Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-10-07
HENRY C. PAYNE DEAD
POSTMASTER GENERAL Sue
cUMBs TO HEART DISEASE.
International Peace Congress Meets at
Boston - Mysterious Attempts to
Wreck New NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Davis's Acceptance.

Henry C. Payne. postmaster gem
eral of the United States, member
OF the national republican committee
"A stalwart of his party, with the ms
tory of which both In his nome s.ate
and nationally he has been identineu
for many years, died ut washington
Tuesday night, oct. 4, aged 60 years
Death was due to heart disease Win
which he had been suffering TOT TWO
years, although his last illness Gov
cred but seven days. Funeral SER
vices were held at st. Johns Episco-
pal church In Washington TINS, FIJI
dny. morning. and at 3:15 this after
noon the body will be taken TO NIL
waukee. Services will be held In the
All Saints Episcopal church there
Sunday. oct 8, and interment VIII DE
In the Forest Home cemetery OF 'ha'
city. -
The last official caller to inquire ar
ter Mr.. Paynes condition, which mas
caused much solicitude Throughout, Oh
ficiai Washington during the pas.
week. was President Roosevelt ABOUT
10 minutes before his death AS the
president was leaving he spoke feel
ingly of Mr.. Payne TO the newspaper
men gathered in front OF the MOTEL as
the Sweetest most lovable ana most
trustful man / ever knew.
Mr.. Payne In the capacity OF MEM
Der of the republican national COM
mittee had participated III SIX presi-
dental campaigns, and during the
last four of them was member oi
the executive committee or the ma
tional committee. He was the ac,lhs
chairman of the national committee
during the period between the death
Of senator Hanna and the election OF
Secretary Cortelyou as its head, ana
the trying duties that then devolved
upon him, supplementing az they ana
the strain of the postal investigator,
sapped his vitality and led TO ms maj
break down.
In succession TO Mr.. Payne. George
Bruce Cortelyou, former secretary OF
the department of commerce ana "a
Dor, and now secretary of the repupll-
can national committee, will become
postmaster general. Mr. Cortelyous
appointment was determined upon
several months ago by President
Roosevelt, when Mr.. Payne Indicated
TO the president his desire TO retire
on account of the precarious state OF
his health.
The republican convention for the
third Massachusetts district, noml-
mated Gen. lockwood Hoar for con-
gress Monday, oct. 3, by reclamation.
out of respect TO the memory OF Sen
ator George F. Hoar, father of Cen
eral Hoar, there were no nominating
speeches at the convention and the
business was done in record time
A net gain Of one town to the DEM
ocrats. and a gain of two towns to the
license column tells in brief the story
of the little town election In Connect
lieut. Monday oct. g. one hundred
and sixty-two towns voted for officers
and OF these l2S went republican as
last wear. while the democrats got 80
as compared with 80 last year. The
political complexion of numerous
towns was changed.
Chairman Taggart Of the democratic
national committee was fairly stag
gered Saturday, oct. !, when Senator
W. A. Clark of Montana handed In his
modest contribution to the campaign
fund in the shape of check for $500
600. along with few kind words. Sem
ator Clark thus makes IL times as big
a subscription as Candidate Davis, ana
Taggart is said to be wondering now
much there would have been coming
IL the convention had nominated
Clark for the presidency.
Henry G. Davis has issued from
Elkins w. Va. his letter OF accept
ance of the nomination as vice presi-
dent on the democratic national ticket.
II Is concise and sharp, making ex-
trayagance, the tariff and Imperialism
the features. Mr.. Davis declares that
thoughtfm and patriotic citizens de-
mand a change having become dis
trustful of the heady and personal ele-
ment of the present administrator,
preferring one that better recognizes
constitutional and other lawful re-
strajnts. He declares for local self
government and arbitration ana
against the rehabilitation of the race
issue
Clarence NJ Daily is dead at his |
home in East Orange, n. j.. from the
effects of a cancerous growth result
ing from long continued persistence in
experimenting with X-ray apparatus
in the Edison laboratory. The history
of his case shows him to have been a
martyr to science in his devotion TO I
the solution of the mysteries OF the
X-rays and the Horoscope. For 10
wears Mr.. Daily was employed in the
Edison works and seven years ago
he became chief assistant In the "
ray experimental department Where
continuous exposure to the mysterious
mower of the rays induced the can
cerous growth on his hands which nm
allv caused his death, after intense
suffering. and the successive amputa-
ton of both of his arms. Mr.. Daily
was 80 years old, and leaves a WIDOW
and two sons.
George Frisbie Hoar, senior United
States senator from MASSACHUSETTS
died at his home in Worcester Friday
Sept. 80. after an illness of sew
eral weeks and a period of uncon-
sciousness beginning Tuesday. SEN
ator Hoar was born in Concord
Mass. August 80 1926, graduated at
Harvard college in 1916, and later
studied law and graduated AT the
Dane law school, Harvard university.
He practised law in Worcester, was
member of the state house ana senate
and later representative to the 4lst'
42d. 43d and 44th congresses. He was
elected to the United States senate as
a republican. to succeed George .
Boutwell,, took his seat March ., 49,, 49,.
and was reelected in 1883 1859, 1879
and 1901. He leaves a son and daugh-
fer Funeral services were held at
Worcester Monday, oct. 3, when the
citv's business was suspended ana
schools closed in respect to the mem
ory of her foremost citizen.
Three mysterious attempts nave
been made to wreck the battleshlp'
Connecticut, now in process OF COM
pletion at the Brooklyn navy yaro,
and a rigid investigation has peeii
started to discover the perpetrators.
The navy department reports the case
from the constructor in charge AT
New York as follows: Two rivets in
a frame connecting the forward frame
angle to the keel plate. were found
March 81, to have had their heads