Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-27
M0ROS AGAIN DEFEATED
GEN. WOOD CAPTURES STRONG.
HOLD OF Jolo REBELS.

HOLD OF JoLo REBELS.
San Domingo surrenders to Revolution
isss-Charses Against Gen. Wood
Colombian Annexation to Panama
Chicago Strike Settled.
General Wood captured the Nor,
position In the hills of Jolo, north OF
iagiipl Nov 20 and destroyed the
earthworks thrown up theree. Private
MARTIN Brennan of the 18th cavalry
was Killed during the engagement and
TWO privates Were wounded, one seri-
ously. The loss on the Moro side is
known to have been rs, and probably
more, as the ground was covered with
brush. and the bodies We're hard 10
fhnd. The expedition returned to Jolo
ana pending an investigation Cen
eral Woed. says so far as he can see
there VIII be no more opposition on the
part OF the sultan's men who led the
ilghting. According to an understand
ing this action of the Moros abrogates
the Bates treaty.
Gen. Wood landed in Jolo Nov. 70
and fighting continued until Nov. II,
IN a country covered with swamps and
rocks. II was marked by examples of
the usual treacherous cunning on the
part OF the Moros. After the surren-
der of Hassen, the leader supposed to
nave been killed later Gen. Wood
started, Nov IS, for the scene of his
latest victory.
Three hundred Moros are known to
have been killed and many others We're
carried off dead or wounded Monday as
a result of five days fighting in Jolo
between the American TROOPS under
Gen. Leonard Wood and the insurgents.
Maj. H. L, Scott of the 14th cavalry
and five American privates were
wounded.
Repairs on the big battleship Mas
sachusetts have been completed at a
cost of $4,000.
| At Boston Saturday, Samuel Com
| pers was reelected president of the
American federation of labor by
good majority.
Fire in Vera Cruz, Mexico Saturday
destroyed seven blocks of dwellings
leaving $4,000 people homeless. Nearly
all the victims of the fire are poor peo-
pie,
In spite of the high prices the de-
mand in New York for Thanksgiving
turkeys was almost unprecedented.
One dealer estimated the sale by
Thursday at at least a million, almost
double the ordinary consumption.
The American federation of labor at
Boston last week decided that insur
ance agents may organize under the
federation. Several delegates declared
that insurance men were not wage
workers and were not entitled to a
charter
The national encampment of the |
Grand Army of the Republic will be |
held in Boston August Is, 1904 The /
great parade of the order will take
place Tuesday, August 16, when it is
expected that at least $4,000 veterans
will be in line.
Ambassador Choate gave a lunch
con to William Jennings Bryan at
London Wednesday. Among the dis
tinguished persons invited to meet
Mr.. Bryan were Premier Balfour, the
Earl of Onslow. Charles I. Richie
Sir Robert Giffen, Sir Gilbert Parker /
Moreton Frewen, Lord Denbigh, Lord
Mount Stephen and w. L. Courtney
Warrants were issued at Portsmouth,
Va. Saturday for ex-President Grover
DR.. Paul VanDyke, Ernest F;
Cuttings and Andrew Jones of the
Cleveland party, who were cunning on ;
the preserves of the Black Bay Gun
ming clhb in Princess Anne county
charging them with violating the new
game law of Virginia. which requires
every non resident to take out $40
license. ,
Steps toward eliminating the negro ,
rom suffrage in Kentucky have been
aiken. James A. Frazier, one of the
most influential members of the legis-
AZURE has framed a bill which pro-
yides stringent educational qualifica-
ions and will be as effective as the IT.,
avs in Mississippi Louisiana or any :
,ther southern state to prevent the n
negro from voting. The bill will do .
way with the ignorant mountain vote, :
which goes to the republicans almost !,
O a unit. =
Typhoid fever has broken out in /,
Williams college and Brown university, =
everaI students being sick in each col
age. At Williams, the college authori- :.
les are making a determined fight :,
o prevent an epidemic and also to
cad off threatened exodus of stu
ents. The origin of the typhoid is
elieved to have been brought from :
ut of town. The drinking water
nd milk supply of the town were ex-
mined, but no typhoid germs were
iscovered. At Brown, the college med
al staff is of the opinion that the dis s.
ase may have been contracted IN the b
winning tank and steps have been p
AIKEN to put an end to any furtner
pread from that quarter. '
John Alexander Dowie, general over 81
aer of the Christian Catholic church o
as issued a call for 100000 The a
cad of the Zion industries does not p
rake the call in the form of request A
,r money or advice to his followers lo
ut commands them to take up that 81
mount of additional stock which he is Il
ttaunting to float. Realize by i'm n
,adiate sale the cash proceeds OF all c
our properties, invest in Zion securi. II
es or Zion land and come with all el
our house to Zion City," is the COM f
and He declares that the need OF g
pital is not due to a depression OF the Z
,siness of the Zion industries, but be- E