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Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17
seinino in Lake champIain.

Fish and Game Commissioner
Thomas of Stowe announces that the
Canadian government has at last de-
cided to stop spring SEEMING in Lake
Champlain though the fishermen
have been busy the past week and
have shipped Is barrels of fresh fish
from East Alburg since March l,
Both Vermont and New York prohib-
ii spring seining, but the Canadian
government grants licenses from
March / to April Is. From 1901 TO
1904 the Vermont and national fish
commissions have planted S0,000,000
pike perch, sometimes known as wall
eyed pike in the waters of Lake
Champlain and its tributaries, and
that part of Missisquoi bay lying in
Canada was the natural spawning bed
for these fish. The department of
marine and fisheries of Canada ac-
knowledged that the request of Yer
mont and New York was just, but in
timated that certain members of par
lament were opposed to any restric-
tive legislation. Finally President
Roosevelt was appealed to, and it is
now announced that Raymond Prefon-
tame, the minister of marine and fish
cries, will prevent the seining and
thus perpetuate the fish that have
been planted in the American waters
of Lake Champaign If spring SEEMING
is stopped then President Roosevelt
has accomplished what the North
American fish and game protective
and the special commits
sion appointed by the governors of |
New York and Vermont have failed to |
In
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17
NINETEEN PEOPLE KILLED
BURNED IN NEW YORK TENE.
MENT HOUSE FIRE.
Collapse Of New York strike-Mrs.
Stanford's Death Due to Poison
The Oregon Land Frauds-African
Missionary Turns to Heathenism.

Nineteen people were burned to
death and several so badly hurt that
they may die, while 40 others re-
ceived slighter hurts, In the fire which
practically destroyed a flye-story ten
ement house in Allen street, New
York, early Tuesday, March IA. The
fire started In the basement and
gained great Roadway before 1t be-
came known to most of the tenants
and many were cut Off before they
could attempt to save themselves,
Thrilling rescues and daring leaps
for life marked the fire. There were
about 200 in the building and scores
were carried out. The crowded fire
escapes were Uttered with rubbish
and this condition was largely re-
sponsible for so many deaths and in
juries. A closed and frozen skyight
door was the cause of the loss of
several lives. The explosion of a
kerosene lamp started the fire.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Tlnmouth and Springfield, reported
last week among the license towns,
Worcester, has been released, the
number of license towns in the state
to S4
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

George e. Edison of st. Adams and
of the class of '76 of Norwich uni
versity, Mortified, has just presented
the university very valuable geo
logical collection, consisting of min
erals and fossils but mostly fossils.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17
GENTLEMEN FROM VERMONT

Visiting Boston will be welcome at the rooms
Of the Vermont Association. at The Westmin-
ster. Copley Square. Boston. Open daily from
mine a. m until ten .. m.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

S. H. Wood, department command
err of the G. A. r. for Vermont, has
made the following staff appoint
ments: Assistant adjutant general
and assistant quartermaster general,
Hiram E. Perkins, Post No. co. st.
Adams; judge advocate, Edward e.
Sawyer, Post No. o. Hyde Park; de-
partment inspector, Eli N. Peck, Post
No. g. Burlington; chief mastering
officer, George R. Crosby, Post No. l,
st. Johnsbury.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

