Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-09

In the hearing at San Juan, Porto
Rico, ON the smuggling cases, Lieut., :
Com. Mentz. U. S. N, was held for
trial in 81, 900 bail, the Others beng
discharged.
H. NJ. Pope of Springfield, Mass. e,
broke both the 30 and l00-shot world :
records, on the Standard American tar
get at 200 yards off hand, Jan. l. DIR.
Hudson of New York held the former
record at 462 and the latter at 300,
while Mr.. Popes new records are 4o5
and sos.
The American Young Mems Chris
tian association reports prosperous
wear, with especially notable growth
in the South and North and among
railroad men. The membership list
now numbers more than 3OO,uoo ana
the number of associations Is over 1000.
There are now 450 buildings owned,
costing over s24, 000,0 600.
In regard to the recent discovery that
lemon Juice will kill typhoid germs IN
water it is said by officials of the New
York health department that many
physicians treat their typhoid patients
with lemon Juice; also that orange
Juice is also a powerful nentrallZer,
though not so efficacious as lemon JUICE
because the latter has more citrlc acid
in it.
THE list of requests for charitable
and religious purposes n TINS country
in 1902 shows a considerable falling on
from last years remarkable total OF
Sl23. SIS, 49, being s1I, 391, l6L But u
is still well in advance of that OF iSoO
or any previous year. GIFTS OF less IMAM
$40. 600, of which no record Is kept, are
said tn have been larger than ever be-
fore.
A Journey round the world IN the
course of the next year may be accom-
plished in 40 days. The time table
will then be: Paris TO Nladivostock-
I3 DAYS: to Nagasaki, days; to fo-
kohoma. days to Vancouver, II days !;
to New York. via the Canadian Pacific
railway. days; 70 Cherbourg, days :
and to Paris in less than half day.
Letters are now being received at Va
emma from Pekin by way of Siberia IN
from 70 to y days.
Thousands of mine rats were killed
in a recent fire in Ishpeming, Mich
mines. When workmen entered the
drifts after the gas had cleared away
they found carcases of rats everywhere.
They refused to go to work until a
fresh supply of rats was secured. These
rats are regarded as a necessity u iron
mines. aud are known as the miners
friends. They act as scavengers. and
give warning of impending danger.
thus saving miners lives. When the
longer TO stay.
Commissioner of Labor Carroll u.
Wright saws that wages now paid IN
the United States are higher than ever
before in the country's history. Inc
highest level ever reported before the
present high water mark was IN IS5-.
In 1888 some Industries suspended aad
/ others reduced wages For about three
wears wages fell here and there, though
I in the majority of industries. they Kept
on AT the same rate. A few years ago
those that were cut were restored, and
OF late. wages of some industries have
been increased over rates Of lo9.
President Mitchell, of the United
Mine Workers, blames the coal ROADS
for the high price of coal IN Boston.
Certainly, be says, the miners are not
To blame for they have been making a
better output per man per day than
ever before in their lives. The coal
roads could lower prices If they would
/ compel all independent mining COM
panies to live up to their contracts and
would take more than half their out
nut to be sold at s. a ton at tldewater
They could also. II they would, give
Boston a larger supply of their own
coal.
Hilario Placido, the spy who, next
to Gen. Funston, Is entitled 10 the
credit of capturing AguIna!do, mas
been sentenced 70 life imprisonment
for murder Gen. Funston and other
army officers who knew the scout pc
leve that the crime was committed
since they left the island. Gen Fun
ston saws He was never my spy,
and the only money ne ever received
from the United States was for the
part he took in the capture OF AgulnaL-
DO Placido fought against the span
iards and against the United states.
He surrendered AT the same time Win
Gen. Garcia.
The international coffee congress
which met in Washington IN October
recommends an international trust tC
control the output of coffee Of the
world. establ shed by a treaty signed
bv the United States and the Central
and South American countries. This
recommendation was transmitted x
congress Just before it adjourned.
Y Thirteen countries, including the Unit
ed States and Porto Rico, were repre-
septed in the coffee congress. The pro
ducers controlled the congress and for
mulated the treaty for the speedy con
troll of the output of coffee and the as
surance of a profitable price TO the pro
Queer.
DR.. Adolph Lorenz. the great Wen
ma surgeon. whose many successfu
bloodless operations for congenital hi
troubles in children have gained
wide reputation in this country, sailed
for home Jan. l. In az interview jus
before mis- departure, he set forth SOM
of his impressions of America. III
physical and mental energy OF on
country he thinks marvellous and tn
!, chief cause of the country's wonderful
growth and prosperity. He decries GU
food, especially the pastry so muci
INDUCED in by both old and young. ant
, wonders that the people are not physl
cal wrecks instead of the opposite. ii
, declares he never has seen hospitals
better equipped aud managed than ar
ours. They have been a revelation q
him. But he thinks fault exists II
tendency on the part of the nurse
: ard attendants TO be harsh and unsym