Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-22
new WORLD HAPPENINGS,

NEW WUnlU nAFfENINGS.
A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
The Coffee Chewing Habit--Trolley Strike in
Bridgeport, Conn. = Chinese Reformer in
America-Cruel Treatment Of Natives in
Congo Free te-Ths Postofice Scandal.
The Venezuelan government Satur.
day paid to Germany, through the Ger
man legation at Caracas the sum of
S63, 600, being the sixth payment stipu-
lated in the protocol.
The annual session OF the Catholic
summer school of America will begin
at Cliff Haven, Lake Champlain, July
6 and continue to Sept. Immediate
ly following the New York state teach
ers' convention on the same grounds
July l, and 3.
Michael Dorsch, for many years an
employe of the Hooker Flour Mills Co.
of New York, committed suicide by
drinking carbolic acid Thursday. He
was forced by fellow workmen to join a
strike which failed, and he became dis
couraged when he lost his position
which he had held for years.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone has written to
the state department at Washington,
demanding damages from the Turkish
government on account OF outrages per-
petrated upon her by the brigands who
captured and held her prisoner while
she was in the Turkish empire. Miss
Stone does not fix any amount as a
basis of her claim.
The Massachusetts diocese of the
Episcopal church at its annual conven-
tion at Boston last week, voted over
whelmingly against change in the
name of the church. In his address
Bishop William Lawrence said that
with all the evils to contend with
there was little time to discuss chang
ing the name of the church.
A New York syndicate is negotiating
with the government OF Jamaica for
the purchase of IA, 600 acres of banana
and cocoa lands formerly belonging to
an improvement company. The syndi-
cate is arranging with a steamship line
to carry all its products to the Ameri-
can market for 10 years. The scheme
involves the construction of light rail
roads from the plantations to the sea-
ports.
A party of Americans stormed the
stage of the Libertad theatre at Ma
Mia Thursday night and stopped Sc
ditious play. The piece, which is his
torical, has climax in which the her
oine throws the American flag to the
ground and raises the standard OF the
Katipunan secret society. When this
scene was reached score of Americans
sprang on the stage, routed the actors
and smashed the furniture. The audi
ence fed. A former insurgent, who
wrote the play, will probably be prose-
cuted.
All the trolley lines in Bridgeport,
Conn, we're tied up Friday by strike
of conductors and motormen. The com
pany offered slight increase in wages
but refused recognition of the union.
About 225 men are out. An attempt
made by the company to run their cars
with non -union men Sunday resulted
in a riot in which at least 32 men were
in jured. Five persons have been ar
rested for throwing stones. The presi-
dent of the strikers union declares
that no union men were concerned IN
the outbreak.
Ground will be broken Monday, May
25, with appropriate exercises for the
new Mckinley memorial college to be
erected in the little village of Jasper,
N. Y. The new college is unique in
that it will have an agricultural de-
partment with large dairy to give young
men and women an opportunity 10
work their own way through college
without money. This department, VIII
also be financial aid to the college,
| which will be an institution of liberal
arts in the fullest sense. The college
will accommodate 1000 students.
Anew York physician claims to have
discovered that a patient can be mas
saped back to life. He has been exper-
imenting successfully along this line
on dogs. The method is to make
small ipcision between the ribs without
cutting the bone. The fingers are then
thrust into the opening behind the
heart. A few gentle pressures on the
heart is all that is required, 1t is
claimed, to revive the circulation. In
conjunction with this process is an ar
tificial respiration produced with a
nump. A tube is attached to the pump
and inserted into the patients throat
as far as the windpipe.
Prof. Leong Kai Cheu, founder and
vice president Of the Chinese Empire
Reform association, ex-teacher IN the
palace of the emperor of China, and
second to Kang Yu Wei, the leader OF
the Chinese national reform movement,
which, despite the unrelentlng oppoo-
sition of the empress dowager is spread
ing all over the empire, has arrived IN
New York, having come from Japan o!
to America. He is only 30 years old but
he is regarded as the most powerful man
in Chinese education and politics to,
day. He comes for the purpose Of
stirring up enthusiasm among the va va
torn, association which exist in almost
every large city in the country.