Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-06

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his home in Pittsfeld, Mass. His i'll
ness dates from Christmas when he
suffered an attack OF grip. Mr.. Dawes
observed his seth birthday Nov. 30.
John Alexander Dowie of Chicago,
who calls himself Elijah III leader OF
the forces Of Zion, with 5000 OF his fol-
lowers, will begin at once q crusade
for the regeneration of New York, lie
will hold 1900 street meetings. Chica.
go is regarded by Dowe as Sodom and
New York as Gomorrah
At the 18th annual banquet of the
Confederate Veteran camp of New York
last week, Col. Henry Watterson, sol
dier of the confederacy, responded to
the toast "Abraham Lincoln pay
ing high tribute to his character. The
other toasts in the triology of heroes
of the civil struggle were "Robert f..
Lee' and Jefferson Davis
Ten thousand dollars, the amount re-
quired for the purchase OF Beauvoir,
the old home of Jefferson Davis, for
mer president of the southern confed-
eracy, was subscribed at "A meeting OF
the Beauvoir committee of the Sons OF
Confederate Veterans in Jacks on, NJ ISIS. I,
Monday, and deed will be granted by
Mrs. Davis in few days.
President Mckinley IS birthday, Jan.
81, was observed at Canton. o., by a
banquet given by the Canton kepubll-
can league. President Roosevelt pro-
lnounced brilliant and eloquent eulogy
upon the life and works of Mckinley,
by many regarded as the most beautl-
full and heartfelt tribute ever paid TO
the memory of the distinguished dead.
The backbone of the coal strike is
believed to have been broken by the
recent warm weather. There is plenty
of coal in New York, independent deal
ers selling anthracite at So and Sc. 90,
which retails at 81. so per ton. The
Philadelphia and Reading company
now has its full quota of 81 collieries
working, the output being l4oo cars
daily. :
John d. Rockefeller will spend 81, =
600, 900 to find serum that Will cure
consumption and plans to erect great
research hospital in connection with
| the medical annex of the university OF
| Chicago A post graduate institution
will be established on the university
grounds which will be the greatest
school and hospital in America and
probably in the world.
The failure of night operator at
Wallis Station, Ariz., to deliver orders
/ to the west bound Sunset Limited train
caused a head on collision between 1T
and the Crescent City express, IA miles
east of Tucson, Jan. %. Twenty bod.
les were taken from the mass of burned
wreckaee and several Others are be-
!
! the crash the ruins at once took lire
| and IL cars were consumed.
The General Education Board re-
Gently chartered by Congress for the
promotion of educational work In the
| United States, organized at Washing
ton. Thursday. One of its main OBJ
jects is the promotion of rural free
schools in the southern states. John
| d. Rockefeller, ST., has subscribed a
Gift of $1,000 year for 10 years.
Other smaller sums have been given.
DR.. Salmon. chief of the national bu-
reau of animal industry, in charge OF
the stamping out of the foot and mouth
| disease, says that 1906 cattle in us
herds, were affected with the disease
! in New HAMPSHIRE, Vermont, Massa-
chusetts and Rhode Island 27S7 cattle,
279 swine and l21 goats were killed in
New England and the possible none
| tary damage to the country unless the
! disease were checked, was 500, 600, 0OO
Henry G. Youtsey testified at Frank
fort, KY, last week that James Is.
Ford fired the shot that killed William
| Goebel, the democratic claimant to the
governorship of Kentucky. He SAID
| that the shot was fired from a front
window in the private office of the sec
rotary of state, Caleb Powers, and that
he and Howard were the only persons
! inside the room. He named William >.
Taylor, Charles Finley, Caleb Powers,
John L. Powers, William ii. Cultop,
Wharton Golden and William j. David
son as conspirators with him.
The chief of the bureau of forestry
who was sent to the Philippines last
| August by the government to report
| the forest policy of the islands, has re-
/ turned and says that both for forestry
and foresters the Philippines offer the
finest field he knows of. The objection
| that the islands are dangerously un-
| healthy he thinks a mistaken one and
I that a man who takes care of himself
NAV work with entire safety there
| More than half the area of the islands
| is in forest, the best timber in Nj india
mao: trees $50 to 175 feet high, diane
tiers, 3 to feet.
William A. Wilson, alias Alexander
Waters. former U. S. officer, was ar
rested at Montreal Monday for embez-
element in the Philippines and taken
to Washington. Wilson was formerly
disbursing officer of the bureau of
coast guard and transportation at Ma
Mia. He left Manila on Christmas
day and an examination of his accounts
showed shortage of $1,000 due the
government. He was traced to Hong
Kong and Yokohama where he took
ship for Victoria. British Columbia.
From there he went to Montreal. Will
sons case is likened at the depart
ment, in some of its features, to the
Nicely case in Cuba.
Isadore and Tyler Morse of Boston,
left millionaires by the death of their
father, Leopold, the former congress
man, are about to round out a series of
Recommendations of the globe by a
VOYAGE of exploration up the Blue Nile
next summer, under express invitation
and authority of King Menelik of Abys-
sinia. The expedition will consist of
100 camels, 40 attendants, an armed es-
cort of Abyssinians, and tiotilla of
specially constructed boats. The OBJ
iect is to ascertain the navigability of
the Blue Nile as trade route from
Central Abyssinia to the Mediterran-
can primarily for a commercial object,