Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-03

the ministry because of his objection
to sectarianism and orthodox theology
An Archer-avenue trolley car, crowd
ed with home-bound passengers
crashed into Belt line freight train a
Archer avenue and Forty. seventh
street, Chicago, early Monday. Tw,
passengers were killed and many Sc
riously injured.
Yale won all three races over Har
ward on the Thames at New Londol
last Friday, the varsity beating tn
Harvard's best men by more than II
seconds, the Yale freshmen beatin,
the reds by six seconds and making
record time, and the Yale 4.oared crew
winning by - seconds.
AS the result of base ball game a
Atlanta, Ga, Saturday afternoon, il
which strenuous tactics were intro
duced. two negro players are dead ano
the police are securing the swamps
south of Atlanta for the assailants.
Sam Johr son, one of the crack players
for the Spain negroes and Dick Ed
mondson. the umpire, are dead. The
assailants are unknown.
A well dressed woman, apparently
about 40 years of age, jumped in front
of an approaching train at White
Plains, n. T., Thursday and was in
stantly killed. just before jumping
she tied handkerchief over her face.
The engineer saw her and tried to stop
his train, but could not. A small
gold watch, with the initials IN. A.
II. and crescent of six diamonds on
the case was found on the body and is
the only clue to her identity.
A dispatch from New Orleans, La. :,
says that John McCloskey, saloon
keeper just outside the military re-
servation at Fort st Philip, the main
defense of New Orleans, died at the
hospital there Sunday of a fractured
skull. He was murdered in drunken
row by two of the artillerynen
stationed at the fort The murderers
were surrendered to the parish
authorities. One of them. Harry }.
Morgan of Wilbraham, Mass, served
in both the Philippine aud Chinese
campaigns.
The woman ambulance surgeon has
come. She is Miss Emily Dunning of
New York and for six months she will
ride on the ambulance of Gouveneur
hospital, taking her work just as if she
wore trousers. She did her first work
on the ambulance Wednesday night
and. although it wasn't real test, she
went through it all right. Miss Dun
ming is a Cornell NJ. d. There have
been lots of women NJ. D. s from Cor
nell but they have never had hospital
appointments which included ambu-
lance work.
Arrangements for the convention of
the American federation of labor at
Boston in November are already being
made by the executive officers of the
organization. John B. Lennon, the
treasurer. is in Boston and in confer
ence with the officers of the central la
Dor union and of the state branch of
the American federation. 1t is believed
that this will be the largest represen-
tative convention of organized labor
ever held in the world. Trades union
officials estimate that 100000 wage
earners of this country will be repre-
sented. In addition the trade unions
of Canada and of Great Britain will
have representation in the convention.
A shocking accident occurred Satur-
day on the railway near Madrid. A
heavily laden train was being drawn
by two engines when the coupling be-
tween them broke One of the engines
escaped, but the other was derailed on
a bridge and fell over the edge, drag
cling with it the entire train to the
river below. The train consisted of l6
all of which were destroyed
The train plunged 30 feet, landing on
rocks bordering a river. Every car was
,plintered. Seventy bodies were taken
rom the wreck. The dead wi number
over 100 The river was tinged red
With the blood of the victims. One of
he railroad guard was caught robbing
. dead passenger of purse containing
,ver S400.
Leslie Lumsden, an assistant surgeon
u the marine hospital service, who is
acting as quarantine officer
It San Juan, P. r., and Mrs Lums-
len were drugged and robbed at the
Hotel Inglatera one night recently with
hloral which had been placed in lem
made. When they were under the in
Iuence of the drug all their money and
ewelry we're taken from bureau in
he room. A porter who took the lem
made to the Lumsdens has been ar {
ested on suspicion. The Lumsdens Sat {
rday had recovered from the chloral. j
he incident has caused great sensa-
ion at San Juan, as the Hotel Ingla- i
ezra is the leading hostelry of San T
uan. Lumsden went there recently c
rom New Orleans. He was formerly
n duty in Washington.
President Roosevelt's home coming
Dr. the summer was made the occasion
( a fete in the beautiful Long Island \
own of Oyster Bay Saturday. His re- !
option was notable for its sincere and
Enthusiastic cordially, and likewise
or its vigor. The latter quality was !
ne to a slight factional difference d
mong the townspeople. the result be- /
,g that the president was accorded b
ouble reception. Greeting his friends b
nd neighbors the president said, in L
art: "Since l last saw you l have c
cen across the continent: l have trav- T.
led from the shore of the Atlantic a
,ean, across the Alleghenies, across \
le Mississippi valley, by the side of v
he great lakes. over the Rocky noun d
Tins, to the shore of the Pacific, and /
he thing that has struck me most in "
lat journey of nearly 1900 miles, d
ght across the continent, has been
le essential unity of our people-that v
herever an American president goes, p
ere in the United States, he feels fl
imself to be at home among those S,
no feel as he does and who have the p
me ideals to which he can appeal b
Sir Thomas Lipton's new cup chal- "
niger, the Shamrock Ill, was given II
n first test in American waters Sat- %
day in an informal trial with the - -