Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-23

It was announced at Chicago Tues
day that DR.. Lyman Abbott has re
nounced the old theology and says tina
the Bible is merely record of human
religious experiences. The men wit
wrote the Bible were human and imper
feet. They stumbled as we stumble.
A representative Of the American tel
ephone company has been experiment
ing on the Dedham, Mass, branch o
the N. Y, N. II. and Hartford railroad
in telephoning between stations, util
izing the railroad tracks instead of |
line of wire for the transmission o
messages. The experiments were quite
successful
The bubonic plague has appeared a
Toporico, Mex, in the state of Sono
ra. An unknown white man i'll witt
the plague appeared in the place {
week ago and admitted that he hat
made his way through the quarantine
line from Mazatlan. The people are
greatly excited and many are leaving
town. The people of Topolobambo art
reported to be dying like sheep ano
survivors are leaving the stricken city
as fast as possible.
Reed Smoot of Provo, an apostle ir
the Mormon church, has been elect
ed by the Republicans of the Utah
legislature as U. S. senator to succeed
Joseph b. Rawlns, whose term
of office will expire in March. Mr..
Smoot was born in Salt Lake City
in January 1862. He is monogamist.
He has been since 1888 member of the
council of the Il apostles of the Nor
mon church, and is, therefore, in di-
rect line for the presidency of the
church. 1t is expected that he will be
resisted in the Senate.
1t is reported from San Francisco
that when the personal effects OF the
late Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Fair arrived
from Paris recently, the magnificent
Russian sable coat, valued at so, 600,
which Mrs. Fair bequeathed to Mrs
Joe Harvey, was gone, and a cheap i'm
itation not worth $50 had been substi-
tuted. Mrs. Fairs famous pearl neck
lace of five strings, valued at sl5, GOO,
had been tempered with and cheap i'm
itation gems had been set in place of
the real pearls. Other articles of jew
elry were missing. The changes are
believed to have been made before the
valuables were turned over to the
American consulate.
Julian Ralph, author and war cores
pendent, died in New York Tuesday
of dropsy aud ulcer of the stomach.
Mr.. Ralph was stricken with a hemor-
rhage while he was acting as cores
pendent with the British army during
the Boer war. A second hemorrhage
mr., I'D a taly "a z
ter he had received his appointment as
eastern representative at the Louisiana
Purchase exposition. Mr.. Ralph was
born in New York May 81, 1853, and
served on the stats of several of the
New York papers. He became at
tached to the London Daily Mail in
1899. He leaves wife and five chill
dren.
Emilio Aguinaldo. the former insur-
gent leader in the Philippines, has sent
a petition to Congress containing a
presentation of the conditions now ex-
listing in the Philippines, which he de-
scribes as the "sorrows and calamities
which affiict my people. " He asks a
credit of $50, 000,o00 gold, which will
guarantee the issue of paper to serve
as money in the islands. This sum
shall be used for the development of
Philippine agriculture and shall be
paid within % years. He also wants to
open bank, to be called United
States of America Agricultural Phil
ippine bank, and which should be un-
der the inspection and supervision of
the insular govesnment.
All the knights of Labor cutters were
called out in nine of the IA shoe shops
at Lynn, Mass, Friday, and the wo-
men stitchers went out with them from
two of the places The strikers number
about 800, but the 1900 other employees
in the factories are dependent on the
work of the cutters who handle the
leather first. To aid the manufactur
ers, however, the boot and shoe work
ers' union has imported 80 cutters to
take the strikers places. The latter
union is bound by agreement to help
the employers in this matter in
return for their acceptance Of the
union stamp. Five hundred women
stitchers joined the strike Monday
raising a serious complication. Many
Lynn shoe manufacturers are con-
sidering the ACCESSIBILITY of moving
their shops to towns where the sit
uation is more favorable. Two thou
sand pickets, in favor with the strik-
ers, are posted to prevent possible arri-
walls from other states filling the vacant
places. A movement by the shoe work
ers of Haverhill, Brockton and Lynn
for a series of mass meetings in the
shoe centers is to be started at once and
invitations were issued Monday to sew
eral members of the American Fedora
ton of Labor and to John Mitchell.
president of the Mine Workers Union.