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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

Ex.President Cleveland aud wife have re.
turned from Buzzard's Bay to their New
York home.
. The special grand jury at Woodsvile, N.
H., has indicted Almy for the Christie War
den murder.
The governor of Florida has appointed ex-
Congressman Davidson to succeed Senator
Call, Notwithstanding the fact that the legis-
lature chose Senator Call to succeed himself.
There was some informally In the election
and It Is mixed up mess.
The Mexican congress opened Tuesday and
President Diaz In his message felcitates the
country on its prosperity, improved credit,
and friendly foreign relations. A new SAM.
tary code has been promulgated. The penal
code has been reformed. The school system
has been improved.
good deal of excitement was created In
Europe this week by reports of an English
occupation of the island of NIFTY lene, about go
miles from the Dardanelles aud a position of
great strategic Importance. 1t was figured
to mean a vigorous movement against Tur.
key for her complaisance towards Russia. but
1t turns out 10 have been only sort of drill
excursion for the sailors In an English fleet
there.
The Ryegate and Wells River valley fair
opened two days fair at So Ryegate Tues
day. The weather was fine and the attend.
ance good. A baby show Is prominent
feature.
The State Sunday school convention has
been held at Newport this week Tuesday.
A. E. Winship read for his theme the uniform
development Of all facilities. He also con-
Quoted question bee. Rev. DR.. Foster jus.
titled biblical discrepancies In q scientific and
manner. Rev. p. Mcmillan
considered BEST Efforts and Applicants for
True Economy In Sunday School Work."
Delegates reported numerical and spiritual
growth. Rev. John Mackilliean Of Montreal
paid glowing tribute TO American methods.
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A new discovery. DIR. Miles, Pills speedily
cure biliousness. bad taste, torpid liver. piles.
Untqualed for men. women,
children. Smallest, mildest, surest! so
loses, % cts. Samples Free, at Geo. 4.
Greene's Drug Store.-adv.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

THE New York Democratic state conven-
ton Tuesday and Wednesday was a complete
Tammany victory. Whether 1t was one for
Hill also Is more uncertain. His wishes
were certainly overruled at some points and
there are indications that he Is losing bis grip
and of an effort making to abandon both Hill
and Clevel and and center on w. c. Whitney
as presidential candidate. unmindful of the
determination of the country to have no more
New York candidates unless 1t be Cleveland.
The County Democracy was read out ofdthe
convention, and the official stamp of the
party In the stae put on Tammany as the
only party organization In the city. No pity
Is deserved for the County Democracy,
which has became nothing but a spells
trading concern, but 1t Is humsliating
enough to have close-corporation like Tam
many, corrupt, rapacious, vicious and disrep.
utable, made to stand es the only represents
tive Of the great ideas Of Democracy. Dis
gust at the proceeding would be sufficient to
bury the ticket except for the fact that the
only alternative Is Tom Plattism. every whit
as low and disreputable, and even more un-
scrupulous. The wonder Is that the people
of New York will submit to such level Of
politics, and the question Is probably which
party will suffer most from the disgust of its
decent members. The Democratic platform
Is a first class one, philippe In its
arraignment Of its opponents, and
their long course of meanness and rascal
ity. This Is the sort of eloquence which New
York politics can always inspire-the Repub.
lican effort is very good one IN the same
line. The nominees Of the convention are
Roswell p. Flower for governor and Speaker
Shehan for lieutenant governor-the one
genial, self-made millionaire, who Is also
Of a political thinker and who is
always willing to pay literally in campaigns,
The other on adroit political leader who has
been deep In faction fights out In Buffalo.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

SOME sharp correspondence has passed be.
tween the British minister ut Pekin and the
Chinese authorities relative to the dilator-
ness Of the latter In the matter of the recent
riots. Evasive replies have been returned,
and It is understood that an ultimatum has
been submitted by the dissatisfied powers.
8. L. Gracey, the United States consul at
Foo Chow has written letter on the subject,
attributing the disturbances not alone to
hatred Of the Christlans-for he says the
Chinese generally, and especially the mer.
chants and business class do not feel it-nor
to conspiracy for the overthrow Of the
present dynasty, but mainly to the hard
times which make the more ignorant people
the easy dupes of lot of Idle discharged sol.
diers. He tells how feeling is worked up,
by gross and obscene placards against the
Christians, saying they shave power of be.
witching women and making them yield to
their desires. They are In the habit of tax.
Ing out the eyes and hearts Of children to
make medicine for foreigners" &C., &c.
1t Is interesting t. note the similar
ity ofthe stories to those told about the
the early Christians by the Romans,
to what is quite extensively circulated about
the Jews In parts of Europe today, and to
what was quite widely believed by good PEG
pie In New England about converts only
few years ago. How long is 1t since an
American mob burned down the convent In
because Of such slanderss lg-
nOrance and supt stitlons have very similar
ways of working the world around.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

