The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-11-13
WEEK IN THE WORLD
Great Events and Movements Which
Arc Making History.

Great Events and Moscmcho WAVE
Are Making History,
Insiiaiioas Ia seeand meellns ~
Washington II thr pNrinofs ~ ihsat
Representatives have iusi t'esa srni est
Ia ihn nal lnnsi fensrNaliah II iesoeifrs
s.,u,ni.stsn. Tho date announced =
Tns..iaN. lAer AZ the samr iihir w
teFs Az as,ins oil announcing tot ors
lay, ilr. !, tbs nfsi srilrral mreiihs -
the sstu,Sr aitnn COMMITTEES hsrli i"f ~
ranitaiian. lhiih II ihss- meetings at
llu aui sUNth II the WAL" henr .Yl
isirnrv ~ sassrIu"fs lasl May AZ sh't
,hp ,s,OsrN atitn innNrinrnt Mas launch
81 AZ che Forthcoming meeting The s',s
.tnofs Will disauss the aotk Nhifh ihs
naie,nal tttnsrtA ailon commission has
la.h ,afnins en hniihE ihr summer AMI
t,i Tie autfstme ~ this work ~ tle
nr,t t6or,uah inventory NJ the nation
n.tu,ai r,-.onfss,s tho iwlvml government
~. ,,er made. The inventory l. naN
praalrally complete TN this inventory,
wb,fh thr conservation commission ~.
i.tis 30 las lArioiu the governors, 'hr =
iaa which President Roosevelt has =.
| uursissl the commission - make y" hiih
noi later than Jan, ] viii ho hasod'
Farmer United States Senator Edward
Wsrl tarnark. editor ui the Tennessee
an Was sho, ani Lillrl At Nashville,
Tenn. Monday afternoon, Ia seventh
svrnup North, rs Robin Cnoptr sah
III Col. Duncan Z, Cooper, Mr., Iarmaes
uas going north ~ seventh avenue, and
l Tal. taatrr and his snn wsfr approach
lne seventh avenue ia Mon street
S,.,b after theg came IA sight II one an
other the shooting began. Robin Cooper
il Is aid, hr'd three shots aud senator
Carnark two. col Duncan q Cooler,
! il !. said. drew a pistol, hut dld moi nv
senator Cannack icll 60 the gronnd WITH
| the iiin " shoi,, and ded instantly
Robin Cooper was shot ~ the lght
| shoulder. hut was not scycVly hurt, u
l. AID the trouble had IT, origin IN the
resent Democratic guhcfnaiatial primary,
ia which Carmack was defeated, tar
mack had. as editor Of the Icnncssecan,
| been rather causiie ~ adversely CRITICS
1 ing what he called the democratic ma
chine. aud had printed several editorials
abou, Col Cooper
Count Johann Heinrich won Bcmsiorh,
who recently has curc-cnted the ort-
man government in Egypt, has been sr,,
lcctcd by Emperor William 10 succeed
the late BARON Spcck Won Sternbufg a.
| .mbassndor 10 the United States, SAYS
nerlin disnatch. Countess won Bens,orii
! i a daughter 81 Edward Luekemetcr OF
New York. The appointment has not
vet been made formally. but II - under.
stood that an, official announcement VIII
/ be given out within two or three days,
| Count Won Bernstorti has been assigned
| lately TO Egypt. He was first diplomatic
| agent and consul general at Cairo, hut he
was raised 10 the rank Of minister plchl'
potentiary early in lsls. lie is the fourth
son Of Count Albrecht Won Bernstorii,
who was a distinguished contemporary oil
Bismarck, and he was born IN London
| in 1862. while his father was German
ambassador 10 the court OF 81 James
|
The most powerful addition which the
navy OF the United States has ever re-
ceived. aud Americas trst allronnd big
gun hattleship. the North Dakota. was
successfully launched from the yard OF
the Fore River Shipbuilding company IN
Quincy. Mass, Tuesday. While the foam
Of the christening went streaming down
her bow plates from the bottle smashed
by Miss Mary Benton Of Fargo, y, D.,
and under the wa,chful eye Of Gov. John
Rnrle Of The state for which she is
named. the North Dakota iioated of
into the basin about 90 per cent comnlet-
ed Sometime next summer she viii be
turned over to the government for acc,,
ceptance. and If she fuliills the test, viii
90 into commission next September Inc
North Dakota is looked upon by naval
experts as establishing a new epoch IN
battleship construction.
Judges Grosscup. Seaman and Baker
of the United States circuit court IN thl.
cago Friday granted a temporary inlune'
ton restraining the interstate commerce
commission from carrying into effect hs
order in what is known as the Missouri
rate case. The order in the case had to
do with the reduction of rates on freight
from Mississippi river crossing TO Kansas
; CITY points. In the final adjudication
the interstate commerce commission VIII
endeavor to demonstrate that its post
tion was entirely fair 10 the railways. In
granting the injunction the judges stated
that the rule of the commission dis
turbs commercial conditions which have
grown up for, years on basis OF the
present rates"
Charles w. Morse, who was found
guilty last week of wrecking the Ma
tional bank of North America, was sen
fenced Friday to serve Is years in the
federal prison in At ANITA Ga. A. II,
Curtis. co-defendant in the suit and a
former associate of Morse in his high
finance operations, was sentenced to
serve five years and sentence. was sus-
pended The former "ice-kng' was sen,
fenced by Judge Hough in the United
States court in New York. A stay OF 10
DAYS was granted to allow notice of APP
neal to he filed. Morse has been a
unique figure in financial circles He ac.
cumuated fortune of 800 100000 in 10
years only to have it wiped away by the
panic of year ago.
Victorien Sardou, dean of French
dramatists and member of the famous
French Academy, died at his home in
Paris Sunday after long illness. His
first play was an absolute failure and IN
1857 Sardou was in state of ablect pov-
ertv. He then wrote Les Pattes de
: Mouche subsequently adapted for the
English stage as A Scrap of Paper and
this became a great success. Nine years
later he had become rich. One of Sar
dou's most popular plays was Madam
Sans Gene which was written for Re
lane and afterward translated into Eng
lish for Sir Henry Irving and Miss Ellen
Terry.
a There are about $4,000 cases of bur
glary and larceny in New York each
wear. and the property loss is about SIG,
100000. On an average there are lSO0 ar
rests year. and only 400 convictions
Only per cent of the jewelry stolen IL
ever recovered.