notified Commissioner Thomas that
the carcasses of nine deer have been
found near Hardwick. Parties Of
Italians are said to do much Sunday
hunting in that vicinity. Mr.. Thomas
notified the selectmen of every town
February Is to appoint fish and game
wardens before March Z, according to
the provisions of section 4,571, YER
mont statutes, as the terms Of war
dens would expire the first Tuesday
of March. UP to March 10 he had
received returns from one town.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Charles w. Sanderson, the noted
water color artist, died in Dayton, o.,
Wednesday, March 8, of bronchitis
and asthma. He was about 20 years
old and unmarried and was born in
Brandon, where burial will be made.
Mr.. Sanderson started in life to be-
come a musician, but met with an
accident to his hand, and gave up
the study. He then took up art. He
studied abroad, and painted in Swift
zerland Venice Bavaria and st.
Petersburg. Many of his paintings
adorn the homes of the foreign no.
bility.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Rev. Arthur C. A. Hall, bishop of
the Episcopal diocese of Vermont
was operated upon for appendicitis at
the Mary Fletcher hospital in Bur-
lington Saturday March II, and is
improving, although his condition
was for a time critical. The attack
was an acute one and the case seri-
Gus. The bishop has been obliged to
cancel all his Lenten engagements.
Bishop Hall, who is a native Of Eng
land, is one of the best -known prel-
ates in the United States.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Gov. Bell Friday, March 10, APP
pointed Luther A. Cobb of Island
Pond inspector of finance to succeed
Frederick S. Plat of Poultney, re-
signed, and Mr.. Cobb accepted the
position. In his letter of resigna-
ton, Mr. Plat explained that he re-
signed to avoid complications to the
banks in respect to the question of
his legal right to the office. He de-
clared that he believed himself legal
ly authorized to perform the duties
of the office.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Frank and James Bushee, BROTH
ers, were shot Saturday evening,
March IL, by William Mason of East
Dorset. Mason gave himself up and
was taken to the county Jail at Ben
nington. The Bushee brothers were
taken to the Rutland hospital. James
had SO buckshot wounds in his left
thigh and six in his left hand, while
Frank had 16 in his left thigh. Mason
has served one term in the state
prison and two in the house of COR
rection for illegal liquor selling and
is said to be quarrelsome He owns
the farm on which the Bushes live
1t is claimed that he removed the
door from the Bushes barn and re-
fused to replace it, shooting the
brothers when they attempted to do
so.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Miss Celia Hitchcock, about 20
years old who was i'll in bed at
Mortified, was fatally burned Sunday
night, March H. In attempting to
get up and light the lamp, she net the
lamp fall, the oil igniting from the
lighted match and setting her clothes
on fire. A Scotch collie gave the
alarm and the woman was rescued
from the flames, but she died Tues
day. March IA, from the effect of her
Injuries.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Nathan II. Saunders of South
SALISBURY, a veteran of the civil war.
has probably been swindled out of all
his property by a man calling himself
T. E. Raglan of Schenectady, N. Y,
and claiming to be a real estate agent.
The latter got a deed of Saunders's
house, worth about $500. promising
to assume a mortgage of $500, and
give Saunders a $1,000 bond of the
Schenectady Cold Storage Co and a
bill of sale of the furniture and lease
of the Arlington hotel at Schenectady
worth $1,000. Saunders has never got
from the trade and has also
traded his horse and wagon for APP
parently valueless securities" Saund-
ers and his wife are penniless. but
friends in Bennington are helping
them in an effort to get the title of
their property back to them.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Horace Ouimette, 7-year-o old
Swanton boy, while playing black
smith Monday March Is, struck an
old anvil knocking off piece which
penetrated the eye. The sight was
destroyed and the eye will have TO
be removed.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

II. Rider Haggard, the English
author, has come to the United States
TO inspect the Salvation army indus
trial and agricultural colonies here,
with the idea of applying the scheme
now followed by the Salvation army
in this country to South Africa. The
plan for colonizing South Africa was
a pet scheme of the late Cecil Rhodes,
whose estate is bearing the expenses
of Mr.. Haggards inquiry, Mr.. Hag-
gard said he would not confine him
self to the Salvation army scheme,
but would also investigate the vacant
lot colony scheme in Philadelphia and
would visit some of the settlements
in Utah,
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Charles Corey, who has been in
Jail at Montpelier since September
10, 1904, on suspicion of being i'm
plicated in the McLane murder at
Worcester, has been released, the
state case being mol pressed on ac-
count of lack of evidence and the
death of the principal witness. No
one is now under arrest charged with
the crime, which bids fair to remain
a mystery.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

