Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-17


during the recent epidemic at Ithaca.
Rev. william Henry Milburn, tn
venerable blind chaplain of the Unit
ed States Senate, died in Santa Bar
bara. Cal, Friday. Mr.. Milburn lef
Washington for the Pacific coast abou
wear ago in broken health. Th
change brought no great improvement
in his condition and when Congress
met in December he forwarded his res
ignation to Washington, but it wa
never acted on. He was born in Phil
adelphh in 1923.
The warship Reina Christina, th'
flagship of Admiral Montojo, which
was sunk by Admiral Dewey in Manil'
bay, was fioated and beached Monday
Skeletons of about so OF the crew
were found in the hulk. One skel
eton was evidently that of an officer
for he had sword by his side. There
are Is she'll holes in the hull of thu
Reina Christina. The main injection
valve is missing, showing that the shil
was scuttled when Admiral Montojo
abandoned her. The Spanish residents
are anxious to ship the skeletons tt
Spain. A wrecking company is en-
deavoring to raise all the sunken war
ships.
A cyclone three miles wide passed
through Arkansas and Alabama las
week razing everything in its path. A
Little Red, Ark, seven out OF eigh'
persons in one house were killed in
stantly, the survivor being an infant
Two persons we're killed at Heber.
Near Pangburn a man was blown off q
mountain side and killed. 1t is feared
the loss of life was large. Houses were
picked up and carried several hundred
feet. The scene is remote from tele.
graph communication. At Hopewell,
Ala, II persons we're killed, four ia
tally injured and II less seriously hurt.
The roar of the storm was terrific.
Gov. Taft has planned for the imme-
diate expenditure in the Philippines
of 81, 900, 600 of the 5000, 600 appro.
priated by congress for the relief OF
the impoverished provinces in the purr'
chase and transportation OF farm ami,
mails, which the recent epidemic OF
rinderpest almost exterminated. Agrl-
culture has since been practically par
alyzed. These animals will be distrlb-
uted by the provincial officials at cost
after they have been made immune at
the government farm. The United
States Philippine Commission has APP
propriated $1,000, 600 for the purchase
of silver bullion and copper, to make
the new subsidiary coins.
Admiral Melville, engineer chief
of the navy, has surprise in store for
! l., oh oh "a raVnInflnn-
airy in its effect on naval construction
as was his famous triple screw. For
more than year past his bureau has
been preparing plans for turbine
propelled warship. 1t is reported that
the chief engineers idea is to apply
| the turbines to the AS scout ships
which the general board of the navy
has recommended should be part OF
the fleet necessary for the proper de.
fence of the interests of the United
States. The scout ships contemplated
are about 1900 tons displacement, with
speed of upwards of 25 knots per
hour.
Before vast assemblage of confer
ence visitors in the Tabernacle at Salt
Lake City. Utah, April Z, President
Joseph F. Smith, head of the Mormon
church, vigorously expressed his con
tempt for those who made the fight
against the Mormon church and Reed
Smoot inlthe recent senatorial campaign
in Utah. Il want to tell you,' said
President Smith, THAT there are no
more loyal people on earth than the
Latter Day Saints. We have been ma
| ligned, mistreated and misrepresented.
but it was not by the nation. 1t
was by the lying, hypocritical, COW
ardly wolves in sleeps clothing that
90 through the world seeking to stir
up trouble. +" President Smith char
acterized these men as contemplate
hounds and day devils, who were
born into the world to lie, and were
fulfilling their mission.
Investigation of the postoffice depart
ment scandal has resulted in charges
of the existence of powerful pro
motion syndicate" whose operations
have included the postal service of the
entire country and whose methods and
influence have rendered practically null
and void the "merit system" which Is
nominally in effect. The Washington
ring is said to have agents in va
rious other postoffices, where the sys-
TEN of paid promotion has been IN
operation The money so obtained, 1t
is alleged, was pooled and pocketed by
the officers conducting the syndicate
after the agents commissions had been
deducted. The New York postoffice is
said to have been the largest field of
operations of the syndicate. The
promotion price" is said to have been
S25 to $50 down and a certain percent
age each month of the amount of the
promotion received by the clerk.
Captain Pershing's force captured
Bacolod, island of Mindanao, April s,
killed hundred Moros and wounded
many others. Three Americans were
wounded. Pershing was surveying the
west shore lands when the Bacolodians
opposed his advance and provoked a
fight. Pershing surrounded and at
tackled their stronghold, first Smelling
them, and rushing his troops forward,
charged CALAMITY After crossing a
deep moat and entering the fort, the
Americans engaged the Moros, bayon-
cts against krisses. After the capture
of the fort, it was destroyed. The Bac-
olod leaders and the majority of the
people of that district had been hostile
to the Americans and encouraged at
tacks on the American camps. They
rejected tenders of friendship. 1t is
! .Lo& thn lafaat ~ thu Rano1-