Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-02

. and dust are pouring out of the crate
ascending to an enormous height.
Bernhard Weithaus, who shot hi
} wife in the Highland hotel at Spring
field, Mass, April 10, pleaded guilt.
to murder in the second degree las
week and was sentenced to the state
prison for life.
The most severe blizzard for severa
winters prevailed in the middle states
Friday, with extremely cold weather
Much suffering was experienced. The
roads were impossible and in the hum
bier homes the kerosene famine caused
general distress.
The Chicago health department, after
careful experiments extending ovel
three days, authoritatively announced
Monday that lemon juice will destroy
typhoid germs in water. One teaspoon
full of juice to half glass of water is
known to be good combination.
The customs department of the Phil
ippine archipelago has unearthed a Co
lossal system of smuggling, that has
cost the government thousands of dol
lars. Officers and men of the army
transport service are charged with car
rying on big commercial business for
their own profit.
Thirty lives were lost in the collision
of two heavy freight trains near Trim
idad, Col, Christmas eve. A large
number of coal miners were beating
their way to Trinidad and were crushed
and buried in the debris. One man
who was dug out alive, but died later,
said there were IA men in the car with
him and all were killed.
1t is proposed to the trustees Of the
Mckinley association to form Car
nation league" to perpetuate the mem
DRY of William Mckinley. The creed
will be framed from notable words of
the dead president and every member
of the league will wear carnation on
each recurring 14th day of September,
the anniversary of his death.
Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, widow
of Gen. John G. Fremont and daughter
of Thomas II. Benton, for thirty years
a United States senator from Missouri,
died Saturday night at her home in
Los Angeles, Cal. at the age of IS years.
She was taken i'll with pneumonia
Christmas morning and in a short time
lapse6 into Inconsistencies from
which she never recovered.
No work was done in the coal mines
Christmas Day and Saturday the Phil
adelphia and Reading Railroad com
pany reported 20 collieries and wash
cries idle and 10 collieries and wash
cries shorthanded on account of failure
of miners to report for duty. Too much
Christmas cheer is the cause given for
this lack of workers. Five collieries
are idle by reason of high water.
The committee appointed by the Cal
ifornia Senate to Investigate conditions
connected with the coming of consump
tives to California from the eastern
states, and the pror osed plan to estab-
fish state institution for the care of
such patients reports against the latter
plan and advises legislation restricting
such travel. The committee does not
wish to encourage the coming Of tuber-
C llosis patients to California.
The twentieth century thank offer
ing of the American Methodists which !
was completed Jan. l, amounted to
$40, 600, 900. One million of this was a
gift from a millionaire whose name is |
kept secret OF this fund, 5000, 600
will be used for the payment of church |
indebtedness 81, 100000 will go for |
the establishment of a fund to pension /
aged and infirm ministers; nearly IS,
600, 600 will be devoted to the educa-
ton of Methodist children and about /
50, 600, 600 to hospital work. Ten years |
ago the Methodists had no hospitals;
now they have 20 in the United States
and several others under way.
The American tour OF Pietro Mas
cagni and his Italian opera company
came to a sudden close at Chicago last
week with the cancellation of all dates.
His financial difficulties eliminated
in an attachment of his personal effects
by local creditor The composer will
return to Italy as soon as he RECEIVERS
from the attack of nervous prostration
with which he is suffering. He is
broken hearted over his failure and a
financial loser of from $40, 900 to S15,-
300. Friday night he was arrested on
a charge of embezzlement by his for
mer manager, Richard Heard. The
latter, discharged because Mascagni
bad no further use for him, claims that
his contract called for 5000.
After series of experiments, cover
ing period of more than five years,
Dr.. Bryon Coakley of Chicago a we'll
known vivisectionist, has discovered
hat to administer local treatment to
he heart is not the impossitility the
worlds scientists have always held it to
De. By means of fine, hollow golden
needle, seven or eight inches long,
which he terms an 'orgaaotone, DR..
Coakley not only has been able to
pierce the heal without causing death,
out to inject into it various fluids with
,ut subjecting the patient to the slight
st danger. Thus far his experiments
nave been confined to animals, but he
S SO sure of his ground that he will
ry to secure human subject for de-
which he has been asked
o make before the International Med
cal Congress in Madrid, Spain, in 1903
Several further charges of alleged
ruelty to natives in the Philippines
re being Investigated by the War De- .
,artment. An attempt is being made
" antiimperialists to secure the free
om of Apolinario Mabini, Aguinal-
los former secretary of state. 1t is re-
uested that he be released uncondi- I
ionally from exile and captivity. Ma
'ini. a lawyer, paralyzed and physical
y helpless, has been regarded as one {
f the ablest leaders of the Luzon
ebels. Such men as Senator Hoar hold {
i'm up as man of the cleanest pa I
riotism, man to be compared with c
'oussaint lOuverture, the victim of t
he first Napoleon. Before amnesty was \
eclared, he utterly refused to yield i
llegiance to the United States and ac- '