Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-02
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK IN SUMMARY
Trusts Corner Turkeys and Oil Fields Obi
Ministerial Alliance Debars Santa Clau
from Churches American Methodist got
Century Thank 0ffering-Typhoid Germ
Destroyed by Lemon Juice-Laura Bigga
Acquitted Express Companies Not Liquo
Dealers.
Nine persons net violent deaths il
Greater New York Sunday. THREE
were suicides, one woman who hat
tried to commit suicide II times be
fore.
Ocos, formerly one of the principa
Mexican ports on the Pacific coast, ha.
almost completely disappeared in thu
sea, owing to the sinking of the har
Dor bottom after an earthquake.
An interesting proof of the correct
ness with which wireless message:
may be transmitted is given in the
fact that messages sent in Italian have
been received by operators who have
no knowledge of the Italian language.
Robber bands infest the provinces OF
Cavite, Batangas and Tayabas in the
Philippines and they are to be placed
under military control because of diff
ficulties of the civil government with
the ladrones. There has been new
outbreak of cholera in Manila.
Mrs. Mary Hartwell Catherwood, the
we'll known author, died at her resi-
dence at Chicago, ILL.,, Saturday night
of cancer. Mrs. Catherwood is the au-
thor of many books, the best known OF
which are 1.-THE Lady of Fort St.
john" "Old Kaskaskia' and La
zarre. ="
An eastern syndicate, of which j.
Pierpont Morgan is director, has OBJ
tanned control of all coal mines and
property west of Green river in Ken
lucky except that owned by the st.
Bernard coal company. Consideration,
So, 600, 600. Negotiations will soon be
opened for lands in Tennessee and West
Virginia.
The Standard Oil company has Sc
cured control of the Beaumont, Tex,
oil fields and the Jennings Oil region
in Louisiana. There are only few
small companies outside in the market
ing of fuel oil, the price of which has
been advanced to 81 barrel, with in
dications that quotations will go still
higher.
Forest Gale, 10, of the Salvation
Army, was fatally burned on Christ
mas eve, while playing Santa Claus to
300 poor children in the Army's hall at
0. He was swathed in rolls
of cotton and wore long white beard
and when his clothes ignited from a
candle the fire enveloped him almost
ms antly.
The report Of the appraisers on the
damage sustained by American resi-
dents Of China as result of the up
rising in China, shows that 230 claims
were submitted by Americans who suf
fered loss by the Boxer war aggregat
ing $4,000, 600, but only 81, 00,500 of
this amount will be available out of the
indemnity which China has been
called upon to pay for the damage done
to the foreigners.
Former Chief Isparahacher of the
Creek Indians, died suddenly at Ok
nulgee, l. t., Dec. %, at the age of
10 years. He had been prominent in
Creek affairs for threescore years and
1ad been connected with every treaty
If Importance between the United
States government and Indians during
hat time. Recently he was chosen to
the tribe in Washington on
matters of Importance concerned with
he Creek nation.
The Ministerial Alliance of Hamil-
on, O.. composed of the ministers of
he Protestant churches of the city,
placed ban on Santa Claus this year,
IS part of the Christmas entertain
nents in the city's churches. They de-
dared that they did not believe in fos
ering any kind of superstition. In
a combination of Christ
mas tree dealers kept lot of trees I'M
oaded on the cars and forced prices
higher than ever before on Dec. %.
John Wachs, non-union miner,
vas murdered and his beheaded re-
mains placed beside the Lehigh Valley |
abroad track at Pittsburg, Pa, where
hey were found Saturday morning.
The head was clearly severed from the /
'ody as if chopped with a cleaver and /
here was no blood on the railroad |
racks Wachs was opposed to the
line strike and it is thought that this |
ad considerable to do with his death |
s his home was dynamited couple of I
lonths ago.
The federal court at Keokuk, Iowa, /
as decided that express companies are .
My agents of the vendors in carrying
liquors and collecting and returning
honey; are not liquor dealers since
hey do not sell and need not pay the
pecal tax required by law. In the
ase in question. the United States VS..
ne Adams Express company, the cor
Grafton was indicted for carrying on
ne business of retail liquor dealer
ithout having paid the tax. The court
j this opinion has overridden the de-
ision of the supreme court of Iowa.
st. Paul physicians are watching
18th interest the case of William An
erson, ID years old, who is being treat
/ for cretinism. He has been with
ut an intelligent mind since his birth,
ut is now slowly acquiring the power
speech. An effort will be made in
few days to produce an association
ideas in his brain. This disease,
,ughly defined as congenital lack of
rain power, is seldom found outside
srtain valleys in Switzerland Its
ctims are generally considered hope
IS idiots. There are few cases on
cord in this country.
A movement has been started among
lie mine workers to increase the salary
President Mitchell at the coming [
Getting of the National Association of
nited Mine Workers. His present I
larry is 81, 800 per annum and that of {
Treasurer Wilson $500. {