1t is reported that Hon. Olin Merrill
of Enosburgh Falls, collector of Gus.
toms for the district of Vermont with
headquarters at Burlington, was Of
fered the position of assistant secre-
tary of the treasury a few weeks ago,
but declined the offer. Robert B.
Armstrong. who has held the posi-
ton, which includes general oversight
of customs matters, resigned, and af-
ter Mr.. Merrill declined the position
it was offered to James B. Reynolds
of Massachusetts, who accepted. 1t
issexpected that Secretary Shaw will
retire from the cabinet in about a
year, rumor having it that he will
seek to capture the next republican
for the presidency.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Secretary of state Fleetwood has
granted AS licenses for automobiles,
in accordance with one of the new
laws of the last legislature. By re-
quest, No. 10 was granted to DR.. j.
M. Allen of st. Johnsbury who was
laid up for over year with injuries
received in an automobile accident
at the county fair in st. Johnsbury,
September IT, 1908, and in which ac-
cident Herbert Lampher was instant
ly killed.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Geronimo, the old Apache warrior,
has appealed to the president at
Washington for the release of HIM
self and his people. He begged that
he be released from the captivity in
which he is held at Fort sill, Okla
homa, and allowed to return to his
old hunting grounds In Arizona. I'VE
are tired of living in a strange land"
he pleaded, and want to go back to
our old home. We Will be good" The
president was not convinced by his
fearful argument and refused to
grant his request, at least until the
Indian should prove that he now has
"a good heart"
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

| At the recent town meeting in Fair
Haven the citizens voted to accept
the gift of $4,000 offered by Andrew
Carnegie for library building. In
accepting this gift the town also
pledged itself to contribute $500 an
nually toward its support.
The state library commissioners
met at the state house at Montpelier
Monday, March 10, and voted to dis
tribute booklets, prepared by the
American Library association, to the
state libraries. Ten towns voted at
the last March meeting to establish
libraries under the general act.
The Andrew Jackson house" near
Vergennes, owned by Mrs, Charles
Barber, was burned early March 3.
The family escaped in their night
clothes. Mr.. Jackson, who manages
the farm for Mrs. Barber, was severe
ly burned, The origin of the fire is a
mystery. The insurance carried was
$1,000.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17
have been begun in Texas and Mis-
sissippi.

Three thousand miles without a
stop, at the rate of 100 miles or more
an hour, is said to be the capacity
of a new type of locomotive Which
has been ordered by the Southern
Pacific railroad. Its makers think It
will revolutionize transportation.
The cost of operating will be less
than one-half the present cost fuel
oil being the only fuel used
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Thomas C. Cheney of Morrisville,
clerk of the house of representatives.
accompanied by his assistant, Fred L.
Hamilton of Salisbury, and Fletcher
d. Proctor of Proctor. will leave early
in April for trip to Albany. n. Y,
where they will study the rules and
examine into the workings of the two
houses of the New York legislature.
in compliance with the provisions of
a joint resolution introduced at the
close of the last session by Mr.. Proc
tor for the appointment of a commits
sion to revise the rules of the senate
and house. The full committee ap-
pointed to perform the work is:
Charles II. Stearns of
Johnson, Speaker John II. Merrifield
If Newfane. Clerk T. c. Cheney of
Morrisville and Atty.-Gen. Clarke c. |
Fits of Brattieboro
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

The controversy of ex-United
States Senator Frank j. Cannon, edi-
tor of The Salt Lake Tribune, with
the authorities of the Mormon church,
has resulted in Mr.. Cannons excom~
munication from the church. The
action was based on editorial articles
written by Mr.. Cannon assailing the
policy of the higher authorities of the
church. Mr.. Cannon's request for an
opportunity to prove the truth of the
assertions he had made was refused
by the ecclesiastical court.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

The alumnae of the University of
Vermont in Burlington will ask the
trustees to establish a chair of house
hold economies in connection with
the new Morrill, agricultural hall to
be erected this year. The women of
the state grange have already pre-
scented q petition for the establish
ment of such a chair.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

The body of John Haskins of
Readsboro was found hanging in his
barn Saturday evening, March IL. He
went to the barn and being gone an
long time Mrs. Haskins
went out and found the body hang
ing by a rope, life being extinct
There is no known motive for the
deed. Mr. Haskins was a prosperous
farmer about So years old and is
by wife and six children.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Arthur Ballard, aged q years, of
East Wells committed suicide by
shooting himself Saturday night,
March II. The cause of his action
is said to be anxiety over some trou-
BILE in which he had become involved,
and for which he was to have been
tried in the courts this week.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

