Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-31


witness, suggesting that the latte
testify favorably for Armour & Co
and not tell all he knew concernin
matter under investigation. 1t Is fur
Their charged that other witnesse
have been similarly approached b.
Connors The penalty for this offens
is fine of $500, imprisonment TO
there months. or both.
Gov. Hoch of Kansas says that tn
new battleship Kansas will not b
christened with a bottle of champagne
but with a bottle of Kansas crude Oil
President Roosevelt has rendered tn,
office of assistant secretary of tn,
navy to Truman II. Newberry of De
troit Mich, and the proffer has beer
accepted. He will succeed Charles II
Darling of Vermont, who resigned the
position some time ago
! President Castro of Venezuela has
refused explicitly TO submit to arbi-
tration the pending issues between the
! United States and Venezuela, declaring
that the asphalt cases must be adjudi
Gated by the Venezuelan courts. The
United States government will pay no
present heed to this refusal but will
await further developments in Vene-
Zuela.
The report of the investigation of
the recent boiler explosion at Brock
ton, Mass, lays great stress upon the
age of the boiler, the crack which was
found on the inner surface and the
steam pressure which was sufficient
to throw the boiler through the house
and some distance from its founda-
ton 1t does not fix the blame or
bring specific charges against any
person. About $4,000 has been sub
scribed for the Grover factory suffer-
ers
Honolulu doctors reiterate their
finding that strychnine was the cause
of the death of Mrs. Leland Stanford
They declare that she died during
strychnine CONFUSION.
that post norton conditions We're
identical with those peculiar to
poisoning and that the post
norton revealed no other cause of
death Investigation by the San
Francisco police force into Mrs Stan
fords death has practically been
abandoned, The police say there is
little probability of solving the mys-
terry of how poison was placed in the |
mineral water,
Jules Verne, the famous French |
novelist, died at Amiens, France. Fri /
lay, March "a, of diabetes and paraly- I
sis. He was born in Nantes in 1928. I
His works were of a pseudo scientific /
character, and his imagination pic
ured seemingly impossible conditions 4
which were afterward fulfilled or eX- 4
eeded Among the best known of
lis books are Around the World in so
Days, A Voyage to the Center of the 4
Garth, and Twenty Thousand Leagues I
Tnder the Sea. He forestalled in his 1
Mythical adventures the submarine |
oat the airship the automobile and /
Their modern wonders. His last two !
ooSs, just completed, are entitled |
he Master of the World and a Drama I
l Livonia.
The Russians are retreating north =
ard toward Gunshu pass. Transport
ABILITIES have broken down and men $
ho become i'll or exhausted have to |
e abandoned The Japanese are |
loving forward. clearing the battle J
ED near Mukden and repairing the L
lilroad bridge across the Hun river c
is reported that Russia has asked a
I Delcasse, French minister of for |
gn affairs, to act as intermediary e
I'd to open peace negotiations with a
lpan. The peasant movement IN y
ussia is becoming more threatening, u
easant bands continue TO plllage, =
lrn, and murder in the south of Rus .
a, the few troops being powerless. y
he situation in Caucasus and Crimea s.
growing worse
Official notice has been received by Il
q state department at Washington II
the decision of the government of Il
ewfoundland to revoke the privileges Itt
long enioved by American fisher b
en- of buying bait and fishing in al
ewfoundland waters. This promises S
be a severe blow to the New Eng h,
nd fishing Industry, but there does hi
{ appear to be sufficient ground for m
3 Judgment of a protest by this gov Il
nment. The treaty of 1918 did not "
,lude the shore fisheries of New r,
midland within the waters opened to pt
nerican fishermen, so that this priv II
ee has been enioyed by the Ameri- III
MS by sufferance and the good will al
the Observation-Disclosures The action of de
2 senate in amending the Hay Bond
,aty so as TO render it valueless to
is the reason for the or
location of the fishing rights. M
IN
~ rooo,+1,. ,,o,,.od ,,,,r,o,o of III
ne panIlafo,Io,. w a,, pt1 SIoo oSa ~
~ IL i,,'o.inor -, -. of ,,,is,;o,,. co. 81
~ f,,.tira,, ~ az wi, n,,ed in,
~, me- ef nro+et Wv, ,ir;staru of ne
w England churches The nruden- MI
,a,,1s,l f. ns thn toora 49, 10 GO,
we'd a dissenting memorial signed co,
20 BOSTON ma StorS and DIR WASH tel
~, SioIdon os3o, of H. E;,s, ITr
,om ,ottnrnI ohi,not 90 Sn,,,,,,,'s Ga,
isieSarloliai tnuien Soiui,,ous, sh,
anu Iiiouelatoi VI tHe Seheidl 81