Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-21
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY.

1 Indictments IN the new YORK Explosion
Case-Remains Of Race Of Giants Discov
cred in New Mexico-Historic Dwelling Pur
chased for Preservation Bandit Hunt il
New Mexico-A Victim to the Starch Eatinl
Habit-Death Of Noted Evangelist
to- ranean Disturbances in Mexico.
Des Moines, la. has decided to clos
all churches, theatres and prohibit al
public gatherings until the smallpo!
epidemic abates.
A rumor is current in Springfield
Mass, that Laurie Marks, the book
maker alleged to have been involved
in the Bank of Liverpool swindle, i!
in hiding in Springfield, in spite O
his supposed suicide.
James J. Jeffries and Robert Fitz
simmons have agreed to fight for the
heavyweight championship about May
Is, the contest to be limited to q
rounds, Marquis of Queensberry rules.
The contest will probably take place
at San Francisco.
Prof James Bradley Thayer, Weld
professor of law at Harvard University,
and one of the oldest and most distn-
guished members of the faculty of the
law school, died very suddenly of heart
disease at his Cambridge home, Fri
day evening He was in his 72d year.
The great Kellogg sanitarium at
Battle Creek. Mich, was entirely de-
stroyed by fire Tuesday. Four hun
dred patients were taken out only two
accidents occurring, woman and a
i ~, 81 frny,, a ind nW nd hrnnly
ing their legs. The loss will amount
to $500, 600.
Prince Eniwha, second son of the
king of Korea. who has been studying
at Roanoke college, Virginia. has been
sued at Washington, D. c., by brokers
on note for $50, COO Judgment by
default was secured against him. The
brokers hope to collect the money
through the Korean legation.
The American Flag House and Betsy
Ross Memorial association of Philadel-
phia Friday purchased the historic
dwelling on Arch street in which the
first American flag was made. The
purchase price was S25, l50, of which
$40. $50 has already been raised by an
individual subscription of 10 cents.
A great storm of wind and snow CEN
tering on the Jersey coast and south
ern New York swept the Atlantic coast
from Virginia to Maine Monday con
tinuing for 20 hours. New York city
had the heaviest snowfall of any city,
and the heaviest for two years. The
wind averaged 40 miles an hour. All
avenues of traffic on land and sea were
impeded
Officers under Gov. Otero's orders
are organizing in New Mexico to hunt
down the members of the Jack Ma
guire band of bandits, which has re-
Gently terrorized Guadalupe, Union,
Lincoln and Chaves counties. This
means that war of determination will
be waged against the outlaws who are
in the Businesses of the wild Captain
mountains.
The Pullman Palace Car company
have just finished at Wilmington, Del.
handsome car, 1.-THE Idler," which
will be used by Prince Henry of Prus
STA and his suite, in his tour of this
country. The interior decorations are
of bronze and mahogany and all the
rooms are lighted by electricity. The
upholstery is of blue plush and brown
tapestry and the curtains are of brown
silk. Electric fans will cool the air in
the different departments.
Owing to the discovery of the re-
mains of a race of giants in Guada-
lupe, N. NJ, antiquarians and archae-
ologists are preparing an expedition to
further explore that region. This de
termination is based on the excitement
that exists among the people of scope
of country near Mesa Rico, about 200
miles southeast of Las Vegas, where
an old burial ground has been discov-
cred that has yielded skeletons of enor-
nous size, some said to be over II feet
in length.
Seven openings from which smoke
is pouring have appeared in the noun
tain between Chilpanzingo and Chill
apa, Mex, and great alarm is felt by
the inhabitants. An earthquake, Sc
we're enough to awaken the entire city
from sleep, occurred early Saturday
morning. The state government of
Guerrero has started a scientific inves-
tigation. 1t is probable that the
will soon become an active
volcano, when it is believed that
the earthquakes will cease.
Rev. George Carter Needham, the
noted evangelist who was associated
with Moody and Sankey, died of neu
ralgia of the heart at his home in Mar
bath, a suburb of Philadelphia, Sun
day. He had just returned from an
evangelistic campaign in Tennessee.
Mr.. Neeham was born in Ireland about
60 years ago. At 20 years of age he
gave up a promising business career in
Dublin to become an evangelist. When
Mr.. Moody died. Mr.. Needham was
looked upon as the man to carry on his
work. He has written much on Bible
themes and has travelled in England,
Japan and China besides this country,
in the prosecution of his work.
Jennie Talbot, a negro woman %
years old. died at Greensboro, KY,
Friday from the result of starch
eating habit which she acquired 10
years ago and which had grown until
she consumed two pounds daily. Com !
mon starch. which she preferred, is
largely adulterated often containing
arsenic, which probably fastened her
death but her physician explained that
starch eating creates intestinal OBJ
A glue mass is formed.
Poisons are created that are absorbed |
instead of passing off. He said she
could have been saved, but that she |
secretly made away with the medi-
zines to counterfeit the habit and con-
inued her eating unabated. She died
falling for starch as an opium fiend |
or the drug. The physician said that
starch has certain soothing effect,
md its harm is scarcely app aren't to