Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-10

pion, after tie. This time Andersen
brings the championship cup to tn
Apawamis golf club instead of tn
Pittsfield, Mass, Country club, an,
he put out David Brown instead o
Aleck Smith.
A traction car of the Pittsburg rail
way company jumped the tracks, fall
ing nearly 100 feet, at Pittsburg Sat
urday. There were five passengers ant
the conductor and motorman on tn,
car. Two were killed and the tire,
others were probably fatally hurt. TIL,
car was completely wrecked.
In the toe of shoe he purchased J.
W. Scott Of Clayton, N. j., found 1
note written, probably by the young
woman who made the final inspection
OF the shoes in Randolph, Mass, ask.
ing the buyer to write her. A CORES.
pondence was started and during the
vacation period Scott will see New En-
gland.
The United States fish commission is
about to undertake an experiment, the
outcome of which is fraught with vast
commercial Importance. 1t is pro-
posed to introduce large number of
Pacific coast salmon into the waters of
the Atlantic in an effort to build up a
salmon industry here to rival that Of
the Western coast.
Two tons and quarter of certain
variety Of mail box fasteners are lying
in the government building in Mil
waukee, Wis, which were never or
dered and which are supposed to have
been sent at the orders of postoffice Of
f1cials in Washington who are now I'M
der suspicion. The fasteners cannot
be used on the boxes in Milwaukee.
Whatever the result to the minds of
Sir Thomas Upton and Designer Fife,
there was nothing about the work of
the Shamrock III. Tuesday to cause
Yankees fear. The two Shamrocks
sailed 80 mile course in breeze va
rying from eight to ten miles an hour,
the challenger finishing in 3 hours, 3
minutes and 20 seconds, and beating
the older craft minutes and 20 sec
onds. Assuming that she would al
low the Shamrock |. ten minutes, the
time would be reduced by that extent.
The sixth week of the textile work
ers' strike at Philadelphia began Mon
day, with both sides firm in their con-
victions The strike leaders express
the opinion that the textile industry
will remain at a standstill the remain
der of the season. Another attempt
was made Monday by the manufac-
turers to terminate the strike. When
the whistles at nearly all of the mills
summoned the strikers to work the
of operatives responding was
so small that none of the plants could
resume.
The Red river in Texas continues to
rise rapidly and is 10 feet higher than
the previous record. Several people |
are reported missing from various
points, but no one isknown positively to
have been drowned. The damage to |
crops has been very heavy. A cloud
burst at Leesville has put five feet of
water in the streets. Many houses were
partially wrecked by their foundations
being washed away. A prisoner, who
wys turned out of Jail, was drowned
The Guadalupe river has 19-foot rise
and is going up foot and a half an
hour. Bottom lands are inundated.
A fight on an excursion steamer be-
,ween New Orleans and Uniontown,
KY, Tuesday morning, resulted in six
persons being shot. Kinney Owens of
New Orleans and Frank Kirk were
hot in the legs and arms. Owens shot
md fatally wounded man named
Brown from Henderson, Ky. A man
rom Henderson named White was
hot in the breast and fell into the
liver. His body has not been recov-
red. Two of the persons shot were
women. The boat returned to Union
own and six men and two women
we're arrested and put in Jail there.
DR.. Austin j. Peters, chief of the
attic bureau of the state board of ag-
iculture. received Tuesday from the
ecretary of agriculture at Washing
on, an order partially raising the
against shipments of cattle,
heep and other ruminants from states
lot in quarantine, across Massachu
etts and New Hampshire for slaugh
er and other purposes. DIR. Peters
aid that this was the first step tow
I'd the entire removal of the quaran-
ines which was established last fall on
ccount of the foot and mouth disease
nd he believes that within month
be regulations will be done away with. {
Mrs. F. F. Adams, jr, wife of the !
ice president of the F. F. Adams To-
acco Co., reported to the police Mon ,
ay that she had been sandbagged and
obbed of s1s,5OO while on train en- :
quite to Milwaukee, Wis, from Chi \
ago. Mrs Adams says that she went :
} Chicago to draw her s25, 600 inheri- !
ance from the First National bank of +.
nat city. After paying some debts she :
ad started on an evening train with /
l6, 600 in cash and a certificate of de- :
osit for 81, 500 On the way she went a
ito the toilet room of the car where 9
mother woman entered and struck her =
YER the back of the head with some :
lunt instrument. She was knocked y
and robbed. =
When the first of the so sessions to s
9 held in Boston this week by the Ma p
onal Educational association opened \
[onday more than 10, 600 teachers had b
,gistered This is the forty-second n
of the association and adj il
ces indicated that other thousands S
ere on their way, and headquarters s.
ere prepared to accommodate ulti- o
ately $4,000 participants. The presi-
apt of the association is President \
harles W. Eliot of Harvard Univer- Il
ty. The program for the convention t,
.ovides for sessions in 16 departments f,
,sides general meetings on Wednes- n
Nv and Thursday. The convention g
i'll close on Friday, but an extensive r,
'ogram of excursions has been ar "
nged for subsequent dates. N
Four persons were killed at Pitts a
lrg, Pa, during the progress of a n
rrific rainstorm Saturday. in an &C I,
dent of most unuspal character. All u