Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-02

A fire at midnight Tuesday in the
wholesale whiskey house of Bonnie
Bros, Louisville, Ky. destroyed about
$50. 600 worth of whiskey and dam
aged the building several hundred
thousand dollars.
The Frick Coke company in the Con
nellsville, Pa, coke regions, granted
their 20, 600 employees a voluntary ad-
vance of percent in wages, to take
effect January l. 1t means an addition
al $1,000, 600 in wages to the men.
Representative educators in confer
ence at Boston Monday decided to
start a fund for suitable memo.
rial to the life and work of the late
Alice Freeman Palmer. Committees
were chosen to arrange the details of
the matter.
| DR.. John X. A. Crossman of Missouri.
United States Minister to Monrova,
Liberia, has been recalled. This action
is the result of scandal in the lega-
! ton which resulted in shooting af
| fray, Oct. 6, between the minister and
Thomas j. r. Faulkner of Brooklyn,
N. Y. Both men are negroes.
Queen Emma, the virtual ruler of a
I
| the half-dozen wealthiest women in the
world, is in New York She is accom-
panied by her husband and grandson.
She has about $50, 600, 900 and is the
lawmaker for pearl.. 200, 600 islanders
who, score of years ago, were among
the fercest cannibals in the world.
Her father was Jonas NJ. Coe, for %
years American consul at Samoa, who
M iaH - ha
ing house.
BY an explosion OF gas or gasoline
Dec. "A in the cellar of the Turf Elk
changes Hot Springs, Ark. club house
and pool room, the building was badly
damaged and 30 people were injured,
l6 of them being in a serious condi-
tion. The pool room was crowded at
the time with more than leo persons,
and race at New Orleans was being
called. The cause of the explosion was
the leaking of gasoline from tank,
the gases coming in contact with the
lights of the pool room when a door
was opened.
Forty of the largest corporations of
Pittsburg, Pa, and vicinity put out
an aggregate of IS, 80. 600 in Christ
mas gifts to employees. Workmen of
Allegheny county received SIS, COO GOO.
Crippled, aged and disabled employees
were also remembered Over million
dollars was distributed in presents
from Wall street. Judge Gray, of the
anthracite strike commission, sent
Christmas box to little Andrew Chip
pie, the Markle breaker boy whose pa
thetic story before the commission
brought tears to the eyes of the com
missioners.
DR.. ID. +. Salmon. chief of the U.
S. bureau of an imal industry, who has
charge of the determination of the foot
and mouth disease in New England,
says in regard to criticism of the meth
cd of killing of affected herds: There
are only two courses to pursue. Either
the diseased animals must all be killed
off and the contagion stamped out i'm
mediately thus relieving the state quar-
antine restrictions at the earliest pos
sible moment, or we must sit down and
watch the disease and try to prevent
its spreading by quarantine. Up to
Monday, 1900 head of cattle had been |
killed in Massachusetts,. The cost to
the state is 100000 day. The work
is progressing satisfactorily.
Dr. Adolf Lorenz, the famous sur
geon, has returned to New York from
Boston and is being lionized by many I
of his countrymen and Others. He says
that the report that be has made Sl60,
600 in this country is incorrect, but
that, as a matter of fact, in the four
months he has been here he has earned
just $50, 900, his home practice being
worth that. 1t has been, he says, the
physicians of the various cities who
have profited by his visits. But
it has been the browning success of
his life, officially, Dot materially, and
he is glad he came. Only one case
of failure has been made, in an opera
ton for hip trouble at the Bosto chill
dren's hospital, the subject being
boy beyond the age limit. The Aus
trian expert, however, succeeded in
the crippled limb mate
rally. Such unusual force was en-
ployed by DR.. Lorenz in breaking
Iowa the adductor muscles and in
stretching the capsule and other mus
lies, that one physician tainted and
mother was only saved from 1t by the
entrance of fresh air. BY this blood
ess method, be says, if the age limit
S not exceeded, there is no danger of
osing a case. The characteristics of
he method are to reduce the parts to
heir normal relative position, keep
hem there a long time and subject
hem to weight bearing.