
ing daily. Rebels have destroyed sew
eral villages and desperate encounters
have taken place in the districts of
Diumahela and Letvitch where many
have been killed, wounded or taken
prisoners. The porte has informed Bull
garia that the revolutionists are cross
ing the frontier Gen. Zoutchetf, pres
ident of the Macedonian committee,
has again escaped from prison and gone
to Macedonia.
The national committee of four great
Belgian coal mines has voted to de-
mand an increase of II per cent. in
miners wages The object is TO create
a diversion in favor of the striking coal
miners in France and to prevent the
supplying of Belgian coal to France
Miners in the Grand Harnu colliery at
Mons struck Monday and the move
ment threatens to spread. The Gen
eva strike has collapsed, all trades re-
Stunning work this week.
Gordozetf, a we'll known Russian his
torian, has opened 107 tumuli mounds
scattered ever the Kharkotf province
and discovered 800 prehistoric graves. !
OF these 264 belonged to the bronze
10 (
200. An immense variety of interest I
ing objects in bronze has been found
knives. various shaped vessels of
bronze and clay, and arrowheads. The
skulls found in some of these Scythian /
graves show traces that after death |
they were all painted scarlet. Around .
several heads were rosares of amber
beads. Gordozetf asserts that the av-
erage height of those long dead war
riors must have been at least seven feet
DR.. Koulaypye of st. Petersburg has
been experimenting in an attempt to
restore circulation in the human heart
after it has stopped. Hitherto no at
tempt has been made to employ Locke's
saline solution in producing artificial
in the case of the human
heart. 1t is remarkable that in certain
forms of disease the stoppage of the
heart or the semblance of the death of
the heart is not due to exhaustion, but
to the accretion of certain substances.
probably of an animal nature Meta
bolism of the tissue then takes place.
After this has been removed by wash
ing the rhythmic action of the heart
The attempt. however,
is said to be of greater theoretical than
practical interest.
1t is reported at Paris that the last
will and testament of the late Queen of
the Belgians contains a bequest of a
million francs with which to buy back
my daughter Louise from Prince Phil
ip of Coburg" Princess Louise is in
in a madhouse at the in
stance of her husband, who swore to
keep her there as long as she lives
unless the amount he had to pay for
ler esca pades was made good This,
King Leopold has refused to do, prefer
ing to keep his daughter a prisoner.
At the official opening of the tesla
nent in Brussels the codicil respecting
Louise was suppressed, which seems TO
Indicate that the poor Princess must
continue to suffer. As sovereign,
King Leopold is not bound by tesla
nentarv stipulations as far as such re-
er to the royal family.
Dresden. Germany. is greatly excited
,ver a widespread scandal which has
broken up several homes and caused
whole families to leave town. Mrs.
4 oloScbe a u,idwife who was depriyad