Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1902-11-21
THE WINDHAM COUNTY REFORMER FRIDAY, NOVEMBER

ceeus MN. Inc salary Is $40, 0OO a
year
Richard NJ. Field, the noted Boston
theatrical manager, died of Bright
disease at Jamaica Plain last week.
lie became connected with the Boston
Museum in 1864 and was closely iden-
Gifted with it afterwards as manager.
John Barrett, commissioner of the
st. Louis exposition for Asia and Aus
tralia, says that this is critical time
in the history of American trade in
China and that the future, with its
vast trade possibilities, depends upon
the negotiation of a new American
Chinese treaty.
The hope of finding Superintendent
Egan, of the Great Northern railroad,
is diminishing All the larger search
ing parties have come in without find
ing traces of him. Experienced woods
men, under pay of the railway com
pany, are expected to keep up the
search for eight or ten days more.
1t is announced at Rome that the
Pope's solution of the friar problem in
the Philippines does not include the
Punishment of the frairs now or in any
given time, but instructions have been
sent to the heads of four religious or
derS at work in the islands, advising
them to gradually replace the Spanish
frars by Others, preferably Americans.
Funds have been raised to renew the
hunt for the missing boy, Wilbur Clark
of Beverly, Mass. The Essex woods
will be searched by "A party, Chebago
lake will be thoroughly dragged and
all the water courses followed to their
source. Certain suspicious mounds in
the woods will be dug up. Rewards ae-
$1,000 have been offered for
the return of the boy.
The estimate by the director of the
mint at Washington for the gold pro-
duction of the world for 1901 shows
total product of 1868, 374, 100. OF this,
the United States produced S7S, &C.,,
700; Mexico, so, 2S4, 800: Canada, S24,
lbs, 800: Africa, 50, 0S9, 800; Austral-
asia, SIC, $40, 200; Russia, so, $4,000. .
And the rest is distributed in smaller
lots between several countries.
DR.. c. c. Hendricks, proprietor of a .
santarium in Bayonne, n. j., and |
Samuel Stanton, formerly justice of /
the peace in Hoboken. charged with /
with Laura Biggar to de-
fraud other heirs of Henry NJ. Bennett
Of Pittsburg, Pa, to whom Miss Big
gar claimed to have been married. have
pleaded not guilty at Fernhold, n. j.,
and will be tried November a.
The first of the navy's new subma-
,ine boats, the Adder and the Mecca
sin, were tested in Peconc Bay, n. T.,
Monday. The Adder made three
hours submerged run, speed G.SS
knots an hour, making a good turn I'M
Ter water and firing torpedo. The
5est was most satisfactory Military
men say that all future schemes of har-
Dor defence should include submarine
BOATS.
The United States Philippine com
mission has made a law TO assist the
of ladronism by making
highway robbery committed by three
II more persons a capital otfense. Con
fiction does not require proof of actual
of the crime. the existence
# band of brigands under arms being
efficient. Severe penalties are pre-
cribed for those assisting ladrones in
crimes.
John Davis, negro, was hanged in
he courthouse yard at Lewisburg,
'enn.. Thursday by mob of 800 men
or the murder of Robert Adair,
armer living near the city. Adair's ,,
ody was found in a terribly mutilated D.,
ondition in field near his home !
arlier in the day. He had started !
ut in pursuit of thief, who was steal 4,
ny his corn. A bloody knife found a,
ear his body was identified as the
property of Davis.
The war department has just discov- I
red that there Is now one regiment in :
he United States army, the Twelfth t
'avalry, without an officer in it that n
Anticipated in the Civil War, either as r
fficer or enlisted man. 1t is the first :
hing of the kind since 1861. The dis t
overy led to the further one that there G
lie now remaining no more than 10 \
eterans on the active list in the whole a
Military establishment, staff and line I
Within year or two there will be O
oxen to twenty regiments without \
Ingle representative f
Pietro Mascagni, the Italian compos- 5
r who recently came to this country to t
reduce his own works, has been ar t
asted once or twice in Boston since 5
is arrival in connection with troubles t.
bout his contract with the Mittenthal
rothers. The various suits brought e
lclude one against the Mittenthals by C
Lascagni for $50, 600 alleged damages |
ue to his arrest The composer has p
ppealed to the Italian government for
rejection and Prime Minister lamar +
ELI promises to look up the case at y
nee. The matter may be made an in d
irrational one. "
The PENNSYLVANIA Railroad company u
lnounced Thursday a 10 per cent adj q
ince in pay in the wages of all en- d
oves of the company east of Pitts u
lrg and Erie now earning less than u
200 a month, the advance becoming +
,erative Nov. l. This increase was II
,luntary and affects about 50, 900 EN- =
Dyes. 1t will cost the company about g
/. 80, 600 a year The advance is due y
the increased business of the com ST
any. and also to the increased cost of G.
wing. The New York Central and Phil II
lelphia, Baltimore and Washington y
abroad companies will also make 10 u
n cent. advance in salaries in the II
me way. W
In his annual report, Admiral II. c. r
aylor, chief of the bureau of naviga- -
on, says that the crying need of the ";
IVY is more officers to man the war -
lips. and the lack is really danger r.
is to the efficiency of the fleet The -
aduates from the naval academy dur al
O the next four years will be 800, -
aving a total deficit of officers July =,
1906. of 1.O05. Admiral Taylor rec -;
nmends further increase of one mid =,
iuman to each member of the House, "