Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-04-08

university or italy, 10 an assembling
IA of physicians in Philadelphia, April
met to form a national Organization
81 for the purpose of fighting tubercu
y losis, DR.. Maragliano's experiment,
the paper said, led him to announc
- the following conclusions: First, tina
~ II is possible to produce a speclh
y therapy for tuberculosis; second, tina
= II Is possible TO immuniZe the ANNA
y. organism in other diseases and tina
" there Is good reason to hope for al
= anti tuberculosis vaccination for man
- Floods in Ohio and Indiana hav,
. been serious the past week and hun
!, dreds have been obliged TO flee from
, their homes.
= The Countess Cassini, of the fam
: lily. of the Russian ambassador al
: Washington, Is planning a lawn fete
for May 9, for the benefit of the
Russian Red Cross society.
! President Joseph Il. Smith has been
upheld at the general conference of
the Mormon church for his stand at
, Washington, declaring he intended to
, continue TO live with his plural wives.
Mrs. May Bradley, wife of a ranch
man living near Kiowa, Indian Terri
tory, II Is reported has become the
mother of five children, each weigh
ing seven pounds. The children are
healthy and strong.
Gen. William II. Payne dis
tInguished confederate officer, organ
izer and commander of the Black
Horse cavalry died at Washington
March 80, aged 49, He was three
times seriously wounded In battle.
The monthly statement Of the pub
4 lie debt at Washington, April /
4 showed that at the close Of business
March 81, 1904, the debt, less cash in
the treasury, amounted to s915,422,-
1O1, decrease for the month of ST.
612539.
John c. Eastman, business manager /
of w. r. Hearst's American, has |
bought the Chicago Journal which IS /
the Oldest daily newspaper In Illinois, (
established in 1874. The paper has
been republican in politics but will
now be independent.
For the sal of three drinks of
whiskey to the husband of a protest
ing wife. a jury has, at Waxahachie
Tex, adjudged that a saloon keeper
must pay the woman the sum OF 81, 500
or 5000 for each drink sold in spite of
her written protest.
A decision rejecting as evidence the {
sealed letter" by which William j. !
Bryan was to be given $4,000 from
the estate of Philo s. Bennett. was d
given in the superior court at New Z
Haven, Conn, last week, on an appeal t
from the probate court {
Hundreds of children Of all colors G
md conditions participated in the q
Caster Monday egg rolling festival S
m the White House grounds at WASH S
ngton, April 4. The Marine band s.
rave a concert on the grounds in the q
fternoon and Mrs. Roosevelt with a II
arty of friends witnessed the sport, b
DR.. William A. Harloun OF Denver, II
oil. has renounced all claim to the te
ortune of s1,s00,000 left by his faith m
RS brother at Kilkenny, ireland
Re gives his sister Mrs ]. NJ, Lewis
Portland, Me-, sole right to the
loney. DR.. Harroun says he wishes
othing that he does not earn by his la
wn efforts. o.
Citizens of Antrim, N. H., who were tn
,lacklisted" last fall by ex-Gov. WI
oodall to prevent their purchasing Je
luor in the neighboring town OF cl,
illsboro, have laid a petition before fo
0v. Bachelor and executive council. tn
'otesting against the renewal of Je
ov. Goodal's commission as justice ia
the peace, which expires May 81 tn
ia
The work of muskrats, boring at the ad
se of the big dam at Ferris pond. go
lomaston, Conn., on a hill north of WI
G village, caused the dam to give DIR,
ny Sunday, April 8. Almost every tn.
lion of water in the pond. which Ru
vers four acres of land, rushed down Jer
e hill and settled through the main An
-eet of the town, flooding many cell prC
8 and doing damage amounting to he's
600. tat
on
Walter Slower son of Ea
orge Slower of Millville, N. j..
ked his four-year- old sister Ethel {
o the woodshed at their home last her
elk and then set the shed on fire. ciet
e shed was filled with hay and Poi
ldling wood and burned flercely. s4f
G mother hearing the little girls
es rescued her with great diff
ty. She was terribly, perhaps ia I
ly, burned Jon
ami
Dr.. Ludwig Hektoen, head of the 1 rsr'
Cormick Memorial institute for pip
urable diseases of Chicago, has a.,
lie to Europe to search for the eioi
rlet fever germ In experiments on s'u'
s. The institute was endowed by
and Mrs. Harold F. Mccormick, II
0 lost a child through scarlet few ner
The boys grandfather was John ship
Rockefeller The grandfather was colo
, interested in the institute whose app
ect 1t Is to save other children Her
n the fever Prof. Hektoen will ner
nd two months in Liverpool and of t
er English cities experimenting on Colu
keys He will then visit hospitaIs colo
the continent.
III
he case of the Interstate Com OF
ce commission va RaIrd cow Wed
lly known as the anthrac,t 600, imp
pany case. has been decided hy tha 81, so
'eme court in favor of the con- the
ions of the commission, the de- or u
m of the United States circuit conn
t being reversed. This is the case recei
tuted before the commission by FOR
r. Hearst of New York. who al
4 discrimination by railroads Sci
h reached the anthracite coal intro
IS In pennsylvania. During the Wasl
ing some of the witnesses refused ton
rouuce certain contracts bearing pass
the business of the railroad point