Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-07
new WORLD HAPPENINGS,
THE WEEKS EVENTS ON rne
WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
Ioekjaw Cursd.-Great Gold Rush.
Immunity From Building Strike.
Pronnised.-lou Dillon Break. III.
Worlds Record.

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last Confederate staff officers &c aao
at st. Louis age SO. His commissio
as major was first issued by Jefferso
Davis, as president.
Lawrence Murphy Of New Yorl
former treasurer of the Journeyme
stone cutters Union, recently convict
ed OF Incorporating $4,000 of tn
unions funds, has been sentenced I
iive years and six months in Sing Sin
prison.
Six thousand more aliens entere
the United States by way of Ellis Isl
and in July this year. than during tn
same month last year. The total 10
the month this year is $4,000, while SO,
600 passed that landing depot in JULY
1902, and only $4,000 in the sam
month in 1901.
1mportations of iron and steel int
the United States in the fiscal yea
1908 are larger than any preceding yea
since 1891, and with that single excep
ton are larger than any time within
the past 20 years. Their value is s51,
617,S12 against s27,1SO,247 in 1902, ST..
S74,7S9 in 1901 and s12,100,440 in 1899
The greatest gold rush since the or.
iginal stampede to the Klondike /.
now in to the new placer mines il
the lake Arkell district, about 20 miles
from White Horse and 90 miles from
the Yukon river. Ground on two
creeks is. said to be as rich as Bon
ANA and Eldorado which produced
many millions.
The greatest clock in the world. the
dial of which will be 40 feet in diam
eter, is being built at Milwaukee, Wis
for the use of the Louisiana Purchase
exposition next year. only the hands
and machinery are being made. for the
dial is to be a brilliant bed of flowers.
The clock will be placed on the side of
the hill north of the agricultural build
ing.
Geronimo, the Apache chief whoaled
his band of his tribe in'the bloody raids
against the white settlers in Arizona
many years ago, has embraced religion
at Fort Sill Ok, and has issued pro-
to his followers urging them
to follow his example and become
The Indians are greatly
excited over the change of heart of the
DID chief. He is said to have made
4 public confession of his many bloody
leeds.
Decision has been made at Buffalo
n the divorce suit of Bertha Hubbard
against Ebert Hubbard, the sage of
.. Aurora, better known in the literary
world as Fra Elbertus. The decree
lissolves the marriage contract on the
ground of defendants misconduct.
rhe custody of two children, Ralph and
Catherine, was awarded to Mrs. Hub
,ard, but to Hubbard was allowed the
custody of the other two children, Ell
,ert and Sanford.
Seventy men from the militia COM
,anies have made a systematic search
n the ruins of the Lowell, Mass, pow
Ter mill explosion but no bodies were
ound. Mrs. Eliza Galloway, one Of
he victims of the explosion, died Sat-
rday morning in ST. Johns hospital,
he third of this family killed by the
EXPLOSION, the husband and son having
ost their lives. A little girl of nine
ow in the hospital is the only sur
ivor of the family.
James H. Chaffee. one of the heroes
f Bret Harte's story, Tennessee
is dead in Oakland, Cal, at
ne age of so years During "a years
e and his old partner, Chamberlain.
lined together. No shadow ever
louded their friendship, and it was the
hiyalrous affection which existed be-
veen the two that Bret Harte painted.
haffee lived for years at second gar
IT." 40 miles from Yosemite, and thou
ands of persons from all parts OF the
-orld knew him. He was born in
Mass.
The building industry of Chicago is
immunity from strikes as
esult of plans, the success of which
now virtually assured, for the for
lation of an arbitration board to set
e all disputes between contractors
nd the building trades unions. The
reliminary agreement drawn up pro-
ides that grievances between MEM |
ars of thirty building trades and their |
nployers shall be submitted to board
, be composed of representative |
ON each trade and an equal number !
contractors.
The 10-inch Brown segmental Wire
ound gun was tested for the thlrd
me at Sandy Hook, L. l., on the prov
e grounds Friday. 1t was first test
in 1901. Then the breech-block
ew off under the strain of $4,000 lbs.
the square inch. In the second test,
AIDED with an amount slightly less
ian the service charge of l5o IDS. OF
,wder, a projectile weighing ooo IDS.
cochetted far out to sea- rms test
as successful. There will be further
iaIs until the maximum strain has
zen placed upon the piece ana loo
,ots at least fired. Construction OF
a segmental gun was authorized in
81. and thus far it has cost $4,000.
A new system of wireless telegraphF
Is lust been put to successful long
stance test on Lake Michigan.
lille Mrs. Emily Piggott, mother OF
a Youthful inventor of the new sys-
m licked prearranged messages from
Il, home in Garfield Ave, Chicago, the
N stood on the main deck of the
haieback Christopher Columbus anu
ceived the message. unlike the
her systems. there is no pole at elther
. receiving or the sending station
"a although in the tests the receiver I
as exposed on the deck of the vessel
q transmitter was in the room OF
use. To prevent the interference
foreign currents each instrument
timed" to respond only to a current
=, certain rapidity of alienation.
In spite of a heavy breeze that blew ,
wn the home stretch Lou Dillon
med by C. K. G. Billings of chicago
ID driven by Willard Saunders sue
eded in breaking the worlds record
a.. aftarnoon at the Chenille track