Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-10

[ hang on the result of the operations
, now under way. 1t is believed in Rus
2 STA that Gen. Kuropatkin has opened
] a line of retreat in the direction of
. Hardin. Russia admits 10000 wound
ed and claims 10000 lost for the Jap
anese. Wednesdays dispatches re-
ported the Russians in full retreat
: northward, having evacuated the
whole Shakhe river line.
George Sewall Boutwell, ex-govern-
or of Massachusetts, ex- United States
senator and congressman and ex-
secretary of the United States treas
Jury, died at his home in Groton, Mass
Monday, Feb. q, aged 81 years.
Messrs Gaynor and Greene wanted |
by the United States authorities in |
connection with the Savannah river
contracts, were arrested at Quebec
Saturday March A. and taken to
Montreal to complete extradtion pro-
ceedings. The arrests were made on
a new warrant based on old informa-
ton and the judgment of the privy
council
The president sent a large number
of nominations to the senate at Wash
ington Monday, March g. including
all of the members of the cabinet ex-
cept Postmaster General Wynne, +
George b. Cortelyou was nominated
for that office The nominations in q
clude names heretofore announced as a
ambassadors and Senator Cockrell as
interstate commerce commissioner
Robert J. Wynne is named as consul
general to London.
The Antarctic ship, LIE Francois, II
with the entire Charcot expedition, h
fears for whose safety had arisen, b
has arrived at Puerto Madrin, Argen- a,
tina. The expedition, headed by DIR. h,
Jean Charcot, son of the celebrated e.
DR.. Jean NJ. Charcot, was backed by
funds supplied by subscriptions taken
by the Matin and the Francois. two -.
Paris newspapers. 1t sailed from IN
France in August, 1903, to explore the ar
regions. r,
Auoiph D. bioch, mil worker at as
Pa, Interrupted a com or
'ailoh VINO was readlng TO MIN last &C
week an account of the hanging of In
EUGENE Bloch at Allentown by declar- Fla
lg that ne was the murderer of oh
lrs' Kate talzinger, and that Eu wi
enc Bloch his brother, was inno-
emit. Bloch, who is a German Jew,
years of age, reads newspapers col
ut little and says he knew nothing Ru
the trial, conviction and execution ella
his brother until the item was read do,
him lisl
ella
The trial of Mrs. Cassie L. Chad the
ick on the charge of conspiracy cor
;ainst the United States in connec- fro
on with financial Irregularities com res
tilted in various transactions with he
e Citizens National bank of Ober- ty
!, o., was begun Monday, March C, trei
the United States district court at he
eveland, o. Andrew Carnegie was sine
esent The jury was chosen. the can
ses outlined and the taking of testi- ly,
)ny begun. The jury is composed quiz
II farmers and one real estate deal in
bee,
TAXI
The widow of United States Sena- -
/
d suddenly in a Honolulu hotel q
esday night, Feb. 2S She took a
'e of bicarbonate of soda lust be-
e retiring and went into convul-
ms soon afterward She declared n
t she had been poisoned. and an b
opsy showed in the different or
Is no sufficient cause for death
m disease. At a coroner's inques, =
4 at Honolulu, Monday. March G.
of the autopsy physicians testified
the symptoms found by him and
er physicians indicated that
'chnine poisoning was the cause OF
. Stanford's death Analysis Of
bicarbonate of soda showed that
Contained strychnine. An attempt
made at San Francisco. In Jan
:, to poison Mrs. Stanford. the
eral water. through which the at
pit was made. being found by
mist to contain strychnIne. Mrs.
lford's Chinese cook Is suspected \
he crime and Is under strict sur
ance. There Is said to have been
'usy among the household en-
es Of Mrs. Stanford.