Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-03-21

Inc treasury department mas OTueTet
a modification of the present system
of baggage inspection of incoming pas
sengerss Practically, the only change
is an Authorization of the language o
the rules for examination.
The mayor of Dawson denies the
widespread reports published in the
newspapers that there is business
panic in the city or an exodus of people
from it. U. S. Consul Saylor also de-
clares that the reports are absolutely
false.
Givera has issued a proclamation il
Samar Island declaring himself the
successor of Gen. Lukban, who was
captured, and that all orders in the
name of Lukban are void. Giyera says
he has been compelled unwillingly te
issue the proclamation.
The negroes of the Tuskegee Normal
and Industrial Institute, who were en-.
gagged by the German government tc
teach the natives of Togoland, German
West Africa, how to grow cotton, have
succeeded in producing cotton which
is graded above American middling.
/ The only obstacle to the commercial
utilization is transportation. The co
lonial committee has sent engineers tc
survey fol railroad.
The largest body of very rich gold
ore ever uncovered is said to have been
| found near Wickenburg, Ariz. 1t is
reported that the ledge is 100 feet in
width in the narrowest place, and car
ries values averaging from Si0,0 200 to
$50, 600 gold, besides a quantity of sill
yer and copper. The group was sold
less than eight years ago by the orig
inai locators for $4,000, and is now in
the hands of a syndicate of Iowa cap
italists.
Washington is to have a new union
railway station built of white marble
at cost of s., 600, 600 and one of the
finest in the world. 1t is to be located
two or three squares northeast of the
present Baltimore and Ohio station and
will have frontage of more than 1000
feet. The various railroads entering
the city will connect through a tunnel
under Capitol Hill, and enter the sta
tion by viaduct and elevated tracks,
as all-grade crossings are to be abol-
ished.
South Boston celebrated Evacuation
Day Monday, with the dedication of
state monument at Dorchester Heights,
a speech by Senator Lodge and other
exercises in which the governor and
lieutenant governor of the state and
the mayor of Boston took part. Rear
Admiral Schley was one of the guests
of honor. The day marked the l26th
anniversary of the evacuation of Bos
ton by the British army, under Lord
Howe, and the real beginning of
American Independence.
Agricultural agents conclude, from
certain climatic conditions known 10
breed abnormally numerous swarms of
grasshoppers, that the coming summer
will be marked by unusual injury
from these pests in Kansas, Nebraska
and Texas. An expert will soon give
all his time to studying the conditions
under which grasshoppers breed, and
deayor to find some preventative which
become capable of injur-
ing the crops.
North Dakota and the Canadian
northwest experienced the worst snow
storm beginning Saturday in many
years and railroad traffic was practi-
cally paralyzed. The Northern Pa
cific and the Great Northern did not
move wheel for nearly SO hours in
the blizzard stricken district and
abandoned all effort to do so, until the /
fury of the storm should abate. The /
temperature Sunday night was at or
below the zero mark. Winnipeg was /
cut off from railroad commun-
cation with the outside world. In
he Colorado mountain passes from .
'ouI to six feet of snow are reported.
The piers of the Phoenix and Bar
DER lines in Hoboken were destroyed
~ fire Tuesday night. The steam
ship British Queen was totally de
'troyed and several lighters were burn
ID. The fire threatened the Campbell
stores and for time it looked as if
he flames would reach the Holland
american line docks. Several New
York piers We're fired by drifting oil
,arges and narrowly escaped destruc-
ion. The loss will probably reach
4. 800, 600 The extent of lives lost
will probably never be known. Many
are believed to have been
raped on docks and in the British
queen. Twenty or 80 men were seen
o jump into the water from the burn
ng ship, The fire is said to have been
t incendiary origin.