Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-18

Theresa Vaughn the actress who To-
several years has been suffering from
mental disease In the Worcester, Mass.
insane hospital, is dying from paresis
She was the first of a family of 1:
children to go on the stage and she
brought out all her brothers and sisters
The second anniversary Of the death
of President Mckinley was observed ir
many places Monday by the display OF
his favorite flower, the carnation. The
Mckinley statue the first memorial to
the late president erected in Ohio was
unveiled at Toledo.
Mrs. Georgia S. Hatcher, of Wash
ington, d. c., corresponding secretary
of the Daughters of American Revolu-
ton and a prominent club woman. is
dead at Chicago. She was formerly
vice president of the d. A. R., and had
filled the position Of historian and re-
corder.
The warehouse on the plantation of
the Connecticut Valley Tobacco corpo-
ration in Poquonock, containing the
company's entire 1902 crop of shade
grown Sumatra tobacco, was totally
destroyed by fire early Thursday morn
ing. The loss is estimated at $4,000;
insurance $37,5O0. The fire is believed
to have been incendiary.
With delegates present from II
states west of the Mississippi river, the
18th session of the national irrigation
congress opened at Ogden, Utah, Tues
day. The session will continue until
day, and during that time much i'm
portant action is expected to be taken
looking toward the reclamation Of the
vast unsettled territories of the west.
Anthracite coal to the amount of
5,160,400 tons was produced in the
Pennsylvania coal regions during Au-
gust, which is about the same as the
previous month. Compared with
August, 1902, when the coal strike was
in progress, it is an increase of 1885,
623 tons. Company officials say that no
material reduction in output will be
made this month there has been no
overproduction and the brief period of
dulness is due to consumers having
purchased their supplies in the spring
instead of in late summer.
Secretary Hitchcock of the interior
has invited Charles Joseph Bonaparte
to take charge of the investigation of
certain Indian territory affairs and Of
ficials under the jurisdiction of the de-
partment. The scope of the investiga-
ton, 1t is said, will be sufficiently COM
prehensive to embrace all statements
within the knowledge of the depart
ment, including all that have appeared
in the public press, and all other mat
ters that may at any time come to the
notice of the investigating officials,
which in any way reflect upon the Of
cial character conduct or acts of the
for the Indian territory.
The national w C. T. u. has begun
It's campaign for the expulsion of Sena- |
tor Reed Smoot of Utah from the Unit
ed States senate. Ten thousand letters /
are being sent from the national |
headquarters at Evanston to the local |
branches all over the country, with |
blank forms for petitions asking that
he senate investigate the charges
made and filed against Smoot, and says,
If it be found that he is a polygamist,
We ask that he be expelled from the
senate as violator of the laws of his
,wn state" The petitions will read,
further, the Mormon church claims
md teaches supreme authority, divine
y sanctioned, to control its members in
civil as we'll as religious affairs"