Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-01-29
v.rdiot in lroouois Disaster.


williams; William H. Musham. chie'
of the Chicago fire department; VIII
liam Sailors, fireman In the theatre
James II. Cummings, stage carpenter;
william McMullen who had charge OF
the light that caused the fire. IL was
at once decided by the coroner that al
men who had been held by the verdict
to the grand jury should be taken into
custody at once. He therefore pre-
pared warrants for their arrest and
called upon the police to serve the
warrants. The report OF the innings
concludes that the theatre building was
not completed at the time II was OPP
ened; that the theatre employees did
what they could TO put the fire out and
that doors and exits We're generally
locked throughout the building.
The Louisiana Purchase exposition
at st. Louis is now ready for the ex-
hibitors to install their exhibits.
A movement has been started among
the confederate organizations OF the
country for a monument to be erected
to the late Gen. John b, Gordon at At
lanta, Ga.
A large ledge carrying a high per-
centage of tin has been found near
Salmon City Idaho. The ore assays l3
per cent. tin, "a per cent. lead, and 1t is
ASS in gold.
In or,tl
the falling of a cage in the Stratton
Independence mine in the Cripple
Creek district. Colorado, Tuesday Jan.
26. Their bodies were horribly man
gled The accident was caused by the
arrangement of the machinery.
Mrs. Annie Chambers Ketchum. au-
thor of 1.-The Bonnie Blue Flag" one OF
the most famous war songs Of the Con-
federacy as well as Of many other
poems and prose writings, died in st.
vincent's hospital New York, Wednes-
day, Jan. q. after less than week
illness, In her S0th year. Mrs. ketch-
um came of long line of distinguished
Virginia and Kentucky ancestry.
At a meeting at Boston recently of
the American Statistical association
Dr. S. w Abbott, secretary of the
state board of health, declared that the
greater decrease in consumption NOR
tally in New England has been among
females. The Improvement among fe-
males. he said has probably resulted
from change of fashion and from the
fact that they are out OF doors more
than they used to be.
A destructive tornado swept over
Moundville, Ala, town Of 800 inhabi-
tants. near Tuscaloosa, Friday. Jan.
90. Thirty persons were killed and
more than 100 injured. Every business
house in town, excepting one drug
store, was completely destroyed. Per-
sons were blown by the force Of the
storm hundreds of feet from their beds
in the blackness of night. Five houses
in North Birmingham were destroyed.
The city treasurer of Portland Maine
has caused the arrest of two Passama-
uuoddy Indians from Eastport, on the
charge of having perpetrated unique
swindle It is alleged that the
men have collected bounty from the
state on manufactured seal noses. BY
shaping pieces of sealskin,
cutting holes to correspond with nos
tris and sewing in bristles In place OF
whiskers, it Is said the men produced
an article closely resembling the gem
uine and collected the bounty OF one
dollar each on Sc bogus noses.
In his recent inaugural address, at
Jackson, Miss. Gov. James K. Varda-
man declared the growing tendency OF
the negro to commit criminal assault
On white women is nothing more or
less than manifestations of the racial
desire for social equality. He declared
that education is the curse of the ne
gro race and that criminality among
the educated negroes of New England
Is four times greater as among the
illiterate negroes of the south and in
the south they were growing worse ev-
cry year.
Inc COlutSl weather VI lbC cV.hs'p''
was experienced in the west and north
west Monday, Jan. 25. There was
much suffering among the poor In
Chicago and five deaths from cold were
A man was found in the
streets frozen stiff A terrible blizzard
ragged Sunday and Monday In Winni-
peg, Man. tying up the whole city
number of people were taken to the
hospitals badly frozen. Three deaths
were reported. Mercury touched so
degrees below zero Minnesota reports
81 below. Several billiards are report
ed from several points in the west, The
cold wave extends over wide area,
the upper Mississippi and
Missouri valleys and the western lake
region.
Because he preached a sermon which
his brother ministers believe was in a
measure responsible for the burning at
the stake of the negro. George White,
near Wilmington, Del, on June % last,
the Rev. Robert A. Elwood, pastor of
Oliyet Presbyterian church of Will
mingtop. will be brought to trial be-
fore New Castle Presbytery on Feb. 2.
The charges are that the accused pas
tor was guilty of advocating violence
and disobedience to law; that his
from text from the consti-
tuition of the United States was an act
the Bible and that his SER
mon in many respects, which are
specified, was contrary to the tenets of
the Presbyterian church. The general
charge is ''unchristian and unministe-
rial conduct"
The Boston board of health was
obliged Thursday, Jan. 81, to refuse
the request of the health authorities of
Chicago for a quantity Of antitoxin, as