Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13


mouth disease has occurred among
cattle in Massachusetts.
Two distinct earthquake shocks were
felt in st. Louis, Mo. and in various
Illinois and Kentucky towns Sunday
night.
Efforts are being made to effect a
settlement in the Waterbury, Conn,
steel railway strike, but so far moth
ing has been accomplished. The stu
alton is quiet.
The governor of the island of Mar
Unique, in cable despatch to the Par
is colonial Office, announces that Mont
Pelee volcano continues active. Its
summit is constantly changing shape
and masses of incandescent matter are
thrown out.
The Lynn, Mass, labor war between
boot and shoe workers of different I'M
ions, has taken violent turn this we X,
the working cutters being assaulted
Monday by the strikers. fierce hght
ensued in which fists, feet and bad
eggs were the weapons.
The excursion steamer Madiana. from
New York for special cruise among
the Caribbean islands, was wrecked on
a reef near Hamilton, Bermuda, Mon
day and will be a total loss. The pas
sengers. many of whom We're from New
England, were rescued from the wreck
with no casualties as far as known.
After much discussion the Dunkards
of Altoona. Pa, have decided to abro'
gate the proud boast of a free gospel,
and call pastor and pay him salary.
This move is breaking away from one
of the oldest traditions of the church,
which since its formation, in the lat
ter part of the seventeenth century,
has proclaimed against "a hireling
ministry.
The railroads of the country have
decided to advance freight rates on
the 200, 600, GOO tons of bituminous coal
which, it is estimated, will be mined
during the coal year beginning April l.
The advance will average per cent.
and will net the railroads and other
transportation companies about sl4, :
600. coo, and, it is said. will recon-
pense them several times over for the
advance in wages made to many thou
sands of employees recently.
Some manuscripts of John q. Whit
tier and letters formerly owned by him
were sold at auction in New York FIJI
day night to secure funds for the main
tenance of the old Whittier homestead
at Amesbury, Mass. The 21l lots sold
brought $4,000 An original draft of
message by President Lincoln to
Congress in regard to the Freedman $
Aid society, obtained by Charles sum
ner from Lincoln and presented to
Whittier. brought $40, the highest
figure of the sale.
Mrs. Lafayette Taylor of East Lake,
near Fallsburg, n. Y, has confessed
that on Jan. q she shot her husband,
cut UP his body and burned it in the
cook stove. A daughter, 16 years old,
witnessed the crime, which was the
result of quarrel. Suspicion was
only awakened when the woman tried
to sell her husbands horse and was
questioned as to what he would say
when he returned. She replied that
she had taken care of him. The fam
lily lived in an isolated house IN bar
rem region.
A Springfield, Mass, physician used
the new formalin treatment for blood
poisoning with wonderful success
Thursday. The patient was in a des-
perate condition with septic portion
tits, and on Jan. 26 was almost in eX-
tremis. The pulse was 1G0, and the
patient was in comatose condition.
A solution of formalin | in 5000 was
used, and before the end Of the opera
ton the pulse had dropped TO l2O and
was firm and strong. In II hours the
pulse was almost normal, and Thurs
day morning the patient was pro-
nounced out of danger
The trial of William Hooper Young,
the grandson of Brigham Young, &C
cused of the murder of Mrs. Anna Pull
itzer in New York, was begun last
week. Young collapsed and had to be
brought into court. Medical experts
find no evidence as yet of insanity IN
him. The question of pref udice as to
any religious sect was used IN select
ing the jury. Monday Young pleaded
guilty to murder in the second degree,
and was sentenced to life imprisonment.
The Jury was discharged with the eX-
PLANTATION that the plea had been ac-
cepted on account of the report of the
doctors who said that Young was
medically although not legally insane
and that his disease was progressive.
| Montreal's street car service was
completely suspended Friday morning,
the company refusing to grant the de
mands of motormen and conductors fol
more wages, shorter hours and the rein
4 statement of men who were discharged,
presumably for their connection with
/ the newly organized union of street rail
wav employees After day of r!oting,
/ in which a car was wrecked and one
man badly injured, the strike was set
tied by compromise The men were
offered a 10 per cent advance, recogni-
tion of the union and the reinstate
ment of all men discharged for be