Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-10
THE wINDHAM COUNTY REFORMER, FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 1908.

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the United States district court at the
instance Of the Wabash Railroad Co.
officials, to restrain the Brotherhoods
of Railway Trainmen and Firemer
from ordering strike on that system,
was dissolved at st. Louis April l., IN
a decision handed down by Judge
Adams. An amicable adjustment OF
the controversy is hoped for.
Spencer Eddy, secretary of the Unit
ed States legation at Constantinople,
has arrived in Washington on leave
from his post. 1t was largely due tc
his energy that Missionary Stone was
ransomed. The money paid to the cap
tors, it is learned, has gone towards
supplying firearms and ammunition to
the Macedonians, who are in revolt
against the Turkish government.
Another severe blizzard, with the
thermometer registering u degrees be.
low zero, has frustrated the efforts oil
the railroad employees who have been
trying to clear the sno from the
blocked, lines and release the trains
which were showed up in the int rior
Of Newfoundland. From present APP
pearances several weeks must elapse
before the cross country service is re
sumed.
Frank Buchanan, who is to lead the
bridge and iron workers in their strug
gle with the United States Steel cor
ptoration, predicted Il general labor war
throughout the country in an address
made before the Chicago Federation
of Labor Tuesday. Mr.. Buchanan is
in Chicago TO look after the western
end of the strike and will return to
New York within a few days, for the
general strike will be managed from
that city.
Count Elliot Zborowski of New York
was killed Apr. l in an automobile hill
climbing race, between Nice and La
tube, France. Count ~Zborowski's car
turned a sharp angle too quickly,
turned over and was wrecked. The
count was hurled against a rock. His
head split open and he died instantly.
His chauffeur is believed to be mortal
" wounded. Countess Zborowski was
awaiting her husband at Laturbie ex-
pecting to lunch with him at the con-
clusion of the race. Burial will be in
England.
A force of troops and constabulary,
commanded by Capt. Perry, overlook
and routed on the shore of Lake Mai
nil, March 81, the band of convicts
and ladrones who recently attacked
and for a time held possession of Surf
gao, island of Mindanao. Capt. Perry
is pursuing the enemy. A mixed force
of scouts and co%nstabulary, numbering
175 men, defeated 200 ladrones in two
fights near Idan, province of Cavite,
Thursday, killing seven of the enemy
and wounding -. The government
force had no casualties.
The situation in Sulu, the Philip
pines. is more promising. No demon
STATIONS have occurred recently
against Americans. Gen. Davis has
planned to locate a strong military
post in the center of the island. 1t is
believed this will insure peace. The
government wishes to formulate a def
mite Moro policy and to establish a
government for the Moros. At present
the military authorities exercise gen.
eral control over the dattos who rule
the people. The military prevent the
recapture of fugitive slaves and punish
fragrant crimes. But they do not in
terfere with slavery, polygamy or tri-
bal customs. The general conditions
are unsatisfactory and reform is i'm
peratiye.
A Joint conference on the Nenezue-
Ian matter between Mr.. Bowen and the
British and italian ambassadors and
the German first secretary was held at
the British embassy in Washington
Friday. Mr.. Bowen presented his re-
ply to the amendments which the al
lies had proposed to his original draft
protocol. He accepted several changes
of phraseoloey in the convention. but
informed the other negotiators that
under no circumstances would he ac-
cept the insertion of a new article pro-
yiding that Venezuela should pay the
costs of the blockade in case the decis-
ion at The Hague be adverse to prefer
entail treatment. His refusal on this
point was absolute. 1t was agreed that
MIR. Bowen's objections and arguments
should be cabled at once to London,
Berlin and Rome.
The university of Chicago gave Pres
ident Roosevelt the degree of LII. ID.
during his Chicago visit, Friday. and
he laid the cornerstone OF the new
law school building. He said he be-
lieved in the Monroe doctrine and that
a strong navy is demanded to uphold
it but he did not believe in buster and
boasting. We want peace and the
friendship of nations. He spoke on
trusts in Milwaukee, saying: Not
only is the legislation recently enacted
effective, but in my judgment it was
impractfcable to attempt more. The
presideut addressed 1000 children at
Sioux Falls. S. D., Monday, and later
spoke to GO, 600 people in the open air
on 1.-The Wage Worker and the Tiller
of the Soil" He received a great ova-
ton in Minneapolis speaking on tariff
and reciprocity.
A strike that promises to be one of
the most bitterly contested ever known
in the central Pennsylvania bitumi-
nous coal region, has been inaugurated
at the mines of the Lehigh Valley Coal
company at Snow Shoe, Pa. The COM
pany has refused to allow a check
weighman on the tipple although the
presence of the check weighman is
compulsory according to state law, if
the miners desire to put one there.
The miners officials also say that the
company has discharged 90 men for
Joining the organization. National
President John Mitchell has wired Dis
trict President Patrick Gilday to con-
test the strike to a finish and has as
sured him of liberal support from the
- H. Ar