A girl baby about a week old, was
left on the door step at the home of
A. G. Jones in Sudbury one night last
week. The child was wrapped in an
old sheet and shawl and when found
was in a critical condition as the re-
suit of exposure. Both legs were
frozen below the knees and the child
had been drugged Footprints in the
snow proved that a woman was re-
sponsible for the deed.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

Whitelaw Reid has retired from
the editorship and direction of the
New York Tribune, in consequence
of his having taken government office
abroad. Hart Lyman, long mem
Der of the editorial staff, succeeds
Mr., Reid as editor. Donald Nicholson,
who has been connected with the
Tribune for 80 years, retires from
the managing editorship and is sue
ceeded by James Martin, who has
been news editor since 1900.
Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-17

The name of Daniel Flickinger vii.
berforce, a native African, who was
brought to this country as child
and after being educated was re-
turned by the board to his old tribe
as a missionary. has been dropped
from the rolls of a Huntingdon, Ind.
church. 1t is charged by the board
that after a service of 25 years as a
missionary, the negro minister has
been lured back to heathenism has
become chief of his old tribe of devil
worshipperS and has contracted
plural marriages in the wilds of At
RIGA. The missionary in question
was named, at his birth nearly so
years ago in a negro village of West
Africa. after Daniel Kumler Flickin-
ger. then secretary of the missionary
board of the church. Twelve years
later he was brought 20 this country
by a returning missionary, sen,
through a high school and medical
college. He married a negress ar
Dayton, o., and has four children
who were educated here.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-15
WHAT JUDGE WRITTEN SAW.
Run Wide-Open Towns;
Canadians Enforce the Law.

Judge J. w. Written, chief of the
law division of the general land Office
in Washington, has completed trip
of 5000 miles through Alaska. In a
public address he has called attention
to- the fact that though in Dawson,
which is under Canadian rule, all
places of business are tightly closed
on Sunday, that in Nome, the Amer
lean governed city, saloons and gamb-
ling houses are always running in full
blast. The jurist construes this to
mean that the Canadian officials
either have a greater respect for the
Sabbath than the Americans, or they
believe in enforcing all laws that are
on the statute books. In either case
he holds that morally the Canadian is
superior to the American.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-15
TO dine IN LITTLE HUNGARY
ROOSEVELT WILL BE THE GUEST
OF NEW YORK HUNS TODAY.
The Presinent's Hosts Will Be Drawn
Largely from the Lowly
Walks of Life.

The Hungarians on the east side of
New York are lording it over the
other foreigners in that cosmopolitan
district just at present. They have al
ways considered themselves far sur
periOr to the Italians, the Russian
Jews, the Poles, the Greeks, and other
alien races with whom they dwell side
by side. This feeling is fully recipro-
Gated; all the immigrants, however
glad they may have been to leave
their own country, have yet strong
national feeling which they are apt to
manifest by showing contempt of 9TH
er aliens.
But at present it is not merely on
general principles that the Hunga-
rians think themselves the salt of the
east side. They havea special reason.
President Roosevelt has promised to
dine with 300 or 400 of them in one of
their own restaurants in the heart of
the Hungarian quarter.
On st. Valentines Day.
The dinner is to take place on st.
Valentines day, and it will be one of
the most curious and interesting ban
quets during the presidents admins
tration. He will be entertained by the
Hungarian Republican, Club, which is
composed almost entirely of Hunga-
rians who are not very well blessed
with this worlds goods. They keep
small shops, run little restaurants,
import goods in small quantities for
their compatriots or work for small
wages. 1t is even said that several of
the men who will be the presidents
host are walters by profession. The
dinner will be a remarkable demo-
cratic function. There is no other
country in which such dinner would
be possible or conceivable.
Huns, the Presidents Friends.
President Roosevelt has always been
on friendly and intimate terms with
the Hungarians of New York city.
When he was police commissioner he
frequently attended their dinners and
social meetings, delivered addresses
at their political clubs and cultivated
an acquaintance with many of their
leading men. He got into the habit of
dining at Little Hungary" the res
taurant at which the st. Valentines
day banquet is to be held. He used
to go there every Friday night. Fri
day night is always the noisiest, gay
est, liveliest night in the so-called
Bohemian restaurants of New York,
whether they are Hungarian, French
or Italian.
'Little Hungary is perfect Babel
on that night.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-15
GENEROUS ACT OF BROTHERS.
Divide Millions With Sister Not Pro-
vided for in Fathers Will.