MINISTER ScRAGGs Is home from Venezue
Ia and brings draft of a reciprocity treaty
which the latter country would be willing to
accept. The Venezuelan congress refused
Indignantly and unqualifiedly to ratliy the
treaty negotiated by Secretary Blaine with
Senior Peraza, the Venezuelan minister here.
Mr.. Blaine In drawing it up asked for good
deal more than he expected, on the Jews
principle Of expecting to be beaten down.
He included In 1t about the same concessions
as were afterwards obtained from Brazil,
and considerable more; for instance, asking
% per cent. reduction of duty on cottons,
while Brazil only grants %. To his surprise
Senior Peraza. who seems to be inexperl-
enced In diplomacy, accepted his prop.
osition without altering a word. But
the negotiation aroused rumpus In Venezu-
ella. The president, although vested with au.
thorlty to make such treaties. would not as.
sumo the responsibility of signing it. but sub.
mitted 1t to congress with special message. 1t
meant reduction of one.thrd In the revenues
OF the Venezuelan government and of course
could not be accepted. But there is no reason.
able doubt. notwithstanding this bad misstep,
that treaty can be effected substantially on
the same lines as with Spain and Brazil. 1t
Is vital for Venezuela whose trade with US
has grown faster In the last ten years than
that OF any South American country and who
cannot afford to see It taken away by reci-
procity arrangements with other countries.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

The acceptance by Secretary Proctor of the
appointment of senator from Vermont, ten.
dered him some time ago by Gov. Page, mark
the entrance into permanent political life OF
strong figure who is likely to repeat the
successes and experiences of bis predecessor,
Geo. +. Edmunds, and his colleague, Justin
s. Morrlll.-IN. Y. Press.
Prof. Goodwin Smith, writing of the danger
of war between Russia and England, thinks
the first step would be to get Russian crui-
sers to sea to strike at British trade and at
her dependencies. and that there Is consider
able danger that Canada would be shut up,
while the American. would enjoy the immun.
tiles of neutrals. Had we," he says, "com.
mercial union or free trade under any name
with our own continent, our principal mar
ket would still be open to us. Not only So,
but we might practically keep up our trade
with England by exporting Into the United
States products which would take the place
OF those exported by the Americans to Eu.
rope. Under our present system we shall,
II war breaks out. probably be left without
an open market on either continent
The New York Board of Health at the rec
ommendation of Mayor Grant has removed
Hans s. Beattie, commissioner of the street.
cleaning department, because he don't clean
the streets. And he don't because he has to
employ Tammany hangers-on.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18
NEWS FLASHES.

