Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-01-09
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
EVENTS OF THE wEER IN SUMMARY.

REMARKABLE engineering Toat aeAns S""AS
Completed-Lord "Bobs' to Visit Boston
Miners Strike for Rats = Public Lands In
Hawaii for Settlers-Prizes for Historical
Work Orange Juice Also Kills Typhoid
Germs,
Joseph ". Blondin, convicted at
Boston, Dec. 81, of murder in the sec,
oud degree for killing his wife, waived
the exceptions taken at the trial by his
counsel and received his sentence OF
life IMPRISONMENT in states prison.
Hawaii is about to throw open an
immense area of public land to settlers
from the United States. There are
about 100000 acres of government
land in the territory, about one-half
at present unoccupied. These lands
all belong to the local government and
not to the United States.
San Francisco and Honolulu are now
connected by cable, the first message
passing under the Pacific ocean at
about midn light Jan. l. 1t was from
Gov. Dole to President Roosevelt, and
merely formal greeting and congrat-
ulation from the people of Hawaii to
the people of the United States,
through their chief executives. The
line opened for business Friday.
Gov. OdeIl was inaugurated chief
executive of New York for the second
time at Albany Thursday. The event
was unusually brilliant. Two thou
sand men were in the parade before
the ceremony. In his inaugural ad-
dress. the governor spoke upon the re
spective rights of capital and labor
taxation of state water ways ana ca
mails, state charities and state educa-
ton.
A valuable collection of relics of the
tour of President and Mrs. Grant
around the world were placed for the
first time on public exhibition in the
National museum at Washington, Jan.
/ Their transfer to the government
was provided for in the will Of Mrs.
Grant. TO whom they were originally
presented. The collection was placed
beside that of the Gen. Grant relics,
which have been in the government ;
custody for several years.
The United States treasury starts the
new wear with more gold IN It's vauIts
than this or any other government mas
ever held at any time before. There 5
now in the treasury building IN wash
ington and in the various sub treas
uries throughout the country e6l5, dls,
361 in gold. These holdings are four
times as much as the present holdings
of the Bank of England, one and a
half times as much as IL held by BANK
of France, four times as much as the
Imperial German bank holds and near
" twice as much as the Imperial Bank
of Russia possesses.
Nicaraguau volcanoes are showing
great activity. Santiago. about elght
miles from Grenada. Is shooting our
fire and at night Eliminates the neav-
ems for many miles. Monotumbo, near
the sea coast, is belchlng forth smoke.
Isalco. in Salvador. shoots forth smoke
and lava every half hour, and at night
forms a brilliant spectacle as i Us mol
ten lava runs down the mountain side
/ in streams of fire The inhabitants Of
Guatemala city fear that the volcano al
Atirlan will break out at any time.
The sea coast and ocean for many miles
are strewn with puInice stone from the
volcano of Santa Maria.
A remarkable engineering feat has
been accomplished in the building OF
the great hume at MADEIRA, CAL, $50
miles from San Francisco, IN the heart
of the redwood forests. This TUNE Is
the longest in the world. 1t Is a393
miles from one end TO the other, anc.
including feeders, il has length OF II
miles It has a carrying capacity or
400, 900 feet Of lumber daily. In build
ing it 500, coo feet of lumber were
used and ,. 100 kegs of nails were driv-
en-. IL was a gigantic task. Noun
tains had TO be circumVented. great
porges had to be bridged, deep forests
we're penetrated, and steep hillsldes
and precipitous cliffs were blasted 10
make secure foundations for the heavy
scatfolding which supports the hume.
The total cost was S210, 600.
Mazatlan. Mex is panicstrlcken
over terrible outbreak Of the bubonlc
plague, and people are fleeing at the
rate of 300 a day Some 1900 persons
have deserted the city already NJ Ic-
roscopic investigation has proved thai
the bubopic pest bacilh are IL the
blood Of the afflicted persons. The
plague has increased in virulence and
the authorities are helpless to check It.
A peculiar freak of the plague il that
more than 80 per cent of the persons
attacked are women. They are dying
in great numbers and medical aid Is
much needed. All interior towns ars
in terror of the disease and strong cor
dons Of armed men have been formed
to prevent the entry of persons from
Mazatlan. 1t is feared that the fugi-
tives will die of exposure and starvation