Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-03

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tion is said to have been corrupt in
Missouri for years.
The assistant recorder of the coal
strike commission finds that only S3S, :
600 will be needed to pay the expenses
of that body, although congress appro.
priated $4,000 for its use. Most of
this is for salaries.
A system of motor vehicles capable
of being operated as double deckers in
summer and carrying 40 passengers
each will, within 80 days, be placed
in competition with the Detroit Unit
ed railway. The system will be eX-
tended over the city and eventually
out into the state.
George M. Harvey, president of Har-
per Bros, has acquired the publishing
and syndicate business of Il. Ii. Rus
sell. and Mr. Russell is to become as
ISOLATED with the house of Harper
Bros. The publishing business is to go
to Harper Bros. and the syndicate bust
ness to syndicate company which Col.
Harvey is about to FORM
If present indications hold true, one
of the greatest land rushes of modern
date in the West will storm the Unit
ed States land Office in Los Angeles,
Cal, in June, when the l,OOO, OOo acres
of land recently restored by the gov
eminent to public domain, reaching
from Mojave to the Colorado river, IS
thrown open to entry. The local land
office is receiving nearly 200 letters
day, coming from every state IN the
Union.
A monument was unveiled at Will
mington, Del, Monday to mark the
landing place of the first Swedish set
tiers in America. The Swedes went to
Wilmington April 80. 1893. The dedi.
catory addresses were made by Chief
Justice Lore. president of the Della
ware historical society, and Mrs.
Charles E. McIlvaine, president OF
the Delaware society of Colonial
Danes, under whose auspices the mon
ument was erected.
A big batch of indictments has been
returned in connection with the New
ark. N. j., trolley disaster in which
nine school children lost their lives
when trolley ear was run down by
train on February 49, 1t was rumored
in the court that the grand jury had
found indictments against the presl-
dent and most of the officials of the
New Jersey Street Railway company
and had not indicted the motorman ana
conductor of the car and the engineer
of the train.
A movement has been started among
the western railroad managers to Sc
cure general decrease in the speed OF
the important passenger trains; ES
tremely heavy traffic, both freight ana
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conditions, made it practically lmpos-
sible for most of the western lines to
run their trains on schedule time dur
inc the fall and winter. The fines i'm
posed by the postoffice department be-
cause of the failure of mail trains to
make their schedules during the past
six months amount TO an enormous sum
Canada is to have another trans CON
tinental railway. Its terminal VIII be
at Quebec in the East and Fort Simp,,
son. B. c., in the West. The road VIII
run parallel with the Canadian PACING
but will be from 200 to 400 miles far
| Their north, traversing the very heart
of Canada through the wheat and pulp
wood belt. The road will be called the
Trans Canada railway. The proposed
line will shorten the distance between
England and Japan and China by over
700 miles. 1t will also be OF great
strategic value in the event of war with
the United States or in the far East;
Canada now has one trans continental
line. a second rapidly nearing compile
ton, and two under promotion.
Winston Churchill, the novelist, rep
resentatiye of the town of Cornish in
the New Hampshire legislature. is now
being considered by the Republicans
AS a candidate for the gubernatorial
nomination in the campaign of 1904.
He'i is popular in the legislature, inter,
ested in the preservation of forests and
in good roads. His work in the last
direction resulted in calling Prof. j.
W. Votey of the University of Yer
mont, to inform the members of the
New Hampshire Legislature concerning
the working of the highway law of this
state. The liquor license bill became
law Friday when Gov. Bachelor
fixed his official signature to 1T.
state license commission was appoint
ed later by the governor and council.
The statistical abstract of the world,
under preparation by the treasury bu-
reau of statistics shows that the total
international commerce of the world
now aggregates about 81, coo, 600, GOO,
of which about $40, 600, 600, 600 is exports
and 81. 600, 900, 900 imports. study
of these tables presenting the imports
and exports of the principal countries
shows that the United States was IN
1902 the largest exporter of domestic
merchandise. In favorable balance
of trade or excess of exports over inn
norts. the United States also holds first
rank among the nations, her excess OF
exports over imports being not only
greater than that of any other country,
but actually more, in 1901, than the
total excess of exports over imports of
all other countries whose exports ex-
ceeded imports.
There was grand reception at the
theatre at San Juan. Porto Rico, the
evening of Mar. "a under the auspices
of citizens committee in honor of
Miss Alice Roos evelt following an elab-
crate display of fireworks on the plaza.
Miss Roosevelt received a tremendous
ovation from the people gathered on
the plaza and on the balconies and
roofs of the houses. One of the set
pieces. representing President Roose-
yelt. was IS feet high. Miss Roosevelt
passed two hours shaking hands with
invited guests. She left San Juan for
the interior Mar. % accompanied by
Governor Hunt and party. This party
will visit Cayey, Ponce, Mayoguez and
intermediate towns as well as the prin-
cinal sugar estates. The inhabitants
of Ponce have planned big reception
for Miss Roosevelt.