Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-04-23
CONDENSED DISPATCHES.
Notable Events of the Week Briefly
ChrOpicIed.

trustee of Lafayette college, died at
Easton, Pa.
The famine in Kwangsi province,
China, was reported to be killing tens
Of thousands.
H. II. Rogers, the Standard Oil mil
lionaire, was operated upon in New
York for appendicitis.
The withdrawal Of military guards
on railroads in Holland was begun In
the northern and southern provinces.
William Dudley Foulke announced
that he would resign as civil service
commissioner to enter Indiana politics
Monday. April 20.
The Wisconsin paper makers strike
was declared off, and the men returned
to work
Miss Alice Roosevelt delivered the
prizes to the winners at the Charlotte
| a. c. horse show.
Two hundred and fifty Newfound-
! land seal hunters were blown to sea on
. foes, but were rescued.
The strike OF the structural iron
workers against the American Bridge
company has been settled.
-Four senators have been indicted by
Missouri grand jury in connection
with the baking powder trust scandal
Sir Oliver Mowat, lieutenant govern
or Of Ontario is dead. He was eighty
three years old. He was premier of
Ontario from 1872 to 1896
In battle following an unsuccessful
| attempt to rob the First National bank
OF Wampum Pa, one man was killed
and another seriously wounded.
In conflict in Macedonia the revolu-
tionists threw dynamite bombs among
the Turkish troops, seventy of whom
were killed or wounded.
Bolivian troops under President Pan
do are advancing on tie disputed ter
ritory Of Acre, and Brazilian forces
have been sent to prevent their entry
into the country.
The hfeless body Of John Bohn, a re-
tired saloon keeper, supposed poor
man, was found in his room in the
Klondike hotel at Omaha A search Of
] the room revealed $4,000 In railroad,
bank stock and cash.
The protracted strike Of the painters
and decorators in Pittsburg was set
tied at a mass meeting of the brother
hood The men agreed to accept $3,40
for a days work Of eight hours and
pay their own car fare.
As a result of the temperance aglta-
| ton throughout Ohio and numerous
elections under the Beal local option
| law the brewers have decided to aid
the enforcement OF the Sunday closing
! laws in the smaller municipalities.
The Rev. Dr. Francis A. Horton, well
known in the Presbyterian church and
pastor Of Temple Presbyterian church,
| Philadelphia. was stricken with apo
pleXy while preaching and died shortly
after being removed from the pulpit,
Chen Chuen Hsuan has been appoint
ed yiceroy of Kwangtung and Kwang-
81 provinces, and Hsi Liang has been
made vicerOy OF Szechuan province.
Both are strong men in China and
probably will suppress the rebellion.
Saturday, April Is.
Pope pleased at President Roosevelt's
| gift Of presidential messages.
Fire at St John. ~ B., did $4,000
damage to the transatlantic terminal.
Mrs. L. S. Willing mother of Mrs.
John Jacob Aston. died suddenly at
Philadelphia.
Andrew Carnegie and others are said
10 have promised a large sum to endow
a university at Pltsburg.
Russia and Austria urged the sultan
| to take severe measures against Alba.
mans who still refuse to accept pro-
! posed reforms.
The steamer Syracuse from Rio ia.
metro was held at the port Of New
York because Of two deaths from yell
low fever aboard.
The pretender Of Morocco is march
ing from Taxa on Fee. The sultan is
vainly attempting to obtain recruits
among the Kabyle,
Advlces from the revolutionary com
| mittee in the Balkans state that prep
aratlons for an instruction are ready
and that the whole of Macedonia will
| rise.
The special mission sent by the sui
tan TO paclfy the Albanians is prac-
tically imprisoned at Ipek, Albania.
where It Is surrounded by several hun
dred Albanians.
The United States armored cruiser
West Virginia. the first Of six new ad-
ditions to the navy, has been success
fully launched at the yards of the
Newport News Shipbuilding company.
The challenger Shamrock III. was
dismasted in the roadstead at .Wey-
mouth by squall striking her so sud
denly that the yacht lay wrecked and
helpless before those on board of her
realized what had happened FOrtu-
nately most Of the gear fell clear of the
deck as otherwise the disaster must
have been multiplied tenfold Seaman
Collier was knocked overheard and