The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-09-25
WEEK IN THE WORLD


Are Making History.
\ William Randolph lleaTsi furnished 4
2 sensation al t0lumlsus, o., last week
{ shrsi "a the Salifsa e a political sIsnrell
! he fvsi = letter iFsm Mr.. AFrhir,lj II ,hs
J STANDARD uil 0amlhany 10 Senator faF'
aksf II Ohio. The letter VAS written IN
igs and Referred ~ the enclosure Of a
/ cheek II laIs~ denomination Ia payment
for ssNiocs Nhirh senator Foraker had
! F.Ldrffi a. legislative agrni az that eur
I poailon. Mr Hearst claims That the
senator was nsriVins pay iium the stan.
! lani uh at q timr when b. was SUPPOSED
a. L. ia tho rrfktsr II the IaQple and
iher u little doubt that ihls ls true, al
though Foraker maintains that hts Isosl
ton Was snlirelN pnJsF Tor the fuasan
that b. was enpingul a. counsel iuE the
oil company ia Ohio and the matters ~
i-u-l Ia by Mr., Aiehbold had o. do
with business IN the Ohio legislature and
not Ia congress. The Heart Foraker cor,
n-slondencr has drawn irom President
Roosevelt a characteristics statement Ia
which be- argues that the disclosures are
an imi rrssiy. NiEdioation Of Mr., 1aii and
the Roosevelt administration, saying that
the defeat of Mr.. 1afl would bring last
ING satisfaction Ia the men who were he
hind Senator Foraker In the recent 10,
li,leal ieud IN Ohio.
President Roosevelt, in a letter 90 VII,
| liam u. Mckinley, chairman If the rcpub
llcan committee, made public AZ Oyster
Hay Sunday, appeals 10 disniefcsici ciii'
scns a. join with the rational republican
committee anh the congressional com
mltlcc ~ 4 movement to elect WI
liam H. Taft a. president aud a repuhli'
San congress 70 suppol him. After ~
viewing some 81 the important legislation
ot the pat seven years, the president de
clare that Mr.. Tait aud the republican
candidates for congress seek election on a
platform which specifically pledges the
party 10 continue and develop the policies
which have been acted upon for seven
years past II would he folly, the prcsi,
dent POINTS out. 20 elect Mr. Taft aud
AZ the same time elect a congress hostile |
TO him aud (which would bc certain 10 /
thwart and battle him on every possible |
occasion All the aid that can be- given |
90 pcrpctuate the policy of the govern |
ment as now carried on, the president |
says, should be given by every good citi. /
zen. as II is far more than a partisan
matter.
ST. Petersburg is in the grasp Of the
Asiatie cholera. which already has eX.
ceeded in severity and numbers the vista.
ton OF 1893. The disease is increasing
daily AZ an alarming rate and unless the
authorities show in the future a much
greater degree Of ability 20 cope with the
situation than they have in the past there
il every reason To fear that II will get
out Of hand. The government has threat
ened To apply the provisions OF martial
law and this threat has driven the mu.
inequality officials TO bend all their en-
ergies TO the campaign Of clearing the
city Of the scourge The aldermanic
council has voted q preliminary sum
amounting to $4,000 TO enlarge the hos
pital space, TO purchase and distribute
the supply OF which in st.
Petersburg is well.nigh exhausted, and to ,
expedite the burial of bodies, which has
been VIGOROUSLY slow. The dead houses
are overrowded and many corpses lie !
A fire Of terrible intensity Monday fore.
noon swept from the map OF Chelsea a
good half OF the thrifty manufacturing
area OF Everett avenue that was with
great difficulty saved from the flames in
Atwood & McManus box factory plant. d
and working northward and eastward |
wiped clean the district lying north of the h
Boston and Maine railroad tracks and a
within line formed by West Third l.
street. Carter street and Everett avenue. o
rhe loss will probably exceed $500. 600 b
According to Chief Spencer OF the Chelsea Il
Ire department. fire was OF ncendiary y
,rgn. for. as he himself declared, after X
he blaze was arrested and partly under n
ontrol. when he arrived on the scene ei
hortly after sos a. m. more than 400 feet Al
4 wooden buildings. used almost entirely Il
or manufacturing purposes, were seeth-
ng mass Of flames
Wilbur Wright at lie Mans, France, III
fonday, made a new worlds record for b.
eroplanes, flying for ! hour, 81 minutes SC
early 81 miles Ten thousand people, in. VI
luding Ambassador White. witnessed the pC
erformance and cheered wildly. The pre- da
ious record was held BY Mr.. Wright's OF
rother Orville, who was injured last IN
eek Thursday in the accident which ju
illed Lieut. Selfridge at Fort Meyer. Or sc
lille Wright is Of the opinion that his re
amaged aeroplane would have righted it. VI
III il il had had greater distance to &c
III. In an interview Monday he said 7,
nat the machine was fast regaining its Jr
luilibrium when il struck the ground be
One hundred and ten out of 1877 per. W,
ms aboard the cannery ship Star of a
engal were drowned Sunday afternoon 20
hen the vessel, torn by gale from the da
lgs which were towing her to sea, was cle
,shed ashore at the southeast end of We
cremation island off the Alaskan coast
he ship is total wreck.
rossing at White River Condemned, dis