Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-27
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Joan Of Arc q Saint Sicily Infested with
Brigands.
Rev. Frederick William Farrar, dean
of Canterbury 1895 and one of the most
famous of the English clergy, died
Sunday aged 70. He was widely known
both as a preacher and an author.
An American syndicate is planning
to open up the industries of Transcau-
casia, the southernmost part of Rus
STA in Europe. Tea planting, lumber
ing and coal mining are to be devel-
oped.
A bill giving Ireland modified
form OF home rule will be introduced
in parliament by the British govern
ment. The rough outlines of the pro-
posed measure have already been
sketched but it's provisions ale kept
secret.
The cardinals and theologians at the
Vatican at Rome will authorize the
canonization of Joan Of Arc and the
next step will be solemn papal proc
lamation that she is saint. This is
expected to improve the relations be-
tween France and the Vatican.
Russia is now to have a national
Thanksgiving Day, the Holy Synod of
which the cZar is the head, having
decreed Feb. 10, sMarch 3 new style)
the anniversary of the emancipation of
the peasants, as time of general
thanksgiving in the orthodox churches.
Colonial Secretary Chamberlain stat
ed in the British house of commons
Friday that 100, 200 Beers had been re-
%u.n hat mo n "a G
giving the new colonies, under the
peace terms and as military compensa-
ton, an aggregate of S75, 600, 600 tow
ard the expenses OF their settlement.
Trouble has arisen on the Fiji is
lands between the Protestants and Ro-
man Catholics there, as the result of
the burning of 800 Bibles by the Cath
olics. The natives changed their re-
ligion and held public meeting to
burn the Bibles. Armed natives of
New Hebrides surrounded the Presby-
terian mission at Amberan and opened
fire at a given signal, Kidding the
walls. The occupants happened to be
absent at the time.
1t is rumored at The Hague that the
German government intends to make
railway labor troubles an excuse for in
reference in Holland, on the ground
that damage has resulted to the com
mercial interests of the empire. The
general impression is that Germany is
only awaiting a favorable moment to
annex the country and secure the SOW
ereignty of the Netherlands. If this
SHOULD be done, Belgium, it is be-
lieved, would go to France.
The people OF China bitterly con-
denim the levying of taxes on them for
such purposes as the annual imperial
visit to the Western tombs next month,
when the court will number 8, 600 per-
sons. The best officials claim that 1T
is impossible to escape blackmaIl In
one form or another, and that the Chi
nese government has never reached
lower state of corruption than now. 1t
is claimed that Chinese officials are in
capable and do not intend to turn for
eign relief to the recuperating OF the
state. The industrial schools of Pekin
have failed because of corruption and
the students at the Imperial universe
ty threaten to revolt because of the
adoption of the japanese language in
that institution. China is also in a
financial morass on account OF the APP
palling drop in the price Of silver. The
producing classes are subjected to ex-
IRENE hardship and a heavy deficit is
still left in the national exchequer.
There are indications of another Boxer
storm.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick, the Ameri
can woman who was convicted at Liv-
erpool in 1889 on the charge of poison
ing her husband, James Maybrick, by
arsenic and whose sentence of death
was committed to penal servitude for
life, will be released in 1904. Her case
was one of the most celebrated in the
criminal history of England. Mr.. May
brick was addicted to the use of pow
erful stmulants and drugs and kept
arsenic in the house. Physicians testi-
fed that they had given him arsenic
few days before bis death and it was
not even proved that he died of poi.
soning. Justice Stephen who charged
the jury strongly against Mrs May
brick, retired from the bench soon
afterward on account of insanity.
Mrs. Maybrick is native of Mobile,
Ala Her grandfather, Daniel Chan
dler, was one OF the leading lawyers of
the south before the war.
President Gerald Balfour Of the board
of trade announced in the British house
of commons Monday that formal
agreement between the government and
the International Mercantile Marine
company would be ready for signature
before Easter. A majority of the di-
rectors of the combination, Mr.. Bal
four added, were to be of British ma
tionality, vessels in Great Britain were
to fly the British flag, their officials were
to be British, reasonable proportion
of their crews we're to be drawn from
Great Britain, and at least half the
tonnage hereafter to be built for the
combine was to be constructed in Brit
ish yards and fly the British flag. Fur
Their, in event of the combiue pursuing
a policy hostile to the British, govern
ment is empowered to terminate the
agreement, which is for period of 20
years and renewable by five years no.
tice from each party to it. He added
that it is not desirable to British in
terests that America should have a
considerable share in the Atlantic trade
but it is hoped the arrangement could
be made with little friction between
the two people and in such a way as to
prove the surest foundation of lasting
friendship between the two.pA'fohs.