Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-25
POSTAL SCANDAL GROWING
SENATOR GREEN OF NEW voex
NOW IMPLICATED.

IN 3HseN OF NEW YORK
NOW IMPLICATED.
view charges Against Stern-Emr,..
Centenary celebrated-strike IS Il, b.
Observation-Disclosures to Build Tow,
-tdison's New Battery.
state Senator George A. Green NJ
niishamton N. Y, was arrested SAT-
uruay on charge Of conspiracy and
orioery growing out of the postal in :
sesugatlon. The bond was placed at
]lo'Voo. Senator Green and George w
beavers, formerly chief of the salor,,
ana allowance division Of the postoff1ce
department, We're indicted Jointly hv
the grand jury at Washington Sent *
Tor conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment. Green also is charged In n SON
arate indictment with the bribery of n
government officer and Beavers ia sem
arately indicted for accepting brihe
Senator Green denies the charge ana
claims that facts will prove his inno-
cence
New charges have been brought
against Leopold j. Stern of Baltimore,
Mu'' wanted IN Washington on charge
VI conspiracy to defraud the govern
iiieh.' ne appeared in court at Toron-
TO, Ont, Monday to answer them, The
original warrant charges him with
having wrongfully obtained two money
warrants from the department. The
new allegation is that Stern, after
being supplied at the instance of the
department with straps for letter car
rlers' satchels by another contractor,
charged their cost to the department,
which had already paid the other con-
tractor for them
H. H. Rand, formerly confidential
clerk to the postmaster general and
lately assistant superintendent of the
salary and allowance division, is now
ION leave without pay" and has not
been at the postoffice department for
some weeks.
President Roosevelt and his family
will return to Washington for the win
ter next Monday.
The republican state convention of |
Maryland has nominated Stevenson A. |
Williams for governor and adopted a
platform which favored President |
Roosevelt's nomination as the republic
can candidate for the presidency
in 1904
An uprising has just been crushed
in Santiago province, Cuba. The
trouble is said to have been inspired
by Gueberto Gomez, Maceos success
or in the uprising against the Span
iards. One of the captured leaders
declares there We're only 200 men in
arms.
Gen. w. D. Snyman. one of the lead
ers of the Boer army during the recent
Boer- British war; has moved his entire
family to the new colony site purchas-
ed near Ortiz Station on the Mexican
Central railroad, and announces that
so families are on the way from South
Africa to become residents. I
The most violent earthquake since
1885 occurred at Santiago. Cuba, Sat-
urday morning. The earth shook for
fifteen seconds, but there were no I'M
dulations. Many people rushed into I
the streets and cried and prayed. Bricks
and plastering dropped in all directions t
and few walls fell. Nobody, however /
was injured
The monument erected upon the /
battlefield of Antietam by the state of S
New Jersey was dedicated Thursday in v
the presence of President Roosevelt, }
Governor Franklin Murphy of New
Jersey. and concourse of people. The
statue is in the form of Corinthian +
column surmounted by bronze figure, II
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men. u
The severe storm that struck the a
1orth Atlantic coast last week caused W
many wrecks along the shore and sew g.
.ral sailors lost their lives. Summer g
escorts were badly damaged. The storm t.
vas very severe in Philadelphia, New v
FORK and vicinity. Scores of plate-glass II
windows along Broadway were broken. g
n the F'latiron building 40 windows
we're smashed and many of the occu-
,ants fled from the structure D.
DIR. C. C. Perry has been held for the NJ
rand Jury in $500 at Cambridge, ~.
lass. charged with polygamy. His !.
ather was a colored barber and der o
,atologist of New York city and he is ~. az
Columbia college graduate. Begin =.
ING at San Francisco in 1877, he has, u
g far as the police know, married four o'
ifferent women and there are rumors -
f others. He has also been fined sew r.,
raj times for obtaining money under
,lse pretenses and has served in Sing
ing for larceny. c,
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Orlando Perry Dexter, resident OF fe
-orwalk. Conn, and only son OF Henry ga
exter of New York, for many years tn
resident of the American News COM nc
anv. was shot and instantly killed dc
hile driving Saturday. half mile w
om his summer home, which is miles ar
.om Santa Clara, n. Y, the nearest ae
.Ieeraph office. 1t is lonely spot IN he
70 woods and no one is known to nave tn
.en the shooting. Mr. Dexter mao nc
ade many bitter enemies through nti- hi
,tion with property holders in that VI
,ity but there is no clue to the MUIR
erer. mi
ad
Tho coffee men of Porto Rico have tn
.ganized at San Juan for trade pur- te'
,ses The meeting-the first coHee sa
invention in the history OF the lslallo by
brought together two hundred men phi
taresied in the industry, every BANK tn
,;,,a renresented and pledging itself to of