Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-01
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BRIEF RESUME OF The NEWS VI me
EASTERN OR OLD WORLD.
Eucalyptus Cure for Consumption Anti &c.
mitic Riots in Russia-Phosphorus Forbid
den In Match Making Slaughter Of Bashi.
Bazouks in Macedonia Prussia Expels Nor
mon Missionaries.
The various plants belonging to the
iron works of the late Herr krupp in
Germany have been merged into s40,-
GOO, 600 Joint stock company called the
Friedrich Krupp Co.
The reconstruction OF the famous
campanile of st. Mark, which fell to
the ground July IA, 1902, after stand
ing for over 1000 years, was begun at
Venice Saturday by the laying Of the
foundation stone by the Count of Turin
representing King Victor Emmanuel.
Anti-Semitic riots occurred at Kis-
hineff, the capital of Bessarabia, APR.
20, when workmen organized an attack
on the Jewish inhabitants. Twenty.
five Jews were killed and 275 wounded,
many fatally. Special measures Will be
adopted to restore order Bessarabia Is
province in southwestern Russia.
A band of Macedonians recently sur
rounded and slaughtered 40 Bashi Ba-
zouks and Is gendarmes near Petritch,
Macedonia, out of revenge for the muir
der of their leader, Capt. Satff, who
was recently killed in an engagement
in the district OF Melnik. The band
subsequently captured the district
chief Of Petritch and 25 soldiers whom
they stripped and released.
In the Reichstag at Berlin Thursday
law was passed forbidding the use of
white or yellow phosphorus in match
making after Jan. /, 1908. 1t was ar
gued by friends of the bill that phos-
phorus vapor has a ruinous effect on
the human bone system; that it causes
necrosis sometimes three or four years
after workman has left the match
factory and is hereditarily transmitted
to descendants of the men. So subtle
are the effects of the vapors that bones
are fractured without the person be-
ing aware of the fracture at first.
Captain Rost, of the military medi-
cal service, who has been investigating
malignant cancers bacteriologically at
the Rangoon hospital Simla, India, for
to be an important discovery. He has
found in both carcinomata and sarco-
mata cancers distinct germs of saccha-
romycetis which can only develop when
the natural chlorine in the tissures
falls below the normal quantity. Fol
lowing this clue, Captain Rost devised
treatment to reinforce the chlorine
by special diet, enabling large quaint
ii hi a N
chlorine to be absorbed. His expert
ments have been successful.
The German medical profession Is
| investigating a new consumption cure
which consists of the inhalation of
vapor produced by heating mixture
of eucalyptus oil, sulphur and char
coal, and it is stated that it is more
effective than any serum or other rem
edy hitherto tried Robert Schneider,
druggist of Berlin, conceived the
idea while travelling in parts of Aus
tralia where the eucalyptus tree grows
luxuriantly. Consumption is practi-
cally unknown among the inhabitants
of these districts, and sufferers from
the disease who go there speedily inn
prove. Experiments with this cure
have been highly successful.
In the German Reichstag Friday II
was suggested, in connection with the
recent shooting of Artilleryman Hart
mann by Naval Cadet Hussener that
the regulations regarding carrying
arms by cadets or soldiers on leave be
changed in order to prevent the recur'
renee of similar crimes. This sugges'
ton was strongly objected to, the ad'
miralty secretary protesting earnestly
against generalizing the case. 1t was
explained that Hussener was very ex'
citable man, cruel to his subordinates.
without self-control and unpopular
with his comrades. The view pre-
vailed among the population that sol
diers were trained to such concep-
ton of their instructions as Hussenel
exhibited.
The governments of Prussia and OF
the grand duchy of Mecklenburg have
decided to expel the Mormon mission
aries, of whom there are l4o in Ger.
many and 80 in Prussia, on the GROUND
that they are propagating form of re
ligious belief Incompatible with the
laws of the state and public morals,
and because polygamy is not excluded
from their doctrines. The mission
aries, who are all Americans, will be
allowed sufficient time to settle W
their personal affairs. They will ap'
neal to the Kaiser to remain IN Ger
many. Peter Lantesac. German nat
uralized in Utah, first organized mis-
sionary work in Germany in 1896. ne
was succeeded in 1S9, as so-calleo
bishop, by Arnold Schultheiss, Swiss
naturalized in Utah, who directed 1U
missionaries. Hugh J. Cannon re-
placed him in 1900, and the latter has
steadily increased the number of Nor,
mon teachers and has nearly doubled
the membership, which is now 1900.