Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-19

!. The crisis has passed in the food sit
: uation at st. Louis and an extension
OF the calamity is not expected Tn
first reports of the disaster at East st
Louis were much exaggerated Their
is an ample supply Of food for refugees
n Prince George of Bavaria, heir ap
= parent to the throne of Bavaria, ant
A grandson Of the emperor Of Austria
has arrived in San Francisco from tn,
Orient. The prince, who is % year.
y old, is travelling under the name O
Count Wartenburg
: A general strike of the building
t trades artisans employed on the expo
2 sition site at st. Louis, 5000 in number,
0 is threatened for September |. Unless
an increase in wages averaging 81 .
, day for each man shall be granted by
/. Sept. /, walkout will be ordered.
4 Ninety per cent. of the building op.
: erations in New York city have been
5 stopped, employers seeking to force
the unions, in this way, to come to a
definite agreement on the new plan OF
arbitration. The employers associa-
tion says this is not lockout, but an
effort to accomplish permanent indus
trial peace.
AS result of the postoffice investi-
cation, what is known as the flying
squadron" of special agents of the ru-
raj free delivery service has been abol-
ished as useless. These men investi-
gated matters in all other divisions
and reported direct to Washington,
while all the other special agents re-
ported to the headquarters of their re-
spective divisions.
The liberty bell was started Monday
from Philadelphia on its journey to
Boston, where it was feature of the
celebration of the anniversary of Bunk
er hill Wednesday. The bell was es-
corted from independence hall to the
station of the Pennsylvania railway by
the lst troop, Philadelphia city caval-
ry, and the LIST regiment, national
guard. The return trip will begin to-
day and the bell is expected back in
its place tomorrow night.
The death list from the floods at Cliff.
ton, Ariz., last week is placed at 81.
Narrowing tales of death are told by
reporting that he counted - people
all were lost One Mexican woman lost
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the wreckage of her hut. Clifton had
her hero He rode at breakneck speed
five miles and warned settlers to flee to
higher ground. His warning saved
hundreds of lives
A memorial monument to negro
slaves and their descendants, in recog-
milton of domestic and patriotic SER
vices before and during the Revolution
airy war. was dedicated at Darlington,
r. l., Monday. Darlington is the first
town in the United States to erect |
such monument. The memorial
stone is a white quartz boulder. A
bronze tablet bearing the inscription, |
''In memory of negro slaves and their |
descendants, who faithfully served |
Darlington families is attached to
the face of the boulder.
The civil service commission has re-
ported on an investigation conducted |
at Postmaster General Payne's request
into S. W. Tulloch's charge that high
officials packed the rolls with personal
and political favorites in violation of
the civil service rules and so built up
machines. The report bears out Tul-
loch's charges on that point and Sc
verely arraigns the department, saying
that the department used the Washing.
ton postoffEe 'for political and per-
sonal purposes to an extent which left
the authority of the postmaster but
little more than nominal. " This is the
first official report on any phase of the
postoffice department scandals.
The proposed law by which an opium
will be established in the |
has been sent to the War
which has made some
changes in the first rough draft, in
creasing its stringency. The exclusive |
right to import and sell or give away {
opium will be awarded every three i
years to the "best and highest" bid {
der, who will be known as the Opium I
Concessionary. Druggists will be al !
lowed to import the drug for medicinal I
purposes only. The revenue from the |
sale of the privilege and licenses will 7
De devoted to paying the expenses of
Tilipinos sent by the government to |
he United States to be educated or to n
he payment of the salaries of Filipino @
chool teachers and to the erection of n
chool buildings. s.
Twenty-Five of the leading Chicago C
lotels were badly crippled for help in Il
IL departments Friday by a strike of o
Iotel employees that had been impend- u
NO for three weeks. The hotels, how
yer. were all kept running. Both e,
ides complain of unfair treatment OF
HE proprietors will submit every ri
oint at issue to arbitration but the n,
MONS will not consent to this. They II
INSIST that their demands for higher II
,ages and shorter hours must be grant fir
d before they will arbitrate anything G
nd insist also upon the absolute rec W
enition of the union. The strikers re
ave been trying to divert supplies W
rom the hotels. Many of the striking al
mployes are returning and asking for CO
nearly all the hotels r
nd restaurants reported satisfactory e,
onditions Tuesday. il
Gen. Alexander Mcdowell McCook, &c
J. S. A., retired, suffered third 81
troke of paralysis and died at his r.
aughter's home in Dayton, o., Fri 1
ay morning. He went west from Ia
Washington few weeks ago. Gen. u
IcCook served with distinction in the m m
rnion army during the Civil War, be- L
ng successfully promoted for merito Is
ious services in the battle of Bull &C
Jun. Nashville, Shiloh and Perryville, re
ntil he attained the rank of major W
eneral of volunteers. At the close of
ne Civil War he became lieutenant
olonel in the regular service and was re
,tired in 1895 as a ma jor general. He h