The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1908-03-06
WEEK IN THE WORLD.
Great Events and Movements which
Are Making History.

Great Events and Movements which
Are Making History.
p.nne.l ~ narrow Railways, lamnis,i
arainst doors that nhh oirnul inward,
/ AMI tramplesl brnralh, the ieel ~
| iInrfisl Playmate letNeeh los ai"l ~
ehilirn ranging 10 asc from - 10 Ara'r
wene kille4l "Wednesday morning ~
| .rb,.,lhnn.e IN North InilinsN"osi, shi,
NIL ~ cleveland, a., Nhcn lire destroyed
| ihs buillinr. ileiNorn $40 aud - pul4la
Were Ia The srhool al the Time AMI ohlA
10 are known 10 have escalni without ~
iutN. When the flames NrFo disruN"i"i
| The traehcr,, Wha throughout soria 70 nav
| acted with courage aud sell pOssrsslon anu
| M ba,, struggled hcrulrally for the safety
| ~ their pntils, mafshaled the little ONES
iuto fnlumn iar the "hfr dull, Nhl,h
/ they had often pncllrei, Unfortunately
| the line Of march IN this cArfeise hah ~,
Mas lei 10 the iront door anu ing 'hl,
dIun had not been trained To serh ahl
other exit, The trr ramr if"in luina,s
situated dlp,rtly under ihis part :" 'n1
/ bnildins. When the little ones tvaciSi
tbs iaut al the stairs they found tue
I flames Close uiun them, and - sNlii a
ui,h Na. made iur the door that ~ ah
instant a tighily.lackrd mas 81 children
"a. nll,l up against IL, Prom thai -re
nnl none ii those who were upon any
ioftion oi the fr.t flight 81 starr hah .
| ,banse for their lives The cliidfcn AZ
/ IN font al the Stair attempted 10 hght
! their way haek 10 the Hnnrs above, While
I those Who were coming down shovel them
w,r,lrs.ly hack into the flames below
4 In am in.ian, thew was a irighiiul panic,
with 90 Of the pupils lighting Tor lnsii
| lives. Most OF those who were Ahl'H
died here. The grcatrr part OF those Nno
ESCAPED managed 10 turn back anu i'a1h.
cd the hW,cseapc aud "a" WINDOWS " ~,
rar. What happened 81 the foot Of iHal
| i,r.t flight oi Stair will never he known,
| for ali Of those who were caught ~ the
| iull iury of the panic were Killed. Aiicf
the flames had died away, however, a
huge heap oi little hodies told the tale
a. well a, anybody need 20 know It,
An avalanche descended sunday near the
village Of Noppcn stein, switzerland, Inc
cnotmou. atmospheric pressure which ac'
ronpanied Il demolished hotel al the
mouth of the Iochbcrg tunnel works MI
ing II persons and lnluring 10 othefs' Inc
occupants OF the hotel, numbering 50, were
surprised while seated at the table by
rumblings. Almost Immediately two chi,
dren rushed into the dining room ann
I
There was a rush 20 escape, but the build
ing. which was OF temporary nature, col
hpscd without warning. Both OF the chi.
dren were killed together with many OF
those they had sought 10 save. Among
those killed was an American engineer,
named Mcryart, who was installing Amer
lean machinery Tor tunnehng.
Henry LOOMS Nelson. 81, professor OF
political science in Williams college, died
suddenly OF heart disease IN New York
city saturday. Professor Nelson was a
LAWYER who early showed an aptitude Tor
newspaper work and had accomplished
much in that profession. lie was WASH,
ington correspondent for several years and
did special work for many prominent pa
perS. For a time he was editor OF Har-
pers Weekly and for a year or two iol-
lowing 1876 was editor of a weekly paper
I'm Greenfield, Mass. Professor Nelson was
the author of a number of books on tariff
reform and other economic topics and was
considered an authority on the subject oil
civil reform.
Formal demand for the removal OF vii.
liam Trayers jerome from the office oil
district attorney for New York county
was made last week upon Governor
Hughes by a committee OF stockholders
of the Metropolitan Street Railway com
pany. Twenty-Five formal charges OF neg
eCt OF duty are set forth. Governor
Hughes has forwarded a copy OF the
charges to Mr. jerome who will be gwen
Il specified time to answer them. y spe.
cial commissioner will then be appointed
to take testimony on the matter and re-
port to the governor.
Two fires that brought out all the fire
apparatus III the upper section OF New
\ ork city and ragged from midnight until
dawn Sunday destroyed the car barns OF
the New York City Railway company in
Harlem and the paint factory OF George
". Grote 4 Co. only a few blocks distant.
Seven hundred and forty surface cars were
burned and the loss to the company Is
estimated at 100000. The loss on the
paint factory is given at Sl25O00. 1t was
the railway company's second serious hire
within year, the former having destroyed
the Madison avenue car barns.
The senate of the New York legislature
last week refused for the second time to
ratify the recommendation of Governor
Hughes that Otto Kelsey, state superln-
tendent of insurance, be removed. The
governor first made this recommendation
about year ago but the senate refused
to uphold him. Since that time the state
insurance department has been subjected
to the scrutiny of a special investigator
and the findings in his report were what
brought about the governors second
recommendation.
Ex.Gov. William o. Bradley, republ-
can, was elected United States senator
from Kentucky Friday, defeating the lead
ing democratic candidate who had the en-
dorsement from the state primaries. -Four
democratic members of the legislature
broke the deadlock by voting for Brad
ley. William Jennings Bryan recently
spoke before the Kentucky legislature in
behalf of Ex-Governor Beckham, the demo-
cratic candidate.
The entire extreme northeastern section
of Tampa, Fla, was destroyed by fire be-
tween 8 a. m. and l p. m. Sunday. The
area burned covered 45 acres and 30S
buildings We're destroyed, entailing loss
estimated at 100000. The burned section
included four large and one small cigar
factories and numerous restaurants, sa
looms, boarding houses and over 200 dwell
ings occupied by cigarmakers.
The United States battleship fleet left
Callao, Peru, Saturday for Magdalena bay
in lower California where it expects to ar
rive March IA. This is the longest lap
of the long voyage, the distance being 3l02
nautical miles and as there are no wireless
stations along the South American coast
no further news will probably be had from
the fleet until it appears off Magdaena