Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-03

ever he recommends will be prompt,
accepted without any question by Grea
Britain's officials and just as soon a
he declares the country free from foo
and mouth contagion, England will de
clare her ports open once more to ship
ments of cattle from Boston.
Harvard last week conferred the de
gree of doctor of laws upon exGov
Winthrop Murray Crane of Dalton
Mass. Yale gave"D. D. to Rev. Ly
man Abbott, editor of the Outlook.
The breaking of shaft on the frs
floor of the H. j. Heinz Co. S plant il
Allegheny, Pa, Tuesday released the
ropes supporting large freight eleva
tor, on which % persons were crowded.
The cage fell from the fifth floor into
the cellar, a distance of 40 feet, and
every one on the elevator was injured.
1t is thought that at least two will die.
President Professor William Farr,
Phi. D., LII. D., Dean" has sold out
bodily for a valuable consideration the
Nashville College of Law" deliver
ing over, among divers and sundry
other assets, an item of 1924 students
appointed" to enter the Resident
Department of Law during the com
ing fall term; also another item of 1000
correspondence students, studying
law by the correspondence method. "
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars in public requests are given by
the will of George F. Winch Of Brook
line, which was filed for probate Mon
day. The will provides that the $780,,
GOO shall be divided in equal shares,
the first to found scholarship. to be
known as the George Frederick Winch
scholarship, at any institution which
the executor, James S. Parrish of Rich
mond, Va, shall name, and the second
to be given any charity of the Trinita-
rian Congregational church which the
executor shall name. Mr.. Winch was
a prominent boot and shoe merchant of
Boston.
Rear-A dmiral Evans, in report to
the navy department, has again called
attention to the necessity of maintain
ing an adequate force of marines in
Olongapo in the event of an emergency
in China. He regards the internal I'M
rest there with apprehension, and rec
ommends that the force of marines at
Olongapo be increased from 1000 to
1900. The marine corps is 500 short of
its full quota, and recruiting will be
continued on an active scale this sum
mer in the effort to secure the addi-
tional 800 men for dispatch to the Phil
ippines in the autumn.
Harry Bender, 81 years old, of Mich
igan street, Buffalo, was found MUIR
dered in his parlor Monday afternoon.
He had been shot twice through the
breast and his head was almost cut off
by razor The body was found by
Bender's wife, who was hanging out
clothes when the crime was commit |
ted, she says. She called policeman
and told him that the murderer was
Nelson Boaggino, who was visiting
With his parents in the house next |
ioor When the officer went to arrest |
Boaggino the italian said: II know |
what you want. I'm accused of muir
Ter, but l didn't do it,
F. Y. Schoonmaker, representing the |
Whitney Electric Development COM
1any, is in Denver, Col. to arrange
or transporting 13-inch cannon to the
summit of Pixies Peak or some lofty
PASS in the mountains, his purpose
,eing to develop the theory of Prof.
Whitney of Chicago that by penetrat-
ng the atmosphere surrounding the
arth he can secure from the electrical
ga above unlimited current for earth
y power plant. Prof. Whitney, when
lie secures and locates his monster gun,
will fire spherical iron magnet verti-
ally. To this projectile will be at
ached coil of wire 20 or 80 miles in
ength. Whitney believes that, once
eyond the pale of law of gravitation,
be magnet will be drawn into the cleo
ric sea, the wire will hold it and by !
larger wires he can draw from
bove limitless power. D