Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-02

\ hundred races ana the champion OF
score on half-mile tracks. beat tn
Dan Patch, at the Empire track, Ne,
York, Wednesday. He went mil
in 1.57.
: Commissioner Richards of the gener
) al land office, Washington, has name
Nov. 10. next, at a. M, as the dat
of opening to settlement 100000 acre
of ceded Chippewa lands In Mime
, sofa, recently segregated from the tim
! Der land Of that reservation.
J. II. Tillman, former lieutenant
governor of South Carolina, was ar
raigned in circuit court for Lexington
county Monday. the indictment charg
ing the murder of N. G. Gonzales edi'
tor of the Columbia State. Tillmar
entered a plea of not guilty. Tive
hundred witnesses are to be called.
The national conference of Unitar.
ian and other Christian churches was
held in Atlantic City, N. j., last week
Carroll d. Wright, United States labor
commissioner. was unanimously re-
elected president. and Rev. Walter F.
Greenman of WATERFOWL, Mass, was
re- elected secretary.
Booker T. Washington is broken
down by overwork and, upon his ply
sician's advice, sails for Europe this
week for two months rest.
He has closed his summer home
at Weymouth, Mass. and Mrs.
Washington will take care of his work
at Tuskegee. He will do no lecturing
abroad.
The Cunard liner Lucania which ar
rived at New York recently from Liv-
erpool was in wireless communication
all the way across the Atlantic and Is
the first vessel to have this distinction.
She sent and received messages from
the Aurania, Campania, Moltek, Vad-
erland, Saxonia, Philadelphia, La
Bretagne, Auguste Victoria, La Tor
raine and st. Louis
The Shamrock l. with which Sir
Thomas Upton began his campaign for
the American cup, was purchased from
the Irish knight by Mr.. George de Pin
ma of New York last week. The price
was not made public. II Mr.. de Pima
yawl or schooner for cruising he
will use her as a yacht. If not she
will be broken up and sold as metal.
Thousands have fed from the yellow
fever at Laredo, Tex. Two deaths
and IL new cases were reported Sun
day The city is quarantined in all
directions. In other Texas counties
a shot gun quarantine has been estab-
lished and all are turned back who are
trying to get away. Monterey and
Tampico, Mex, have several cases of
the dread disease.
Orders for a restriction of the anthra-
cite coal output has affected many OF
the collieries in the Pennsylvania
mines. over 100000 tons of coal
have been mined since January i,
which is several million tons more than
was ever produced for like period in
the history of the mining industry. The
present glut in the market and the eff
forts to prevent break in prices is the |
cause of the restriction.
The New York police Monday morn
ing had two supposed murder cases !
on their hands The body OF dead |
boy IS years of age, was found lying |
under a pile of canvas in Pier 49, East |
River. Signs of foul play were APP
The body of dead man,
about 40 years old was found in
business wagon in vacant lot on
West 55th street. The head was COW
cred with bandage.
The republican and citizens union
at New York last week
Wednesday night, nominated Seth Low
for mayor of the city. Monday Lewis
Nixon declared himself candidate
for the democratic nomination. He
named the issues of the campaign as
police blackmail and the mercenary
spirit which breeds dishonesty in the
public service, and said that to them
nay be charged all the party's recent
oss of prestige.
General Ola, leader of a band of in
which has been creating con-
siderable trouble in the province of AL
,ana, Lnzon, has surrendered to the
american troops with twenty eight Of
icers and men of his command He has
llso promised to turn over all the arms =,
belonging to his band without delay. :
rhe hemp industry, of which ALBANIA is
he main center, has been seriously af-
ected by the Instruction, of which
)la has been the chief support
Daniel Green Burner 80 years old, a "
oyhood friend and companion of I
abraham Lincoln, died Friday in =
everal years at the Burner home, in I
Jew Salem. and was for time room
nate of Daniel Burner. Mr.. Burner
Lincoln reading late at Il
light by a tallow candle light, his d
Jerking in the New Salem store and e
is bouts with the village DULLES, Il
HON he taught with his great ply I
ical and mental strength, to have the d
respect for him. Z
While running at high rate of
peed the south bound fast mail on the
outhern railway jumped from a tres II
e, rs feet high. half a mile north of e
Va, Sunday. Nine of the e
rev were killed and seven injured. n
he injured are all mail clerks and all q
re in a serious condition The tres l.
e where the accident occurred Is 500 u
let wide and on a sharp curve. The o.
ngineer was a new man on the divis- IL
m. The engine and five cars were u
mashed to bits. All the matter in II
lie express cars was practically de- CO
royed except six crates of canary
rds, none of which was hurt.
fc
The ports of Boston and Portland .
ay now ship cattle direct to British OF
,nters the British government having n
moved the embargo against cattle n
ON the New England states. This re
nbargo was placed because of the g
ot and month disease last November ia
I'd has been strictly maintained. This re
rtually killed the cattle trade of New III
ngland SO far as foreign shipments "a
ere concerned, and Montreal has pi
Gifted lavishly in consequence, the te
ipments during the open season this D!
ar being double those for the same