Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-06-05

cSauBeliCdl union urging tnat OPIUM
be entirely excluded from the islands
claiming that its use is spreading ant
working great injury to the Filipinos
Ruperto Rios, the fanatical Filipino
leader in the province Of Tayabas, VIII
was captured about month ago, ha
been convicted OF murder and sen
fenced to death. Twenty seven of hi.
followers were also convicted and wer,
sentenced to various terms of imprison
ment.
The old Bartlett house in Acushnet
Mass. a Revolutionary landmark ant
a fine type Of colonial architecture
was burned to the ground last week.
II was originally built by Bartholomew
West, but was partly burned by the
British when they landed at Clark's
Cove in ITS.
A general strike of textile workers
was inaugurated at Philadelphia Mon
day::involving 90, 600 operatives or the
600 firms At granted the demands of
the union. All of the 63 ingram car
pet mills are idle, affecting directly
5000 weavers and 1000 in the other
departments. AN10 per cent increase is
wanted.
Ebert G. Hubbard, editor of the
Philistine, and known to the literary
world as Fra Elbertus has consented
to settle an action instituted against
him by Lawyer Wayland w. Wood
worth to recover $1,000 for the support
of child of which Alice G. Moore is
the mother and of which Hubbard is
the acknowledged father. The case
will, therefore, not be tried.
State Employment Agent T. b. Ge-
row says Kansas will need at least %,
600 men and 1900 teams for the wheat
harvest. His estimates are made from
every township in the state. There are
no idle men in Kansas, 50 it will be
necessary to import harvest hands.
There is great scarcity of horses and
mules in the state, owing to the fact
that during the Boer war thousands of
Kansas animals were bought by the
British.
The jury at Monticello, n Y, in
in the case of Mrs. Kate Taylor, charged
with killing her husband, Lafayette
Taylor, returned verdict of guilty in
the first degree Sunday. Mrs. Taylor
was sentenced to the death penalty and
her execution set for the week of July
) at Dannemora prison. When asked.
if she had anything to say why SEN
tence should not be passed she said:
Il am innocent: l am not guilty" A
new trial will be applied for by her at
torneys on the ground that 40 impor
tant witnesses for the defense were
thrown out, and on exceptions to the
rulings of the court.
II +ba Tntaroo11an; lot rv,n,ac Gatur
lay at Mott Haven, New York, be-
,ween Yale and Harvard Yale obtained
possession of the cup com
oeted for since 1890. Yale won six
Harvard four, Pennsyl-
,ania four. At the games Saturday
TALE scored 411a points to Harvard's
Il. The contest was the most exciting
md desperately fought this country
las ever seen. The Harvard manage
nent has protested against the decis
on of the judges who placed f. r.
of Yale in second place, ahead
VI Schick of Harvard, in the finals of
he 100-yard dash and the question will
20 to the Intercollegiate committee.
IN their decision as to this final heat
for Harvard depends.
The Presbyterian church of the Unit
ID States in general assembly at Los
angeles, CAL, Thursday finally dis
,osed of the question of revision of
reed, which has been before the last |
General assemblies and which has agi |
ated Presbyterian circles for the past |
5 years. The assembly by unanimous
ote adopted the revision of the con-
ession of faith, as prepared by the
ommittee appointed by the general as
emily in 1901. Beside clearing the
alendar of this important question the
ssembly disposed of the Tennessee
venture, " in regard to separate pres
'yteries in the same territory, which
;as commonly known as the ''colored
uestion," of the Presbyterian church
lso the report of the special commit
ee on divorce and marriage.
Investigation at Montgomery, Ala,
nto the charge of the enforced slavery
t negroes has revealed one death from
Il Treatment and caused the arrest of
n agent, who is accused of plotting
, sell negroes into peonage. Witnesses
efore the federal jury testified that
cath resulted from the punishment &C
orded a negro woman who was held in
ervitude on one of the farms. Because
be could not pile for burning, the
rush cut by dozen axe men, this
oman was laid across log and given
20 lashes. As she still showed a re-
ellious spirit her hands were tied and
ne rope thrown over the limb of the
zee and pulled up so as to leave it
arely possible for her toes to reach
ne ground The woman died two days
tier. F. M. Pruett, liveryman of
oodwater, was arrested, charged with ,
onspiracy to sell Ed Moody, a negro, ,
j, J. W. Pace. /
Harry Elkes, the premier motor pace |
blower of the United States, was t
illed and Will Stinson, another well I
nown pace follower, and F. A. Gate S
;, a well known motor steersmaD, were {
,riously injured in an accident at the {
litial meeting at the new Charles ,
yer track at Cambridge, Mass, Sat ,
rday. The track is five-lap track a
I'D the principal attraction was 20 i
lie motor paced race between Elkes, c
tinson, Walthour and Moran. In the
rst of the 10th mile Elkes' rear tire q
sploded, when on the back stretch !
here the track is banked at an angle =
about 80 degrees He tried to stop :
le machine and in doing so was thrown !
yer the handle bars, his wheel slid !
lg down the steep embankmeDt di a
city in front of Stinson's motor, :
hich was manned by Gately. The :
eavy motor struck Elkes, throwing :
otol,, ,nd tho naobipa cOmpletelv