Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-20

June. He will visit the Yellowstone
park and will do little hunting.
An increase of $50, 900, 900 in the
stock of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Co. raises the total authorized capital
to S4OO,0O0,O00 The Western New
York and Pennsylvania road has been
leased for 20 years.
Icherio Shibata, Japanese Budd-
hist priest, is taking a post graduate
course at Yale college. He served with
distinction in the Japanese-Chinese
war of 1894, and is studying philoso-
ply at Yale to help him in his future
religious work in Japan.
Mai. Bittinger, consul general to
Montreal, has been recalled on account
of an interview, based on recent ut
terances in congress by MIR. De Ar
mond of Missouri, advocating the an
nexation of Canada to the United
States. Great Britain is said to have
protested and his recall was ordered.
An inquest into the murder OF Ed
win L. Burdick was begun at Buffalo,
N. Y, Saturday. No light is as yet
thrown on the mystery. Tuesday
Charles S. Parke, business partner
and personal friend of Mr.. Burdick.
declared that he thought Arthur II.
Pencil or his hired assassin commit
ted the murder He based his opln-
ion, he said, on both knowledge and
belief
Among the men named for the Dem
ocratic candidacy for president are
Judge Alton B. Parker of New York,
David b. Hill, Edward Nj. Shepard.
who ran for mayor of New York two
years ago, and W. K. Hearst, editor OF
The New York Journal, The Chicago
American, and The San Francisco Ex-
aminer. Elk President Cleveland is also
mentioned, but he says he is out OF
politics.
The schism started by Bishop"
Arlipay, the leader of the lndepend-
ent Catholic church in the Philippine
islands, seems to be graver than 1t at
first appeared, as strong Filipino
party is raising hopes among the ma
tives of Independence from Rome,
claiming that the expulsion OF the
friars is indispensable in order to OBJ
tain the independence of the country.
The apostate priests number IA.
James Madison Bell, "A, one of the
most widely known of the country S
colored poets, died in Chicago Friday,
He was the author Of Rally Round the
Flag. He was one of the familiar
figures in the abolition movement, and
associated on intimate terms with Fred
erick Douglass. Wendell Phillips, Owen
Lovejoy, William Lloyd Garrison apd
its other leaders. Abraham Lincoln
knew him and was an admirer OF his
anti slavery ballads.
''Clovernook, at Cincinnati, o.,
the home of Alice and Phoebe Cary,
whose poems are widely known
the literary world, has
passed out of the hands of their heirs
and will become home for the blind,
under the management of the Trader
Sisters of Avondale. These sisters,
one of whom is blind, have been &C
tive in providing library and had ex-
pressed wish to obtain the Cary
homestead for home building. W.
A. Proctor. a wealthy citizen, pur-
chased it and placed it at their dispo-
sal. The homestead has an ideal loca-
ton and comprises 20 acres.
Judge Adams of the I. S. circuit
court issued an injunction at st.
Louis, Mo-, March 3, restraining the
trainmen and tiremen on the Wabash
railroad from striking, as they had
threatened to do if their demands were
not granted. The company applied for
this injunction and until it is dis
solved there will probably be no strike.
Proceedings for and against such dlsso-
luton are now on in the higher courts.
Labor leaders have no hesltancy IN
stating that if the injunction shall not
be dissolved their power Will be gone
and the laboring man will have no way
to enforce his demands. If the injunc-
tion is dissolved ii is probable that a
strike will be ordered to enforce the de-
mands of the firemen and trainmen.
Gov. Taft has accepted the PROPOSE
ton made by the ST. Louis World :
Fair company and will have Philip
pine exhibit at the fair. A magniti-
cent display is assured, as the projec-
tors will have about 500. 600 available
for that purpose. DR.. Wilson is TO go
at once to the Philippines to select
and condense the vast mass of material
the insular government has already
gathered from various parts of the
archipelago. The purpose Is to give
an instructive and entertaining exhibit
without midway features and one
that is likely to give the American
people who visit the fair. by actual
inspection, realization of the varied
and wonderful resources of the archl-
pelago.
Secret agents of Chinese progress in
New York city have received private
information from San Francisco that
the crusade for the Liberation of China
Is to begin at once America Is to be
the headquarters of Hang lu Wal, the
Young reformer, who seeks, through
his society, the Bow Wong Wui, $50
cietv for the protection of the emperor
to make Kwang Hsui emperor IN fact
as we'll as in name. kang 1u Wal, 1t
is rumored, is now on the Paclhc,
bound for this country, and after es-
tablishing the main Office of his propa-
papda in New York, he will tour the
world, organizing branches in the va
rious capitals of Europe, made up of
educated and influential Cinnamon of
the world.
Leo L. Loeb, who is known as the
Paul Revere of Colorado, is in New
York to consult specialists with regard
to martial paralysis, from which he
has suffered as the result of the
achievements which earned him the
title he carries Loeb. when cloud
burst let loose a wall of water 10 feet
high five miles outside of Manitou,
Col, mounted pony, and, riding at
breakneck speed. warned the residents