The brothers and sisters of Mrs. w.
S. Flower of Pittsburg, Pa, have
acted very generously with her. Chas.
Lockhart, her father, died the other
day, and it was found by his will that
he had cut her off with the income from
$4,000 though at the time Of his
death he was on good terms with her.
Indeed, hers was the hand he held
when death overlook him.
1t seems that years ago she eloped
with a dentist, DR.. w. S. Flower, a
very deserving man from all accounts.
That was the first cause of the es-
arrangement between father and daugh-
ter. 1t, however, was finally overlook
ed, but when she named her first child
she entirely ignored the Lockhart
name, and that angered Mr.. Lockhart
greatly. When he made his will he
left her but a pittance of his great
fortune.
Mr.. LOckhart's estate turned out to
be much larger than it was thought to
be during his life time. 1t is valued
at $3.50, 900, 900. Mr.. Lockhart was
one of the founders of the Standard
Oil Company, and it seems that he
held on to his interest in the company
until his death. 1t is related that he
received as much as S18, 900, 900 year
in dividends. The brothers and sis
ters of Mrs. Flower, of whom there
are four, have decided to share the
great estate equally with her. Each
will have about $50, 900, 900.
While it is true that that sum is
more than any one person ought to
have there are very few brothers or
sisters who would consent to give up
$1,000, 600 or more to a sister. Each
of the Lockhart brothers and sisters
will turn over to their sister S., 50O,-
900. They can spare that amount and
still have enough to make them COM
Portable. The care of the fortunes
they will have will pretty fully occupy
the time of each of them.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-15
MEN WITH BIG WALLETS.
A Number of Them Are Down Here in
Georgia on JekyI Island.

Some very distinguished people are
now visiting Jekyl Island, thehome of
the millionaires. Among those on the
island are Cornelius N. Bliss, treas
urer of the republican national COM
mittee, and former secretary of the in
terror; Thomas Nelson Page, the au-
thor: Joseph Pulitzer, editor and own
er of the New York World; Right Rev.
William Hare, Episcopal bishop of
South Dakota. Edwin Gould and his
family, who have been on the island
for the past few days, left last week in
Mr.. Gould's private car, "Dixie, " for
a trip through Florida, but will re-
turn later to spend the remainder of
the season. During the past summer
Mr.. Gould bad erected on the island
another handsome cottage, costing in
the neighborhoOd of $40, 600. This
makes two homes he has on the island.
He also recently built large and
very costly boat house, where he keeps
his Yachts, etc.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-15
That Tickling in the Throat.

One minute after taking One Minute
Cough Cure that tickling in the throat
is gone. 1t acts in the throat-not the
stomach. Harmless-good. for chill
dren. Mr.. A. L. Spofford, postmas-
ter, Chester, Mich, says: "Our little
girl was unconscious from strangula-
ton during sudden and terrible at
tack of Group. Three doses of One
Minute Cough Cure half an hour
apart speedily cured her. l can
not praise One Minute Cough Cure too
much for what it has done in our fam
ily." 1t always gives relief. Sold by
Dawson Drug Co.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1905-02-15
LEE COUNTY FARMERS MEET.
County Being Thoroughly Organized
for Cotton Reduction.

A Leesburg dispatch says; Cotton
growers of Lee county met in a very
large body Thursday for the purpose
of organizing to urge reduction of the
acreage.
A delegation of three white and
three colored people were appointed
from each district to canvass the
county and see what the acreage to be
planted this year would be; also the
amount of fertilizers to be used under
the same it is being urged on all to
reduce acreage.
There are a great many fields that
look exactly as if they were fixed up
for cotton scattered about the county,
and wagons have begun to haul out
considerable stuff. that looks exactly
like guano, but it may be salt or per-
hapS flour.