Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-30
THE WNDHAM COUNTY REFoRNER FRIDAY JANUARY 80, 1908

President Nord has granted amnesty
to over 100 Haytian exiles in Jamaica,
excluding, however, the followers OF
M. Firmin, the leader of the recent
revolution, who was defeated by Gen.
Nord About 80 of these are in bad cir
cumstances and appealing for help
The political situation in Santo Do
mingo is unsettled.
A salary increase amounting. in the
aggregate to nearly half million dol
lars a year has been granted to the
teaching force of the Chicago public
schools by the Board of Education.
Every teacher in the graded and pri-
mary schools has an advance in salary
of $50 per year, and all the higher
teachers have been returned TO the old
salary schedule, in force prior to the
five per cent reduction of last year.
The Biddeford, Me-, smallpox hospi
tai burned Sunday. The flames spread
so rapidly that 36 men, women and
children, patients, were forced to es-
cape in their night clothes, with the
mercury several degrees below zero
All suffered terribly from the exposure
while one of them, the sickest patient
in the hospital, is expected to die. The
patients we're outdoors without shelter
an hour before the fire was known In
the town.
The first break in the ranks of the
Lynn shoe factory strikers was made
Monday when the women stltchers OF
the Watson Shoe Co. returned to work.
The manufacturers have petitioned
- IL. - I,a .pht re nj Ign-
Dor be restrained from interfering with
imported help and IL manufacturers
using the boot and shoe workers union
stamps have issued statement indors-
ing the boot and shoe workers union
in the fight being made against 1T by
the shoe workers protective union.
In the Gonzales inquest in the court
house at Columbia, S. c., Thursday
the jury, in five minutes, found that
n. G. Gonzales died from gunshot
wound inflicted at the hand of James
II. Tillman, Jan. 10. Senator Talbird
of Beaufort, who was with Iillman
when the shooting occurred, TESTIFIED
that when Gonzales approached within
10 or 10 feet, Tillman said, How are
you, Mr.. Gonzales?' Mr.. Gonzales
made no reply but turned to the left
from Tillman, with his hands in his
overcoat pockets. AS he reached a
point almost on line with Tillman
and Talbird Tillman said, 81 received
your message" and fired almost in
stantly.
Prof. William Dunbar of st. Paul,
Mimi, now head of the famous hyglen-
c institute at Hamburg, has discover
ed cure for hay fever. He says the
disease is caused by the pollens OF
grasses. He made his discovery through
being victim to the disease himself.
Rye pollens, he. says, contain sub,
stance which dissolves in the blood
and acts on hay fever patients as a
specific, violent poison. The cure is
toxin made of serum, taken from rab-
bits. 1t is obtained by inoculating
these animals with poison extracted
from pollens of various kinds. The pa
tiept remains indoors from six to eight
weeks. with closed windows, during
which time he is treated with the Sc
rum.
Admiral Makarov, the designer of
the successful icebreaker Ermak, which
keeps the Neva open to st. Petersburg
the greater part of the winter, hopes
sometime to reach the North Pole by
means of his pet vessel. He thinks the
Ermak is better adapted to withstand
an ice squeeze than any wooden ship,
and in its special work of breaking
through ice fields is more successful in
operating upon the continuous fields
found in extreme north ATTITUDES than
against the more mobile ice nearer
home. Admiral Makarov did not sue
coed in getting very far north upon his
last expedition, but he brought back a
very valuable collection of photog raphs
and specimens of the fora and fauna
of the Arctic regions
An invention, the work of the late
Prof Elisha Gray, who claimed to be
the inventor of the telephone, and Ar
thur j. Mundy, has just been thor
oughly tested on the Gloucester, Mass.
fishing banks. 1t may be the means oil
saving the lives of hundreds of fisher
men who are shut out in the fog from
their vessels. and who perish on the
banks from cold and hunger because
they cannot find their ship, and those
on board their vessel are unable to To-
cate the men. The basic principle is
the fact that sound will travel under
water. A bell is used, being submerged
and then struck. The sound through
the medium of water is carried to de-
tector, placed on the vessels side, by
which the position can be located.
Henry Nj. Teller was re- elected U. 5.
senator by the joint assembly of Colo
RADIO at Denver Saturday night after a
fierce contest The election was only
accomplished by bringing sick repre-
sentative in an ambulance, from his
home He completed the quorum of 81
members and Mr.. Teller was elected.
Last week Governor Peabody was re.
ouested to call out the militia forces OF
| the state in order to seat seven Repub
| lican senators declared to be wrongful
ly excluded from their places. The
| Senate was divided into two organiza
tions. both sides determined to force
issues. Thursday the capitol had
warlike aspect, armed men being post
ed in the house and strong guard o.
policemen at all entrances to the sen
ate chamber. On every desk was pail
of revoIvers and in corners stood man!
shotguns.
In his annual report to the miners
convention at Indianapolis last weel
John Mitchell, president of the union
reviewed the coal strike aud expressed
! his confidence in the anthracite Goa
strike commission. He denounced
government by injunction as one o
the worst of the methods resorted t.
by the enemies of workingmen to de
stroy labor again and to circumven
+ha constitutional RIGHT of trial b,