Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-03-03
Not So Funny Now.

Not So Funny Now.
Christopher Smyth. alias Sand
rock" the young man who Commute
a series OF daring robberies by holdin
up wealthy residents OF New Yor
city In their own homes an
at the point OF n revolver
compelling them to pay him money
was sentenced 10 20 years In stat
prison Friday, Feb. II. He secures
only small amounts but he operates
with such daring and impunity tha
the entire police force was instructe'
to find him. Smyth declared that h
committed the robberies for the fun
ne got from them and was amused a
the conduct of his victims.
The senate nj Charleston, West Vlr
ginia. has adopted resolution to in
ment being demanded by Senator
Caldwell.
Harvard's astronomical obesrvator,
! Is mounting 60-inch telescope. Whef
fitted up 1t will be the largest teles'
cope of Its kind in actual use In al
the world.
Memorial services In tribute to the
late Senator Quay of Pennsylvania
were conducted In special session OF
congress at Washington Sunday, Feb
10.
President Roosevelt will take six
weeks hunting trip this spring In a
great canyon In southwestern Colo
RADIO, remote from human habitation.
The country Is filled with grizzlies
and mountain lions.
The ambassadors of Great Britain,
France, Italy and Russia presented a
note TO the German foreign Office at
Berlin Saturday. Feb is, definitely
declining to accede to the propositions
of Prince George of Greece in favor
of the annexation of the island of
Crete by Greece.
Settlement of the differences of the
Equitable Life Assurance society was
made in New York last week and the
old officers We're reelected including
James w. Alexander president and
James II. Hyde, first vice-president.
1t was voted that policy holders be
given the right to vote for directors.
At the meeting of the general as
sembly in joint session at Dover, Del,
Friday. Feb. II, six of the union re-
publicans broke away from j. e. Ad-
dicks, their votes being divided among
three other candidates. This is the
came a candidate for U. S. senator in
1895.
Jay Cooke, the world famous flnan-
,ier died Feb. 16 at OgontZ, a suburb
IF Philadelphia, at the age Of SO. In
the civil war he handled the larger
part of the $4,000, 100000 bonds issued
by the United States: afterwards be-
,ame bankrupt in great failure, but
alter paid all his creditors in full: and
still later made another great fortune
TO that he died a multi millionaire.
The Cigarmakers' international I'M
on is considering a plan to fight con-
sumption by the establishment of tu-
,erculosis farms In different parts of
he United States by labor organiZa-
ions for the treatment of union work.
RS afflicted with the disease. The
Ian will be broadened to include 9TH
T international labor unions, and the |
arms viii probably be located in
,orth Carolina, the Adirondack noun
aims, in the middle west and on the |
'acific coast.
A statue of Frances e, Willard was
resented to the United States by the
tate of Illinois Friday, Feb. II. 1t
as been placed in statuary hall In the
ational capitol and Is the first of a
oman to be placed there. The cere-
lonies of presentation and acceptance
ere largely attended by members of
mate and house and many eulogistic
idresses were made. The statue Is
lie work of Miss Mears. the sculptor.
nd stands In niche close by the
CURE of Washington The pedestal is
Vermont marble. Simultaneously
it'll the unwilling of the statue at
the Frances e. Willard
ltional temperance hospital in Chit
lgo was formally dedicated with i'm
'essive ceremonies.
The Medico-Legal society commit
e, which has been been investigat
G the cause Of death of w. NJ Rice, f
e aged millionaire. who died in 1900,
ID for whose murder Attorney A. 7. +
trick has been awaiting execution =
months has made it's report. 1T
ids that Valet Charles Jones testi-
d falsely when he said that he ad- t
Mustered chloroform to Rice: that d
ce died of old age, weak heart. in e
yestion and mental worry, dropsy
d anaemia Of the brain. Patrick's I,
peal will probably come up in court p,
the March term. Patrick asks a p
It, upon the body of murderer, of
theory that the embalming fluid
'uld produce a congestion of the k
lgs like that produced by inhala- re
II Of chloroform. Rices lungs We're N
lgested, it was alleged, by choro-
IN. ;,
10 strike of the Brotherhood of Lo- g,
motive Firemen on the New York. M
W Haven & Hartford railroad will
declared except as the weapon of :
resort to secure recognition by r
company, as a body, of those
mbers of the order who are en-
GERS. This announcement was .
de after an all day meeting in New Z
ven Monday, Feb. %, of the fire.
MS committees. The cause of the
pute is that $50 engineers who
'e been promoted as firemen. have
ferred to remain in the firemens =,
bStduSt VI It's INSURANCE :
eme. The Brotherhood of Fire tn
l demands that such engineers ~,
II be recognized in all treaties ~
n the railroad apart from the
therhood of Locomotive Engineers. SO
railroad claims that this would
% abrogate its treaty with the en- W.
,ers. a
sy
nalysis of the stomach and liver HI,
drs. Marie Walcker- Hoch, the lat
alleged victim of Johann Hnch u