Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-12-24
NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR
INTERESTING ITEMS CLEANED FROM
THE LATEST DISPATCHES.

THE LATEST DISPATCHES
Marconi Sends Wireless Messages to King
Edward and Victor Emanuel = Notorious
Paris Fugitives Arrested Severe Blizzard
in Wyoming Flight of saxony's Crown
Princess = $l,OOO,000 Fire in Knoxville
Tenn.-The Appalling Earthquake Disaster
in Russian Turkestan.
+ Samuel Shepherd, aged 80, was
struck and killed by the Montreal and
Boston express while track walking one
mile from East Richmond Monday. He
was a cook in lumber camp.
Thomas Tobin was sentenced at New
I York Monday to die in the electric
1 chair during the week beginning Feb
9, 1903 for the murder OF Capt. James
b. Craft of Glen Cove, L. L., in Sep
i tember last.
i Latest reports from the recent earth
4 quake at Andijan, Russian Turkestan,
state that 5000 people in and near the
city were killed and l6, houses de-
stroyed The populace is starving and
unsheltered.
The Vermont board of railroad COM
missioners has organized with II. 5.
Bingham of Bennington, chairman and
Fuller G. Smith of st. Albans clerk.
The board will go to Putney Dec. 80
to inspect over passes recently con
structed.
Edwin Randall of North Bennington
was run over by an electric car near
Walloomsac Friday night and killed.
The motorman saw him lying across
the tracks, but could not stop the car
in time Randall was 81 years of age
and leaves widow.
Business is at a standstill in East
Barnard schools and churches are
closed and many families quarantined
on account of an epidemic of diphthe-
ria The physicia who had charge of
the cases is himself stricken down.
There are II cases at present.
Fire in Knoxville, Tenn, Monday,
destroyed many fine business blocks,
causing loss of about 81, 600, 600. 1t
started in the our-story factory of the
Knoxville knitting mills and quickly
spread to surrounding structures. 1t
was the worst fire since the million
dollar conhagration of 1897.
The imperial troops of Morocco have
been totally defeated by the rebels,
headed by the pretender to the throne.
The latter decapitated 40 of the sui
tan's soldiers and their heads are or
namenting his tent. Imperial rein
forcements have been sent to capture
Taxa, the pretender's headquarters.
One man was killed and 20 injured
by the explosion Of boiler ID the
Truthville paint mill near Poultney
inn hllr
dinner in the boiler room \ man
named Bemis. who sat next the boiler, !
was blown through the roof and fell
100 feet into slate quarry 30 feet
away. Six other men are in a critical
condition The cause of the explosion
is unknown.
A terrible stolm of hail and snow,
accompanied by thunder and light |
ming. occurred at Cerro Depasco, l01 /
miles from Lima, Peru, Dec, H. The /
temperature fell to three degrees be
low zero. Several persons were killed /
aud much damage done. Cerro Depas- /
co is II. 200 feet above the level of the /
sea and one of the most elevated towns |
in the world. 1t has one of the larg |
est and richest silver mines known. |
The population is about l4,O00. |
The sleeping sickness, now devastat !
ing Uganda, Africa, has killed from /
20, 600 to 80, people in the past few .
wears since its discovery, and is spread /
ing to new areas with increasing viru-
lence. 1t is similar to meningitis, is /
contagious and almost invariably fatal, .
though its victims sometimes live six 7
months, and ends in state of coma. /
Its extension to the north is great .
menace to Egypt. Isolation of new
cases is the only scheme of prevention
yet devised.
Sgnor Marconi has just achieved a
wonderful success in transmitting wire
less messages to Europe. The Marconi
station at Table Head, Cape Breton,
communicated with Cornwall, Eng.
Saturday and Marconi has since sent
to King Edward and Victor Emanuel
messages of greeting, without the use
of cables or wires. The inauguratOry
messages were from the governor gen
eral of Canada to King Edward and
from the Canadian minister of com
msrce to the London Times
Madame Humbert and other men,
bers of the family who became motor
ious in connection with the great safe
frauds in Paris, have been arrested in
Madrid and lodged in Jail Ma 1ame
Humbert, who under the will of Rob
ert Henry Crawford, an alleged Amer
lean millionaire, was his sole legatee
and claimed to hold $40, 600, 600 in trust,
borrowed over Sl2, 2,000,0 600 from bank
ers, money lenders and others in France
and Belgium on the strength of her
title to this fictitious vast estate. The
safe which was supposed to contain the
$50. 600, COO, was found, when the in
vestigation took place May 8 to be
empty.
The Grown Princess of SaXony fled
from her home at Dresden during the /
night of December II II. She is said
to have left suddenly in a state of IN ]
tense mental excitement, deserting her
family, and to have gone abroad. The ,
Saxon court functions for the winter,
including the New Years reception.
have been cancelled The police of l
every kingdom of Europe have been ;
unable to trace her and the announce I
ment of her flight is now made to OBJ I
tain the aid of the general public In
finding her. Princess Luise OF Tus- I