Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-02-21

llBlOuS WORKS, uleu AT LOnuJn 7NeuneS-
day, aged &c. DR.. Hall was an earnest
advocate of the union cause in the
civil war.
plot against the Sultan of Turkey,
Abdul Hamid II, has been discovered
in Constantinople, the object Of which
was either to kill the Sultan or inn
prison and dethrone him. A number
of courtiers are implicated. Two aides
have been arrested.
Dr. Hubbard, at the Paris academy
of medicine Thursday, combatted the
popular belief that people who have
heart trouble cannot safely take chic
reform. He produced statistics in sup
port of his statements. Prof. Berger
agreed with him, that chloroform, pru-
IDENTIFY used, is the safest anaesthetic.
The Spanish navy, practically de-
stroyed in the sea fights of Manila Bay
and Santiago, is to be revived SO that
Spain will have, in few years, the
same strength on the seas she held be-
fore the war. project has been
drawn providing for the construction
of eight battleships of 1900 tons dis
placement, and four cruisers of 5000
tons displacement, and a credit of 81
begin work upon them.
News has just been received at Paris
of the massacre of a French scientific
mission by cannibals at Siledaka, New
Guinea, January l. The party landed
from their yacht and were kindly re-
ceived by the natives who treacherous-
ly attacked them during the night
numbering % of the party, including
Baron Vilars, Count De Saint Romy,
NJ Hagenbock and Vries. and wound
ing 49, One of the survivors who were
rescued by the remainder of the mis-
sion from the yacht, says that some of
the murdered men were roasted and
eaten.
Dr. Leyds, the European agent of
the Beers, said in Paris Monday that
the Boer delegates, Messrs. Vessels
and Wolmerains, who sailed for New
York Friday, were merely going to
| America in response to invitations
| from American pro-Boers, to arrange
for the distribution of funds and other
assistance contributed by the people
of the United States toward the Boer
cause. 1t is believed in some quarters,
however. that the Beers hope>to take
advantage of the feeling likely to be
produced in the United States by the
recent developments of the angloGer-
man controversy as to the attitude of
the Powers previous to the Spanish
American war in trying to get the
United States to modify its attitude
towards mediation.
The Paris Temps published Monday
a despatch from Constantinople which
announced that Miss Ellen NJ. Stone
has been released by the brigan1s who
have held her captive since September
3 and has been handed over in good
health to the Dragoman of the Ameri
can legation. Rev. Mr.. Tsilka, Ma
ce1onian teacher, whose wife, Bull
garian woman. was the companion in
captivity of Miss Stone, has been ar
rested on the charge of completely in
the kidnapping of Miss Stone. The
ransom money was paid February 8,
NJ. Gargiula, dragoman of the Ameri-
can legation at Constantinople, and W.
W. Peet, treasurer of the American
mission at Constantinople, meeting the
brigands on the road to the PodIome
monastery for the purpose.
Shamaka, town of about $4,000 in
habitants IN Russian transCaucsia,
was destroyed by an earthquake last
week About 1000 persons m ostly wo-
men and children persisted and 1000
houses We're destroyed. Thirty-four
villages nearby also suffered. To add
to the terror of the neighborhood, a
volcano near the village of Marasy,
east of Shamaka, has broken into &C
tive eruption. Great crevices appeared
whence immense flames and streams of
lava are being thrown out. The course
of the river Geenehaika has been al
tered in consequence of its bed being
damned with earth which has been
dslodged by the earthquake Trans
Caucasia lies south of the Caucasus
mountains in the extreme southern
portion of European Russia, between
the Black and Caspian seas. Asia
Minor and Persia lie on the southern
border
Lord Pauncefote. the British ambas
sador to the United States, is accused !
by the Germans with endeavoring to
bring about hostile action on the part {
of the Powers against the United /
States. in a meeting at Washington.
A ril A. 1898. Lord Cranborne, par
liamentary secretary for the foreign |
office. said to the House of Commons I
Friday that the meeting of April ii
twas convened by Lord 'Pauncefote as
Dean of the Ambassadors at the verbal +
suggestion of some of his colleagues.
Whatever opinions were expressed by
Lord Pauncefote during the discussion
were personal to himself, and not pur-
suant to instructions from Her Maj
esty's government. The discussion re-
suited in an agreement to forward an
identical telegram to their respective
governments, suggesting a further
communication to the United States
government Her Majesty's govern
ment Immediately replied by Directing
to the terms of the communication as
Pauncefote was informed that Her
Majesty's government had decided to
take no action. We. at the time, had no
information of the German attitude. "
The claim was made on behalf of Lord
Pauncefote in this matter, that Presi-
dent Mckinley, April 10, received
note from Madrid virtually conced-
ing" the American demands, and that
he deliberately concealed this fact for
the purpose of justifying the war he
had then decided on, and that Lord
Pauncefote felt himself justified in
doing what he could in concert with
his colleagues to preserve the peace.
But his superiprs promptly vetoed his
The Spanish note, how
ever. simply proposed an armistice,
granted complete autonomy, but did
not agree to the abandonment of Span
ish sovereignty OF the hauling down of
the Spanish flag.