Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-27
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS on
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
Great Scheme Of Continental Waterway
President Castro Resigns Original Enamel
patton Proclamation Lost Charges Agains
Gen. wood-To Investigate Polygamy il
Utah.
The Mississippi river is falling anC
flood conditions are becoming bright
er. Several breaks have occurred In
the levees.
immigration to Canada this year is
expected to far surpass anything in the
past, ia, 600 settlers being expected or
the three lines of ocean steamships.
Mont Pelee volcano, Martinique, is
again in eruption and Soufriere, or
the island of st. Vincent, is very &C.
tive, discharging dense clouds OF
smoke miles high.
The great elephant lingo, said to be
larger than Jumbo, died and was bur
led at sea while being brought to this
country by an animal show recently.
He was % years old, weighed six tons
and was II feet in height. He was val
ued at $50, 600.
President Castro rendered his resig'
nation to the Venezuelan congress af-
ter the reading of his message to that
body Saturday. The congress has voted
unanimously not to accept his resig-
nation and has asked him to reconsider
it. President Castro withdrew his res
ignation Tuesday.
Revolutionists have taken the CAPT
tai city of Santo Domingo and have
control of the cable Office and govern
ment land lines. The fighting con-
tinues and casualties are many. AS
sistant Governor Echenique and Gen.
Pena, commander of the government
forces, have been killed.
Three hundred financiers are consid
ering the scheme of crossing the Unit
ed States with a great system of water
ways. 1t will cost ten billions of dol
lars: will give the United States at all
times complete control of the commerce
of the continent and create water pow
er equal to fifty millions horse power.
Charles G. Leland, famous as the au-
thor of the Hans Breitmann Ballads.
died Friday in Florence, Italy, from
pneumonia. He was born in Philadel-
phia in 1924, in the old Dolly Madison
house on Chestnut street. He is cred
tied with the discovery of the Shalta
language, said to have been the tongue
of the Irish bards.
After hearing report on the inves-
| tigation of charges of incompetency
and bad financial methods filed against
William Plimley, President Roosevelt
last week withdrew Plimley's nomina-
ton to be assistant treasurer at New
York and appointed Hamilton Fish,
son of former Secretary of State Ham
ilton Fish, to the position.
After long search. Col. W. II.
Michael, chief clerk of the state de-
partment at Washington has discovered
that the original emancipation procla-
nation by Abraham Lincoln, setting free
the slaves, was destroyed in the Chicago
fire of 1871. 1t was sent to that city
to be exhibited by society OF women.
Lloyd G. Griscom, minister to Japan,
has presented to the state department
two Autograph copies of the original
proclamation. Five such copies were
made while the original was on exhibit
ton in Chicago, but these two are the
only ones extant.
A deputy surveyor of the port Of San
Francisco has one of the precious jade
ancestral tablets looted from the i'm
perial temple of Pekin by the allied
troops during the Boxer outbreak, and
for the recovery of which the Chinese
government has offered reward OF
100000. He seized the tablets as
an undeclared valuable in the bag
gage of a United States army officer re-
turning from China on the transport
Sheridan. The tablet is tribute to
the emperor, Huang Kai Sa Using, who
lived two centuries ago, and according
to the Chinese tradition, the spirit OF
the emperor is supposed to reside IN
the very mortuary tablet addressed to
him.
The big Fall River passenger steam
er. Plymouth, New York for Fall River,
with 500 passengers and crew of 2O(
men, was run down in a fog Thursday
night while passing through the Race,
Long Island Sound, by the freight
steamer Taunton, Fall River for New
York. of the same line. A full hun
dred feet of the starboard side of the
vessel was smashed in the second cap
in was cut away and obliterated while
down IN the uOlu luo lhcii peio Va 49,
crew who were asleep in, the steerage
were overwhelmed by the torrent OF
water that poured in through the great
gap made by the bows of the freighter;
Six men of the crew were killed and
many were injured.
Surigiao, a town in northeastern
Mipdanao, was captured Monday by
ladrones who killed Inspector Clarke
and several others. A detachment OF
the 10th infantry is hurrying to recap
ture the place. The fate of the white
official and other foreigners is not
known. If they have been captured,
vigorous measures will be taken to
rescue them. This is the first time
American troops have been used since
peace with the Moros was declared.
Gov. Taft and Gen. Davis are going to
Jolo for conference with the Sultan
and leading Moros, in the hope OF
ayerting trouble. The town OF Surigao
was retaken by the constabulary Tues
day. The American officials and for
eigners we're safe. The town was sur
prised by ladrones and escaped con,
yicts but refused to surrender and held
out until help came. The ladrones
fed at the approach of the constabu-