Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-06

lea, bands of fighting men are hurry.
ing in one direction and another ano
war preparations are being rushed N
every part of the republic.
A $4,000 fund has been started tc
endow Cooper Union, New York, as a
memorial to Abram S. Hewitt, who
did so much for the institution. An
drew Carnegie, j. Pierpont Morgan
and William e. Dodge have subscribed
100000.
Col. Alfred Landon Rives, a distin,
guished civil engineer, died Thursday
at his home, Castle Hill, Albemarle
county. Va He was the father of the
noted writer's, Amelie Rives, now the
Princess Troubetzki, and Halle En-
mimic Rives.
The Washington senate has adopted
the house bill making the conduct oil
gambling resorts a felony The Mon
tana house, in committee of the whole,
has made the bill licensing gambling a
local option measure in small commun
tiles. For eight years gambling has
been felony in Montana.
The famous gold ledge to the north
of Cape Nome which an EsquimauX
gave information about two years ago.
has been discovered. The ore is won
derfully rich, the yellow metal show
ing in every part of it. The ledge is
400 miles from Candle creek and Will
probably be opened up by next spring.
Terrorism prevails in the region about
the Colimo volcano in Mexico, on ac'
count of the active eruption OF that
volcano which is growing constantly
worse. The people are fleeing from the
stricken region and their terror is IN
tensified by the severe earth tremblings
which have taken place at frequent IN
/ tervals. A tidal wave is feared at Man
zanillo.
/ Scouts under Lieut.. Nickerson de
feated ladrones near Mariquina, Luzon,
Sunday, killing 10 and wounding many.
Wednesday the constabulary surprised
and captured the stronghold of the la
drones in the mountains of Albay, Lu-
ION. They met with some resistance
/ but the ladrones were defeated with 10
killed and four captured. Gen. sum
! ner expects trouble along the military
road in Mindanao, the dattos being UNI
able to control sections of their unruly
/ followers.
An American physician, Dr.. Adolf
Razlag, has been experimenting IN
! China and has discovered means OF
curing and exterminating leprosy. Ihls
work was begun in June, lU2, IN
/ leper village six miles distant from
! Canton. OF four cases treated, three
have been discharged completely cured
and the last is making practical re-
covery. The physician urges strongly
the adoption of his methods for the
] r. in hn
I and in Hawaii. The main features of
/ the treatment, which is shown in de-
/ tail in the consul's report, appears TO
consist of minute and prolonged sani-
tation and the use of a highly antisep-
/ tic drug.
/ A fast passenger train from Chatta-
nooga was wrecked just west of Ellnor
/ City, Tenn, Saturday owing to the
spreading of the rails 10y landslides on
! the Cincinnati Southern railway. SIX
persons were killed and several injured.
/ The wreck occurred on the top OF a
steep embankment and the tram
plunged down this. The locomotive
| fell to within 80 feet of the Tennessee
river. Four of the coaches were tele-
scoped and partly piled up on the en-
| CINE. Three coaches were burned. En-
gineer John p. Bib, just before he
died, refused the whiskey physician
offered him, saying that he had never
touched it and wouldn't begin now.
He then said, Il am going to die, so
90 and look after the women and chill
dren in the coaches. -
/ Mrs. Charles W. Fairbanks, wife of
the senator from Indiana, was elected
at Washington Thursday to succeed
herself as president general of the
/ Daughters of the American Revolution.
Mrs. Fairbanks and Mrs. Donald Nc
| Lean. regent of New York chapter,
4 have been the centres of two factions,
| between which there has been exceed
| ing bitterness, but for some time there
has been most kindly feeling between
the two leaders Mrs. Mclean with
drew her candidacy at this election, in
| favor of her opponent, whose nomina-
ton she seconded. Ii is believed that
| this action on the part of Mrs. Mclean,
Sin the interest of peace" as she de
clared, will insure her election two
years hence. The congress was moved
1 to the widest excitement by her &C
ton.
Alfred Knapp of indianapolis, Ind. =,
who was arrested last week on suspl-
cion of having killed his third wife,
/ Annie Goddard Knapp, at Hamilton,
Ont, has confessed his guilt and also
1 four other murders. He says he killed
his second wife in Cincinnati, and
three girls whom he assaulted and
choked to death In addition to these
awful crimes Knapp has served five
prison sentences, three for larceny and
two for assault. He has served two
terms at Jacksonville, one at Colum-
bus, one at Joliet, and one at Michi-
gan City, to which prison he was sent
from Indianapolis in 1866 for a brutal
assault on Bessie Draper, child.
Knapp's first wife obtained a divorce
from him in 1888 after living with him
few months. He had just married
Miss Gamble of Indianapolis and says
that several times he had tried to
choke her in her sleep. He says that
his wives knew of his crimes and he
was afraid of them. Knapp's parents
claim that he is insane.
The d. o. Mills astronomical expe
dition to the Southern hemisphere,
after two years of preparatory work,
sailed from San Francisco to Chill
SATURDAY.. The observations will be
conducted by University of California
astronomers, headed by William II.
Wright of the Lick conservatory. The
mission of the expedition is to throw
additional light on the motion of the
solar system through space. Since
1895 the line of sight velocities of some
/ l,,s.r Sfa hapn