Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-05-08

come direct from Manila will probably
pass between Gov. Taft and the presi-
dent.
The jury in the case of James How
ard, on trial for the murder Of Gov.
William Goebel OF Kentucky, Saturday
found the defendant guilty and liked
the punishment at life imprisonment.
The fine of $500 imposed on Motor
man Euclid Madden of Springfield,
Mass wi b a sentence of six months
for manslaughter in having caused the
death Of William Craig, President
Roosevelt's bodyguard, was paid Sat
urday by the Pittsfield Electric Street
Railway company.
At the invitation OF William Zeigler,
the National Geographic society Will
send representative with the Zeigler
Arctic expedition as chief of the sclen-
tiiic staff. The society has appointed
william j. Peters OF the United States
geological survey as its representative.
In 1901 he made the trip with dog sleds
Of over Loo miles in Arctic Alaska.
The child labor bill known as the
Marshall law has gone into effect
throughout South Carolina. Under its
provisions no child under 10 can legal
ly work in any cotton mill. An excep-
ton is made by the law where the la.
Dor OF children under the prescribed
age is absolutely necessary to the sup
port of widowed mother or helpless
father.
Bishop John Fletcher Hurst of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at
Washington Monday morning. He was
stricken with paralysis in London last
September, a year ago, when attending
the ecumenical conference. The news
of President McKinley's assassination
Frustrated him and the shock brought
on rapidly the decline that finally end
ed in his death.
Bishop Randolph S Foster of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died at
Newton, Mass. Friday, aged 50 years
He sustained stroke of apoplexy last
December. He had been president OF
the Northwestern University at Evans
ton, Ill. and of Drew Theological SEM
mary at Madison, N. j.. and was elect
ed bishop in May, 1872. He was the
author of a number of books on theol-
ogy.
A gale of wind, hurricane in nature,
swept over Berkshire, Mass. Friday
demolished buildings, played havoc
with telegraph poles and wires, and
caused a damage which will exceed
$4,000. The chief damage was done
at the terminal of the Hoosac Valley
St. Ry. Co., where one Of the three car
barns was RACED without a moments
warning. Mrs. Peter Gallagher was
knocked down and seriously injured.
According to information received in
Washin gton a special session of the
Danish legislature is likely to be called
by King Christian in June for the pur-
pose of ratifying the treaty for the sale
of the Danish islands OF st. Thomas
aud Santa Cruz to the United States.
A special commission visited the IS
lands and now, reports tina. 1t would be
wise thing to sell them, as their
maintenance costs the government
about 500, 900 year.
A day of merry making and celebra-
ton by 1,5OO Polish excursionists from
Toledo was brought to close by a
frightful catastrophe in Detroit, Mich.
Sunday evening in which at least six
of the excursionists were killed. The
excursiopists were waiting for theiI
train back to Toledo and had crowded
onto the tracks when suddenly from
out of the darkness came the Grand
Trunk Chicago and New York express,
known as the Pan-American flyer. l,
plowed through the mass OF people,
throwing them to both sides OF thu
track bruised and MANNED, and grind
ing number of them under the wheels.
During the absence of Father Reich
lin. a Catholic priest, from home al
Lorraine, o., Thursday night his sistel
who kept house for him was murdered
by an unknown man who entered hel
room and crushed her skull with 1
stone, which was found at her bedside
Rev. Ferdinand Waller, 81, Of Toledo
who was Father Reichlin's guest ha:
been arrested on suspicion. Fatnel
Waller says he heard screams from tint
room occupied by the girl, and that hi
gained the hallway just in time to SCI
a man disappearing through an oper
window. Bloodhounds were secured
and after getting the scent went to tn
room occupied by the priest. They als'
led the officers to St Joseph's hosplta
where Father Waller slept Frida,
night. Father Reichlin at the services
Sunday morning denounced the au
thorities for the arrest of Father Wal
ger.
Prof. Stephen N. Babcock of thu
chair of Agricultural chemistry and in
yentor of the Babcock milk test, an
nounced before meeting of the Uni
yersity Science club as the result of 2
wears of research, a theory of atomi
energy that is revolutionary in tn
scientific world In brief, it is tina
the weight of any substance is effected
by the molecular changes which 1t un
dergoes. This, reduced to logical Sc
auence, practically overthrows the oil
atomic theory, and the theory of con
servation of matter, leading irresisti
bly to the idea that all atoms are prlm
arily identical and that the ditferenc
in weight of different elements is du
to the difference in their energy. Ihi
theory according to Babcock would OF
fer a satisfactory explanation OF tn
law of gravitation. Prof. Comstock
director of Washburn observatory, said
"Prof. Babcock's theory will be tn
most notable contribution to science
the last 80 years.
Thursday was a gala day in ST
Louis, when thousands of people gath
cred for the dedication ceremonies Q
the Louisiana Purchase Exposition
which is to celebrate the bargain mad
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