Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-26

Curtis Jett and Thomas White {
jackson, KY, murderers, spent gu
ct Sunday In jail at Lexington, Ky
The two men were allowed pint G
whiskey and had their meals sent fror
a restaurant with parting admoni
tion from Judge Hargis to the jaile
to allow Jett and White to have any OF
! ders they desired and then charge tn
expense to him.
The Widows and Widowers' club ha
: been organized in Hudson county, N
) D., with the prime object of anchor
ating the lot of its two score or NOR
members. The club held its first con
ISOLATION soiree on Sunday in park il
North Bergen that is situated near tw,
cemeteries. Many of the widows ar
. still young and comely, and lot o
unmarried men who are not widower
want to join. The club, it is said
intends to make all applicants for mem
bership furnish death certificates o
their deceased partners.
The Textile Council at Lowell Sun
day afternoon declared the great strike
in the Lowell mills at an end. Every
ohioh uiiiidbCi WltH VIC CouDCil Wus
represented and the vote was unani.
nous. Mule spinners and loomfixers
were included in this vote, despite
statements that they would oppose a
return to work. The meeting was
called at 3 O'Clock and about one hour
later the press committee was ready to
receive reporters. There was no dis
sension. The situation was discussed
carefully and the sentiment was that
the vote to return to work take imme-
date effects
a copy of the monthly report of Car
los j. Finlay, chief sanitary officer for
the island of Cuba, which has been re-
ceived at the Cuban legation at Wash
ington, contains the following: The
showing for 1902 and tine beginning of
1903 is very satisfa ctory, not only in
regard to the complete exemption from
yellow fever and smallpox, but also in
the number of deaths from malaria and
in the total mortality. There has been
no smallpox on the island since July,
1900, nor yellow fever since September,
1901, and the progressive decrease in
malaria has continued without inter
ruption.
Six men were wounded Wednesday
night, two of them seriously by street
railway company guards, who fired
into crowd of strike sympathiZers at
Main and Lombardy streets, just out
side the city limits of Richmond,
Va A car, guarded by employees of
the company, armed with shotguns,
was standing at that point. There had
been big crowd there all the evening.
The company claims that the guards
were first fired upon. The guards then
fired into the crowd, and a brisk flu
SHADE followed. At least six persons
were struck, and two of them are Sc
riously hurt, being peppered in the
back with buckshot.
Lightning struck hut stored with |
5000 pounds of dynamite, at the new |
mines now being opened near Senaca- |
vile, o., Saturday, during a storm, |
killing six men and injuring a score of |
others, besides running the mine shaft
and breaking nearly all the windows
in mining town of 300 people, half a
mile from the mine. The men killed
and injured were carpenters and Others
in opening the mines and
building the shafting When the storm
came up the men took refuge in barn.
Suddenly a binding flash came, and
in an instant the barn was demolished
md the men scattered over radius of
loo feet. More than score of men
we're bleeding from injuries sustained
rom heavy rocks torn from the earth
md from the timbers from the black
ninth shop.
A northern mob, led by a Virginian,
burned negro at the stake Monday
light within mile of Mason and Dix
ms line. The victim was George
White. negro Just out of the work
louse, who was accused of having fell
,niously assaulted and stabbed to death
diss Helen S. Bishop, the II year old
The crime was committed last week
donday afternoon and ever since then
here have Eeen mutterings of lynch ,
ng the man. An effort was made on
sunday night to get White but it
allied. Monday night, however, as a
esult Of the laws slowness and much t
citation on the part of those who cried
or vengeance, mob that was esti
lated at 1000 men and boys gathered I
n the neighborhood aud the man was !
urned at the stake. He confessed the {
rhine. /
President Roosevelt has sent letter
, the attorney general in which he .
rges speed and thorough investigation J
( the postoffice scandal. He says, in L
art 1.-THE charges in connection with =
ne postoffice department are now being :
Investigated by Fourth Assistant Post !
laster- General Bristow, who has had +
laced at his disposal by the postmas =
laster general every resource of the y
he department, including the services :,
{ Mr.. Robb, whom you detailed from =
ne department of justice to the post =
flee department Immediately after :,
he removal of Mr.. Tyner. AS a result :.
this investigation, number of in =
ictments have already been had, and :
is probable that other indictments +
ill hereafter be asked for. There can ;,
e no greater otfense against the gov T
.nment than a breach of trust on the =
art of public official or the dishon- .
It management of his Office, and, OF =.
purse, every effort must be exerted to :;
ring such offenders to punishment by n
lie utmost rigor of the law" =
Supt. George E. Cummings of the
hite mountain division, Boston Il v
aine railroad, has reported upon the O.
image occasioned in the mountains 81
' the recent cloudburst, and it has e.
zen referred to Gov. n. j. Bachelor r,
,cause of the information contained @;
it concerning the new state highway s;
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