Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-18

President Eliot of Harvard was unan-
imously named next president of the
I National educational association at
Minneapolis Thursday.
The Peary relief ship, Windward,
left New York for the Arctic regions
Monday. She will take aboard Mrs.
Peary and daughter at Sydney, G. b.
The board of officers which has been
considering the subject of uniforms
for the army, reports in favor of khaki
instead of blue. 1t has been found to
be more serviceable and comfortable
than the wooden cloth and far less con-
spicuous. ..-. .sai Az.
The twelfth international convention
of the Baptist Young Peoples Union
of America closed Sunday night with
monster meetings in three halls. There
were more than 1900 people present.
Rev. Galusha Anderson of Chicago
preached the convention sermon.
The gasoline tank of an automobile
blew up in Roger Williams park,
Providence, h. l., Sunday night,
throwing burning oil over the occu-
pants who were soon enveloped in
lIdIltS. l. ~ z ItlSollS Ntlc buu
all will recover except one, 17-year-
old girl whose clothing was almost en-
tirely consumed and who, it is thought,
inhaled the flames.
The emperor of China has appointed
S. w. Nickerson of Boston as vice con
sui to look out for the interests of the
Chinese in Boston and New England,
Up to the present time the Chinese of
the New England states have had to
depend on the consul general at San
Francisco, or the imperial consul at
New York There are nearly 10000
Chinese in the vicinity of Boston.
John McGraw Woodbury., commits
sioner of New York street cleaning, is
engaged in an experiment in the inter
est of health, with view to locating
microbes and thereby removing their
cause, so far as possible He has con
ceived the idea Of photographing the
atmosphere which circulates in the
streets of New York, enlarged 1000
times. By means of photographs it is
hoped the department will be able to
analyze and ultimately regulate the
condition of the atmosphere.
An explosion of fire damp in the
Cambria Steel company's rolling mill
coal mine at Johnstown, Pa, Thurs
day afternoon, buried about POO miners,
horribly mangling the victims. Foul
air all over the mine for time pre-
vented attempts at rescue, but 1l5
bodies have since been recovered.
Six hundred men were at work in the
mine at the time, but the catastrophe
affected only those in the klondike
section. The mine had been inspected
three days before and pronounced sat
isfactory. No serious accident had oc-
Cured there in the 30 years of its oper
alton. 1t is believed that gas escaped
from heading which contained gas,
was closed and not being worked on
that account. Most of the men killed
were Huns and Slavs. The loss to the
Cambria Steel company will be large
1t has for many years past paid to the
family of every person killed in its EN-
ploy $1,000 outside of what it expended
for medical purposes, and it has paid
every man who has lost an eye. limb or
the sum of 500 1t is understood these
rules will not be deyiated from. Work
was resumed Mondal in every part of
the.mine except the Klondike section. |
MThe american Anti Trust League,
through its general officers, has mailed
a letter to President Roosevelt severely
him for eulogizing Attorney
General Knox in his Pittsburg Grafton |
IF July L. more than one half of which |
was devoted to that subject The let
5er recites the efforts made by the /
eague to secure action by Attorney
General Knox against various combi /
nations alleged TO be acting in viola
ion of the Sherman antitrust act and
'eviews the evidence furnished Mr.
Knox as to their operations They con
Jude that the president is either ig
lorant of such evidence and of the in
ction of the attorney general, or else
lis conduct is equally reprehensib!e
md will be even more severely con
iemned by the people. They claim that
n honest enforcement of the laws is
low prevented by the collision exist
ng between the attorney general and
riminal trusts. If Mr.. Knox is per
litted longer to prostitute the depart I
lent of justice to such base uses, the
eople will hold you responsible: for it ,
5 within your power, Mr.. President,
t any time to retire him to merted |
isgrace and fill his place with an at ,
orney general who will enforce the /
avs equally to the rich and to the &
cor, without fear, favor or hope of re :
ard. " I