Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-17
new WORLD HAPPENINGS,
A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

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A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS n,
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
6ryan Going to Europe-A Mine Given Ava,
Whipped Girl Kills Herself Gunboat Or
dered to venezusla-M Music Teacher Drown
cd in Bathtub- Gypsies Steal Two Girls.
g. D. Shultz of Kansas has complet
ed an airship after 40 years of patien,
toll, but something seems to be thu
matter with it.
A rich man lost over 5000 in peck
etbook in train passing through Kan
sas recently. The Pullman porter founc
1t, returned it, and was given cigar
as reward.
The passenger steamer White Star,
which plies between Toronto and Oak.
vile, was destroyed by fire Saturday
at the dock at Toronto, Ont The loss
is S25, 600. The vessel only came out OF
dry dock Friday, where she had been
undergoing repairs.
Edward Ryan, carpenter Of 1853
West Forty ninth street, New York.
rolled out Of bed early Sunday morn.
ing, went through window at the
side of the bed and fell two stories to
the bottom of an airshaft. His right
leg was broken and his head was bad
ly cut.
Because her nine-year- adopted
son ran away and went in swimming in
a creek near his home. Mrs. Annie
Story of Catskill, N. Y, tied the boys
wrists together and suspended him
from beam in the barn until he was
exhausted and in precarious condi-
ton. She has been arrested.
Anna and Mary Baker of Franklin,
Pa, were abducted Sunday by band
of gypsies. Sheriff McCollum pur-
sued the gypsies and took the girls
away from them. He compelled the
band to drive him and the girls back
to Franklin, and let them 60 after the
gypsies had promised to leave the
county. a.: gE .--ssxs.s 49,
Alexander Abu Kali, Syrian, "a
years old, and said to be Shakespear-
can reader and student at Harvard uni
versity, shot himself dead in his room
in New York Sunday. Alexander had
been studying at Harvard and came
back to New York week or two ago
and went to live with his brothers at
the hotel.
Mrs. Lubja Alsenstadt, 81 years of
age, was found dead Sunday after
noon, having been drowned in the
bath tub. There was no reason to be-
ieve that she had committed suicide.
She left an unfinished letter to her
husband, who is in Russia, telling
lin how happy she was. In it she
old him she was about to take bath.
A bloody battle between l5O Japan
se and the same number of Mexicans |
las been raging five days on the desert
between Barstow and Victorville, ac-
ording to a New York dispatch from
4os Angeles, Cal. Four are reported
lead and about 80 wounded, and the
nd of the struggle is not in sight.
he combatants are all employed by
he Santa Fe railroad, laying new rails
nd the company has been forced to
uspend operations in that section.
In view of the reported detention of
nree vessels of the Orinoco Steamship
by Venezuelan insurgents and
vo vessels of the same company by the
'enezuelan government, the gunboat
ancroft has been ordered to proceed 1
ON Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Cut
ad Bolivar, on the Orinoco River. {
he instructions telegraphed by Secre-
Try of the Navy Moody to Lieutenant {
commander A. E. Culver, the Ban I
roft's commander, were merely Ito {
rotect American interests. 6
William Jennings Bryan is going TO {
urope to study sociological condi- t
ons under monarchial forms of gov
.nment. Mr.. Bryan says that early
! September he will sail for Europe +
, be absent four months. He will be /
by his daughter. Eng '
nd, Scotland, Ireland, France, Ger :
any and probably Italy will be tour :
by Mr.. Bryan, who will pay partic- Z
lar attention to the condition of the i,
orking people, their modes of living, !
-ivileges, rights, etc., as compared a
it'll the middle class in the United
tates. Among his friends it is said a
> will write book of his impress a
ons. r.
William Rudolph of Union, Mo-, t
ho has been confined in the city jail f
the charge of having participated
the robbery of the bank at Union
st winter, and also charged with the !
ling of Detective Schumacher, who =
as attempting to arrest him, made y
,sperate attempt to escape from jail I
Id is at large. Rudolph and his i
Irtner, George Collins, were captured ,
ter a long search following the I'm "
n bank robbery, at Hartford, Conn,
ID brought to st. Louis and placed +
Jail for safe keeping pending their !,
ial. Rudolph escaped by crashing 7
rough skylight and jumping from q
e Jail roof. When Rudolph was q
ught by Pinkerton detectives IN !
artford, last spring he had Sl4, 600 in u
sh and three loaded 3S calibre five =
ooters in his pockets. . .