About 1000 mill hands are on n strixe NJ
Ottawa and compelling othei workmen to
join them.
r. l.. Carol of Fresno. Cal, committed suj.
eide last week by exploding dynamite
bomb In bis room. II remains weroscat.
tered over the room. one arm being fountin
the street. The building was badly wrecked.
and the statement made by Carol that he In
tended to create sensation for the newspa-
pers was evidently well founded.
young aeronaut who gave his name as
George White, of Chicago, dropped from
balloon into the Hudson river at the Eldora-
40 &c, Garden, New York, and was drowned.
HIS body could not be found.
MISS Anna Harkes. professional balloon
ISL, Tell 900 feet while making an ascent at
Coney Island, near Cincinnati, o.. and was
broken.
reports received from the provinces In
Aslat'c turkey state that the cholera Is rag.
ng tnere, and the disease has already made
terrible ravages. The number of deaths In
n 1aa dso from June to the middle Of August
CUES. ll,Oo0 Mohan Medan pilgrim to Mecca
nave persisted. The sanitary condition of the
cities lie very bad and infected.
baimaceda, SO New York Herald despatch
says, mas escaped from Chill on the United
from Valparaiso Monday night. lie had been
hlding 10 the city since the insurgent victory,
and Is saiu to have been slDuggled aboard the
ship, with the assistance of Admiral Brown.
disguised as drunken sailor,
A Mrs. McGri1fin Of McGregor. Tex, gave
birth to triplets ten months ago, and she has
just broken the record by giving birth to q
quartette. All seven are doing well,
A man was found badly wounded at Wor.
cester last week Thursday and now lies in
the city hospital who Is believed to be Geo.
EllwOod, one of the cleverest and most daring
burglars In the country, who has served q
term In the Ohio states prison. He Is iden-
titled as having been In Providence and Hart.
ford. He was probably wounded at the lat
ter place, though he claims to have been shot
at a gambling table In Worcester. His meth.
Cd has been to go into house wake up some
member Of the family and at the point of a
pistol force the captive to show where the
vauables were located.
Friday noon while Cashier Partridge of
the First National bank of Bingham, ILL.,,
was alone In the bank, two strangers stepped
In and advancing to the two windows at the
counter, each pointed revolver at him and
commanded him to deliver the money on the
cash table near by. The cashier did not COM
ply, but stepped behind the half open safe
door and called for help At this point one
or the robbers jumped through the private
entrance and snatched a handful of bills, and
both made preclpitate retreat. The alarm
was at once given and by quick pursuit the
robbers were captured. They were armed
and at first showed fgh
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

MAJ. MCKINLEY's effort to make himself
the champion of the anti.silver cause In Ohio
this fall, grows more absurd the more his
record Is examined. He voted for the orig.
nal Bland bill, for outright free coinage In
the 45th Congress, and he has never, until 1t
was regarded as shrewd to antagonize the
Democratic platform on this subject. uttered
word that would indicate any change of
sentiment. On the contrary, he has repeat
edly reiterated the views expressed by that
vote, In the party platform of 'Ss which he
wrote, and In bis denunclation less than a
year ago Of Cleveland for his "attack on sill.
ver." The whole trouble with the Republi.
can "honest money" campaign In Ohio is that
there Is no honesty In 1t. There is no practI.
cal difference in the platforms of the two
parties on this question. The attempt is
made to divert the fight to this issue simply
because the Republicans dare not risk 1t on
the tariff alone.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18
Significant.
[From the Springfield Republican

Massachusetts has had Democratic gov.
ernor f0- a year, and yet hot one word In
condemnation of bis acts appears in the for
NAL campaign declarations of his political op.
ponents. The platform proceeds on the old
lines as faithfully and placidly as If Gov.
Bracket had been reelected last fail, and
what the party of the long. tlme majority In
this state look upon as the established order
Of things had not been rudely disturbed by
the will of the people. This Is such a tribute
as William K. Russell may well value, for In
1t lies an unconscious Endorsement of the con.
fession freely made In private by leading Re.
publicans that the governor has served the
state faithfully and we'll
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18
The Pennsylvania Ipiuuities.

The government experts investigating the
keystone bank rascalities at Philadelphia,
were called off last week by order from
Washington, Just as they had, to quote one
of them, Preached u place where they saw
| daylight In the darkness which had surround.
ed the mysterious disappearance OF money
from the bank" The reason assigned was
the exhaustion Of the approprs for
such purposes--an unheard of excuse
In such cases and cumulative proof
OF the Intervention Of high author
Ity from some where to prevent the truth
being made known, after having done SO
much to block the investigation. But the
as!nte plan has been defeated, for the COM
mittee of 30 Of Philadelphia offered to ad-
vance the money to continue the investiga.
tion and trust to congress to reimburse
them, and there was nothing to do but ac-
cept the offer.
hut the exposure of the defalcations that
are the fit teachings Of the Quay, Delemater,
Bardsley school of politics are multiplying all
over the state. Within the past week City
Treasurer Hastings, of Allegheny City, has
proven defaulter In the sum of 3d., 900. the
Sharpsburg county treasurer has got away
with $4,000, and State Cashier Livsey has
skipped, and nobody knows how much of
wreck no has left. Five more of the APP
praisers of Philadelphia have been arrested
this week for defraudlng the city, and the
president and cashier Of the Spring Garden
bank have each taken a ten years. sentence
for wreeklng that institution In connection |
with the Keystone affair.
The New York Press felictates itself that |
no political capital can be made out of this
succession of almost unparalleled crimes In pub.
lie administration, because Democrats were
In the ring, particularly among the arrested
appraisers. OF course. The modas aoerandi
VI the political thief Is always to run ring
into both parties, for the sake OF making just
such an answer, and also to keep his hand in
so far as possible whichever party wins. 1t
was the way Tweed did, and his imitators al
ways will do. The only way the people can
do Is to smash whatever part of the ring
the y can see and jump on every thief they
IAN find.
That Is just what they are going to do In
Pennsy lvania this year.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

