Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-03-13
NEW WORLD HAPPENINGS.
A SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS EVENTS ON
THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE,

Aguinaldo's Correspondence Published Start
Of Ziegler Polar Expedition Great Salt Lake
Turning Fresh Anti-Toxine for Cholera In.
fantum- New Hampshire Guaranteed
One of the three new l6, 600. ton bat
tleships provided for in the naval bill
recently, passed by congress will be
named the Vermont.
James j. Corbett and James j. JEFF
fries have signed for 20-round bout
in California this summer for the heavy
weight championship of the world.
War preparations in Guatemala are
still going on and the entire army is
massed on the frontier OF Salvador,
every able bodied man being pressed
into service.
The first peaceful transfer of the Sal
vador presidency in 80 years took place
last week, when Gen. Regalade handed
over the presidency to Gen. Pedro Jose
Escalon. There was great rejoicing
throughout Salvador.
Robert Bacon, of the firm of j. Pier
pont Morgan & Co., has been offered
the position of U. S. sub-treasurer OF
New York, made vacant by the death
of Conrad n. Jordan. He is personal
friend of the president. Mr.. Bacon
declined the appointment Monday.
Ida May Taylor, IA, who testified to
the murder by Mrs. Kate Taylor Of her
husband at Monticello, N. y, Jan. 20,
says that Peter Yerkins advised and
induced Mrs. Taylor to commit the
murder. The latter is said to have
shot her husband and cut up his body,
burning it in the kitchen stove. Yer
kins has been arrested, charged with
murder in the first degree.
A rousing mass meeting of colored
people in New York city Friday was
the first step toward the formation OF
the Roosevelt Invincibles, - which or
ganization will favor the denomination
of President Roosevelt Local organ
ization will be made in the principal
cities of the country which will use ev-
cry effort toward placing colored men as
delegates in the next national conven-
tion.
Sir Charles Upper, former conserva-
tive leader in the Dominion parlia-
ment. favors the government construc-
ton of line of railway from some
northern British Columbian seaport to
Dawson City. and the passage of law
dealing with American mining in the
Yukon territory, similar TO the law IN
the United States, which forbids Cana
dians from mining in that country. lie
considers this the best solution of the
Alaskan boundary difficulty.
Capt. Edward Haven of Lynn, the
first officer of the Ziegler polar expedi-
ton, with members of the crew who
hail from Boston, New Bedford and
Cape points. left Saturday on the Phil
adelpha for Hamburg. From Ham
burg they will sail to Bergen in the
southwest part of Norway. From there
they will go to Tromsoe. Northern
Norway, in the latitude of about 10,
where the start for the pole will be
made. The expedition steamer, the
America, is fitted for three years and
will carry all needed supplies. Capt.
Haven has handled vessels very sue
cessfully in the ice, has spent Is sea
sons in the Arctic regions, and Is IA
miliar with the country far north.
The bureau of insular affairs, wal
department., has just published pam
phlet of 4S pages, giving the telegraph
lc correspondence VI iSiiiiAic -NS
from July Is, 1898, to February Is,
1898, the period just preceding the fall
of Manila and following the outbreak
of hostilities between the United States
forces and the insurgents. These tele'
grams were discovered among the mass
of papers captured from the o-called
;nsurgent government. They show thai
the insurgent leader leaned strongly
upon others for advice and counsel,
that there was serious opposition to his
authority, even among his own people,
that an attack upon the Americans
at Manila had been fully decided upor
before the break of hostilitles on Feb
ruary 4, 1899, and that in the event
that the struggle should prove sue
cessful, the new government that
would have been created would moi
have been republic, for titles of no
bility were, on January IA, 1899, prom
ised to certain insurgent officers as
reward for entering Manila and captur'
ing the American forces and their OF
! ficers.