Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-07


: 1t is reported at Omaha that tn
packing houses will Immediately rails
the price of fresh beef throughout tn
, country The beef barons, howeve
/ deny the story.
In Boston cotton manufacturing cir
I cles it is expected that 100000 spin
dies will be idle during this monh /
: New England towns. The curtail
ment is due largely to the unfavorabl
state of the cotton and goods mark
cts.
The Yankee boat, Kolutoo represent
ing the Manchester n. H., Yacht club
was defeated by the Thorella defend
ing for the st. LawrenceYacht club,i
the first of the five Canadian cu]
races on Lake ST. Louis for the Sea
wanhaka challenge cup Saturday.
The Colima volcano in Mexico il
in eruption and it is believed that an
other outflow of lava has occurred, bu
the dense smoke about the mountain
makes it impossible to determine ex
attly what has happened. People IL
nearby villages have left for othel
districts.
julius Lehman, former member o!
the house of delegates, was sentenced
at st. Louis, Mo-, Monday, to sever
years Imprisonment in the peniten.
tiary on the charge of bribery in con-
nection with the city lighting doodle
DEAL Sentence in three other cases
was deferred.
Secretary Root has made public all
the papers relating to the investigation
into the government contract for
gloves from Littauer Brothers, the
senior member of the firm being Con-
gresham Littauer. Secretary Root
has referred the case to the department
of justice to be ascertained if the law
has been violated. There is statute
which prohibits contracts for govern
ment supplies being made directly or
indirectly with member of Congress.
Charles NJ. Schwab has resigned his
position as president of the United
States Steel corporation. He is sue
ceeded by William Ellis Corey who
at 81. has worked himself up from
humble position paying a few hundred
dollars a year to one having a salary
of 100000. A New York dispatch
says that it is stated on high author
ity that c. NJ. Schwab was worth s19,-
600, 900 on Sept. /, 1902. On Aug. /,
1903, his fortun was less than $1,000
900.
An attempt on the part of half a
dozen colored persons opposed to the
Rev. Booker T. Washington, president
of Tuskegee, to ask questions at
meeting he was addressing Thursday
night at the Zion church in Boston,
resulted in almost a riot. Twenty five
policemen were called to quell the dis
turbance. Several arrests We're made.
A great crush of negroes appeared at
the court house Monday to hear the
evidence but the cases were continued.
The disturbance is said to have been
prearranged.
A slight injury to the eyesight Of
Thomas A. Edison, from which he has
recovered, is believed TO have been
caused by exposure to the Roentgen
x-rays while making some expert
ments over two years ago. Mr.. Edi-
son says that the x-ray has limited
commercial value because it means
death to any one who continually uses
1t and that he has abandoned re-
searches in the line Of commercial util-
ity for the x-rays. Clarence Daily, a
employee, has lost a hand
and arm from imprudent exposure to
the light.
The clerk of the general assembly of
the Presbyterian church has issued
figures for 1898. The most striking
feature is the falling off in the number
of ordinations. The number is 1874 |
this year, 80 less than the ordinations |
for 1892. The total membership was |
975,S77 in 1898, and at present Is 1867 |
Az. In finance for home missions the |
amount given last year was 81 1913, 321. |
The amount for foreign missions was |
s905,0S9. There was given TO colleges |
100000 and the Los Angeles general |
assembly cost $4,000.
After months of inastion because of
egal complications lawyers acting for
the State of Kentucky and for the
friends of William Goebel, Kentucky's
murdered governor, have decided TO
make final effort to bring back for
rial ex-Gov. w. S. Taylor, now a flu
sitive in Indiana. Gov Durbin of the
after state has thus far defied every
Effort to bring Taylor back, defending
lis defiance by the reported utterance
If President Roosevelt. then governor
If New York, that if Taylor had fed
o New York he would not have signed
my papers delivering him to the Ken
lucky authorities. If a request from
iov. Beckham is refused, a mandamus
rom the United States supreme court
will be asked and if this is disobeyed,
ontempt proceedings will be begun.
In answer to the criticisms of doc
ors of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, on
lis life germ discovery, Dr. Littlefield
# Anderson, Ind, explains that the
fe he generates first appears in the
entire as a crystal of salt and could
ot therefore be generated from any
INSTANCES in the tube, dishes or other !
No outside agency nor :
pparatus is encountered by the life
ERIN until it is fully developed and :
hree prong-like substances, suggest >
re of arms and legs are clearly :
hown under the microscope. The :
act that no atoms came from salt Z
rystals not affected by the solution .
he holds, that the germ q
fe is, born only in the salt crystal
nat absorbed the atmosphere within &
ae tube. The demonstration and !,
Inclusive proof is simple with So !,
ition composed of one ounce of salt, a
* ounces of water. six ounces of 80 r
er cent alcohol in one dish and two
unces of aqua ammonia in another
lie dishes all enclosed in an tight
lass tube for 80 minutes or two hours. o
Gen. Cassius NJ. Clay who died at \
,raoaOrlV cod laft