Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-08-18
GEN ERAL NEWS.

Ashcroft and blocked the river pru'
Ashcroft had population or ooo, me
landslide came down near Ashcroft,
sweeping the waters OF the river oN''
the village.
The forestry service at Washington
has begun a series of experiments 10
determine the value of the SCRUB pine
for paper making purposes. ~
hoped that this timber can be utiiizeu
10 relieve the demand for spruce. when
Is very heavy. The plantations OF ,ne
Boston a. Maine and OF the Norioik
a Western railroads have first been
taken up. The scope OF the studies
win include the principal roads wnich
have had experience In tree planting
The battleship Kansas, the largest
war vessel ever built In the east, was
launched Saturday. Aug, IL, at the yard
of the New York Shipbuilding company
in Camden, n. ]. The launching was
witnessed by Governor Hoch OF Kan
sas whose daughter. Miss Anna Hoch,
acted as sponsor for the ship. Along
with the governor was christening
party of thirty Kansans. The Kansas
Is sister ship of the Vermont, now
being built at the yards OF the FORE
River Ship a. Engine Building Co.
Quincy. Mass.
Thirty Doukhobors. a religious sect.
marched to within half mile OF
Yorkton, Man. Friday. August III,
stripped themselves naked and burned
their clothes. The police arrested all
the men. women and children In the
party and wrapped them In blankets.
The Doukhobors had intended TO
march through the streets of Yorkton
oil GhnlAn1
but raw potatoes. They say they are
looking for Christ Another party is
reported to be heading for Yorkton
from the northeast.
Stanley Plorowski of Long HILL Nor
ristown. n. Y, garbage collector, was
fined $40 by Justice Stilwell for cruelty
recently. The evidence given showed
that he not alone frightfully abused
his horse andsmule, beating them about
the head until they were felled to the
ground, but that he made his family
of four children live on the garbage
which he gathered, never allowing any
thing 10 be purchased. When he
brought in his wagon load of garbage
day after day 1t was sorted, and the
best OF II reserved for the family, while
the rest was fed to the pigs.
Secretary of State Elihu Root. who
recently entered President Roosevelts
cabinet. has severed all connections
with a number of financial institutions
of which he was formerly a director.
Mr.. Root recently resigned from the
boards of the Morton Trust company,
the National Bank of Commerce, the
Continental Fire Insurance company,
the Title Guaranty & Trust company.
and several other corporations This
action was taken. ii is said. In order
that he might assume the secretaryship
Of state without being In any way al
lied with corporate interests. Mr. Root
has been a director of some of these
for number of years, in
GLIDING the period when he was Sec
rotary of war
There We're 55 new cases of yellow |
fever in New Orleans Monday Aug. |
IA. and IL deaths, Total to that date, |
Nearly all the lower part of the city |
IS now infected with the fever While |
most havoc has been caused in this |
portion of New Orleans. where foreign |
ers live. the disease has spread to /
many places in what is known as the |
American quarter, above Canal street. |
Most cases in the American quarter |
ire isolated. however. About 10 per
2tllt VI ali tIluS lar sl1lthtlf WIN YELLOW /
ever have recovered, the deaths being |
lbout one in every six persons infected. |
\ reorganized plan of fumigating and |
screening was put in practice Mon
lay.
Sea water as cure for tuberculosis
$ advocated by Paris physician. and
lis theory is forwarded to the state
department. at Washington in a con-
l.,- 4
her at Frankfort The experiments
vas so diluted with pure water as TO
ontain seven parts of salt in one
parts of liquid. Only in this
trength salt water should be brought
1to contact with the inner tissues of
he human body. The sea water must.
course, be steriliZed. and is then in
ected hypodermically once in three
r four days in doses of from fifty to i
lree hundred cubic centimetres, Ex- :
on Is Patients resulted I'm
ecided improvement in Is cases.
The British parliament, prorogued
riday, Aug. IL, after a long and men,
able session. produced a measure of Y
geological interest in the Unemployed
'orkman's act 1t creates facilities -
IT the providing of work and wages
II all able bodied applicants. The
ost interesting clauses of King Ed '
ards speech, from an international L
'int of view, referred to the peace
quotations and the crisis in Sweden n
Id Norway. Regarding the peace ne '
citations the speech says: "Negotia- f
ms. due to the initiative of the presi-
mt OF the United States, are about to h
entered upon between the Russian [
Irpose of terminating the deplorable ii
nflict still proceeding in the far east.
is my earnest hope that they may .,
Id to lasting and mutually honor j
lie peace" =
Fears of financial crisis in conse- is
ence of the Chinese boycott of Amer al
IN goods is increasing in Shanghai.
Is reported that President Roosevelt
s instructed Minister Rockhill to
Urn the Chinese government that the
lited States will insist on the full n,
servance of article Is of the ITEM
in treaty of 1858. The article pro-
les as follows: At each of the ports OF
en- to commerce, citizens of the Unit III
states shall be permitted to i'm
It from abroad and sell, purchase and W
port all merchandise of which the tiC
portation or expectation is not pro- gu
'ited by the laws of the empire.
mister RockhilPs attention was call er
to this article in view Of the pub tn
led reports that ii was the inten- re-
of those managing the boycott to
erfere with the landing of Ameri- O.,
goods. and to prevent stevedores q
m removing American goods from q .,
sells in Chinese ports. in.
he famous Jennie Cramer murder vii
stery of a quarter of century ago
likely to be cleared up soon. George
Leroy, negro convict under life
tence for murder in Seattle, Wash. =
aid TO have confessed that he and -
other men strangIed Jennie Cra- /
of New Haven and threw her
Y into the Sound off Sayin Rock