Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-27


wednesday. Ian. 90, with the clerk OF
courts at Cambridge According 70
! Inc statute. 90 days are allowed IoI
4 This purpose after the close oil the
| trial.
Farmers of Georgia and South car
olina are agreeing among themselves
] 10 reduce their cotton acreage next
season and not TO sell the produc'
for less than 10 cents,
President Loubet of France ae.
,ante5 last week the resignation 81
/ the Combes ministry The premier
savs his policies have been obstruetea
Inv coalition of clericals ana ma
/ rionalists. but he believes in ther
ultimate triumph.
Rail of $4,000 has been fixed at
Cleveland. o.. for Mrs. Cassie H.
chadwick. on the three indictments
| found against her by the grand jury.
| AS the United States district court
has fixed her bail at $4,000, security
10 the amount of $4,000 must be Sc
cnred by the accused woman before
she Is released.
The house at Washington Friday
Ian. 90. passed the army approprla-
tion bill. after voting by large ma
iority 10 incorporate in II an amend
ment providing that hereafter retir-
ing army officers assigned TO the mi
litia of the several states shall hot
receive any pay or allowances adui-
tional to their pay as retired oHlcers
where such pay ana allowances eA-
coed those of major
Andrew Carnegie has offered to re-
Ijmburse Oberlin, O., student deposi-
tors who suffered by the failure OF the
Citizens National bank, which closer
Its doors at the time of the ChadWlcR
collapse Many of them had their an
in the bank. Mr.. Carnegie reilhpuTses
the Young Mems Christian association
10 the extent of $4,000 which had been
Laid aside for new building and
which was lost in the same failure.
A witness in the hearing before the
general assembly committee appoint
ed TO hear the contest OF James II.
Peabody for the seat of Gov. Ava
Adams testified. at Denver, Col, Wed
=. nesday. Jan IS, that he voted the
democratic ticket 40 times, slips con
tanning names and addresses being
given him by politicians. He cast
these votes for 81 each, changing MS
clothes occasionally. Another witness
said that Of 5000 residents or
dead only 10 names were struck from
the registration list. Experts VINO
examined the Denver ballot boxes
report 449 out of 904 ballots In the
boxes spurious.
The grand jury, which has for two
months been investigating the cleo
ton frauds in Pueblo county, Col,
reported a hundred indictments Fra
day. Jan. 20. and was discharged. II
reported the discovery of consplr-
acv. with its head in Denver, to con-
troll the election in that county by
corrupt methods Thirty-two indict-
ments were returned against n. ,.
Walpole, the newly appointed post
master of Pueblo, making total OF
40 charges against him in connection
with election frauds. The grand jury
was in session A days and returned
in all 257 indictments, all charging
irregularities and crimes in the last
election.
Gessler Rosseau, who was arrested
loaded Internal machine in his pos
session. admitted to the police that he
is the man who attempted to destroy
the statue of Frederick the Great IN
Wa shincton recently and also that II
was he who sent the trunk containing
an Internal machine to the British
steamship Umbria at New YORK In
MAY, 1903 Rosseau was indicted by
the grand jury at New York Thurs
day. Jan 10, under the section OF the
penal code which makes it felony to
send dynamite or other explosives 10
a steamship without label or other
sign of its character. He gives no
reason for the attempted outrages,
except that there are too many for
eign affairs in this country"
Senator Reed Smoot was a witness
in his own behalf in the inquiry at
washington Friday, Jan. 20. He de-
clared he believed the revelation OF
polygamy came from God but was OPP
posed to it's practice against the laws
of the land He said that If reveia-
ton from God came to him, he should
consider it more binding than law of
the land and if it conflicted with the
law. he should go to some other land.
He denied the influence of the church
/ IN pOlltlCS. fGoltSspT "a
mage of the University of Utah, an
authority on the doctrine of the Nor
mon church, who testified in the in
quiry Thursday. Jan. 10, was asked
why the manifesto of 1890 prohibiting
polygamy was not included in the
doctrines and covenants and said that
there had been no change in the plates
( of the book since 1885, Senator Smoot
absolutely refused to testify in re-
gard to the endowment ceremonies.
The strike of the cotton mill opera
tives at Fall River. Mass, which
affected about $4,000 persons. and
which has been in progress for six
months, was settled Wednesday, Jan.
/ IS. through the mediation of Gov. Will
! liam L. Douglas. Under the terms OF
an agreement, accepted by both man.
ufacturers and operatives at a con-
/ ference held at the state house In
I Boston, the strikers returned to work
at once under the 1919 per cent reduc-
I ton against which they struck last
July. and with no discrimination be-
cause of the strike. No rate of wages
was established. but it was agreed
that Gov. Douglas shall investigate
the matter of margins between the
cost of cotton TO the mill owners and
the selling price of the cloth, and sub
NIT his conclusions as to an average
,,,orofn ,,po,, which the r,1arrrfacfu