Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-12

President John Smith of the Nor
mon church denies that plural mar
riages are any longer performed Oh
sanctioned.
Since Nov, 7, when an earthquake
shook up southern Utah and as far
north as Salt Lake, there have been
daily shocks felt in the extreme south
eastern portion of the state. This con
tinuance of the shocks has strength
ened the belief that there has been a
fresh outbreak of former volca ic ac-
tivity in the mountains of that region.
Alfred E. Buck, United States min
lister to Japan, died of paralysis of the
heart while out duck hunting as the
guest of the emperor near Toxic Thurs
day. bird had been Melted, and the
minister with jocular remark, started
to reset the net Suddenly he fell, and
without word or groan, died instant
ly. Mr.. Buck had made a splendid rec
ord since his appointment from Geor-
gia and was held in high esteem in
Japan.
Sir Liang Chen, the new Chinese
minister to the United States. will soon
marry the daughter of Yu Keng, the
Chinese minister at Paris. The we'd
ding will take place at Picking before
the minister leaves for Washington.
| Sir Liang's fiancee is % years old,
speaks French and English fluently
and is an accomplished musician. She
has lived for three years at her faith
er's legation in Paris Sir Liang Chen
has been a widower for three years and
has three daughters.
The state department at Washington
has received an account of the expert
ments of DR.. Erich, German scien-
fist, who has made extensive expert
ments in regard to the infection of
fruit with bacteria. According to Dr.
Erich, II, 00O,0 600 bacteria inhabit the
skins of half-pound of cherries. Cur
rants come next with II, 600, 200 to ev-
cry halfpound, and grapes next with
100000. DR.. Erich urges that all
fruit be cleaned by either peeling or
washing before it is eaten.
Col. George Harvey, of New York,
president of Harper & Bros, proprietor
of the North American Review, has
bought the Metropolitan magazine and
Daily Telegraph which were sold last
week by the receiver for 500, 600. Mr..
Harvey said that the mission of the
Metropolitan magazine would be to tell
about New York and that John Ken
drick Bangs would be the editor. The
Telegraph, he added, would be devoted
to the best interests of sport, the opera
and the drama.
Dr. Henry S. Cutler, composer and
musical conductor, credited with hav-
ing introduced vested male choirs in
this country, died at his summer home
in Swampscott, Mass, Friday. DR..
Cutler was formerly organist and choir
master of Trinity Episcopal church in
New York city. When King Edward
VII visited this country in 1860 DR..
Cutler conceived the ACCESSIBILITY of
having vested choir in Trinity SINH
lar to those in the English churches.
The idea was at once taken up in this
country and became general. DR.. Gut
ler's setting to the hymn, THE Son of
God Goes Forth to War;" is perhaps
the best known of his compositions.
The worst train wreck in the history
of the Intercolonial, the Canadian gov
eminent railway, occurred Saturday at
Belmont station, 70 miles from Hall |
fax, n S., when the Canadian Pacific |
railroad express for Montreal rolled |
down an embankment, killing five per
sons outright, injuring several others, |
one of whom has since died, and com
pletely wrecking the locomotive, the
postal, express and baggage cars and |
several passenger coaches. The acct |
dent was caused by the pilot becoming
loose and falling in front of the loco
motive. causing the latter to leap the |
rails. Twelve or more persons were in
jurei and they suffered much from the
bitter cold in the hours which elapsed |
before help arrived to rescue them from
the wreckage.
Dr. David J. Lingle of the Chicago
university has discovered in oxygen a
new means of causing rhythmic beats .
in a strip of heart muscle. DR.. Lingle |
has been working on the lines of Pro
fessor jacques Loeb's announcement |
made two years ago that a solution of
salt would start heart to pulsating.
1t has heretofore Deen supposed that
the action of oxygen on the heart had
been confined to the publication of
the blood. DR.. Lingle shows that this .
gas has the power directly to sustain
the beats of strip of heart muscle re-
moved from the body of turtle, and |
to keep it going for from "a to y hours.
Even then the muscle stopped only be-
cause dissolution set in, and, in fact,
the strip continued to beat for n hours
of the - with part of it already dead.
The commander of the international
boundary riders of Sonora, Mex, has
received details of the tragic death of
" California Dan" Ryan, chief of scouts
under Gen. Louis Torres at Torrin,
Nov. %. Ryan and George W Wilson
were sent out on a scout. They were
surprised and taken prisoners by the
Yaquis, tried by council of war, and
% California DAN was condemned to
death. Wilson was acquitted. In the
presence of Wilson, the Iaquis, with
dull saws, cut off the feet of "Calitor-
MIA Dan" just above the ankles, Then
they unbound him and told him to
90 back to Torres. By goading him
they compelled him to walk beyond
their entertainments, only to fall dead
in the bush hundred yards beyond
their stronghold The next morning
the Yaquis suspended California
Dan 81 body from the limb of a tree
growing by the road. Wilson was then
released and told by the Mexicans to
bury the body.
The Sanitary Conference of Ameri-
can Republics closed its session at
Washington Thursday. The next meet
ing will be held at Santiago, Chill,
March 10, 1904. Yellow fever was one
Of the subjects considered, all the del
egates accepting the theory that the
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