Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-20

Saturday.
The president has appointed Simon
| N. d. North, chief statistician of man
ufactures in the census bureau, to sue
coed W. r. Merriam as director of the
census.
A crisis is impending in the cotton
manufacturing industry OF Lowell,
| Mass. where strike is threatened IN
the seven corporations. Mill agents and
union committees met for conference
yesterday.
The Shamrock, Sir Thomas Upton
challenger for the Americas cup, was
successfully launched Oh the Clyde, at
Glasgow, Scot, on st. Patrick's day.
1t is pronounced the best boat Sir
Thomas ever built. Lady SALISBURY
christened the new yacht which is
built on entirely novel lines.
The failure of six big importing firms
| in the city of Mexico Saturday is said
| to be n forerunner of general finan-
cal crash 10 Mexico. 1t is claimed ii
is the beginning of a monetary panic
that will involve the entire republic
and is the result of the effort being
made to place Mexico on gold basis.
The Venezuelan government accepts
without reserve the protocols signed by
Minister Bowen and the representatives
of the powers at Washington. Proof of
this was shown in the payment Tues
day to the German minister at Caracas
of the first instalment, amounting to
about $40, 600. of the $40, 600 pledged
to Germany in satisfaction of that
country's claims.
An important move in relation to the
street railway mems strike which has
been in progress since January IL, was
taken Monday when temporary in
junction was granted by the superior
court, on application of the Connecti-
cut Railway and Lighting company, re-
straining members of the Street Rail
way Mems Union and nearly every la
Dor organization to interfere with the
company's business or its employees.
The injunction includes about 5000
persons and enjoins under penalty OF
S10,O 600. The strikers will fight their
battle TO the last ditch.
Archbishop Walsh of Dublin has
made an appeal to the Irish American
priests of this country in behalf of the
work of completing the Irish English
in Dublin. He says: "For years
have thought it a disgrace to US all
that Irish is the one language which
our Irish students are left to study
without having the elementary aid at
forded by dictionary. 1t were better
to give up all talk of the revival of in
terest in the Irish language in Ireland
if, for the want of few hundred
pounds, we leave the students of 1T
without the help of dictionary
Miss Julia Toombs, %, was shot and
killed at Providence, X. l., Sunday by
William Stevens Morse, 30, rejected
lover, who, during the past three
months, has been twice in an insane
asylum. The young woman started
from her home TO attend church, mile
or more distant, and had almost ar
rived there when Morse, who had evil
IDENTIFY been ahadowing her, overlook
her and drawing a revolver fired four
shots at her. every shot taking effect,
one passing through her heart She
died almost instantly. Henry ". Blake,
near whose home the murder took place,
chased the man. and after long run
overlook and captured him. He was
turned over to the police.
DR.. Alfred Russell Wallace, the emf
inent scientist who was credited by
Darwin himself with having discov-
cred the theory Of natural selection,
has again centred the attention of the
scientific world upon himself by re-
markable article in the Fortnightly
Review for March. In this he advances
the startling theory that the earth, or
solar system. is the physical centre of
the stellar system, and adds that the
supreme end and purpose of this vast
universe is the production and devel-
opment of the living soul in the per
ishable body of man. DR.. Wallace's
theory that the solar system is the
centre of the universe. and that the
earth is the only inhabited celestial
body. meets with no credit among
French scientists.
Alfred G.. Brooks of the United
States geological survey has discovered
on Prince of Wales island and the ad-
jacent islands of southeastern Alaska
the largest deposits of iron ore known
in the West. They comprise magnetic
iron ores equal to the best found IN
Sweden. His find proves that the iron
belt extends through Queen Charlotte
sound to the archipelago that skirts
the Alaskan coast. The best deposits
in British Columbia have been pur-
chased by steel companies that contem-
plate building blast furnaces. scram-
BILE will a, ow result to obtain control
of the Alaskan deposits. They are de
scrbed as being near the shore. &C
cessible to cheap rate transportation.
The legislative committee of the
New Hampshire house of representa-
tives has reported a license law. La
censes are divided into eight classes,
and the fees are to be mot more than
81 600 nor less than SO per year. The
state board of license commissioners
are authorized TO fix the fee and re-
strict. define and limit each license of
the first class in their discretion. LII
censes are to be denied certain classes
of persons as specified in the act. No
license shall be granted for the traffic
in liquor in any building which shall
be on the same street or avenue within
200 feet of building occupied exclu-
sively as a church or a schoolhouse.
Dealers are prohibited from giving Ii
ouors to certain persons, and hours for
sale are limited. and holidays and Sun
days are excepted.
The Mississippi river is the highest
ever known and crucial test OF the
great levees along its course is at hand.
Industries are closed down and hun
dreds of people are abandoning their
homes Many planters in the Missis-
sippi bottoms have fed to the hills.
The ST. Francis levee gave way late
Monday night at Trice's landing, Ark,