Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-06-27

j. ID. Spreckles, multi millionaire
who controls great share of the in
dustries of the Hawaiian islands, /
contemplating connecting the island
by wireless telegraph with San Fran
cisco.
The insurgent chief Jesus, with %,
followers, armed with rifles, has sur
rendered in the island of Leyte. Thi
clears the island. with the exception
of Capili, who is already pledged tt
surrender
1t is announced that the Vatican vii
accept the propositions of Judge Taft
governor of the Philippine islands, re
garding the disposition of the friars
lands on all the main points, but dis
sents on minor points.
1t has been discovered that the cor
porations controlled by j. Pierpon
! Morgan and his associates pay in cor
poration taxes the entire cost of tn,
running expenses of the state of New
Jersey. The total annual tax is $50, 1873
Estes G. Rathbone, the convicted
director general of posts of Cuba who
was p rdoned from 10 years sentence
by a general act of amnesty by the
Cuban congress, liberating all Ameri
can prisoners, has arrived in New York
from Havana.
Sixty three square miles of fir forest,
with 10000. 900 feet of standing tim
Der, has been burned along the North.
ern Pacific in Washington. The tim
Der destroyed was worth 81, 100, 600.
The village of Lester is threatened
with destruction.
The supreme lodge, A. o. U. W., at
Portland, Ore. last week decided that
within the meaning of the regulations,
Spaniard is white man: and that
Meyicans of Spanish descent are white,
but those of Indian blood are not. An
effort was made to unite Vermont with
the Quebec jurisdiction, but instead
Vermont and New Hampshire were
joined.
The reduction works of the Lake Su-
perior Power company of Sault Ste
Marie have discovered method of con
verting sulphurous gas-which is taken
from nickel ore--into liquid of sui
phuric acid Of quail ty much superior
to that made in the ordinary way, being
worth 800 a ton while the other is
worth only $50. The process is one of
compression and expansion.
After many moves and cou inter- moves
in the legal fight between attorneys for
Colonel Gaynor and Captain Greene,
the two Americans who are wanted in
Savannah, Ga, for alleged frauds in
connection with harbor work, and at
torneys representing the United States
government, who are trying to secure
= Inir nytrnlitinn Garnnr and f,raana
have been returned to the Quebec Jail
for eight days when arguments on new
habeas corpus proceedings will be
heard.
Gen. A. S. Burt, retired, who has re-
Gently arrived from the Philippines,
has a plan for the solution of the Phil
ippine problem. He says to sell them
to Japan for $50, 600, 900, payable on
the instalment plan; debating such
coaling stations and reserves as are
thought best for trade interests. This
arrangement, he thinks, will give the
United States as broad a road into the
markets of the orient as if we retained
the islands: besides we will be making
strong allies of two nations that will
represent our in erests on that side of
the globe without the necessity of the
presence of large army at an enor
nous cost.
Jane Toppan, the Lowell, Mass,
nurse charged specifically with having
poisoned Mary f. Gibbs at Cataumet,
Mass, last August, but suspected of
having been implicated in the mystic
rious death of 81 other persons, was
found mot guilty by reason of insan-
lty' at the superior court at Barn
stable Monday. The time occupied in
the trial of the woman on so grave "A
charge was scarcely six hours from the
opening of the court until Miss Top /
pan had been sentenced to spend the /
est of her life in the Taunton insane
asylum. Miss Toppan is said to have /
confessed to the experts who testified /
o her insanity that she poisoned Mrs. /
Gibbs and 10 others by giving them .
arge doses of morphine and atropine. |
A column of slime 100 metres high .
las been elected from the volcano of
vt. Pelee and has fallen on Basse
oointe, Martinique, enveloping the
over portion of the town and complete
Y razing % houses. No loss of life has
'een reported. DR.. Jaggers of Har-
ard, who has been investigating the
fleet of the eruption at st. Vincent,
n the coast of the island, states that /!
hanges in the bed of the ocean along
he western coast of St. Vincent, will
ecessitate a careful resurvey to make
avigation safe in that neighborhood
Where. before the outbreak of La Sou
riere and Mt Pelee there existed solid
and, there is now deep water as yet
nsounded, which extends to the base
f high cliffs, bare and vertical, for
lerly a considerable distance from the
lore.