The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29
NOTlNGS.

3 The fire losses In the last four months hav,
been 80 per cent. heavier than In the cores
ponding period last year, and the increase il
particularly great in small fires.
!? Ex.Gov. r. B. Hayes Is rapidly faiIine
since an attack of the grippe. His face anc
form both show 1t, his hair and also hi:
beard are nearly white. and be sees
and admits 1t as men seldom do when theil
powers begin to decay. II find 1t difficult to
remember even the details of events that oc.
Cured to-day" he told the New York report.
ers recently.
The federal supreme court has followed its
deciston, uphOlding the constitutionality of
order that the personal property of the late
church be devoted to charitable uses lawful
in character, that may most nearly cores
pond TO its former destiny.
The Nationalist had a separate conference
after the Cincinnati convention last week
and formally endorsed the Peoples party.
Now the Kansas delegates to Cincinnati are
telling that Jerry Simpson "sold himself to
the money power" because he advocated de-
lay and deliberation In forming a third party.
President Carnot of France Is not a man
that likes to be deadheaded. So when he re.
turned from a tour of France lately, he had
his secretary foot up what the entire expense
of the "trip would have been If paid for, and
then he handed that sum over as a gratuity
to be distributed among the subordinate and
poorest paid servants of the railway.
Congressman Leonidas Houk of the I'd
Tennessee district died suddenly Monday
morning at Knoxville from heart trouble, |
which had been quickened by the taking of
some arsenic by mistake and the excitement
following the efforts to save him from the eff.
fects of the poison. He was one of the
strongest men In the Republican party of the
state, mad served In six congresses and been
elected to the seventh. He was a self made
....,, na,,ra I J,aafsa ,,hsln ,ro- Il H.. , |
his trade as "A cabinet maker, went against his
state for the union in the war ana rose to be
a colonel.
Gen. Mcmahon, chairman of the New York
assembly committee appointed to investigate
the management of the canals, has given
notice that the inquiry will begin at Albany
on the I'd of June.
Admiral Gheradl brings information thar
he Haytians will not treat with Frederick
Douglass. our minister there. and that if we
want a cOaling station we must send a white |
nan to do the diplomacy. |
Secretary Foster confirms the bitterly de.
lied predictions OF a treasury shortage by !
practically deciding to give the holders of the
4 2 per cent. bonds the choice of having
hem redeemed at once or continued a. 9 per
ent. interest subject to call ut any time.
lost of them are held by banks to secure cir
ulatiOn, and so will OF course not be pre-. !.
ented, and Mr. Foster observes that there is
o immediate danger of their being called,
ecause there is no money to pay them. The
leaning of 1t all is that the Billion Dollar
has left the treasury where 1t can
OF meet the requirements Of the sinking
lnd law. j
A feeling prevails that the tide has turned
Europe and that the worst part of the
nancial crisis there Is over. The strain can
OF but have disastrous consequences II
much longer.
The long senatorial fight In Florida ended
tuesday, in the re election of Senator Call. G
The Farmers Alliance candidate for gov -
nor Of Minnesota last fall has pronounced
third party movement In national affairs =
imical to alliance interests. q
The story about the American Screw COM
ny leaving Providence and moving It's +
orks to England is denied by the secretary I
the concern.
The supreme court decided Monday In a
Sc growing out OF the Buffalo. n. Y, bank
lure, that directors are not liable for the
of the bank ii they exert only ..ordi.
ry prudence. and that this prude nee is to
governed by bank usage"