Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-04-24

May l. unless tHeli oeih""uo Aoi A'bhoi
wages are granted.
The battleship Iowa was totally dis
abled Tuesday, off Pensacola, Fla. by
the bursting of the steampipe, tearing
away the steering gear.
The president completed his tour of
the Yellowstone national park Wednes-
day and inspected Fort Yellowstone
He is in the best of health and enthu-
siastic over his trip.
In Boston there was general celebra-
ton of Patriots day Monday, the OBJ
servances recalling the old traditions
and historical incidents of the revolu-
ton, such as the ride of Paul Revere,
the march of the British troops from
Boston to Lexington and other MEM
orable incidents that heralded the
great struggle of l776.
A lockout was inaugurated at the
collieries of the philadelphia and
Reading Coal and Iron Co. Monday
morning and 10000 men and boys are
idle. No explanation accompanied the
action of the company. The workmen
were simply told, "There is no work. ]"
1t was a sequel, however, to the refu-
sal Saturday of the men to work nine
hours.
Running at the rate of GO miles per
hour on down grade, Erie train No. 4,
the New York limited, crashed into
the rear of crippled freight train at
Red House, eight miles west of Sala-
manca, early Monday morning, killing
eight persons and seriously injuring a
dozen more. Seven bodies were burned
beyond recognition in the fire that
| followed the wreck.
An electric brake refused to work on
crowded Western avenue car of the
Pittsburg railway company at ALE
ghany, Pa, Sunday, and the car ran
away, wrecked carriage, broke
through the safety gates of the Fort
WAYNE railroad, derailed fast moving
freight train and was wrecked. Almost
all OF the As passengers aboard the car
were hurt, though only one fatally.
Rev. Paul James Francis, minister
of the Order of the Atonement, with
headquarters at Garrison. N. y, is to
be brought to trial on the charge that
in his teaching he has for some years
openly advocated that the Episcopal
church acknowledge Roman Catholic
obedience and procure pardon for the
sin of having denied for some hun
dreds of years spiritual supremacy OF
the Pope of Rome.
Much excitement was caused in New
York last week by the finding of the
body of man, whose throat had been
cut, in a barrel on the sidewalk in
East 18th street Twelve Italian sus-
poets we're arrested and it was be-
iieved that the mystery was the work
- nj ~ n Mt n a 4 no
gang. The body was finally identified
Tuesday as that of Mauen Benedetto,
an Italian, of Buffalo. He was broth
err in law of Giuseppe de Prince, in
Sing Sing for counterfeiting, and it is
believed that he was murdered by the
gang because he was trying to get
money and property belonging to de
Prince.
Every -four mill in Minneapolis and
practically all of the merchant spring
wheat mills in Minnesota and the
northwest shut down entirely Friday
and will cease turning out flour for an
indefinite period. The Northwestern
Miller says that this act has been
forced upon the millers by the condi.
tions surrounding the manufacture and
sale of -four. For some time owing to
the price Of cash wheat, the high rates
of freight and the depressed state of
the flour market, mills have been ope-
rating at loss, but the browning dis
advantage, which has paralyzed the
milling industry throughout the north
west, was the act of the line boats ope-
rating between Duluth and Buffalo in
moving wheat on a basis of two cents
per bushel, while present proportionate
rate on -four from Duluth to Buffalo is
maintained at nine cents per hundred
pounds, equivalent to 4-10 cents
bushel.
The interstate commerce commission
sat in New York Tuesday to consider
the complaint of VIM. r. Hearst against
certain coal carrying railroads for VIC
lating the interstate commerce law.
Mr.. Hearst complains that the rail
roads charge unreasonable rates; that
they unjustly discriminate in favor of
the bituminous against the anthracite
coal companies, and that they have con
trived, in violation of the anti-pooling
section of the interstate commerce law,
to discriminate. against the independ-
ent coal mining companies in favor of
the companies controlled by the rail
roads. Eight of the nine companies
complained of entered appearances. At
the hearing Wednesday the railroads
refused to produce the contracts enter
ed into between the roads and the
coal companies to prove the difference
between the actual and published price
of carriage. Judge Campbell of the
Reading road made an attack on W.
r. Hearst's newspaper which he said
had made the "hysterical demand"
for cheaper coal and not the thinking
public.