Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-02-13
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.

A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE.
New improvements in Wireless Telegraphy-
Next Summers Naval Manoeuvres- Street
Car Strike in Montreal-For Sunday School
Reform Catholic Census Figures Advance
of Freight Rates on Coal Product.
Mrs. E. Y. Ellsworth, IS. the oldest
child of Brigham Young, the Mormon
leader, is dead at Salt Lake City, Utah.
She was born in Port Byron, n. Y,
and accompanied her husband across
the plains with the second company of
Mormons in 1S47.
Gen. Lukban, the former irreconcl-
able rebel leader in Samar, who sur
rendered few months ago, has pub
lished an open letter protesting against
the testimony given in favor of Major
Glenn during the recent court martial,
which accused Lukban of cruelties to
American soldiers. He denies it all.
A national organization for the ref
ormation of the American Sunday
school along modern educational lines,
and the general improvement of rellg-
ious education through all agencies,
will be effected at convention at Chi
cago this week. 1t is designed to ill
the place in religious education that
the National Education association
does in secular.
| Emperor William of Germany has
decided to send the delegation to
Washington with the Frederick the
Great statue about June l. Ambassa-
dor Tower will come week or two be-
forehand, so as to be in Washington
to assist in receiving the emperor s
representatives. The pedestal will be
made in Berlin from drawings OF the
bronze statue at the Hermitage, Pots
dam, and will be sent with the statue.
Prof. p. II. Clark, accused of at
| tempted murder for the alleged pois-
oning of well at Assonet, Mass. Sept.
% last. has been declared sane and
will have to stand trial Prof Clark,
who is a graduate of Harvard. civil
engineer, an expert mathematician, a
former college professor in Kansas, a
high school teacher in Upton and an
expert machinist, capable of earning a
large salary claims to be the victim of
conspiracy.
Arrangements have been practically
completed by the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union for the observance
of memorial day in honor of Miss Fran
ces Willard Feb. II. The day is to be
universally observed by the 300, 00o
constituents of the Woman's Christian
Temperance Union in the United States
and the 200, 600 constituents in Eng
land. 1t is expected very large sums
of money will be contributed to the
Willard memorial fund.
Signor Marcon announces that he
has almost perfected an apparatus to
measure the distance between snip al
sea and station on land. This Will
be accomplished by means OF NOV
able disk. which will be affected by
the current from the ship. The disk
will have stationary marks, which VIII
thus register the exact distance from
ship to shore Stations will be estab
lished all along the ST. Lawrence river
and Gulf to Belle Isle to test the sys-
tenn.
The suicide on Jan. 80 is reported
from Colon of the former Colombian
revolutionary general, Tribe Tribe.
After his surrender to the Colombian
authorities he performed valuable ser
vices for the Colombian government,
inducing various guerilla chieftains TO
desist in their opposition to the gov
eminent and to surrender. Subsequent
" he went to Bogota and was cordially
received. He was less than 40 years OF
age, a brilliant fighter and was long
a thorn in the side of Colombia.
Mrs. Lille Hall Peck. wife of Prof.
Tracy Peck of Yale college, New Ha-
ven, disappeared Thursday while mel
ancholy and respondent from the ef'
fects of the grip. Friday morning the
entire student body of Yale, $500, was
organized into searching parties to
scour the country. Mrs. Peck's bod!
was found half an hour later upor
the rocks at Morris Cove, Fort Hale
Park. four miles from the campus,
where she had fallen or leaped over q
60 foot cliff. Her skull was fractured
In consequence of the wreck al
Graceland. on the New Jersey Contra
railroad, recently, in which more thar
a score of persons were killed, the
adoption of an entire set of new ano
revised rules to govern the despatch
ing and operation of passenger ahS
freight trains on the joint Reading
New Jersey Central system has beer
decided upon at meeting OF all Iht
operating officers on both roads to be
come operative on March |. They are
made to conform in every respect anc
detail with the latest operating rules
now recommended as the best and SAT
est standard by the American Railwa,
association.