The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1909-05-21
News Notes,

Governor Hughes has vetoed the ALE
bill which proposed a 81. 100000 bond is
sue to provide a state pension in New
York for veterans of the Civil war. H
says the act is unconstitutional.
Colonel Roosevelt has shot two ~giraffes
a leonard and a buffalo. and Kermit got
big giraffe last week. Kermit got lost il
the woods and spent an entire night OF
horseback alone, reaching civilization il
the morning.
Capt. Peter G. Hams, convicted of man
slaughter in killing William Annis al
Flushing, n. Y, was sentenced to serve
and has already begun his term, though
an appeal has been taken.
General Stoessel and Admiral Neboga-
toff, convicted of s%urrendering the fort
ress of Port Arthur and naval vessels to
the japanese and confined in a fortress
since by order of a court martial, have
been released, their health having been
much impaired.
The Episcopal church congress held last
week in Boston reached the conclusion
that there can be no visible church unity
without a full recognition of the priest
hood and sacramental system. The con-
gress refused to admit members of other
denominations to discuss subjects.
Smallpox vaccine virus that had be-
come contaminated by the virus of the
foot and mouth disease, it has been deter
mined. was the cause of the extensive
outbreak of the latter disease in New
York. Pennsylvania. Maryland and Mich
igan last winter. Calves inoculated spread
it.
Broughton Brandenburg. alleged forger
of a spurious article ascribed to the late
Grover Cleveland, who fed from New
York on being indicted. was arrested in
San Francisco and brought to New York
for trial Sunday. He SAYS he left New
York in order to secure funds for his de-
fence.
Six bandits robbed a mail car of 500
900 near Mead, Wash, Saturday night.
They made the train crew uncouple the
mail car and run ahead. when they rifled
it. Then they started the engine and car
ahead of it by the trainmen, but it
into the other cars, wrecking
them and i%niuring y.
President Taft was made a member of
the Associate society of Farnsworth post.
G. A. r.. of Mount Vernon, \. Y, Sat
urday. The ceremonies were conducted
by Gen. Horace Porter in the east room
Of the White House. The associate so
oieties are composed of honorary members
Of the G. A. R.. and are designed to keep
up the strength of the waning active
membership of posts.
The body of Otto Sandstrom, a quarry
nan of the Vermont Marble company at
West Rutland for l6 years. was found
lead there in a shallow pool of water Fri
lay morning. Sandstrom was a Finn, SO
ears old. He is supposed to have fallen
nto the water. which was two feet deep,
,,b;1o ,,nIo, +bo ;pArenca of G111pr He
are dissatisfied with this explain
ltion and are talking of having the body
'xhumed.
The strike of government postal en-
in France has virtually ended in
he complete victory of the government.
he movement did not rave the earnest
cooperation of the great body of the en-
and public sentiment refused its
upport. The government took an I'M
compromising attitude and was sustained
v a strong vote in the chamber of depu-
les. Most of the strikers have returned
0 their places. The public service suf-
cred little interruption.
The Young Turks are putting to death
lanv of those involved in the recent re-
olt. One morning a bunch of "a were
anred in public, and five more another
forming. making about 40 in all. Captain I
of the L. s. cruiser North Car .
Ina. now at Mersina. has had a confer !
ice with the Turkish governor at Adana :
1d the latter has promised full protec
on to American interests there. Condi-
ons in that locality are deplorable, but
approved.
The premature explosion of half a ton S.
dynamite fitted as a rock blast resulted \
the death of % men at South Bethle- !"
m. near Albany. n. Y. last week. 1t a
CURED in the quarry of the Callinan o
Improvement company, and the vice pres
ent and general manager of the com a
nv was among the killed. At Codgoes a
ev. on the Florida East Coast railroad p
the explosion of 200 pounds of 81
Mantle resulted in the death of three u
d the injury of 10 persons. al
A monument erected by the Georgia di -
sion. United Daughters of the Confed- az
acy, to the memory of Capt. Henry III
irZ. commandant of Andersonvllle al
ison during the rebellion, was unveiled &C.
Andersonville. Ga, last week. There s.
re a few northern people among the nc
nong. some of whom have relatives rest b
, among the $1,000 men in blue in the W
nearby. who died in that prison N,
The silver service to be presented :,
the state Of Mississippi to the new "a
lited States battleship Mississippi, now n
its way up the river of that name to u I
christened. will bear on one of the 10
ces a likeness Of Jefferson Davis. whose of
is also to be restored to the famous q