Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-31


at the Dodge City siding on the Chi
cago Great Western railroad Sunday,
and four men were killed, and about p
or 30 passengers injured.
The fifth anniversary of the Ameri
can occupation of Porto Rico was cele
brated Saturday as holiday. There
was ball that night, at which the
governor was present. The natives
Joined heartily in the celebration.
A cigarette manufacturing company
that offered premiums to smokers has
awarded prize for 10000 coupons to a
16-year- old Woonsocket, r. l., boy.
The company withheld the name of the
boy, and, when sending him the award,
the treasurer remarked: "If you smoke
10, 200 more cigarettes you will win a
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:: That the United States probably
leads the world in exports is shown by
statement presented by the depart
ment of CONNER ce and labor through
its bureau of statistics. During the
year ending June 30, 1903, the total
exports of the United States amount
ed to 81, 1892, 0S7, S72.
The steamship Mongolia, built for
the Pacific Mail steamship company,
was launched Monday at Camden, n.
j. The Mongolia is the second larg-
est ship ever built in the United States.
She is to be used in the Philippine
and China trade. Her sister ship, the
Hancharia, will be launched in Octo-
Der.
Mr.. and Mrs. Patrick Kane of Plain
field, N. j., have a daughter, Flor
ence, four and a half years old, who is
a linguistic wonder. She can speak
and write the Polish, Italian, French
and German languages almost as flu
emily as English. Her father, who is
contractor, frequently employs her as
an interpreter.
In the presence of diplomats, foreign
and American naval officers and promi-
nent citizens of Philadelphia, the Turk
ish cruiser Mediidla, the first war ship
ever built at Philadelphia for the OF
toman Empire, was launched Monday
at Cramps's shipyard. The sponsor
for the new addition to the sultan's
navy was Mrs. Edwin S. Cramp.
The war department has ordered Gov
Taft of the Philippines to sell the
stock of minor coins found in the treas
ury at Manila when the Americans
took possession of that city. The face
value of that coin is s131. 5S2 Spain
has filed formal claim for the coin on
the ground that il was movable public |
property and was within the schedule |
of effects that she might, under au
thority of the treaty of peace, have re-
moved with the other property that |
she did not remove
Antonio Minaco. a Chicago chemist, /
announces that he has found a chemi- |
cal which will decompose water into
its constituents at trifling cost. Heat
and gas will be 400 times cheaper, he
asserts. He says: | have been expert
for three years and believe l
have arrived at success. Some little
additional work is necessary, but my
end practically has been attained. l
cannot tell you what the chemical
process is, for that would be revealing
my secret, but the world will get the
results before long. The process will
make light and heat 400 times cheap
er than they are at present. That in
= nutshell gives the result Of my
work"
Two killed and 90 wounded, the po-
ice station wrecked. the county Jail
with few of its windows left unshat-
,ered, the city in the hands OF the
state troops, and a feeling of uneasi-
less and dread prevailing everywhere,
S the situation left by the race riots
" Saturday night and Sunday morning |,
It Danville, III. The 200 soldiers, it
S believed, will prevent further out
lie {Nr hn Mt oil
# these will be on duty all the time
,een expected by them for long time,
raj years between the negroes and p,
'er of minor outbreaks have occurred ,
uring the past year. :
The mystery of the sounds like the c
of guns which have been v
card for century by residents along Y
be shores of Seneca lake, N. Y, and t
hitch have come to be known as the i
Seneca lake guns" has been solved II
Y William Prosser of Dresden. Mr.. e
rosser says that while he was fishing e
riday night at Long Point he struck
match to light his pipe. The blaz- n
Dc of the match was Immediately fol- Il
wed by flash and deafening roar.
he next thing that Mr. Prosser knew b
as that he and his boat were flying b
trough the air, and that he landed Il
mong trees on the shore 100 yards dis
mt in bruised and bleeding condi- o
on. Mr.. Prosser says his match Il
ynited on of the gums, F." which are a
othing more or less than natural gas
'suing through the water from SUBJ IL