Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-04-07
Protection for Infant Life.

\ Protection for Infant Life.
Three trunk lines have agreed !
bring all their milk to New YORK W.
summer In refrigerator ears. ~
smaller railroad lines are expected !
follow the plan. The health oiiiceI
say this viii result In n materlai re
duction In sickness among lniaht'
and a lower death rate. The depart
ment also proposes to protect Gus
toners against impure or drugge
product. MIX found to nave pee
embalmed with formaldehXde Is 10 D
seized and destroyed Even three drop
of formaldehyde In a 4O-quart can
milk will be sufficient to cause con
demnation.
The fourteenth Continental congress
Of the Daughters of the American Re'
volution will be held In Washington
beginning April II In the new memorla
hall OF the daughters. one of the mos
important matters that will come be-
fore the assembly will be the selec-
ton of a president general to succeed
Mrs. c. w. Fairbanks, who retires Oh
account of a constitutional limitation
Mrs. Donald Mclean, Of New York
and Mrs. George NJ, Sternberg, OF
Washington, wife of the former sur
geon general of the army, are candi-
dates.
George C. Holden, a post office in
spector with headquarters at Phila-
delphia, has admitted having received
cash favors from the Storey Cotton co.
The admission followed the discovery
In the company's cash book under date
of April 20, 1902, of personal loan
to George c. Holden Of $1,10O. Holden
has resigned and further investigation
of the case will be made. Holden de-
clares that the loan was accompanied
by no understanding or agreement that
he was 10 protect the concern against
investigation by the post office depart
ment.
Secretary Wilson of the department
of agriculture at Washington, who has
given closer attention to all questions
pertaining to agricultural products
than probably any other man in the
country, favors the development of the
coffee growing industry in the pos
sessions of the United States, with the
end In view of supplying the American
market and producing a condition that
Will put money in the pockets of the
islanders who are dependent upon the
United States. He believes in creating
a market by admitting this coffee
free and taxing that from all other
As a result of the conference on
rural progress that was held in Provi"
lence, r. l., recently. a conference
hat will embrace ali the New England
states is likely to be held The Provi-
lence conference, held in the halls Of
Brown university, considered rural
progress along the lines Of religious, |
social. educational, moral and business |
lctivities. Such a meeting will prob
IDLY be arranged for in Boston in the /
lear future. That these conferences
re made regularly occurring conven-
ions to be held in each of the New
England states in turns is also sug-
rested.
Policy holders of the Equitable Life
Assurance company of New York con-
inue to express dissatisfaction with
he management of the company's af-
airs and Vice President James H.
lyde, who has not been forced to re-
ign, has compromised with the pol
~ holders by promising them NUT
in two years instead of four 4
s was at first agreed. All sides now
lain victory in the fight over the So
iety's affairs. Hyde made public I
Wednesday, April 5, a statement TO :
lie directors alleging that President \
lexander has originated a plot +
gainst him and accusing him of dis
yalty to the directors.
The Belgian committee of holders of ;,
anto DOMINICAN bonds refuses to have !.
= tTt h INC - Il tt-f.l ]
ngement between Santo Domingo and :,
e United States and will protest 4
sainst it. II was planned to collect 7
lie customs of Santo Domingo by :
cans of a force of American collec- ?
rs who were appointed Monday, April I
The proposal to deposit the money a
ON the customs collections in an :,
nerican bank until a definite ar z
ngement is completed is not satisfac- :,
ry TO the Belgian bondholders, who y;
mand the payment of $4,000 - :,
onth to them in accordance with their :.
ntract with the Santo DOMINICAN y
vernment over half the total debt -
Santo Domingo is due TO Belgians. J;
Coored citizens of Greater Boston to
We entered protest with the presi- s,
Mt of Boston university against the al
'Ch' u'tSidiSSs VI IoullHey blge-
v with reference to the negro in his
lures at the law school, and have ia
luested that the university put it. as
f on record publicly against the 1S
ne. President Huntington is in tr
irty sympathy with the remon- la
ants, and promised to call a meet I'll
of law school trustees to take ac- ri,
. in the matter. The statements IN
Mr.. Bigelow to which the greatest ne
ection were made We're. 1--WE made Il.
Mistake in using negro troops to fight Ia
Spaniards," on March 21, and IF sie
scratch the little slight veneer of m,
lite mans education on a negro Won N,
the negro; the veneer is as thin lie
the burnt cork on minstreFs IN.
e. There isn't a negro who is co,
to legislate for a cat It is a deg n.
alton of white citizenship to elect Tb
, and nobody knows that better fir,
n negro" on March "a. o.,
he motion for a new trial for in
rles l.. Tucker. convicted of the vii
der of Mabel Page in Weston. 50
u.s., March 81, 1904, is denied in a irr
sion reached at Cambridge, Mon
April 3, by Judges Edgar j. Sher-
and Henry N. Sheldon, who pre-
d at the trial. fuckers counsel l
nile bill of exceptions with the she
'eme judicial court. Should the 80
'eme court refuse to interfere. If is mo
ed that the governor and his conn pal
WIZ be asked to pardon the pris age
or commute the sentence of NJ.
h to life Imprisonment. The do Oil,