Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-17
THE WINDHAM COUNTY REFORMER FRIDAY, JULY IL, 1908


Miss Lavina Wheeler, 102, is dead a
Oakland. She was in full possession
OF her faculties almost up to the tim,
of her death.
President Roosevelt has decided tt
appoint Gen. Robert Shaw Oliver O.
Albany as assistant secretary Of war tt
succeed Col. William Carey Sanger
resigned.
A number of shower baths are beine
installed in the Eastern public school,
in East Orange, N. j., for the use Of
the teachers and pupils If the exper.
will be extended
From the effects of the deadly toy
pistol, as used by small boys on July
4, there have been thus far recorded II
deaths in the eastern states, and fully
a score more boys are suffering the
dread tetanus with but light chances
of recovery.
Judge Wilcox, the intimate friend
and adviser of the late King Kalakaua
and other monarchs of the Hawaiian
islands, is dead at Honolulu, as the
result of an operation, blood poison
ing having set in. Judge Wilcox was
noted authority on the Hawaiian
language, and was thoroughly versed
in the history and law of the islands.
A dispatch from Sidney states that
Capt. Howard Blackburn, who set out
some time ago on voyage from Glou-
cester, Mass, to Havre, France, in a
l7-foot dory, and who was reported by
the schooner Colonia, expressing his
determination to persevere in his trip,
put in at Louisburg, c. B., Monday,
badly used up and thoroughly discour-
aged.
The mosquitoes are so thick at Mount
Clair, N. j., that the women, to es-
cape torture, have adopted a novel plan
to keep the pests away. They decorate
their heads with Chinese joss sticks,
after first lighting them, and SO guard
their walk abroad in comfort The
fad has grown so that the storekeepers
do bigger business in punk than in
refreshing drinks.
The unknown Boston man who Satur-
day sent the treasury department five
500 bills in an unregistered letter tot
be deposited in the conscience fund
Sunday sent a second contribution of
the same amount in the same way.
The handwriting of the accompanying
notes indicates him to be business
man, and it is Supposed he is an i'm
porter who has defrauded the customs. |
DR.. A. j. Peters, chief of the state
cattle bureau, was advised Tuesday by |
Dr. E. w. Salmon, chief of the cattle |
department of the United |
States department of agriculture, that /
he foot and mouth disease apparently /
las been stamped out, so far as the |
,attle in Massachusetts were concern
ID. DR.. Salmon says that it will prob
IDLY be possible to entirely raise the
in Massachusetts within a
hort time.
Thomas G. Barker, who was SEN
enced to five years in state prison for
hooting the Rev. John Keller of Ar
ington, N. j., was paroled by the
Soard of Pardons at a session held in
ersey City Monday. He was convict
d in Hudson county in June, 1901,
fter a sensational trial. 1t was said,
ut not admitted as testimony, that
'arker had been prompted to shoot the
lev. Mr.. Keller because the latter as
aulted Mrs. Barker.
A Stamford, Conn, man has discov-
red that a certain musical note raised
} great number of vibrations per
scond will result in the sudden and
omplete paralysis of the mosquito. !
is claimed by the discoverer that not {
My does the intensified note arrest /
lie insect in its flight or hurl it from
eiling or wall, but also, because of |
range construction of the mosquitoes
lditory system, it causes it to plunge 1
ward the spot whence the music is 7
les.
Frederick W. Ames, former superin !
tie colonel of the Thirteen Minnesota
,lunteers. was taken to the peniten. 7
airy Tuesday to serve sentence of
X and half years imposed upon him
r accepting bride of sl5 from the Q
seper of disorderly house while act I
g in an official capacity during the t
of his brother, DR.. A. U
Ames, the former mayor of Mime !
,olis, who has been sentenced to serve a
six-year term in prison on similar II
large. The supreme court has upheld a
e lower court which convicted the Z
rmef cnle1 OF pOllce.
The big tent Endeavor, where the r
hristian Endeavor convention has I,
zen held in Denver was blown over n
onday afternoon, more than 5000 u
,ople being in the tent at the time. a
ne injured numbered more than
ore, but fortunately none of them h
as seriously hurt. Mrs. Jessie M. n
1ornburg of Denver was the most Sc 7
ously injured. Her nose was badly a
shed and she suffered several scalp 8,
FUNDS The presence of mind of A. n
Ramsey of Chicago, who sprang to D
chair and called to the people to o
I'D up the canvass and the poles, un il
ubtedly prevented many from suffo- n
ting. AS it was, many women faint il
and were extricated from the folds ii
the canvass with much difficulty. r
The New York police are investigat- IL
g the death of Charles W. Roxbury, c.