Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-13

veteran of the Mexican and Civil wars
and prominent in many large organlza-
tions, died Sunday at his home in
Hartford, Conn.
The Maine house Of representatives,
by vote of over two to one, refused
to resubmit the state prohibitory law,
passed more than 80 years ago, to the
voters of the state.
The Belgian protocol for the settle
men of that country's claim against
Venezuela was signed at Washington
Saturday. Ii provides that the queen
of the Netherlands shall name an UNI
pire for the commission.
Frederick Niblo, Brooklyn hotel
clerk, who was given mining claim
six years ago by an aged prospector
whom he aided, has now found the
claim, which is about eight miles from
Cape Nome, to be worth $4,000, 900.
A shipping trades federation has Just
been formed in Chicago, composed OF
II unions whose members are engaged
in the handling and transportation of
freight. II will control over 20, 600 men
who want more pay and shorter hours
Fully five hundred persons were on
top of along building at Montreal,
p. O.. at midnight Saturday watch
ing the steamer Montreal burn when
the structure collapsed. One per
son was killed and four will probably
die. while about GO were treated in the
hospitals for their injuries.
George l.. o. Perry, the colored sus'
pect of the slugger murders in Somer-
Vile and Waverly, Mass, died in the
hospital of the Middlesex house of cor
rection Sunday of nervous exhaustion
due TO typhoid fever and his mental
state. In his last confession Be deried
all knowledge of the crimes.
Finley Peter Dunno ofChicago crea-
tor of "Mr Dooley,n has just closed
contract with George b. Nj. Harvey by
which he is to write exclusively for
Harper & Bros. and to receive a salary
of $40, 600 year This makes him the
highest salaried literary man IN the
country and perhaps in the world.
Hon. James fl. Blount, for 20 years
member of Congress from Georgia,
and. during the second Cleveland term,
commissioner paramount to the Ha-
waiian islands, died at Macon. Ga,
Sunday of congestion of the lungs. Mr..
Blount was one of the largest land own
ers in middle Georgia and man of
wealth.
A case of foot and mouth disease was
found in Watertown, Mass, Friday.
As the diseased animal came from New
Hampshire, Secretary Wilson Monday
ordered quarantine on that state
which prohibits the shipment of all
livestock except animals for immediate
slaughter which may be shipped across
the state in sealed cars.
Since the death of Capt. James II.
Woodhouse, a retired sailor OF New
Haven. Conn, his daughter. who is
his only heir, has found GOLD, dia-
monds and $50, 600 in bills hidden IN
his old home The money was found
sewed UP in cushions and hidden IN
chunks in the walls and sparkling gems
were found beneath the roots of a
withered old plant.
Considerable excitement has been
created at Helena, Montana, by the dis
coyery of an old bed of the Missouri
river which yields richly in gold, sap
phires, and rubies. The discovery was
made by j. H. Cowan who, about 10
miles from Helena, drove tunnel two
hundred feet deep. Four hundred
pounds of sand yielded S7.5 in gold,
fifty sapphires, and one ruby.
A strike of 40, 600 coal miners in IL
linois was averted Saturday afternoon
when the operators and miners OF the
state. in joint conference at Spring
field, signed an agreement for the year,
beginning April 10. The agreement as
| signed is for siX-cent raise over last
wears prices all over the state, the
same increase agreed on at the Joint
national conference OF operators and
miners at Indianapolis.
An investigation of the Newark, n.
j., trolley car accident in which nine
! school children were killed places the
responsibility for the accident on the
/ trolley company. The jury found that
/ there was two or more inches of ice
and snow on the rails, that no sand or
salt had been used and that or 10 pas
/ sengers were on the front platform, un-
doubtedly interfering with the motor
mans control of the car.
/ The Kansas supreme court at Topeka
I Saturday declared invalid the nuisance
clause of the prohibitory law, which
practically destroys the injunction sec
I ton of the statute and makes 1t more
1 difficult than ever to enforce the law as
an entirety. The clause in question
made places where liquor is made or
I sold common nuisance. The decision
was in the case of several Kansas City
"joint' keepers, who resisted an in
4 junction suit commenced by the state.
The U. S. supreme court rendered its
first opinion under the Elkins act at
Washington Monday. 1t was ques-
ton of discrimination on the part of the
Missouri Pacific railroad and the case
was brought by the interstate commerce
commission. The circuit court and
court of appeals had decided that the
United States contention against the
road was regular, but these decisions
are now reversed by the supreme court
which sends the case back for new
trial under the Elkins act.
Cheap Rates to Pacific Coast.
The NICKEL PLATE Rd. will sell
daily Feb. 18th to April 30th, special
pnF,lo N v IN pa.