Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-15

hereby declare that no Such marriage
have been solemnized with the sane
ton, consent, or knowledge of tn
church, of Jesus Christ of latter da
saints. / hereby announce that a
such marriages are prohibited. and
any officer and member OF the churc
shall assume to solemnize or enter in
to any such marriage he will b
deemed In transgression against tn
church and will be liable to be deal
with according to the rules and regu
lations thereof and excommunicate,
therefrom." The church members un
animously adopted a resolution en-
dorsing his declaration.
Harris Dexter, IA, has been arrest
ed on a charge of manslaughter a
Randolph, Mass. for killing his
younger brother, Parker, on Sunday
March 81. The boy confessed, sew
eral days ago, that he shot his broth
err accidentally. His first story was
that ii was the work Of n stranger
the boys being alone at home at the
time.
While hurrying for a doctor for his
friend. William Anderson, who had
been stricken with heart failure. Ar
thur Deegan stumbled and fell down
a stairway in Brooklyn lodging
house Tuesday night. April IL, and
was killed. When surgeon arrived
both men were dead Anderson and
Deegan had been almost inseparable.
Each was about 55 years old.
A Denver despatch says that Miss
De TORI. Morristown, N j., artist,
has hired a man to have his hand
mutilated while the camera acts to
produce photographs of the face Of
man in the greatest agony for re-
production in realistic painting. The
hand, il is said. will be crushed by a
locomotive and the ordeal will be gone
through with sometime within the
next month.
The new capital for the Philippines
will be about 155 miles from Manila
On a plot of ground over 5000 feet
ibove the sea level. which will make
[ far more healthy for Americans
Secretary Taft says that II as to be
o the Philippines what Simla is TO
ndia and wiz be of great benefit to
he islands. The climate IL superb,
he location is good and the new OPP
for men with capital will
,e very great"
At the opening OF the 18th annual
difference of the Methodist church Of
Jew Hampshire In Manchester last
week. Bishop DR.. Charles II. Fowler
eclined to administer the sacraments
f the Lords Supper because indi-
idual communion cups were fur
ished. To these the bishop took |
marked objection and as no provision |
or the service without these cups |
ad been made, the sacrament was not |
iven.
The second trial of Mrs. Cordelia
.otkin OF San Francisco for the muir
er of Mrs. Dunning and Mrs. Dean,
aughters of Congressman Penning-
On of Dover. Del, by means Of box
{ poisoned candy sent through the
rails, ended in her conviction Of /
lurder in the first degree at San
rancisco Thursday, April Z. The
enaity was fixed at Imprisonment for
fe. The alleged cause of the crime
as the woman's infatuation for Mr..
william MacQueen. the anarchist,
no is under a fve-year sentence In
ew Jersey for melting the silk trade
OTIS in Paterson in June, 1902, ar
we'd In New York from Southamp-
m, Eng, Monday. April II. to sur
.nder himself TO the sheriff Of Pas
tic county in order to serve his sent
ice, from which he has appealed in
lin. MacQueen left America while
nder $4,000 bail and In so doing is s
lid to have caused his bondsman not {
little trouble.
The geological survey at Washing :
N has received a report OF an extern
We deposit OF Alaskan coal, access
BILE TO the Pacific ocean. located from
to 25 miles inland from Controller [
", Alaska. The coal fields lie be- I
nd the Controller bayou oil fields at {
e foot of the Chugach mountains. 7
he coal and oil were found to be in $
70 distinctly separate formations \
at lie in roughly parallel belts The
al area, as at present recognized
cludes about So square miles. The
al resembles the harder bituminous
ais of the east more than II does an
racite
According to the special census bull
tin issued at Washington Thursday.
drill T. the population of the United
ates for 1903, exclusive Of Alaska
d the insular possessions. is esti-
ated Mt 79,900.5S9, an increase Of
05.S14 since the census Of 1900. The n
reau of the census has decided to
ike annual estimates of population
sed upon what is known as the
method This rests upon q
. assumption that the annual in =,
ease for each year since the last VI
nsus will be one-tenth OF the de- N
1nial increase between the last two c,
tn $4,000 population in Mississippi, N
rmont and North Carolina. 6,
a,
rhe Swayne impeachment proceed II
IS in the house at Washington have HI
IN put over. the case being made ia
special order for December 1s =.
w. r. Hearst of New
rk last week introduced a resolu "
n calling on the attorney general
furnish congress certain evidence
cred by "a citizen of New York in
tober 1902. showing conspiracy
restraint of interstate trade among
anthracite coal railroads" II this u
ormation is not received in seven
IS. the resolution provides that n on
nmittee Of seven members Of the dc
zee shall proceed to compile the tn
hence requested. The preamble Of ne
resolution recites that the mono Gu
Y complained Of has resulted in an
reasing the price of coal 40 per an
7. end that this aggregates n tax ye
80 00e 600 a year on the consumers