Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-02-05

company, she SAID tnut sne trleu "
enlist as man In order to accompany
him and share his danger.
Four Miles on a Cowcatcher.
John Hancrow while crossing the
tracks In Park Manor, Chicago, Fri
day, Jan. go. was struck by the engine
hurled into the air and recaught in
the cowcatcher. and while the train
sped on at the rate of nearly a mile a
minute. he saved himself by wrapping
his arms around the iron bars of the
pilot. Two of his ribs and one of his
legs were broken. yet in spite of a
freezing temperature he chung for four
miles, unable to get signal to the
engineer and fireman, who were only
n few feet behind him. Not until tele-
phone messages were sent ahead and
the train stopped by signal at the river
line station was Hancrow rescued He
will probably recover
The state senate at Frankfort, KY,
Friday, Jan, 90 bysa vote of 70 TO y,
defeated Senator Catron's resolution
indorsing President Roosevelts action
in the matter of the Panama treaty.
Three democrats voted with the re-
publicans in favor of the resolution.
The inspector of the Harwck
mine Cheswick. Pa has discovered the
cause of the recent explosion there
and the room in which il occurred. A
hole was found in the coal in n room
in the south left entry, showing that
the tamping had been blown out and
that the shot was ineffective, throw
ing a bit of burning paper from the
hole. Near this point was found the
lamp Of Fire Boss J. A. Gordon, who
was also the head shooter In the mine.
Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago
has been discharged from custody IN
with any responsibility Tor
the wholesale loss of life in the lro-
uuois theatre fire. The judge de-
rlared that the mayor was in no way
whatever guilty or liable and that the
roroner's jury in ordering him held TO
the grand jury had put an unjust stig-
ma upon the mayor who had failed III
no particular whatever, either I'm omis-
sion or commission.
The supreme court at st. Paul,
Mimi. has quashed the indictment
against former Mayor A. A Ames OF
and the entire court held
that the indictment was faulty
opinion was that the offence
vas not proven. Doctor Ames was
and convicted in the district
court of Hennepin county of receiv-
ng money Illegally as mayor of Min
leapolis. from women. He was ar
.ested in New Hampshire last summer.
II is stated at San Francisco that
he detectives who are investigating
he anonymous letters sent to the
Southern Pacific company demanding
100000 under threat to dynamite
rains have centered their suspicion on
i've men now in the vicinity OF fres-
10 and that one of them has been
picked out as the author of the let
ers. The activity displayed by the
abroad has frightened the would-be
vreckers and the danger is entirely
,ast.
At the recent joint conference Of
he miners and operators of the CEN
raj competitive district at Indianapo-
is, Ind, President John Mitchell of /
he mine workers said: THE union Will |
Welcome every eligible man, whether
re be democratic, republican. populist /
n socialist. All / ask is that he shall /
lot thrust politics down the threats OF
ther members. He denied having any /
Intention of accepting a government /
,osition: 81 prefer to be at the head of I
his organization"
The Bechtel family and others at
allentown, Penn. have filed charges
( gross misconduct in an action TO
ust from office District Attorney Ed
rim ]. Lichtenwalner who conducted
he recent case against the Bechtels
or the murder of Mabel Bechtel
,ichtenwalner is accused of going TO
irs. Bechters home Oct. ~, while in
oxicated and of making improper pro-
osals to several women present, be-
aying so indecently that the family
yas forced to call an officer to put him
ut.
DIR. Arthur ID. Bevan, a prominent
hicago physician, declared, at re-
emit meeting of the Chicago medical
,ciety, that the drug treatment is use
SIS in pneumonia cases, and that the
,edical profession. so far as medicines
re concerned, can be of no assistance
, the fight against this disease. His
stirred I'D the other ply
clans who had to admit, however.
lat there is no definite remedy known
ut they contended that they might IN
uence a patient favorably by easing
i'm somewhat. and by the moral effect
their presence.
Interchanges of cable messages oil
bod will with the English Pilgrims
supper at the Carlton Hotel, London
rmed a striking feature of the BAN
net given at Delmonico's New York,
riday night. Jan. 90, by the Pilgrims I
the United States in honor of Sir /
enry Mortimer Durand, the British a
AMBASSADOR. Bishop Potter presided. b
he banqueting hall was decorated II
it'll a great profusion of intertwined c
ritish and American flags. The I
,eakers were Sir Henry Durand, .
mes NJ. Beck and President Wood \
w Wilson of Princeton. a
Mysterious Circumstances. lc
One was pale and sallow and the L
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