Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-07-01
CRIMINALLY RESPONSIBLE
coRoNeR's JURY HOLDS THE
GEN. SLocUM OFFICIALS.
Police inspectors Report on the Dis
aster-santos Dumont's Airship at
ST. Louis Ruinsd-Perdiearis and
Marley Released by Raisuii.

aster-santos Dumonts Airship at
ST.. Louis Ruinsd-Perdiearis and
Marley Released by Rsisuli.
The inquiry conducted by Coroner
Berry and a jury into the Cen sloenm
disaster was concluded at New YORK
Tuesday, June rs, and after nearly
four hours elaboration a verdict was
rendered IN which the directors OF
the Knickerbocker Steamboat COM
pany, the captain Of the Slocum, the
commodore OF the eompany's heet'
and others We're placed criininaily
responsible. Warrants for their ar
rest were Issued and several were ar
ragned. The mate OF the Slocum' ac-
cording TO the jury, acted In cow
ardly manner. and the misconduct OF
Steamboat Inspector Lundberg'
was recommended, should be brought
TO the attention of the federal author
tiles. The charge In each case was
manslaughter In the second degree.
Bail was fixed By the coroner In all
cases varying from $1,000 TO $4,000.
According to the report OF Police
Inspector Schmittberger OF New
York on the recent Slocum disaster.
! IL appears that 93S bodies have been
recovered and that SO persons. abso-
lutely known TO have been aboard the
vessel. are still unaccounted Tor,
bringing the total mortality of the
disaster up to fuzzy 1881. Those IN
iured number l79, and OF the throng
OF fully 1900 who embarked on the
excursion OF 81. Marks church but
2s6 escaped without injury. The re-
port is the result OF a minute inquiry
made by a corps OF 100 patrolmen un-
der the direction Of the inspector the
\ hull of the Slocum has been raised
I and inspected by the coroners jury
! Examination showed In the locker in
which the fire started a number OF
barrels which had contained Kerosene
and lubricating oil.
| The directors OF the Massachusetts
society for the prevention or cruelty
TO animals and the American Humane
Education society have voted, IN
memory of the gift of the late Arloch
wentworth, to offer $50 to each OF
the over 800 Massachusetts country
towns. TO aid in establishing watering
troughs for animals.
The New York Daily News, which
has recently changed hands and has
come out as a straight democratic
newspaper and is recognized as the
organ of Tammany hall had a three
page article Monday, June y, advo-
eating George h. Mcclellan, the pres
ent mayor, as nominee of the demo-
cratic party for the presidency.
d. c.. Burr, aged So, survivor OF
Co. H., 4th Regt., recruited at Paris,
H.. I'm 1916 for the war with Mexico.
recently held a reunion by himself IN
the fair grounds there. As he had
done annually for 40 years he called
the roll of his company from the
original which he he made with
quill pen and of which he had Gus
tody as orderly sergeant of the COM
pany. Burr spent the day In medi-
tation. eating his picnic dinner alone
The United States Merchant Ma
rine commission and Chicago manu-
facturers, shippers, exporters ana
bankers are formulating plans for
rehabilitating the merchant marine
OF this country on the high seas. john
Barrett, former minister 10 siam and
the Argentine Republic, and at pres
ent minister TO Panama, said:
have travelled around the world hye
times and have recently completed a
trip of $4,000 miles in the interest OF
the St. Louis exposition, and in all
my journeys l regret TO say that / did
not see one merchant marine ship
flying the American flag"
Some time during Monday night, |
June q. the gas bag of Santos Du-
mont's airship at the Worlds Fair
grounds, ST. Louis, was cut and |
slashed in such manner as to pre-
Guide all possibility of its being re-
paired in time to allow an ascension |
on July 4. The work was apparently |
done with a jackknife, There are 20
long rips in the bag which 1t will take
at least two weeks TO repair. Mr..
Dumont says the place is not secure
enough. The shed sheltering the gas
bag was patrolled by JEFFERSON
guard and special Waterman, nell
Their of whom saw anything OF the
vandal.
Four tragedies marked the progress
of the western federation miners
strike in Denver during last week,
most of the deported men having
found their way to that city. one
killed himself inhaiing gas. Before
retiring he invoked a curse on Gov
ernor Peabody for separating him
from his wife and babies who are
starving at Cripple Creek. Another
was murdered because he lacked
funds to pay the rent of his ROOM
Paul Menapace, a rich Austrian, VINO
was deported because he was strike
svmpathizer was buried Thursday.
The doctors say he died of heart fall
ure. the family say of a broken heart.
Nels Olsen died in a state of mental
alteration caused from an experience
with the militia in the bull pen al
Victor.
Perdicaris and Marley, the captives
Of the brigand Raisuli in Morocco,
arrived in Paris Friday night, June
"a, escorted by Muley Ali and Muley
Ahmed, sheriffs of Wasean. IL is
claimed that French diplomatic Ell
forts brought about the captives' re-
lease. Mr.. Perdicaris says that they
suffered many hardships. but he does
not think it was the fault OF the
brigand chief Raisuli daily held
with the prisoners. he
said anarchy was reigning in the
The animosity of the peo-
pie. he said, was not directed against