Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-03-11

[ against the city's executive was that
he had refused to permit a city ex-
aiming board TO be made an organic
ing agency.
The Chicago municipal graft com
; mittee, after five months investigation
, into charges of city hall corruption.
reports to the city council that
there is no graft in Chlcago-that is
no systematic" graft-such as
obtains in other cities. Graft in
Chicago is only sporadic" The in
vestigation was started when Mayor
Harrison, in an interview last fall,
said that If he were to weed out cor
ruptfonists he would have grafters
jumping out of every window of the
city hall.
The London trustees of the will of
! the late Cecil Rhodes announce for the
! information OF the college authorities
/ In the United States and Canada that
! a qualifying examination for Rhodes
| scholarships Will be held simultane-
ousiy In each state or province, be-
ginning April 10. The committee of
selection VIII be furnished with ex-
animation papers prepared at Oxford
and circulars will be mailed by March
IL TO the committee of selection who
VIII be asked to fix a place for the |
examination. George r. Parkin the |
representative OF the trustees, leaves |
England for New York about March |
Is.
A mob battered down the doors OF |
the jail at Springfield. o., Monday
night, March Z, shot a negro by the
name of Richard Dixon. dragged his
body out and strung IL to a telegraph
pole and riddled ii with bullets. Dixon |,
shot Policeman Charles Coils Sunday
While they both were In the formers
room In hotel Dixon had decided
to quit the place. and fearing trouble
with Anna Corbin, woman with
whom he was acquainted, he asked
Coils TO go to the hotel with him. {
While In his room Dixon and Miss {
Corbin quarreled and Dixon Is said $
to have shot her in the breast. The r
policeman then attempted to arrest :
Dixon when the latter fired into the :
officers body inf1icting fatal wounds. II
Springfield experienced a reign of
error Tuesday, March 8, in conse-
Iuence OF anti-negro riots. portion II
II the negro quarter of the city was o
'urned and negroes threatened to u
lynamite the Jail. The mayor asked S
he governor for troops and the SOL IS
Iiers filed the town and soon en- II
orced order. n,
thirteen story building in course
I construction at Forty sixth street
nd Sixth avenue, New York COL of
apsed Wednesday, March g. Twenty fu
odies of workmen have been taken NJ
'om the ruins and about a score were or
l1ured The building, which was Sc
allied the Hotel Darlington. had tn
eel framework erected as far as the m
eventh floor and was swarming ar
it'll iron workers, masons and labor lie
s when. without an instant's warn lit
g, the upper floor sagged and col
psed and the whole structure fell
ith a crash, which shook all the go
llldings In the vicinity. portion of ~
e steel frame fell upon the rear of ~, y,
e Hotel Patterson, crushing the wall w.
the dining room and killing Mrs. o.
la Lacey Storrs, the wife of Frank ~ ~
orrs. wealthy resident of Rive. MS SUI
e was sitting at luncheon with the ~ r'
he of the Rev DR.. Minott Savage. Ia
$. savage escaped injury The ~,
use of the disaster generally ac- ~
lted is the overlooking of the floors ~, ~.
d criminal carelessness is appar- I'M ,'ii
,ly attributable to somebody. Re- . .ne
tied violations" had been placed .Ial
inst the building III