The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-06-05
WEEK in THE WORLD
Great Events and Movements Which
Are Making History.

The first session OF the btth congress
came 10 an end Saturday alter a delay OF
a day or more caused by the hlibusteT o.
senator La Toilette on the currency mn
About the last act OF congress was 10
mss a COMPROMISE currency measure
known AZ the Aldrich.Nreeland bill, one
section OF which provides for a currency
commission TO make an investigation oi
this subject during the summer. ms
measure was forced through the house
by Sneaker Cannon and through the SEN
nj by senator Aldrieh. 1t Is admitted,
however. TO be an Intellectual measure at
hest and its passage will not give the re-
publicans much thunder for use IN the
coming campaign. Figures ISSUED by KEEP
resentative Tawney OF Minnesota. cnair'
mon OF the committee on appropriations
show that this session OF congress appio'
priated the enormous sum OF Sl,uossoi,-
sai57 Only once in American history
have the expenditures OF the government
reached the thousand million mark and
| that was for the fiscal year OF lsoo when
| the country was in the throes oil c'll
war.
The bodies of Grace and Thomas Ball,
who have been missing since last Deem
Der. were found buried IN held near
Brockton, Mass, Friday. Mis-. Mary Ball'
now an inmate OF an insane asylum, wan
dered away with her two young children
and returned several days later with no
| remembrance of what had become OF
them. II is believed that both OF the
children were killed by the demented
mother and buried in the shallow graves
where their bodies were discovered. When
Mrs Ball was told OF the discovery OF
the bodies she showed deep grief but
gave no intmation that she remembered
any of the circumstances attending the
tragedy.
A sensation was caused IN Parls art
circles Sunday by the brutal murder oil
the distinguished painter, Adolphe stem
he'll, and his mother,ln-law, VINO W TLe
found in the formers residence. Inc
house was ransacked of everything OF
value. and Mrs. Steinheil, who was bound
and gagged by the murderers, says the
crime was committed by two men and
woman Both Steinheil and his mother
in-law were strangled by means oil CORDS
Commander Robert L. Peary, who has
PLANTED the American flag nearer the
north pole than any other living man,
hoped to start from New, York on ano el nea
polar expedition July !, but unless S2o,ooV
is forthcoming by that time the ploJect
|
meets to accomplish his journey to the
pole in Is months but will take with HIM
supplies for three years trip.
Emanuel Cedrino, the noted Italian au.
tomobile driver, was instantly. killed on
a race track in Baltimore. Friday while
driving his car in preparation for a race
the following day. One of the wheels
of the big machine collapsed on thr turn
Violently against fence. The latter
was little hurt but the former died in
stantly of broken neck.
Gen. Sir Redvers Butler, who came i. lnte
, prominence as commander of the British
, forces during the Boer war, died tuesday
at his home in London after an illness o.
several weeks General Butler had served
. with distinction in the Chinese campaign
l of 1860, the Kaffir war of 1878 and the
, Sudan campaign of 1884.