Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-30
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.


A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS on
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
Important Scientific Discoveries-So. Dakots
Divorces Invalid-John Mitchell Denounce'
Injunction Government = The So. Caroline
Shooting Affair-Colorado' Warlike Elec
tion-Increase Of Salary for Chicago Teach
ers.
Lorrin +. Andrews of New York has
been appointed attorney general OF Ha
waii to succeed E. p. Dole, resigned
He is grandson of one of the earliest
Hawaiian missionaries.
1t was not the sultan of Sulu who
died of cholera Jan. 10, but his moth
err, the sultana. The sultan has an
nounced his intention of visiting the
ST. Louis exposition. He will be ac'
companied by native retinue.
A common action is being taken by
religious bodies in America to secure
uniform marriage and divorce laws.
They met in New York last week anc
elected committee, of which Bishop
Doane of Albany is chairman, to di'
rect the common aim and enlist repre-
sentatives of other religious bodies.
Work is to be undertaken at once.
Postmaster General Payne says thai
the United States postotfice department
is nearing the point where 1T Will bt
self supporting. Rural free delivery,
when it becomes general, will not be
burden, but source of increased rev
enue. A reduction of foreign postage
from five to two cents, he thinks, wouic
be of great advantage, and would adc
largely to the receipts.
Experiments in the vaccination ol
cattle against tuberculosis made in the
veterinary department of the unlver'
sity of Pennsylvania, show that cattle
NAV be made immune from the dis
ease. If the details of the method fol
this principle can be worked out, II
will save the enormous losses to the
country from bovine tuberculosis, es'
timated at Sl2, 000,0 900 per year.
A copy of the papal bull concerning
the religious questions in the Philip
pines, which have furnished so much
controversy during the past year, is
made public. Itsdistinctly states that
the friars will remain in charge OF
their parishes until their places can be
taken by native priests. 1t comes ou'
squarely in favor of the American gov
eminent and enjoins obedience to 1t on
all Catholics 1t also urges the ordl-
nation of native priests and prohibits
their taking part in politics.
The attorney general gave hearing
at Albany, n. Y, Monday on the w.
R. Hearst application for the prosec,u'
ton of 13 coal companies under the
anti trust law. The complaint alleges
that by an agreement with the lnde
pendent operators the railroad com
panies have secured control of the en-,
tire output of the anthracite Goa
mines and that in March, 1901, they
increased the price of coal 90 cents
ton. thereby adding to their revenues
$50, 600, 600.
George VanBuren, one OF the mos
noted characters in the Northwest, has
committed suicide in cabin in Kat.
tlesnake Valley, Montana. He place.
the barrel Of his rifle against his hear
and touched the trigger off with
stove poker. VanBuren was 60 year:
old, and claimed to be lineal descend
ant of President VanBuren. He acteo
as scout under Gen. Howard during
the Noz Perde trouble, and was SEN
out by Gen. Miles with orders for Gen
| Custer. readhing the scene of the Lit
tie Big Horn massacre the day follow
ing it.
Alexander Winton of Cleveland, o.,
the best American Chauffeur, and Henr
Fourier of Paris, the acknowledged
champion of Europe, have beer
matched for race in series of auto
mobile races to settle the track nam
pionship of America The first race
will be on the Empire track at lon
kers, about July %, and the secono
will be on the track of the CLEVELAND
Driving Park, Chenille, o. The priz'
will be $1,000 silver cup, to be sup
piled by the Empire City TrottinIs
club and the Cleveland Driving Pari
association.
DR.. Albert j. Atkins. of the Califor
MIA medical college, says that his ex
periments have demonstrated that 1T i
1 electricity, and not oxygen, which
/ purifies the blood He says that M
oxygen passes through the membrane
of the air cells of the lungs into tn
blood stream: also that the air cell
secrete carbon. He has discovered
that the action which takes place il
the lungs in breathing is electrical
Nitrogen and oxygen of air, coming il
contact with the secreted carbon, caus
combustion, which generates electro
currents: these pass through the mem
brane of the air cells into the blood
/ from venous to arterial, also causing
the rhythmic action of the heart, thu
showing the lungs to be the importan
centre of life.