The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1907-12-06
WEEK IN THE WORLD
Great Events and Movements Which
Are Making History.

for the Pacific coast Dec. 10 in command
of Rear Admiral Robley ID. Evans Will
carry Il 600 men and s60OO,OOO IN eatables
and other supplies. The coal for the
cruise, the largest in naval history, WIZ
cost s.. 100000. The trip will be nearly
l4OOO miles long and will consume, od
steamship days. Fifty.two more days
will be spent in coaling and in target
practice. The route will be down the
American and South American coast;
through the Straits of Magellan, and
thence up the Pacific coast. The itln.
erary provides for an average oil ~
knots an hour. Starting with Gull bunk
ers of coal the ships will require more
than 100000 tons additional. The fleet
is scheduled to reach Trlnidad-liSO
knots-two days before Christmas. Rio
Janeiro will be reached Jan. 10, and
Magdalena Bay on March 5. There VIII
be a months stop there for target prac-
tise. San Francisco, 1000 miles iron
Magdalena Bay, win be reached on April
10. The movements after that are unan'
nounced Wireless phones are beng at,
tached to all the battleships, and at al
times during the cruise they will be IN
instant communication with Washing
ton.
More up-to-date business methods, a
revised system of bookkeeping and
permanent official corresponding to an
agent of a big corporation or the super
intendent of big factory to receive
salary of not less than $1,000 are the
striking needs OF the postotiice depart.
mcnt, according to the annual report oil
Postmaster-General George Won l.. Mey-
err. Further than this, there is recon.
mendation for the general increase OF
salary to officials Of the department and
an extension of the parcels post TO an
extent which will give the people OF
this country the same privilege enjoyed
by those OF "a other countries as to
weight and postage. The most earnest
recommendation OF the postmastergen.
eral, however, is for the establishment OF
postal savings banks. He gives two
reasons for this: One, in order to en-
courage economy and thrift; the other,
in order to afford a place OF deposit free
from any possibility Of doubt or suspic
ion for vast sums of money which might
otherwise be boarded and kept out OF
circulation through ignorance or lack OF
confidence.
Senator Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio
widely known as Fire Alarm Joe, is go
ing to be candidate for the republican
presidential nomination. In letter TO
the vice president of the Ohio republican
league Friday, Senator Foraker stated
that he would contest the Ohio delegation
TO the national convention with Secre-
tary Taft and outlined his views on ma.
tional topics. Foraker calls attention
to his unbelief in the effectiveness of the
railroad rate law and refers to his atti-
tude on Joint statehood and the Brown
vile affair as shown by his course in
congress. Friends of Secretary Taft are
inclined to view Foraker's announcement
with amusement, saying that the repub.
licans of Ohio have long since expressed
their presidential preference and that 1t
does not mention the senator.
The trial of Mrs. Annie NJ. Bradley,
charged with the murder of former Unit.
ed States Senator Arthur Brown OF
Utah, ended Tuesday morning in an ac-
quittal the jury remaining out over
night. The case had been on trial IN
Washington before Judge Wendell Z,
Stafford, formerly of Vermont for near
" three weeks and had attracted wide
attention. Mrs. Bradley, who had for
mother of several children by him, shot
the former senator in a Washington ho-
tel about year ago. claiming that he
had failed to fulfill his promise to marry
her in order that the children might have
an honest name. Insanity was the plea
used successfully by the defense.
During a binding snowstorm Monday
the Canadian Pacific railway company's
steamship Mount Temple, bound from
Antwerp to st. John, n. b., with 600
passengers, struck La Have Iron Bound
lodges Is miles south of Lunenburg, n,
Is. All hands were landed safely by
means of small steamers and tugs.
The jamestown exposition was formal
" closed Saturday night after an exist
ence which began April 26. In preach
ing the funeral sermon President Tucker
said that the total Indebtedness was 81
900, 900 and that 100000 additional would
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