Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-04

The Colombia senate at Bogata has
appointed committee of three sena-
tors to devise the manner of satisfying
the vehement desire for the excavation
or the Panama canal harmonizing the
national interest and legality.
Senator George F. Hoar, Massa-
chusettss grand old man" celebrated
his 18th birthday anniversary at his
home in Worcester Monday He has
been devoting much of his time to lit
erary work this summer.
A school of 143 whales drove ashore
at st. Mary's bay, st. Johns, N. F., last
week, and were unable to retreat. The
residents men and women, waded
waist deep into the water and killed
them all with hatchets, scythes and
pitchforks.
Howard J. Rogers, chief of education
and social economy of the Worlds fair,
has decided to make Oct. IS, 1904,
Helen Keller Day." at the fair. Miss
Keller will address the international
congress of instructors of the blind
and the deaf.
AS the result of recent developments
in the affairs of the Methodist book
concern it is rumored that DR.. Homer
Eaton, head of the New York Office
will be asked to retire at the quadren-
NAL general conference of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church next May.
The announcement is made by
member of the special board appoint
ed by the ordnance department to
make rifle tests at Buffalo, that the
United States government will, in a
few days, issue formal announcement
of the adoption OF the improved
Springfield rifle and the discarding of
the Krag.
The property of the estate of Mrs.
James G. Blaine is appraised at ST.
100000. This fact causes surprise as it
had often been said that the campaign
of 1884 cost Mr.. Blaine 100000 or
more, and at it's close he told some of
his intimates that he was then a poor
man. 1t is said in Augusta that Mr..
Blaine cleared about 100000 on his
book Twenty Years in Congress-" and
that he also made some very profitable
in stocks. The estate is
given in it's entirety to Mrs. Blaines
Joseph Haworth, the veteran actor
and Boston favorite, was found dead
in his room in a hotel at Willoughby,
o.. Friday night. Death is supposed
TO have been due to heart disease. Mr..
Haworth was born in Providence. r.
l., in 1856. He had been prominent
n the theatrical world for 25 years.
playing at the Cleveland academy Of
music, the Boston museum and New
York theatres with many famous act
,rs including John Mccullough, Dion
Clara Morris, Nine. Mod
eska and Margaret Mather. His most
recent appearance was with Richard
Mansfield as Cassius in julius Caesar.
1t is supposed that Mrs. Edith
White, former wife of j. A. White Of
Mimi, general agent for
las died of starvation in the Klondike
and that her body has been
levoured by wild beasts. Dispatches
rom central Alaska tell of the finding
# letters and a diary containing the
tory of Mrs. Whites life from the
ime she left her former home in Man
,ato until she died from cold and hun
Ter while trying to make her way I'M
accompanied to an interior camp in
he Copper river country. Mrs. White
vas a graduate of the dental school of
he Minnesota university and was
practising dentistry in Dawson City
wo years ago. She wrote her rela-
ives at Minneapolis saying she was
DING into the interior and probably |
you'd not be heard from for some |
ime.
The meetings of the Alaskan boun- |
airy commission opened in London |
At the first meeting, briefs |
yere submitted which We're a conden-
alton of the facts and arguments re-
arding the Interpretation of the
realty. The whole controversy is said
, center in Canadas effort to acquire
n outlet to the sea. 1t is known that
ne Canadian agent asserts that under
ne Russo British treaty of 1925 the
ne properly crosses numerous inlets,
lcluding the headwaters of the Lynn
anal The contention seems to be
lat the inlets less than six miles wide.
tuated in the disputed region, belong
, Canada United States Counsel
oster vigorously opposes this view,
gliding that the treaty clearly places
lie line 80 miles inland, following the
nuosities of the coast, and thus sepa-
ties Canada from all the arms of the
,ean and puts Porcupine creek and
lie gold district under American juris-
ction. The United States repre-
,ntatives reached London Sunday.
nited States Ambassador Choate has
ranged to give a dinner in honor OF
ecretary Root, at which all the Brit ]
h representatives will be prestent.
SUGAR Beet Culture in Canada.
Canadian Pacific experts have COM
eted series of tests on the arid
,,,;x- u,acf Of CALGARY Canada. |