Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-13
THE wNDHAM COUNTY REFoRMER FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 1908.

The New York health board ngures
show the population of that city to be
3, 1872, 903.
The British have turned over to the
Venezuelan authorities at La Guayra
the four gunboats captured by the al
lies during the recent blockade.
There is now marked decrease in
number of new typhoid fever cases IN
Ithaca, n. y, and the general sitna
ton is much improved. Physicians
agree that the chief danger at present
lies in secondary infection.
Elder Uriah Smith, for 50 years the
editor of the Adventist Review and
Herald, and an author who is known
all over the world among that denoml-
nation, died suddenly at his home IN
Battle Creek, Mich, Friday.
Ira d. Sankey, the noted evangelist
singer, has been very i'll for some time
the result of overwork. An eye disease
developed, an operation was found nee
essary, and owing to Mr.. Sankey
weakened condition, the disease ava
not WELD to treatment. He is now I'M
proving.
Policeman Mendlesohn of Waterbury,
Conn, was killed by masked men VINO
attacked a trolley car Sunday night.
A conductor and motorman were
wounded. There is much excitement
over the killing of the policeman and a
posse searched all night for the muir
derer. There is no clew to him as yet.
The national baseball league held
its annual meeting in New York last
week. The playing season VIII as us
ual omen on April 10 with Boston IN
Philadelphia aud Chicago in ST. Louis,
and will close Sept. 81, one week ear
lier than last year, with the Eastern
clubs in the West. The East opens IN
the West on June /, with New York at
Pittsburg, Brooklyn in Cincinnati,
and Philadelphia in st. Louis.
The beef trust will appeal to the SUI
preme court from Judge Grosscup's re-
cent decision overruling the demurrer
of the defendants to the bill of the
government and declaring that the
combination complained of is in re-
straint of trade and in violation of the
Sherman antitrust law. The imme-
date effect of this step will delay or
prevent the exhibit of their books, rec
ords and methods in open court
Hon. Martin |. Townshend, conspic-
nous in New York politics for many
wears and who won a reputation IN con
press long ago, is dead at Troy, aged
a3 He was chairman in 1872 OF the
New York Republican delegation in
the national convention at Phlladel-
phia that renominated Gen. Grant for
the presidency and was a member of
the commission that settled the IA
nous Hayes ilden election contro-
versy.
The late j. Sumner Smith, Yale,
1853. so far impoverished his fortunes
bv giving to Yale's library an eXcep-
tional collection of Russian and Slavic
literature, and more recently small
library on music, that Yale graduates
have taken steps to raise fund for the
aid of his widow. In all. it is said,
Mr. Smith gave Yale the result OF
about SO. 900, spent intelligently and
with the discrimination of an expert
librarian.
Gen. james Winning Mcmillan, a
veteran of both the Mexican and Civil
wars. died at Washington Monday,
aged II years. He was grandson OF
Col James Mcmillan, member OF
Gen. Washington's staff, and was a
neiphbor of Abraham Lincoln for many
wears. He served with Butler in the
gulf campaign, and captured the block
AIDE runner Fox, one of the richest
prizes of the civil war. He was ma
tive of West Virginia.
Secretary Hay and Sir Michael Her
bert exchanged Publications OF the
Alaskan boundary treaty at Washing
ton last week. The preparation OF tht
cases of the two sides will be proceeded
with at all speed, for, under the treat.
thew must be submitted to the arbltra
tors within GO days The American
| commissioners on the arbitrator
board, it is unofficially known, VIII be
Secretary Root, Senator Lodge ano
Senator Turner One of the commits
sioners whom the British will appoint
will probably be from Canada.
An operation, it is said, that was never
before attempted in this country, al
though performed four times success
fully in the history of surgery IN Eu
rope. has been made at the jefferson
hospital at Philadelphia. 1t was fol
the removal of a tumor near the lei
hip Joint and involved the amputatior
of the entire left leg and a portion o.
the jlium. A man who fell on the ICY
pavement several months ago was thu
subject The operating surgeon sald
man undergoing such an operation hao
only one chance in three OF surviving
The northern part of Great Salt Lake
| Utah, will be body of fresh water 10y
summer. 1t has been discovered tina
half of the bay is fresh water. Aftel
the BAY loses its salt the lake for hal
mile from the shore on the north enc
will begin to turn fresh. The transfer
nation is due to the preparations o
/ the Southern Pacific to run trains
across the north end of the lake. Ih'
".fll', on which the road is built viz
/ tually cuts off the Bear River bay iron
the remainder of the lake, only broat
channel being left open, through whlcf
the waters of Bear River flow. The con
tinuous flow of fresh water, therefore
under restraint is producing thu
change.
Boston Poles are greatly excited owe
the news that William Miller, an ed
ucated agent of Polish societies, ha
been arrested by the Russian govern
ment and exiled to Siberia. Miller wa
irving to educate the Poles in what
ever country they might be, and hat
! not worked in Russia alone. The none,
for this work was contributed by va
rious societies and the accounts TO
this money, found on his person, caused
| his arrest. His Boston compatriots de
clare that he had no evolutionary mo
tives. but was simply educating Pollsi