Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-21
PANAMA TREATY REJECTED
~o.ome'AN SENATE TAKES Ac.
TON ON CANAL project

NNNHI THOJECT.
Joseph Pulitzer's Gift to JournaIism.-
Frauds Discovered in Indian Affairs
-Oanville, ILL.,, Lynchers Indicted
Dreadful Deed Of Maniac.
A cablegram dated Aug. 70 has beer
received at the state department a.
washington, from Minister Beaupre
at Bogota, saying that the Panama
canal treaty has been rejected bv tbt
colombian senate. The reason piver
for the rejection was the alleged en-.
croachment ON Colombian sovereignty
Whicn lts opponents commended would
result from the treaty. This infor-
nation was contained in dispatch
received Monday by DR.. Herran. the
colombian charge. from foreign min
lister Ricos, at Bogota. This dispatch
showed the treaty had been rejected
by the senate. So far
as Colombia is concerned it is believed
that the action puts an end to any
interest that country might have in
an lsthmian canal. The rejection of
the treaty has produced a tremendous
sensation on the isthmus. It is a
neavy blow to property owners who
have been investing heavily on the
prospects of the treaty being ratified.
The jury at Cynthiana. KY, Friday.
in the trial of Jet and White for the
murder of James B. Marcum brought
in a verdict of guilty and fixed the
at imprisonment for life.
BY order of the president, Col. Rob-
art L. Meade of the marine corps will
De retired October next in his pres
ant grade. because of a disrespectful
etter which Col. Meade recently ad-
dressed to the navy department.
At an antitrust meeting held in
Thursday night President
Roosevelt and Attorney General
Knox We're denounced for their alleged
allure to enforce the Sherman anti
rust law and w. r. Hearst of New
York. was endorsed as a presidential
The battle ship Massachusetts
truck ledge during thick fog while
eaving Bar Harbor last week Wednes-
lay, cracking several forward plates
o that the water rushed in. Pumps
we're set to work and she returned to
Ter harbor safely. She WAS seriously
A forest fire, which has destroyed
Millions of feet of timber and is threat
ming large saw mills and ranches,
) raging in mountains near Sparta,
oregon. 1t has been burning for a
yeek. If it continues to spread the
mber in the Cornucopia range is
Skipper Arthur Hannah. of New
ork, won his 18th consecutive race at
he Toronto, Ont, races, Thursday,
hen he defeated, for the third time
18th the American yacht Irondequoit,
kipper Jarvis, of the Strathcona, and !
lus lifted for the Rochester Yacht |
ub the Canada cup
A tribal war is reported from Alaska
nong the Chilkin Indians of the |
lukwan tribe. For several days a |
ign of terror was in progress in the
illey of Chilkat. Witchcraft, which |
prevails among these In
ans is said to be at the bottom of the
ouble. One Indian is reported killed
Id many badly injured.
Postmaster General Payne at Wash
gton Monday received a cablegram
ON Charles j. Glidden of Boston, who
making an extensive automobile
ur of Europe. saying that he had so
r covered $3.50 miles and that he had
ossed the Arctic circle in his ma
inc. He also stated that he had
Ideally deposited with the Swedish
vernment the American flag which
had carried across the Arctic cir
Mai Robert L. Billiard has demanded
dress from Sultan Desen, the tribal
iter of the lake Lanao Moros. Al
ough protesting a warm friendship ,
Americans the sultan recently
a small detachment of U.
troops who were paying a friendly
;it. A strong force of warriors Of
ed u b.
airing an American flag. So far the F.,
ly reply of the sultan to Maj. Bull
DIS demand has been defiance.
Joseph Pulitzer, proprietor of the N. S
World. has provided the sum of s2,- {
J.. 600 to establish a school of journal c
n at Columbia University, New Z
ht,ilIin0 will | \
TX. A new puiiuliS VIZ \
.cted on Morningside Heights, 4
cost of 100000, for the /
lool. which will hold toward the uni f
.sity relation similar to that OF the q
,er professional schools as the law v
,ool. the school of medicine, and the s
,ool of mines, and, like them, Will be @
tional in scope. The school VIII v
We an advisory board named by the I
er. o
rbe interstate commerce commits
n has ordered another extension Il
in oct. Is of the time within which n
,,,nber of railroads must complete C
ir safety equipment. The COM a
ssion will in the meantime cohsiuer d
Their extension of law and the ques-
n of location of the grab irons on
engine. Among the roads granted IL
extension are the Pennsylvania,
g. and Boston & Maine. Ihe iast g
ntioned company appealed for time D
putting automatic couplers on 10 $,
motives and making the equipment u
cars uniform with the 10 u
motive equipment. - =
N. island of Jamaica suffered Sc fl
civ from the hurricane Wnlch swep.
r il the night of Aug. IL. for'
= north coast.