Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-08-01

Colonial Secretary Joseph Chamber
lain of England is recovering slowly
from injuries received IN CAB accl
dent recently. He has suffered recur-
ring attacks of irregular heart action.
There is a revival Of brigandage ID
western Morco and Thessaly. Greece,
and intending visitors are warned to
keep away. Most of the brigands are
ordinary fugitives from justice. Their
method of eXtorting money by threats
of violence is practised with consider
able success.
Cardinal Girolamo Gotti project of
the sacred congregation Of bishops and
regulars and of regular discipline, was
Tuesday appointed project of the pro,
/ paganda to succeed the late Cardinal
[ Ledochowski. This is the highest po-
sition in the Roman Catholic church
except the Papacy. Cardinal Gottl
was born in 1884, the son OF Genoese
dock laborer.
Following attacks made upon the va
! lidity of the Marconi patents. the cred
tied inventor, Guglielmo Marconi, has
filed an application in the British pa
tent office at London to amend the pa
tent filed in his own name for the
wireless telegraph, September 10, 1901,
so as to describe that invention as one
communicated to him from abroad by
the Marquis Luigi Solari, of Italy. =
Great surprise has been caused in Lon
don by this action.
Nine. Edmond Sempis, formerly Miss
Louise Rutherford Of Brooklyn, \. V.
was killed at her country home near
Paris, France Friday, by two Great
Dane dogs, which had been bought to
guard the home. Nine Sempls ven
tured into the inclosure to feed the
dogs. which had been deprived of food
for two days in the hope of tanning
them. They leaped upon her like tigers
and she was fearfully torn before she
could be rescued.
Many persons were injured, 10 Sc
riously and hundreds were arrested as
the result of the street disturbance in
Paris Sunday. in which clerical and
anticlerical demonstrations brought
about by the closing of unauthorized
religious schools were made. \ large
procession of students, shouting and
singing, was dispersed by the police
and attempted red flag demonstrations
at the Stratsburg statue We're also /
broken up. Six thousand extra troops
were ordered to Paris Saturday.
1t is reported in Vienna that DR.. /
Sellim, a professor of the Vienna uni
yersity, who is exploring Palestine in
behalf of the Imperial Academy of .
Science, has discovered the walls and /
gateway of the ancient Temple of Solo
mon in the neighborhood of Janohah.
in Samaria. The famous Temple of Sol
onion was built by the king of Jerusa-
lem After its destruction it was re-
placed by the Temple of Zerubbabel
and the Temple of Herod. There is no
record of Solomon building a temple at
Samaria, the town 30 miles north of
Jerusalem, which did not come into
till after the revolt of the
10 tribes. when it was made the capt
.al of the northern kingdom by Omri.
Generals Delarey and Botha were
given a magnificent ovation at Stellen-
BOSCH, Cape Colony, Monday. General
8otha said that the day of surrender
vas the most painful in his life. but
low that it was over, he prayed that
lis hearers would consider it Gods
will and try to make themselves happy
u South Africa, since they have no r
nome elsewhere, He said that the At
lkander nationality would remain the
most important factor in South Afri-
IS social life. The TrauSvaal public
departments are working at full pres :
ure to effect the settlement of the
ountry, An enormous amount of
york must be done. Twenty years :
rrears of work must be caught up
nd the destruction of the last three
ears made good :
The technical commission at Venice,
tally, has ordered that the tower of ;
AN Stefano be demolished. as il
hreatens to fall. The houses near it
ave been emptied. Sansovino's bronze :
CURE of Peace from the Loggetta has
cen recovered The church of San
tefano was built about the year 1860 !
Y Augustinian friars, and the in
uence of the chief orders of friars on !
lie architecture of ecclesiastical build )
lgS in Italy is we'll illustrated in it. 8
he tower, to be demolished, is a lofty $
le, Inspection shows that the church ::
ST. Mark is in good order. but the I
allerles have been closed and the H. !:
rary is being moved from the ducal !
alace. The heavy merchandise. mo- :
Ilcs and marble statuarv are also to
: removed from the first floor of the :
rocuratie Necchi and several houses 1
the Ghetto Veccio are to be demol-
he'd. The ducal palace, or palace of |
e doges, was originally founded in
U. 1t has, since that date, been five ,
mes destroyed, and as often rebuilt
a style of greater magnificence. The
esent editice, which is in Moorish =
othic style, dates from the fifteenth
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