Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-05-05
THE PRESIDENT WILL ACT
LOOMS. BoWEN VENEZUELAN
CONTROVERSY COMPLICATED.
Minister Bowen Called to Washington
Gen. Fitzhush Lee Dead-Govern'
nent interferes in Labor Trouble
China Abolishes SIieina Death.

President Roosevelt VIII settle TOT
himself the Venezuelan Loomls-boW
en- controversy. which threatens 10
prove one of the most complicated
affairs of recent years. Minister BOW.
en- will leave La Guayra on May u
for washington, to produce proof of
his charges against the official In
tegrlty of Francis b. LOOMS, assis-
tant secretary of state, and MI
LOOMS has left Washington presum-
ably to gather evidence to sustain his
Interpretation of the Bowen charges.
Nothing more will be done In the
matter until the presidents return
and no action will be taken In regard
to the Venezuelan government )
treatment of the New York q Ber-
muda Asphalt company until the
Loomis- Bowen affair Is settled.
President Roosevelt instructed Secre-
tary of war Taft to call Minister
Bowen to Washington. and to SEND
Mr.. Russell, minister to Colombia. TO
Caracas, and John Barrett, minister
to Panama. to Colombia.
II Is stated that If Mr.. Bowen's ac-
ton relative to the charges anecting
Assistant Secretary of State Looms
are not subject to criticism. 1t is the
presidents purpose to send him as
minister to Chile and then probably
as ambassador to Brazil
Frank G. Bigelow. the Milwaukee
Wis, defaulter, has filed petition IN
bankruptcy with liabilities assre.
eating over $2,000.000 and assets near
the million and half mark.
More than $4,000 was realized
from a big benefit given Mime. Helen
Modieska in the Metropolitan opera
house. New York, Tuesday, May q
by prominent actors and actresses.
Ignace Paderewski, the famous
pianist. is suffering from nervous
prostration and. on the advice OF
physician, will cancel all engagements
for several months and return 10
Switzerland
Miss Mae C. Wood of Omaha. Neb,
Saturday, April 80, filed a SUIT Tor
$4,000 damages against Wliliam
Loeb, jr., secretary to President
Roosevelt Robert j. Wynne. consult
general to London. and j. Martin
KILLER consul at Aix-La- Chapelle
charging that the defendants unlaw-
fully secured from her love letters
said to have been written to the
plaintiff by Senator Thomas c. Platt
of New York.
Four hundred confederate veterans.
members of the New York city camp,
are to be the guests of the Z. 5. Grant
post. G. A. r.. Memorial day ana
from 9 o'clock in the morning until
late at night the veterans of the Two
armies will mingle Senator Black
burn of Kentucky is to deliver the
Grafton of the day at Grants tomb.
1t will be the first time that confeder-
ate veterans have marched with I'M
ion veterans in that city,
Franklin Ravens, secretary OF the
Albany. n. Y, board of fire insurance
underwriters, was shot by Miss Juiia
Craver, a clerk in his employ. in ms
office Monday, May l. and died few
hours later at the Albany hospital
Miss Craver, who is under arrest
charged with the shooting. claims that
ii was accidental. She says the re-
voIver was the property of Ravens
and had been in a pigeon mole IN
cabinet in the office for long time.
She says her employer assured her II
was not loaded and she pointed IL al
him in fun and pulled the trigger
three times before 1t went off.
In response to a memorial of WI
Ting Fang, China's former represent
tatiye at Washington. an Imperial
edict Just issued abolishes the pun
ishment of sicing to death and SUB
stitutes immediate decapltatlofi'
cables the correspondent of the New
York Herald The exposure of the
heads and bodies of people after exc
cution also will be abolished. lmme-
date strangulation is substituted for
A reprieve untia after
the autumn assizes is substituted for
strangulation, and three
reprieves aunul the death penalty
is also abolished.
The warrants against Cobb, wight
& Co. Rockland, Me, of which Gov
arnor William T. Cobb is senior part
nar and the John Bird company,