Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-08
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HENIsPHERr

Citisens Leaving Frank, N. w. Filipino
Leader Captured St. Louis Dedication
Doukhobors March Again-A Revolutionary
Theory-stuart Robson, Comedian, Dead.
Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala
has broken out again. A storm of
ashes is falling and the inhabitants in
surrounding country are panic stricken.
j. Wells Champney, the painter and
pastelist, slipped and fell down the ell
evator shaft from the fourth floor of a
New York building Friday and was in
stantly killed, his skull being crushed.
Baron Speck Won Sternberg, the Ger
man ambassador, and the baroness will
pass the summer at Dublin, N. H.,
having rented finely situated cottage
near the Franklin MacVeigh residence.
There is much alarm at Mazatlan,
Tex, over the temperance of the
plague. Official data have just been
made public to the effect that from De-
cember to April Is, 487 persons were
attacked by plague; of these 1928 sue
cumbed to the disease.
Fifty half-naked Doukhobors are on
dispatch received from that place at
Winnipeg, Man. They say they are
searching for Jesus" and will not
stop until they find him. The men
are marching in their boots and coats.
shouting and singing
More than 1000 men in the building
trades went on strike in Philadelphia
during the day Saturday. This action
affects directly 1000 additional work.
men and may render 10000 men idle.
The carpenters demand so cents an
hour for an s-hour day. The hosting
engineers ask S2l. 60 for week of 48
hours.
The citizens of Frank, N. W. I. ARE
leaving the town as Engineer McHen-
~ of the Canadian Pacific has stated
that the remaining peak of the noun
tain is Creeping At a mass meet
ing Premier Haultain stated that the
town was unsafe. The Canadian Pa
cific is providing special trains for
those who desire to move. The railroad
itself is moving its rolling stock, and
everything is being done to avert, II
possible, another calamity.
The 1920 saloon license tax went in
to effect in New York Friday night,
and at the same time the saloon keep
ers of Greater New York started to
carry out their project to abolish the
free lunch, to charge for the filling OF
the "growler" Is cents instead OF III
cents, as formerly, and to provide.
cracker in the place of the free lunch
It is said that about 300 men have been
swept out of the saloon business be-
cause of the increased license tax
First Assistant Postmaster General
Wvnnr has issued the following order
from Washington: Especial delivery
mail addressed to bona fide patrons OF
rural routes will be delivered by rural
carriers at patrons dwellings without
regard to their distances from the
routes. A bona-fide patron of the rural
service is one who has properly erected
IN n rural route a mail box which has
received the approval of the postoffice
denartmept for use on such routes.
After a fight lasting more than a
week the stockholders OF the Seventh
Day Adventist publishing house at
Battle Creek, Mich, decided TO move
the plant east, the name OF the city not
vet decided upon. This action SHOWS
that the majority of the stockholders
believed in Mrs. Ellen White, a lead
ing prophecies OF the society, VINO pre-.
dicted disaster if the plant was no!
moved and the Adventists coionizeo
there scattered to various parts OF the
country.
Stuart Robson, the veteran coined,
ian. died April 20 of heart disease al
the Hotel Savoy, New York. He was
81 years old and had been on the stage
for 81 wears. He was native OF baI'
timore and both he and Sen. A. r.
German we're pages in the U. =: sen
ate in their boyhood days. While
mage. Robson so cleverly initiated Ger
tain senators that he was advised tt
90 upon the stage and adopted the sug
eestion. His partnership with ". H.
Crane lasted for years.
The anti-Addicks element IN tnt
state of Delaware, who have been try
mo to stop the shameless vote buying
in that state, are bitterly DISAPPOINTED
because Gov. Hum has vetoed the re
neaI of the so-called voters asst stan
law This law permitted voter u
take an assistant into the booth Tor Sc
cret balloting, to assist him in marx
;no his ballot, 1t has been made TN
means for assuring people who were
hr;hinp voters that their men voted a.
they we're paid, and if tine ie l Dsls eUa1,
be repealed, corruption hpsHn blow To-
Gov. Cables of Laguna province am
nartv of volunteers on Thursday cap
t,rrad Rios. the fanatical Filipino LEAD
or in that part of the Island OF LuZon
Rios was formerly blacksmith S 9 di1; Of T afi
abas. He claimed to o. Ie O. crowd ov Of ma
s Ewes. declaring be came from heave'
carrying a box labeled oa ..ind dep mo-
when the people re6els ID He ., ntti insur
many followers t dnd searssd sup
PRESSED pressed. Rios, who fed to the !. noun 9uI
! t p,H5sel later claimed the title Of Pop
of Luzon,'' and also asserted ne was -
prophet, and had been n, in n. h, sn;1sv 20
months s,im ms an as probably will be tfie
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