Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-07-10
FROM ACROSS THE WATER.
A BRIEF RESUME OF THE NEWS OF The
EASTERN Or OLD WORLD.

! A BRIEF RESUME OF THE NEWS OF TIL
s EASTERN OR OLD WORLD.
: Electricity the Sole Medicine Of the Future
Royal British Welcome to President Loube
, No American Hogs Wanted in Great Brit
ain Brave Wife Of Missionary.
, A dispatch from Santiago de Chill
announces that bubonic plague has ap
peared at Valparaiso and at Talca
, huana.
Lord Colville of Culcross, lord cham
berlain to'Queen Alexandra and presi.
dent Of the Honorable Artillery COM
pany, died in London Monday, aged So.
W. b. Harris, the traveller and au-
thor who was captured June 16 by the
bandit Raisull near Eczema, was released
Monday, in exchange for a number OF
native prisoners.
An edition of Count Tolstoi's PAM
phlet, "Thou shalt not kill" which a
Leipsic firm recently published, was
seized by the police on the ground that
it contains statements regarding En-
peror William which are classed as
high treason.
A new order of the British board Of
agriculture was gazetted Monday, re-
vising previous orders and prob ibiting
the landing in Great Britain of any
hogs from the United States, besides
prohibiting the importation of cattle
from New England The order goes
into effect Aug. l.
The Equitable Life Assurance society
of New York officially informed the i'm
perial government Monday that it
would withdraw its business from the
Hanseatic cities July l. This action
means the complete retirement of the
society from Germany so far as taking
new policies is concerned.
The syndicate of foreign steamships
carrying freight to the River Plate and
Brazilian ports has sent out a circular
declaring that ION and after Aug.
the primage rebate of 10 per cent. will
be abolished" The syndicate is com
posed Of the Lamport and Holt, the
FRINGE, the Houston, the Norton and
the Sloman lines.
The relief party sent to search for
the seven students of the Geneva uni
versity, who have been missing since
last Saturday, when they started on
an ascension of Mont Blanc, has sight
were seen making signals Of distress on
the Dome du Coulter, IA, 600 feet high.
1t is hoped to rescue them. The where
abouts of the other climbers is IN
known.
Never has monarch visiting England |
received more royal welcome than |
that given TO President Loubet of the |
French republic Monday in London. |
For him were all the splendors of court |
pomp, of official ceremony, of naval I
and military display, and-more impor
tant-honest British cheers Had he
greater honors could not have been
paid him by the king of England. Had
he come as dear bourgeois friend the
sincere. the hospitality more genuine.
A semi official statement was issued
Monday as follows: CONTRARY to the
denials of the Porte, the concentration
continues on the Bulgarian frontier of
strong attachments of Turkish infan-
try, cavalry and artillery. The endeav-
or of Turkey to deny these authenti-
Gated facts, while simultaneously rein
forcing the detachments which cannot
be necessary in fighting reyolutionists,
ttHus W SuOW tudi l. 10 iubcH-
tionally concealing the true objects of
these military measures and is mis-
leading Europe by circulating false re-
ports regarding Bulgaria and her in
Electricity will be the sole medicine
Of the future, according to Mr.. d 'Ar
a well-known savant of the
Psychological institute of Paris. Alta
recent meeting of the institute he
made an exhaustive address on 1.-The
Action of Electricity Upon Human Be-
ngs.n He showed that the electric
.reatment is excellent for certain mala
lies of the skin, and that electricity
circulation and respiration
IN. Moreover, what is most impor
ant, he said that it acts strongly on
cellular vitality. He added that cleo
richly will bring about a therapeutic
evolution.
Advices from China tell how DR.. W.
1. Logan, formerly of New York, was
perated upon by his wife for appendi
tits and his life saved. The mission
ry has returned to his station and re-
umed his work. DR.. and Mrs. Logan
AVE Deen WORKING III place oUu mites
rom the nearest European or Ameri
an physician. Being taken i'll, and
that his only hope for recov- :
ry lay in the removal of the vermi-
orm appendix, he called his wife, -
Tho is trained nurse, and gave her
minute instructions as to an operation.
lie then took an anaesthetic. Unas-
listed and guided only by these in
tructionS Mrs Logan with the in
truments of the missionary physician
erformed the hazardous operation
18th entire success.