Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-08-28

fused to pay. Count Larisch- Mon.
Mich belongs to the Austrian nobility
Shareholders lost $25.000,O00 in the
schemes of Promoter Whitaker
Wright, now on trial at London, and
who controlled all the financial opera
tions of the companies. He faces the
charges against him with an air Of
undisturbed confidence.
The congregation Of the Propaganda
at Rome has decided to propose tC
Pope Plus that he appoint Right Rev
Francis Bourne, bishop of Southwark
England, as archbishop of Westmins-
ter in succession to the late Arch
bishop Vaughan.
Dispatches from Zunguru, Northern
Nigeria, dated Aug. II, give details OF
the destruction of the town of Burnt
by British force Of thirty whites and
500 native rank and file. The enemy's
loss was 700 killed, including the ex-
sultan of Sokoto and majority of the
chiefs. The British loss was eleven
men killed. including one officer, and
sixty-two men wounded.
The Italian consul was recently in
suited by Turkish soldiers at Monastir
who called him a 'graour" GnfideD.
The Italian embassy notified the porte
that it will hold it responsible for any
injury which may be done to the con-
sui and demands the punishment of
those who insulted him. The porte
promises satisfaction and the punish
ment of the soldiers and also the Of
ficers who failed to intervene between
the soldiers and the consul.
Between 40 and so persons were
burned to death in four story build
ing at Budapest, Hungary, Tuesday
night. Fifteen persons were saved by
jumping into fire nets. Many in jump
ing missed the nets, 10 being killed in
this way. Sixteen others We're mortal
ly and nine seriously injured. Several
buildings near by caught fire, but the
firemen extinguished the flames in
these before heavy damage had been
done The damage is estimated at
100000 kronen: mostly covered by
insurance.
Princess Louise of Coburg, the eld-
est daughter of the king of the Bel
gians now broken in health. has been
released from the Lindenhof private
lunatic asylum at Dresden, SaXony,
where she was secretly placed five
years ago in order to separate her
from her lover, Hungarian lieutenant
named Geza Won Mattatich If she was
insane she has recovered her reason,
and the government inspectors could
not refuse her request for liberation,
although King Leopold exerted every
possible influence through the Saxon
court to prevent her release.
The president is to take immediate
action on the charges against the men,
bers of he Dawes commission who
have made a business of dealing in
leases of Indian lands. The report is
current that the president will remove
the commission.
For ten days. beginning Friday, the
army and navy are engaged in mimic
war. A theoretically hostile fleet
sailed from the tropics to attack Port
land Me. and when it arrived, the
army of defense repealed the attack.
Maiden. A. r. Chaffee is in COM
mand of the land forces and Rear
A. S. Barker of the enemy"
Ell Siboney cigarette factory, the larg-
est factory of it's kind in Cuba, was
burned Monday. All the leading |
brands of cigarettes manufactured by |
the So called tobacco trust are made by |
this factory and 1t is said 10 have been |
the model factory Of the world. 1t is |
believed the loss will exceed s250,000. |
fully covered by insurance. A thous
and or more employees will be thrown |
out of employment.
The wireless telegraph system of |
Tuesdays yacht race off |
Sandy Hook, N. Y. proved failure.
There We're four competing systems,
three of which were most active. The
atmosphere above the triangular
fusion, so that the Marconi system.
with all it's careful preparation, was
AVAILABLE but for a single message
throughout the entire day.
The Cayman islands We're devastat-
ID by a hurricane on the evening of
Aug. IL. Many houses were destroyed,
'essels were driven out to sea, all the
rees and crops destroyed and famine
$ imminent. The islands. which be-
ong to Great Britain and are attached
o Jamaica consist of Grand Cayman,
little Cayman and Cayman Brae.
Grand Cayman, the largest island, is
Z miles long and from four to seven
niles broad. The total population of
he islands is 1922. The exports are
ocoanuts and turtles.
Africander, the Hampton stables
hree year-old captured the big Sara
oga Cup race, at a mile and three
quarters, at Saratoga. N. Y, Saturday.
n a manner which stamped him be-
-ond question the best colt of the year
ver a distance of ground. In a ter
fife drive down the stretch with Heno
" his side he won the race by a neck
n the worlds record time of q:
The previous best record for the dis
ance was 2:5S 2-5 made by Latson
With the light weight of 90 pounds, at
Iorris Park, Oct. 10, 1901.
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