Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-10

said to have been responsible Tor u
. sensational landslide in prices whic
} swept away a million Of the clique
| paper profits in cotton Monday.
A big picnic bus containing 32 pei
sons returning from dance, was ru
into by switching engine at Phila
delphia Saturday morning, and 10 {
its occupants were injured. The We
hicle itself was demolished and tn
} two leader horses ran away.
Africander, this year. 8 Suburban win
ner, added another classic event to hi
already long list Of victories by captur
ing the rich Lawrence realization
worth sls, 435, at Sheepshead bay Tues
day. Africander's victory stamps hin
as the best three year old in training
in the East.
Mrs. Blaine, widow of James G
Blaine, is reported to be seriously il
at her home in Augusta, Me. Her chill
dren. Mrs. Beale, Mrs. Damrosch ant
James G. Blaine, are with her. Mrs
Blaine has been ill for some time, anG
her condition is due to general break
ing down of the system.
E. Lagadmeo, cousin Of Aguinaldt
and protege of Gov. Taft of the Phil
ippines, is in New Haven preparing
for course in forestry at Yale. Lag
adameo is the second OF his race tC
come to Yale. He is 81 years of age.
graduate of the Atheneum, a college
at Mantle established by the Jesuits.
He has been at the universities of Cal.
ifornia, Georgetown and Cornell.
With ceremonies rendered doubly i'm
pressive by an earnest and important
speech by President Roosevelt, the
township of Huntington, on Long Is
land, celebrated Saturday the 250th an
niversary of its existence. Hundreds
of men and women from New York and
thousands from the neighboring towns
of the north shore heard the president
declare that the United States, while
at peace with all the world, should
not neglect. to make its navy sufficient
to enforce the continuance of that re-
spect.
Twenty three persons were killed and
nine injured in headon collision on
the Virginia Midland division of the
Southern railway at Rockfish, where
Tuesday afternoon passenger train
leaving Washington for Atlanta, Ga,
dashed into local freight standing on
the main line of the road wrecking
both engines and the baggage and ex-
press cars. The baggage car and the
second-class passenger coach imme-
diately following it telescoped. The
coach was occupied mostly by colored
people, of whom 10 were killed.
Evansville, Ind, Monday night, after
four days of rioting and general law
= I've,
experiences with rioters. Nine persons
are dead and 80 are known to be in
jured, with at least that number more
thought to be hurt. The members of
Co. A, 1st regiment, Indiana national
guard, after days vigilance guard
ing the county jail. and 100 deputy
sheriffs under Sheriff Chris Kratz, fired
point blank into a mob of 1000 gath
cred on Fourth Division and Vine
streets, surrounding the Vanderburg
county Jail and attempting its capture.
Mortally wounded by bullet from
his own revolver, the same weapon with
which be murdered Miss Georgianna
Goddu and shot DR.. Adelard Payette
in Lowell, Mass, on last week Sunday
night, Joseph Eugene Lamont died
at st. Luke's hospital. New York,
Sunday. One hunered feet from his
cot, in a room adjoining the waiting
room on the main floor below, was fired !
.he shot which brought such speedy |
to the fugitive murderer. |
4 detective had traced him TO the place /
out when making the arrest Lamont, |
IN his effort to kill the officer, killed |
himself.
Mr.. and Mrs. James H. Mealy of
Schuylerville, n. Y, Tuesday depos-
TED gil, lilo to their credit in the
Greenwich National bank. Monday
light Mrs. Mealy. answered faint
mock on her cottage door. On open
handed her a package, say
md Mrs Mealy," then suddenly re-
reated and disappeared in the dark
less. The Mealys, on opening the
III, ITO in bank bills. They say they
lave no knowledge of the identity of
he woman, and nothing accompanied
he gift to lead to the discovery of the
lonor. Mealy recently passed through
all of his property being
old to satisfy claims of creditors.
American independence and enter
rise are typified in Richard Evelyn
,yrd, Jr., scion of famous family
f Westover, Va, who arrived in New
'ork Saturday after voyage around
he world alone. He is son of r. Z.
'yrd, lawyer of Winchester, Va,
nd was Ii years of age when he left
is home in Winchester alone Aug. 9,
902, to circle the globe, and inciden ,
ally to make call on his fathers old ,
nd valued friend, Judge A. G. Car !
On, formerly of Virginia, but now pre- .
iding over the sth judicial district in :
he Philippines. He went across the 6
ointment to San Francisco, and there ,
,ok steamer for Manila. He spent !
hort time seeing the wonders of ia :
an, and then continued his voyage to
Lanila. He met Aguinaldo and says
e likes the little Filipino leader very
luch. He left Manila for home early
, May, journeying back by way of the
uez canal and the Mediterranean, and I
coping at various places in Europe
D his way.
Sent by the New York Herald to the +
ew York Herald message encircled !;
he globe over continuous cable sys-
IN. For the first time in history this o
at was accomplished late Saturday C
light, Immediately after the new Pa O
fic cable had been spliced and was :
lady for business. The time required y
as Il minutes. President Roosevelt's C
essage to Governor Taft at Manila o
I'D the latter's answer were success
lily flashed under the waters of the G
acific. The peculiarities of time in I
lie transmission of a cable message !