Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-28
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE wEER IN SUMMARY


of Christian Science to Be Preserved-Ter
rible Result of Jealousy Date Fixe
for Cuban Independence Presidents Da
at Charleston Exposition Prehistoric Toe
Fouud-Topeka's Mayor Horse Whipped b,
Second Mrs. Nation.
Noah Davis, formerly justice of tn,
peace of the supreme court OF New Yorl
died of old age Thursday. He presid
ed at the trials of William M. Tweed
for official malfeasance, and ,E. L,
Stokes for the Fisk murder.
M. Santos Dumont, the famous aer
onaut, has accepted an invitation from
the officials of the st. Louis exposi
tion to assist the authorities in the or
ganization of the proposed balloon
contests and will sail for New York or
tee Deutschland, April 4.
The Boer delegates who have beer
visiting this country sailed from New
YORK Thursday They say the Beers
have 1900 troops in the field and that
the war is long way from ending yet.
They also say they asked the president
to appoint a commission of army of
ticers to review the conduct of the
Boer-BrltlSh war.
j. B. Post, farmer 30 Years old,
living near Tonawanda, N. T.. bound
his wife to a stake in the bull pen of
his stable Friday morning. She wore
red calico apron, which maddened a
bull confined in the pen to frenzy, and
in its rage attacked the woman and
gored her to death. 1t is said that the
mans terrible act was caused by jeal-
ousy.
/ May 20 next is the new date fixed
! for turning over the island of Cuba to
/ its people. 1t will be Inauguration
day and the day of the acquisition of
full independence. Gov. Gen. Wood
will call the first Cuban congress May
10. The entire United States contin-
gent, civil and military, will be with
drawn from the island as soon after
May 20 as possible.
The birthplace of Christian Science,
an old house at Lynn, Mass, where
Rev. Mary Baker G. Eddy wrote her
famous work, "Science and Health. "
has been purchased by her followers
and will be devoted to congregational
purposes. The object is to provide a
church home for the faithful and main
tain forever as memorial to the great
teacher of the new doctrine the place
where she put her creed into tangible
form.
A pickaxe of tempered copper that
apparently had been used in prehistor-
ic times by people dwelling along the
lake has Just been dug up on the shore
of Lake Gogebic, near lronwood, Mich.
1t is so hard that steel file makes no
impression on the copper. The art of
tempering the red metal is unknown at
the present day. Occasionally TEN
pered copper knives have been dug up
in this region, but this is the largest
tool ever found.
Edward Farley, elevator man at the
Astor house, arrested Friday for start
ing two fires in that hotel Wednesday
night, admitted starting 10 fires in
New York and Saratoga, nine of them
in the Aston house, and he can prob
ably be connected with more than 100
incendiary blazes in the last five years
His mania seems to be a craving for
admiration, as he invariably dis
covers" the fires he sets, Injuries him
self in putting them out, and poses as
a hero.
April 9 will be presidents day at
the South Carolina exposition. Major /
Jenkins will be presented with beau
tiful sword costing from $500 to $50, /
from South Carolinians who honor .
him. President Roosevelt, his former .
chief of the Rough Riders, will make
the presentation. The sword will be
purchased with voluntary contribu-
tons from all over the state and not
by the fund gotten up by Colonel Till
man and an ovation to the president is
expected, to atone for the discourtesy
IF state Official
General Nelson A. Miles intimated
20 the Senate committee on military
affairs Thursday that he would resign
or retire in the event of the passage of
he RooseveltRoot bill for the creation
IF a general staff, measure he con
iders inimical to military efficiency.
lie said that he would not be a party
o such proceeding to the extent
wen of continuing in his position, as
lie regards the bill utterly subversive
# the interests of the military estab
ishment. The cabinet Friday dis
ussed the case and the printed testi
nony will be prepared for General
lilies approval, as the president de
ided to take no action until officially
otified of the generals exact Ian ]
uage.
The president and Secretary Root re G
ected last week General Miles plan d
Or the pacitication of the Philippines 4
his plan, which worked well when
pplied to the Indians, was to select
ayeral Cubans and Porto Ricans to go $
, the Philippines with the general t
nd explain to the natives the benef- a
cent results of American rule in their t
stands. Several prominent Filipinos a
ere then to be induced to come to S
ais country to study American insti-
ltions. A resolution was introduced q
, the House Thursday requesting of o
lie president copies of all correspond "
ace upon this plan and the president 81
as called for it from the war depart o
ent, to decide whether it shall be d
ade public or not.
Three hundred passengers on the
reat Northern railroad, 20 tons of
all and carload after carload of bag q
lge, which had been snowbound in -
,rthern Dakota since March IA, o 1
ached st. Paul Friday. The passen- III
RS suffered much from cold and hun re
II. Snow drifts were 30 feet high "a
i'd a terrible blizzard ragged many q
,urs. Fifteen deaths from freezing =,
e known. The aggregate loss of life w ="
stock will reach 10000 sheep, 5000 he
tile and perhaps 800 horses Five St
rloads of valuable horses and a train
ad of cattle were frozen to death on
e cars of the Great Northern rail pr