Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-07-25

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miral Prince Henry of Prussia W 'ne
| United States.
despatch from Venice says that the
monumental clock tower OF Santo sue
fano shows signs of collapsing, ana
that precautions have been ordered 10
prevent its fall.
Albanian brigands recently surround
al The Creek monastery at Visoke near
Prisend and threatened to burn the
hnildinps and massacre the monks I'M
less 800. 600 was forthcoming. The ran
som was paid and the brigands depart
ed
Renorts from King Edward, who IS
on the royal yacht, Victoria ana ~
bert. at Cowes, are OF continued IN
movement He is said to have walked
few steps Monday and will soon hola
his first council since the accession Oh
the new premier.
Cardinal Ledochowski, project OF the
congregation of the propaganda OF the
Roman church, died Tuesday morning
in Rome. after long illness. having
suffered a sudden paralytic stroke Gar
dinal Count Miecislaus Won LedocnoW-
ski was a member of an illustrlous 70
lish family and was born at Gorki' fo-
land on October 20, 49,,
4 purse of 5000 was presented by
the ladies of Cape Town, to Mrs.
Steyn. wife of the ex-president OF the
former Orange River Colony. before
she sailed for Europe with her hus-
band and two doctors last week Mt.
Stevn is in a pitiable condition from
enteric fever His arms ana legs are
partially paralyzed and he Is unable TO
open his eyelid'.
number of distinguished noun
taineers of Europe sailed for India IN
March for the purpose of attempting
to scale Mt Everest, the highest noun
tain in the world, whose ascent mas
never even been attempted. The pro
ject is very dangerous one, owing TO
the hostility of the natives in that re,
gion and to the difficulties presented
by nature. Mt. Everest is over $4,000
feet high.
After the first meeting of the Brit
ish cabinet it was announced that Earl
Cadogan had resigned the yiceroyship
of Ireland 1t is expected that the
Duke of Marlborough or the Earl Of
Dudley will succeed him. There are
persistent statements in the lobby OF
the House of Commons that Austin
Chamberlain, son of the colonial min
ister will succeed Sir Michael Hicks
Beach This would certainly mean
change in the fiscal policy.
Camille Flammarion, the eminent
astronomer, and Professor Berget of
the Sorbonne, are making preparations
to reproduce in an improved form the
experiments made over half century
ago by Doctor Foucault in proof of the
rotation of the earth. These expert
ments will be made shortly under the
dome of the Pantheon, Paris, the
Valhalla of the great men of France.
The stem of the pendulum Is of steel
and is II yards, 3 inches long. Its
plate is 3 feet, 3 inches long.
Early in June. Doctor Garnault of
Paris inoculated himself with tubercu-
lous virus from a COW infected with
the disease in order to test Professor
Koch : assertion that bovine tubercu-
losis will not infect human beings. He
carefully refrained from injecting any
contaminated matter into his veins.
July II. the doctor made fresh intra-
veinous incubation into his left fore
arm, such as kills guinea pigs in eight
weeks, and as a result of this inocula-
tion the doctor has developed tubercu
lar tumor.
The car of Russia has proposed
trust conference to which all the Eu-
ropean nations have been invited. The
fact that the United States was not
asked to participate is believed to be
due to the fact that since the United
States is the leading country in the
world in the formation of trusts, which
have hit Europe hard, the conference
is to be in reality an anti American
one. 1t is said that tariff system for
the protection of Europe against Amer
lean aggression will be discussed. The
United States. however, if in attend
ance, could take no action with for
eign governments on trade regulations
especially involving an international
regulation of tariffs in some measure.
\ remarkable statement is made IN
Vienna to the effect that the visit of
the king of Italy to st. Petersburg was
for the purpose of arranging p elimi
naries for a fusion of the triple and
dual alliance for the purpose of Co
operating in an economic conflict
against America.
Bitter hatred exists in South Africa
between the Beers who fought to the
end and those who served as British
scouts. Some of the latter have even
been shot, or beaten. The former class
distinguish themselves from those
who surrendered during the war by
wearing green badge 4 Pretoria dis
patch says that: The majority of the
Beers have apparently in no way aban-
doned their nationality, and some of
them preach the ACCESSIBILITY of open
ing Dutch schools, so as to keep alive
their nationality. The whole situa-
ton so bristles with difficulties that
there are not lacking those who doubt
if the document signed May 81 was
really the final settlement of the South
African trouble. Many of the burgh-
ers declare they were induced to surren-
der by the false representations of their
leaders. who painted the terms too
rosily. Discordant elements are nu-
merous and any ATTEMPT to place the
burghers who surrendered during the
war in authority over those who fought
throughout will be likely to result in
the renewal of hostilities. -
In spite of the declaration of Sheriff |
Cudihee, considered one of the bravest
and shrewdest sleuths on the Pacific |
coast, that he had Harry Tracy. the !
Oregon convict, cornered. the latter
again escaped and has not been heard |
of since Thursday when ha want to tho !