Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-09


not giving speedy trial to George
White, negro murderer of Helen Bish-
op, and thus preventing mob violence.
Instead of indicting the lynchers they
may rebuke the judges.
Prince Alert, 1857, and Dan Patch,
1853, will meet in "A match race at the
grand circuit meeting at Memphis,
Tenn, Oct. 90 on the second day
Lou Dillon $500 the trotting queen,
and Major Delmar, 200, will trot a
specially arranged race.
The report of the treasurer of the
United States shows that the total net
revenue for the year We're $3.50, 396,674,
an increase of $3S,9Ss, 439 over the year
preceding and the total expenditures
$5O6,O99 007, an increase of $35, 1872, 034.
The surplus was $54.297,667 as com
pared with $91,2S7,375 in 1902.
The new poison squad" to test
foods, under the direction of DR.. H. W.
Wiley, will assemble Oct. Is. They
will have a Christmas vacation of 30
days. The tests this winter will be on
salicylic acid. The number of men
to be experimental on will be 10.
Thirty-two applicants have been re-
ceiyed.
During a squall Saturday night on
Lake Michigan the steamer j. II.
Hackley capsized and IL persons were
drowned. Steamer Shegoyan rescued
the other seven persons on board the
Hackley after they had drifted all night
in Green bay, clinging to wreckage and
brought them to Fish creek, Marinette,
Wis.
movement has been started to form
a national association of employers
who will begin a campaign of educa-
ton to combat the tendency among
wage earners toward socialism. A ma
tional organ will be published and an
effort made to show that socialism
threatens society and that demoralz-
alton of the industrial affairs is i'm
pending.
Major Gen. Corbin, adjutant general |
of the army is to be assigned at once
to the command of the department of |
the east with headquarters at Govern
ors Island, ~ Y. He is given charge
Of the largest department in the
United States in recognition of his
services as adjutant general during
The Spanish war and the Chinese and
campaigns.
Reports from poultry raising districts
say that turkeys will be unusually
scarce this year and prices higher than
'or some years. As wet and rainy
weather means sure death to the young
turkeys the damp and moist summer
absolutely demoralized the infant tur-
Key industry. Thanksgiving turkeys
his year will be Injuries, and the re-
all price per pound may be 80 cents.
A Chinaman named Wong Lung ran
muck in Chinatown, Boston, Friday
hight. He shot one fellow country
nan to death and seriously wounded =,
,thers. A coat of mail was found
IN him after his arrest and was COM ;
arefully woven together. covered with
fine silken texture and fitted with I
houlder straps. The assault is said
o have been unprovoked and unex- s
,ected, and the police believe that it {
Judge Sloss of the superior court at |
san Francisco decided Thursday that {
ank must cash a draft and check wag- {
red and lost at cards. The decision I
vas in favor of Ralph c. Cotton, of ]
;alt Lake, who sued the First National |
ank of San Francisco for s1114 on a S
ertified check and sight draft issued to !
lark James. James lost the check
nd draft in a poker game at Salt Lake t
.fter passing through second parties
he checks came into the possession of S
'olton. James ordered payment stop S
ed claiming he had been robbed S
A mob of several hundred men bat {
cred its way into the local Jail at Mar t
hall, Tex, Thursday night, took out O
Walter Davis negro and marched d
i'm to the west side of the town where O
e was hanged to a tree. The lynch
lg was the result of the killing OF Con-
table Hayes while he was taking a
egro to Jail. The officer was shot n
rom ambush. Waiter Davis and two e
Their negroes were arrested soon after s
ard. The militia was orered out to n
lppress the mob but Davis was spir- Il
ed away while citizens were talking 7
} the militia. fl
h
The Massachusetts republican con- fl
ention renominated all the state Off fl
ars at Boston Friday. The platform 81
ldorses the administration of Presi- fl
emit Roosevelt and pledges him sup A
ort in the next campaign, reaffirms v
alief in the policy of protection, de-
ares that mob rule should be sup
,essed, favors legislation and encour
yes and protects enterprises of capt. II
i, and promises safeguards, the well II
re of labor. Col. William A. CASTOR W
Boston was nominated for governor ca
i'd Richard Olney, End nominated for II
autenant governor by the Massachu- g.
tits democrats Thursday. et
A tornado swept over Minnesota Sat p'
day. AT st. Charles, six persons &c
ere killed and large number injured. oil
ne hundred houses were demolished Ia
the path of the storm. st. Charles tf
a village of 1900 inhabitants, on the IN
estern boundary of Winona county, vi
i'd is one of the Oldest settlements in as
e state. The storm swept a wide 2,
ction of the country down the river al
vision from the twin cities to the 10
innesota boundary, doing much dam be
re and cutting off telegraph commun- OF
alton between the twin cities and in
1icago for time. Three persons by
ere killed near Princeton, ILL.,, by the M
rnado and much farm property was sc
stroved Two nersons were killed tn
ar Plainfield, Wis. and much stock II