Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-10-23

The Maryland Trust company and the
Union Trust company, two of the best
known banking houses of Baltimore,
| Nd, went into receivers hands Mon
day The suspensions caused the
greatest excitement until favorable as
surances We're made by the banking in
terests.
The Presbyterian synod of Ohio has
adopted resolutions declaring that all
our ministers are hereby enjoned to
| refuse to perform the marriage cere-
mony in the case of divorced persons
except such persons as have been di-
Vorced upon grounds and for causes
recognized as scriptural in standard
of our church"
AS the result of the breaking of
travelling crane on the new Wabash
bridge over the Monongahela River at
Pittsburg, Pa, Monday morning eight
men were killed and four were injured.
The crane fell on a barge loaded with
iron, under the bridge and sank 1t with
the men at work on 1t. OF the killed
seven bodies have been recovered and
one is missing.
Gordon Mckay, millionaire inventor
of shoe making machinery died at his
residence in Newport r. l., Monday |
He was born in Pittsfield, Mass, in
1921. Mr.. Mckay had been afflicted |
with cancer of the stomach. He has |
been a patron of music, especially the
violin, on which he himself was an I
able performer and in one room In his
villa he had instruments valued at sew
eral fortunes. BY his death ii is I'M
derstood that Harvard university be-
comes enriched by something like 81,
900 900.
j. p. Chamberlain, 81, from whom
one of the heroes of Bret Harte's
famous ."Tennessee's Pardner" was
drawn, shot and killed himself at his
home at Second Garrote, Cal, Satur-
day in a fit of dependency. Since the
death of his old comrade, James II.
he had lived alone. On ac-
count of Harte's story. Chamberlain's ,
name, as well as his home, came into ,
world wide prominence. Chaffee who
was the "Pardner" in the celebrated
story, died in an Oakland sanitarium
on July 81 last. He was so years old
AS a result of the massacre of seven !
Indians on the Blackfoot reservations 6
week ago by Little Plume, Miss |
Helen H. Clark, former county super d
ntendent of schools for Lewis and U
Clark counties, has preferred charges L
If maladministration against Maj. ], r
Monteath, agent of the Blackfoot !
Piegan) reservation. Miss Clark is 0
daughter of Malcolm Clark, the L
,ioneer friend of the Piegans who I
married one of the tribe and was later a
murdered She charges in affidavits 8
hat whskey is being. freely sold on the IL
and that gambling is COM
non.
Henry Farley, walking delegate a
waiting trial at New York on an in G
ictment for perjury alleged to have
zen committed in his testimony given
uring the trial of Samuel Parks, is
Understood to have made a startling h
onfession He is said to have re- fl
ated in detail, cases where walking @
elegates have conspired successfully Y
o extort money from contractors and nj
uilders to avoid strikes or have them g,
allied off Farley asserts that in one 8
Instance $50, 900 was procured from w. f,
!. d. Stokes to stop interference with in
he building of the Ansonia hotel. lie
he confession was made to District IL
.ttorney Jerome in the presence of n,
everal assistants. III
The national retail liquor dealers n,
ssociation at its 18th annual conven- to
on at Pittsburg, Pa, last week adopt al
htr1a !
18th provision for the raising of a m
rge fund every year for the defence
the LIQUOR dealers interests in the m
gislatures and congress. The bylaws er
,quire that every member of the asso- to
alton shall refrain from purchasing ia
nuors of dealers not using the nation to
stamp The association is now con- ct
dered strong enough to compel the of
holesalers and distillers TO use the an
amp. and it is expected that more au
ian 800, will be raised every year su
this manner. 1t is planned to erect co
large building in Washington for ma blu
onal headquarters. &c
Josephine Meade, a student of the
diversity of California, was shot and
He'd at San Francisco, Thursday by We
iul Schmidt, aged 25 years, who af
rward committed suicide. Schmidt
ID Miss Meade have been acquainted
veral years and were once engaged to OF
married. His attentions became dis ha
steful to her, however, and She be- fea
ming alarmed at his threats against -
r life, gave up her place in Los An go
les and went to Boston to escape an
m afterward returning to San Fran ito
,co where Schmidt followed. Miss !
sade was niece of Very Rev. John tru
lrnett vicar general of the arch mes
,cese of San Francisco and pastor TT
ST. Joseph's church, San Francisco gai
e bore a good reputation. nov
The inquiry before a referee at New 90
rk into the affairs of the stranded -. ~
S. shipbuilding company at the in
nee of the Bondholders protective NV, nv
ISOLATION has developed a sensation. 90
MEL Leroy Dresser, late president OF
, Trust company Of the Republic an, II
'ulged much of the inner history of ,oa
. formation of the combination on -. >,
witness stand and said he made an o.
~ lei, -, e., o,,,o;,i,c, so,,,e Der
lcessions as to the Bethlehem Steel po'
,rks that would render easier the oie
leme for rehabilitating the partly ON
ncked concern but Schwab refused ri'r
see him. Dresser asserted that the ~.
npany had been wrecked because WI
1wab withheld the profits of the VI
comDany Dresser charges poS