Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-11-25

tries. The investigation will not be
completed before congress adjourns
In March. A Washington despatch
to the New York Times said that
Commissioner Garfield denied that
any steps had been taken by the
cation of the Standard Oil com
pany, the bureau being now busy
with data regarding the beef trust,
which must be ready for congress
early next month. II admitted that
investigation of the petroleum In
dustry might be contemplated.
The fund of 100000 for the erection
of a national monument to President
Mckinley has been completed, and the
national trustees of the association Will
this week choose design for the mon
ument.
The naval estimates given out at
Washington for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1906. aggregate s114,53o,s3S,
an increase of $17,372,i43 over the
last appropriation The estimate for
the navy department proper is $685.
clio.
The Indians on the Campora res
ervation in California, a hard
working, intelligent farming people,
are reported to be living chiefly on
acorns and in danger of starvation
unless aid is soon rendered them.
No rain has fallen to start the seed
planted.
Secretary Shaw has announced a
cali upon national banks holding
government deposits to the amount
OF % per cent of their holdings, 10
per cent TO be paid on or before Jan
rs next and 10 per cent on or before
March Is next This the secretary
estimates, will bring into the treas
ury about s25,O00,o00.
Thirty hospitals in various large
lcities of the country are cooperating
lin a series of experiments tending 10
La better understanding and mastery
of pneumonia. The questions which
the commission Of specialists III
charge OF the work will endeavor 70
lanswer cover the entire range OF tne
disease. as well as studies of the air
and dust conditions in public and
private places,
The bronze statue of Frederick the
Great, presented to the American peo-
pie by Emperor William of Germany,
was unveiled at Washington Saturday,
Nov. 10, by Baroness Speck Won stern
burg, wife of the German ambassador
who was the central figure In the
elaborate ceremony marked by great
military and official display. Presl-
Edent Roosevelt made the chief ADDRESS
of the day. accepting the gift on behai1
of the American people,
The board of health of Springfield
. Mass, has placed laryngeal and null
monary tuberculosis and cereoro-splnai
meningitis on the list of contagious and
infectious diseases which must be re-
ported to the board by attending ply
sicians. II has revoked the two or
dinances relating 10 splitting In street
cars and public places and has suhsu-
Ituted n single ordinance the aim OF
which is TO include all public or semi
public places where people congregate
or pass.
Col w. C. r. Breckenridge died at
Lexington, KY, Saturday, NOV w
from a stroke of paralysis sustained
the preceding wednesday. he was
born In Baltimore in 1887. He entered
the confederate army as captain b.
came colonel of the 9th Kentucky cav
airy, and commanded a cavalry bri-
gade when II surrendered. He was
lafterward professor OF equity jurispru-
dence In Kentucky university. He was
n member of congress from KENTUCKY
from 1884 to 1895.
The national anti-saloon league at
Columbus. O.. Saturday, Nov. ~, de-
clared in it's resolutions that liquor
traffic must be regarded and dealt
with as a crime, calling upon congress
to make prohibition condition OF
Statehood for the Indian Territory and
favoring the passage of the so-cailed
Hepburn Dolliver bin in such form as
, shall effectively secure to the state
power to control the liquor trafnc
within their own boundaries from
without, under the guise of interstate
commerce.
American federation of labor del
egates at San Francisco SATURDAY,
Nov 10, voted unanimously to levy
. an assessment of one cent per week
for three weeks in aid of the textile
workers now out on strike at Fan
River, and to confer upon the exec
utive council of the federation au-
thority to levy additional assess
ments, If such a course in their
Judgment should be deemed neces-
sary. This will Immediately realize
SIS, 900 for the aid of the strikers.
; Great enthusiasm was shown at the
meeting.
Civil Service Commissioner John
C. Black. formerly in command OF
the Grand Army of the Republic,
is said to be President Roosevelts
selection for the vacant commission
ership of pensions to succeed Eu-
gene F. Ware. March 4. Mr.. Roose-
welt. it is said, will appoint First
Deputy Commissioner James L.
Davenport to be commissioner from
Jan. / to March 4. when he will be
retired to his present office of first
deputy. Mr.. Black draws pension
of 800 a month.
The heirs of G. T. Downing of
Newport, r. l.. who next to Booker
Washington was the leading negro
in America, and who was in his day
among the leading abolitionists. have
sued for possession of thousands of
acres of land in the Adirondacks,
most of which is now held by men
of wealth as summer camps. 1t is
claimed that the Adirondack regions
which the Downing heirs seek to re-
cover were originally purchased of
the natives by Gerritt Smith. the
American abolitionist and anti-slav-
tery leader. Original deeds, dated
1913. transferred various-sized Adj
rondack tracts from Gerritt Smith
to different negroes and recovering
lal to George Downing.