Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-02
COLORED PEOPLE LEAVING
MISSISSIPPI NEGROES EMiGRATE
TO AFRICAN LANDS.

l COlOnCU TCOTIC ICHvIVV
MISSISSIPPI NEGROES EMIeRATI
TO AFRICAN LANDS.
Fierce Tornado in Bermudas-Spanis
, American Veterans Reunion = At
tempt to Burn Worlds Fair Building
Wireless Communications.
Fully 1000 Mississippi negroes hav
packed their belongings and are pre-
pared to emigrate to Africa. They will
form the advance guard of an army o
their race who, 1t Is alleged, will leave
the state because of the well known
anti-negrO views of Vardaman, thu
newly elected governor. This coloni'
cation undertaking is one in which
Leigh S. j. Hunt, a wealthy mining
operator in Corea, and a former resi-
dent of the state of Washington, and
Booker II. Washington have Joined
hands. Their projects include the re-
clamation of several hundred thousand
acres tributary to the river Nile in
Africa and the cultivation Of these
lands by negroes who are to be taken
from the United States. Mr. Hunt is
now at a watering place in Germany.
He will meet Booker T. Washington in
October in Africa, probably in Cairo,
Egypt, and together they will perfect
plans for the colonization of thousands
of negroes.
Letters from Mr.. Hunt to close per-
sonal friends state that President
Roosevelt has approved of the plans
suggested by Mr.. Hunt. Mr.. Hunt lost
his fortune on Puget sound in the pam
ic of 1898. He then went to Corea and
secured a concession for developing
gold mines, which are said to be prov
ing among the richest mines in the
world. The Corean emperor Is his part
ner in ownership.
The postoffice at South Hadley,
Mass was robbed of about $1,000 worth
of stamps one night last week. The
burglars blew the safe open but found
no money.
John Baynes of Stamford, Conn.,, in
ventor of Photographic modelling, the
kodak film and numerous other photo
graphic appliances and also a writer
and lecturer on art, died at Portland,
Me-, Tuesday, aged 81 years
The champion gelding, Major Del
mar equalled Lou Dillon by trotting a
mile in two minutes at the empire city
track, New York. Saturday. Only last
week the animal changed owners at
the highest price, $4,000, ever paid for
a gelding.
The state of Minnesota has appealed
to the u. S. supreme court from the
decision of Judge Lochren in United
States court in favor of the Northern
Securities company In the state mer-
ger case. Twenty nine points Of error
are assigned.
Vast lodges of native tin have been
discovered at Cape York ON the Ben |
ring sea. Several companies are pre-
pairing to install heavy machinery in |
another year. BY that time they believe |
Cape York tin will become an impor-
tant factor in the worlds supply.
A project has been started to har |
ness the mountain streams of Seward |
peninsula to supply power for hydraul- |
ic mining on large scale at Nome and |
other mining districts. An aggregate |
of nearly 100000 horse power can be |
generated.
Sir Thomas Upton said at Chicago
Monday that if he can find a designer
to beat Herreshoff he will build
Shamrock ". and challenge again for
the cup. He hopes to do this and in
tends to keep after the cup until he
gets it.
Secretary Moody of the navy is de-
termned to stop hazing at the naval
academy. He has recently told Capt
Bronson, superintendent of the acad
envy, it is said: IF hazing exists at
Annapolis stop it and the navy de-
oartment will back you"
The time for the exchange Of ratifi-
cations on the Panama Canal treaty
expired Sept 20. Advices from Bogota
'ay that congress has passed law au-
horizing the president to conclude
anal treaty with the United States on
congress. The exhorbitant demands Of !
he senate will be eliminated from the !
lew treaty. I
The Alabama senate Tuesday passed
he nti-boycott bill, previously adopt
d by the house. 1t will become law t
n 30 days. The bill prohibits labor +
lnions from placing bans on or issuing {
'oycotts against corporations, firms or
under heavy penalties. The
abor organizations are up in arms |
ver the bill and say they will find a !
way to overcome the new law. I
Following the mysterious death in I
he Adirondacks of Millionaire o. p. I
)eNleT, plOl is Sdlu " nave Deeii us
overed against the lives of w. G. 7
w. c. Whitney, Alfred c
]. P. Morgan, Seward h
Webb and Timothy Woodruff, all of v
,hom have large holdings in the Adir s
ndacks. Mr.. Rockefeller has a large p
rmed guard about his camp.
COMMUNICATIVE chief John c. Black s
the G. A. R., announces it as the $
olicy of the organization to agitate .
Or service pensions. The Grand Army L
t San Francisco, he said, resolved to G
ppeal to congress and to all patriotic L
itizens for a pension for veterans of a
ne civil war SO years old and over, u
tho saw 60 days or more of actual SER II
ice, and to their widows after them. e
An attempt was made Sunday night -
burn the agricultural building at !,
lie Worlds Fair, st. Louis Mo-, one .
the largest structures now in course
construction there. One of the JEFF
,rson guards observed a man acting
lspiciously with out the building. He N
tempted to arrest the man, who es- c.
iped, although several shots were r.
red at him. Near one of the walls III
as found straw saturated with oil. el
he would be incendiary is believed to ft
= an Italian recently fined for tres al
issing on the fair grounds. VI
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