Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-27

barton anu appoint near AuuiIoA a.
Reypen as president. Miss Barton il
to be honorary president for life.
Nearly 81, 600, 600 worth of automo
biles were exported from America las'
week, England taking over half OF the
machines. Automobiles are cheaper
here than abroad and exports are eX
pected to increase this year.
The pope said Monday that owing te
division on the subject among the
members of the American hierarchy,
he would not appoint Archbishop Ire
land cardinal until President Roose
welt requested it, as a distinction tc
the United States.
Tobacco buyers state that 80 per cent
of the 1902 crop of New England tobac'
co has been sold at prices ranging from
to % cents pound in the bundle.
Growers say that buyers Systematically
depressed prices but buyers maintain
that the 1902 crop was poor.
A constitutional amendment will be
submitted to the popular vote in Mis-.
souri, in 1904, requiring all Missouri
railroads to grant free transportation
over their lines in Missouri to state Of
ficials and Legislators during their Of
fetal terms. The penalty attached fol
noncompliance is to be the forfeiture
of the charter
The national packing company, cap
italized at Sl5, 0O0,O 600 and including
several of the smaller plants in Chica-
90, Omaha and elsewhere, was incor-
porated at Chicago the past week. The
names of many large firms appear
among the companies purchased -
The trust expects to do a good business
of about $50, 600, 600 year.
M. G. Grifiin's shoe factory and &c
other buildings, including several busl-
ness places and a number of dwelling
houses we're destroyed by fire at Pep
perell, Mass. Thursday morning. The
loss is $500, 600. The dwellings were
mostly occupied by employees OF the
factory, 300 of whom are thrown out OF
work by the fire. 1t is believed it was
incendiary.
The American falls at Niagara are
practically dry and for the first time
in 90 years people are able to walk
about in the river bed. Thousands
have clambered over the rocks hunting
for relics and souvenirs. Great rocks
never before seen are high and dry.
This condition is due to an ice jam IN
shallow places up the river and is
likely to exist several days.
Mrs. Louise Burke, wife OF Peter
Burke, a machinist of Fiskdale, Mass. 4,
killed her four children, aged from
five months to six years, with an axe,
then cut her own throat and set fire to
the house. She was undoubtedly in
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band was respectable workingman
and there was no family trouble. The
bodies were badly burned. The hus-
band is Frustrated 10y the shock.
The war department at Washington
will compile and publish complete
roster of the officers and enlisted men
of the Union and confederate armies in
the civil war 1t is the idea of Secre-
tary Root that it is only fair to the
South to make list of its soldiers,
for the benefit of posterity. The pro-
posed publication will fill 80 or more
huge volumes, and the names of those
who wore the blue and those who wore
the gray will be published and brack-
eted together.
A special grand jury will inyesti-
gate among other public evils in Utah,
the practice of polygamy. The charge
that Judge Tanner, who is now on the
bench, has contracted plural mar
riages, led to the calling of this jury
by the Judges of the state courts. But
since the jury has been ordered the
plane of investigation has taken a
broader scope and now all reports OF the
practice of polygamy will be investigat-
ed. 1t is charged that President Smith
of the Mormon church and the majority
of the u apostles are living in open
polygamy. These cases will be inves-
tigated.
Mrs Alice Burdick. widow of the
murdered Buffalo man. was closely
questioned at the inquest into his death
Monday. She admitted her intimacy
with Arthur r. Pennell and letters
from the latter to her and communica-
lions between Mr.. and Mrs. Burdick
were read in court. She admitted that
the intimacy was renewed after Bur
dick had forgiven her and had taken
her back to his home. She expected to
marry Pennell after divorce had made
it possible. In one of Penuells letters
he said there was something in Bur
dicks manner that makes me fear
sometimes that might kill him. "
Estes G.. Rathbone, former director
general of posts in Cuba, filed Satur-
day with the acknowledgement of the
army, specific charges against Gen.
Wood in connection with the latter
duties as military governor of Cuba:
Mai. Rathbone charges that Gen. Wood
manipulated the Cuban courts. that he
received gifts from a gambling con-
Germ amounting to 5000 and that the
gifts were admitted into Cuba free OF
duty contrary to law. Monday Secre-
tary Root considered the charges and
answered that no reply to the charges
was required from Gen Wood and no
action will be taken thereon, and that
it was known to the secretary of war
that the charges in every respect were
without Just foundation.
A very peculiar mine has been opened
in the Colorado desert about 20 miles
from Imperial. In drilling for oil the
drill of the Yaha Oil company struck
wood at depth of little more than 40
feet. Timber is scarce in Southern
California, and in the desert there is a
total absence of wood in a growing
state so chaft was sunk to the wood
strata. 1t was then discovered that a
forest of gigantic trees lies buried be-
meath the desert lands. Trees with a
diameter of four to eight feet lie crisis
crossed one above the other. They are
of , y,r;aty unknown to this age The