Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1903-09-04
SHOT AT, NOT MURDERED
NEWS OF CONSUL MAGELssEN's
DEATH MESSAGE ERROR.

NEWS OF CONSUL MAoELssEN's
DEATH MESSAGE ERROR.
War Between Turkey and BuIgaris
Seems Imminent.-Plant That Ban
ishes NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Moham
nnedans Want Foreigners Banished
A new turn in the case of United
States Vice Consul William C. Magels-
sen at Beirut Syria, who was reported
to have been assassinated Aug. 20, de-
veloped Saturday night when it became
known that the report was incorrect
and that although Mr.. Magelssen had
been shot at, he had not even been in
jured. This information came to the
state department in a dispatch from
United States Minister Leishman at
Constantinople, who said the mistake
in making the original announcement
was due to an error in the transmits
sion of the cipher dispatch from Con-
sui Ravndal at Beirut in reporting the
incident to the minister. President
Roosevelt, while gratified that Mr..
Magelssen had escaped injury, an
nounced that no change would be
plans and that the European squadron
which he had ordered to proceed i'm
mediately to Beirut, would continue to
it's ordered destination. The President
and secretary of state both regard it
advisable, in view of the present state
of unrest in Turkey, to have American
war vessels in Turkish waters.
The dispatch from Minister Leish-
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fired at Mr. Magelssen and the bullets
passed close to him but did not touch
him. The vail of Beirut at once order
ed measures for the arrest of the per-
petrator. One correspondent to Lon
| don, however, says that the affair was
merely wedding party INDUCING in a
feu de joie and the shots were not di-
rected with design against the United
States vice-consul
| The banished Prince Tuan is said to
be in Pekin incognito and to have had
several secret interviews with the do
wager empress while the emperor was
| asleep.
A dispatch from Rome says the fish,
erman's ring belonging to the late
been lost, has been found on the writ
ing table of Leo KILL Cardinal Oreglia
examined the ring and, according to
custom broke it up.
Ex-President Casimir Perier Of
France denies all connection with the
Humberts, except in the matter of re-
ceiving a trifling contribution for po-
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that he sought the hand of a member
of the Humbert family.
The festivities in honor of the king
and queen at Udine. Italy Thursday
night were cut short by disastrous
railroad accident. A train filled with
soldiers going to maneuvres collided
with a freight train and 20 soldiers
were killed and so were injured.
King Peter of Servia is reported as
determined to suppress the military
malcontents. Last week three army
colonies, two captains and newspap-
err editor were condemned to death for
participation in a plot which was dis
covered and rendered abortive. Despite
this, however, the king is obviously In
are causing a veritable reign of terror.
The leaders of the Persian Moham-
medan church have served notice on
the shah that unless he purges the
country of foreign religious and com
mercial influences, especially British
and Russian, the church will precipi-
tate a revolution. The church
IoaJarc aIco 1aypand that tho shah
restore the religious and economic
conditions which prevailed in Persia
a century ago.
Mail advices from Shanghai, China, |
state that several hundred lives were |
lost in the great floods at Chefoo. After
a thunderstorm with heavy rain, a |
cloudburst occurred and torrents of |
water poured down on the town rush. |
ing forward and carrying houses. |
trees, people, and everything |
before IT, Stores and warehouses were
flooded and the property loss will reach
millions of dollars.
The finding is reported in North
Nigeria of plant (Ocimumviride) two
or three of which, when placed in
room or on a veranda, will remove
MOSQUITOES. The effect is produced by
the odor exhaled. This resembles thy
milan and eucalyptus. The natives ex-
tract an essence from the plant that is
an excellent substitute for quinine. 1t
is not only equal in it's effects, but 1t
lacks many of quinine's disagreeable
attributes.
In consequence Of the inability of
Doctor Hardy, the Swiss minister at
Paris, and Professor Hatzen of Copen-
hagen university, to serve as arbitra-
tors at the Hague, in the claims Of the
allied powers for preferential treat
nent in the settlement with Venezuela
he foreign offices have requested the
oostponement of the date which was
September 1. of the first meeting of
he tribunal, until other arbitrator are
secured.
An outline of British Colonial Sec
.etary Chamberlain's fiscal proposals I
8 given in London as follows: A duty
If two to three shilings on wheat and I
, heavier duty on floor; small duties $
IN meat, eggs and dairy produce and I
equivalent remissions of duty on tea, ,
sugar and tobacco; also two scales of I
luties on manufactured products-ten
md twenty per cent-with view to
securing reciprocity treaties with for S
ign nations, the proceeds of these du-