Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-06-06

Gov. Stanley has pardoned Carrie
Nation, recently sent to Jail for a
month for smashing saloon fixtures,
and has RENTED her fine.
Returns in Oregon indicate the cleo
ton of George Chamberlain, Demo
crat, for governor. Republicans will
elect the rest of the ticket. Both
houses are Republican insuring the
election of Republican United States
senator.
More engineers, firemen and pump
runners have joined the Pennsylvania
are filling with water. Although crowds
atively quiet in the whole mining re-
gion.
John f. Jewell of Galena, H., was
examined Tuesday at the State depart
ment at Washington to ascertain his
fitness to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Consul Prentiss at st. Pierre,
Martinique. His nomination was sent
to the Senate Wednesday.
The transfers strike in Chicago was
marked Monday by series of bloody
fights on the streets in which many
people were badly hurt Stones and
sticks were used by the mob and clubs
and revolvers by the police. The riots
were caused by attempts to move meat
from the packing house plants to the
distributing stations downtown.
The American Lecture direction has
brought suit to recover $780, 900 dam
ages from Miss Ellen NJ. Stone for al
legged breach of contract to lecture un-
der their management in regard to her
experiences in captivity. The alleged
contract, under which Miss Stone was
to deliver 100 lectures, was made March
D. She is now lecturing under a sub
sequent agreement made with Major
Pond.
Wednesday was another day of battle
in Chicago between the rioting teams
tiers and the police. The mob with
sticks and stones fought the drivers of
the beef packers wagons and were only
kept in check by the pistols of the
police. More than a dozen battles were
fought during the day between the
rioters and police, and the hospitals at
night were overcrowded with the in
jured.
Four persons were burned to death
in fire that swept away two large
blocks at Rockaway Beach, n. Y,
Tuesday morning. Twenty other per-
sons were injured and seven hotels
were des troyed, beside other buildings.
1t was on the eve of the opening of
the resort for the summer. The fire
started from the range in the kitchen
of Kasten's hotel Tha property loss
was Sl5O,0O
The skeletons of five Indians were
unearthed at Kingston, Mass. last
week by cottage builders. The bodies
were thrown together and are believed
to have been those of victims of the
great smallpox epidemic among In
dians of southeastern Massachusetts
over $50 years ago. Near the old
Kingston wharf stone fireplace, with
we'll preserved charred firewood was
found buried four feet deep.
Two men were killed, six persons Sc
verely hurt and a dozen or more slight
ly injured by the runaway automobile
racer of W. C. Baker of Cleveland, o.,
at Grasmere, Staten Island, Saturday
where automobile speed tests were be !
ing made. under the auspices of the |
Automobile club of America. to break .
the worlds record for mile, Mr.. /
Baker and his assistant were in the |
machine when it got away from their /
control. They were arrested but exon
Grated from blame by a coroner's jury
Monday who called the accident ian
unavoidable one. The coroner wit
messed the accident and said no one
should be blamed for running an au
at a speed of 10 miles an hour
through IA narrow lane of people as
ong as a permit had been obtained
rom the police. The grand jury will
ryestigate and it is probable that ac-
ion will be taken against the Cleve-
and company. manufacturers of the
reak machine and the Automobile club
If America. 1t is also probable that
he city will be sued for heavy dam
lges by the relatives of the dead men
md by those injured IA