Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-11-13

| GERS and 55,055 enlisted men.
Victor and Robert Mckay, the two
sons Of Gordon Mckay inventor and
proprietor of the Mckay sewing ma
chine, are practically cut off by their
| fathers will from all share in his es-
tate, while Harvard university will
eventually receive the entire estate,
valued at several millions of dollars the
interest of the fund to be used to pro-
mote applied science.
! The marriage of Miss May Goelet
the only daughter of Mrs. Ogden Goe-
let, and one of the richest American
heiresses to Henry John Innes Ker
eighth duke of Roxburghe, was solemn
lied Tuesday at st. Thomas church,
New York city. Bishop William Cros-
well Doane of Albany, assisted by the
Rev. Ernest M. Stires of St. Thomas
church, performed the ceremony, which
a company of $50 guests witnessed.
A loss that cannot be estimated on
a monetary basis was caused by fire
at st. Louis. which Saturday, destroyed
one of the finest orchid collections in
the world besides other valuable and
rare plants in the Missouri Botanical
(Shaw's) gardens. Four hothouses
were ruined by the fire, which was
caused by an overheated furnace pipe
in the boiler room. Several of the
plants destroyed are said to be the only
ones of their kind in the world.
Gov. Toole of Montana Tuesday af-
ternoon called a special session of the
Legislature to meet in December at
Helena to pass laws to relieve the in
dustrial condition in Montana caused
by the shutting down of the Amalga- |
mated Copper company's properties !
whereby 10000 persons were thrown
out of work. The aim of the session |
is to pass law whereby mining cases
may be taken from one court to anoth
er when the judge in the initial court |
is shown to be prejudced.
While students of the agricultural
college at the Ohio State university
were witnessing the harvesting of field
of corn for ensilage purposes by ma
chine operated by an old traction en-
CINE the boiler blew up and pieces of
iron tore through the crowd of students.
The force of the explosion was terrific
and was felt through all the university
buildings Charles Paper, the en-
gineer. was killed John Delgam, assist
ant engineer, fatally injured and seven
other persons were injured.
The epidemic of diphtheria at the
New York state reformatory now num-
bers 80 inmates among its victims and
DR.. Van Dersee, the assistant physician,
is also stricken with the disease.
of the cases are of the
most malignant type Seven hundred of
the fifteen hundred inmates were in
oculated with anti-toxine serum Tues {
day and are regarded as immune The
other inmates were treated with the
serum Wednesday, There have been
two deaths from the disease and two
more are expected to die.
cablegram to the state depart
ment. Washington, from u. S. Minis
ter Beaupre, at Bogota says that Nov.
3, the city was under martial law, the {
u S. legation guarded and that large .
crowds were parading the streets cry .
ing, Down with Marroquin" There :
was mass meeting denouncing the
president and calling for a change of i
government. Hundreds gathered at :
he palace and an orator, prominent ;.
general, called for the resigna
ion of the president The gathering y
was dispersed by troops several peo- =
Die being wounded. There were no ia y
alities. f
It is stated at Washington that it is =
90 late for Colombia to make any eff !,
ort to resurrect the canal treaty with :,
he United States and beyond prevent =
ng a hostile clash between Colombia
md the new republic of Panama, the
proposed visit of General Reyes to
will be without result. The
United States government, having rec \
gnized Panama as an independent d
tate. cannot now proceed to negotiate p
With Colombia on any terms for canal B
lights in the state over which Colombia v
xercises no political control, so any IL
uture canal negotiations will be be- s,
ween the United States government t.
nd the government of Panama. d
The entire male population of An B
rim, N H. has been placed on the n
lacklist by former Gov. d. H. Goodell, r
ne well known temperance reformer, W
tho legally warned the hotel at Hills b,
Bridge, the only place selling la
quor near Antrim, not to sell to any w
lale inhabitant of the place. No one in
exempt ministers, doctors, lawyers, to
nd even Goodelrs own name and the re
ames OF his sons appear in the column to
oodell served notice on the hotel liz
roprietor because Of the authority b
hich he says exists in section Is OF
lie license law A great storm of m
rotest has followed this action. the W
aople of Antrim Directing strenuously.
Commander Peary in a lecture before
lie Royal Geogra phical society at Lon
On Tuesday night said his future da
ans were based on the belief that m
lie Smith sound route was the only at
'acticable one. He wished to win the tn
Die for America because 1t was the ne
st great geographical prize the world Sc
Id to offer, and it was peculiarly an Re
,ject of American pride and patriot mi
m. America was now negotiating an
r the isthmus of Panama. The 9TH tn
natural and logical boundary to her an
'stiny was the nortn pore. ne hopeu err
winning the pole for his country to err
,propriately crown her four centuries de
struggle. heroism and achievement. DR.
CO
Great Labor Convention in Boston. fire.
The twenty third annual convention og