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

President Roosevelt is spending
week in Yellowstone National park
studying plant and animal life. Johi
Burroughs, the naturalist, is his com
panion.
The new cup defender Reliance wa
LAUGHED successfully at the Herreshot
ship yards at Bristol, X. l., at 8 IN
Saturday afternoon, being christenet
by Miss Nora Iselin. The boat is sale
to be the most beautiful of all the Her
reshof yachts.
The war department.has arranged fo
the concentration Of troops in the ar
tillery district of Portland, Me-, II
the anticipation Of the combined army
and navy manoeuvres OF lV,3. The
companies will be at their respective
destinations May Is.
Attorney General Webb of California
has rendered an official opinion declar-
ing the use of the Bible in the public
schools as unconstitutional. Not only
may teachers not use Scriptures as a
textbook, but even reading from them,
as is the custom frequently at the
opening exercises, is barred.
Madame Adelina Patti will sail fol
New York from Southampton Oct. "a.
Her initial concert will be given in
New York the evening of Nov. 2 She
will sing at Montreal Nov. Ii, In
Brooklyn Nov. II and in Boston Nov.
10. S he will tour the country under
the management of Robert Grau.
A vast field of anthracite coal has
been found in Hanover township, south
of Wilkesbarre. Pa, in land owned by
the d. L. & W. railroad and the LIE
high and Wilkesbarre coal company. Ii
is the most valuable discovery ever
made in the region. 1t is estimated
that there are 200, 600, 900 tons of GOA
in the tract.
The damage to the battleship Iowa
caused by the premature explosion OF
a shell in the forward port 12-inch gun
has developed to be more serious than
was thought when the first examina-
tion was made, and as consequence
the big ship has been ordered to the
New York navy yard to go out OF com
mission.
George Ketcham, owner of the worlds
champion trotter, Cresceus, 2:0214, an
nounces that it is probable that the
horse will never race again. Ii Mr..
Ketcham does conclude to send the
champion on another trial it will be
for the purpose of breaking the world s
record to high wheel sulky, 2os14,
held by Sunol.
The wedding of Reginald c. Wander
bilt, youngest son of the late Cornell
ius Vanderbilt of New York. and Cath
leen G. Nelson of New York. took
place at Newport, r. l., Tuesday. The
ceremony was unostentatious, about
$50 guests were present, the gowns and
flowers were all white and the gifts
unusually costly.
1t is reported from Yokohama that
the battleship Oregon is no longer safe
for battle. She was damaged much
more seriously during the typhoon last
November than has hitherto been adj
mitted sustaining great damage to her
superstructure. She was helpless for
hours, and her hull is said to have
been badly strained.
Nothing whatever new was brought
to light concerning the Burdick muir
der mystery by the evidence given
Friday at the Pencil inquests. 1t
was not proven, either, whether the
tragedy at Genres stone quarry on
March 10, in which Pencil was killed
and Mrs. Pennell was fatally injured,
was due to accident or design.
Union miners officials say that an
thracite operators are violating the
provisions of the recent award of the
commission in regard to hours of work
and The arrangement of shifts. No
little dissatisfaction exists among the
miners but the officials intend to keep
them at work until the disputed points
are definitely settled by the board OF
Cancellation.
! Peter Veregin, the leader of the
Doukhobors, has arrived in Winnipeg,
Man., to purchase horses for his coun-
trymen in the Swan river colony. The
Doukhobors, according to his story,
are losing their old. time aversion to
animals and machinery and are desir-
Gus of adopting Canadian customs. An
other important reform he reports Is
that the Doukhobors are entering for
homesteads.
Mandhlakayi DUDE, one of the two
Zulu college students in this country,
has been called back to Africa, after
several years study, to become the
chieftain of the two most important
Zulu tribes in Natal Chief Anti Mu-
auawe, Dube's father, is in poor
health. He has reigned over his tribe
for more than 20 years and now wishes
his son to succeed to his throne. The
other Zulu students are not of royal
blood.
At the dedication of the monuments
of the soldiers of Indiana in the Ma
tional Military Park at Shiloh, Tenn,
last week, General Lew Wallace, in his
address, caused sensation by attack
ing General Grants conduct of the
battle. He asked: "My friends, did
YOU ever hear of an army fighting a
battle without a commander? No?
Well, that was the case with the army
of the Tennessee on the first day here.
Five divisions on the field had each its
chief, to be sure, but none of the five
chiefs was in command. General Grant
as everybody knows, was in command
of the army of the Tennessee by order
of General Hallock. His headquarters
were at Savannah, 10 miles below Pitts