DIX. TYNDALL publishes In the Fortnightly
Review an interesting digest of DIR. Corneps
Investigations regarding the Koch theory OF
tuberculosis or consumption, and upon which
the French Association of Preventive Medi-
cine has iuaugurated some valuable practi-
cal work. The medical world generally
agrees, though 1t Is not entirely beyond dis
pute that Prof. Koch is correct In ascriblng the
cause of the disease to the bacilli, and though
his lymph has not proved to be an efectuaI
cure, 1t is generally believed that 1t is only
question of time when one will he discovered,
and the ravages stopped of maladv to which
from nth TO a seventh of all deaths are due.
Dr: Cornet's investigations have been direct
ed 10 discovering the ways OF communication
OF the disease. DR.. Koch showed sometime
ago that the bacilii existed IN such form
that they could not be communicated to the
human system In the air that one breathes.
and DIR. Cornet adds to this the demonstra-
ton that they are communicated through the
dry sputlm OF consumptive patients. Wnen
this Is allowed TO dry, the baciIlt. being full
OF vigorous life, and liberated IN the form Of
dust, are taken In through the breath and
soon impregnate the lungs with their deadly
ACTIVITY. III the sputum Is not allowed 10
dry, the bacilli are comparatively harmless.
Countless experiments were made TO see how
powerful this virus might be. Guinea pigs
were inoculsted with the virus gathered in
the form Ut dust from the walls OF rooms In
which persons afflicted with tuberculosis had
died, and IL was found that bovine animals
anu humans were equally subject to inocula-
lion. Dr. Cornet examined hospitals where
the dust from tuberculosis patients bad been
carefully removed, and found that other pa
TENTS were less suolsct to this disease than
where the dirt and dust were allowed to &C.
lumulate. He also extended his observations
10 private houses, where proper care was not
tsken TO keep the sputum from becoming dry
on hsndkerchiefs, and found that The disease
constantly spread through this channel 10
Dtber members OF the family. The French |
Association has made this the basis of active |
preventive measures. by forbidding such pa |
tents to lie 10 ciiies. by proposing that all
tuberculosis meat shall be destroyed, the state |
pas wing TOE owners for The property, and BY
quickly destroying the sputam In hospitals 1
md houses where there are consumptive pa
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The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18
SECRETARY NOME has addressed letter to

SECRETARY NOBLE has addressed a letter to
Commissioner Raum calling his attention to a
."yery considerable decllne"n the number and
value of cases allowed by the pension bureau
In the past few weeks, and bidding him pro-
coed more rapidly In dlsposing of the Claims.
The persons entitled to pensions, he says, are
becoming old, ''your force has been greatly
increased to enable them to realize something
from the bounty of the government before
their DEATH" Noble seemingly overooks the
fact that the Billion Dollar congress COM
PEELED payments to be STAYED off In order to
save the treasury from being bankrupted.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18

A PLAN is under way to make an encamp-
ment of the National Guard feature Of the
Worlds Fair at Chicago. It's proposed to lay
off parallelogram out south OF jackson
Park large enough to accommodate camp
of 10000 soldiers, leaving room for an i'm.
mense drill ground, the militia of each state
to attend and depart In rotation. A syndicate
of wealthy gentlemen interested In militia
matters Is to bear the expense. This would
give good chance to foreign nations and
rulers to see of what stuff our citizen soldlery
Is made, and would also be an incentive to all
state militia companies to improve as much as
possible.
The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-09-18
The Massachus tits Republicans.

The sharpest fight of recent years among
Ma ssachusetts Republicans closed Wednes-
day with the nomination of congressman
has, Fl. Allen of Lowell for governor. 1t
was the third time w. W. Grape has been
knocked out by his party. The first time 1t
IN cant defeat, the next narrow escape from
1t, and there Is no reasonable doubt that 1t In
sures the reelection of Gov. Russell this year.
John d. Long was in earnest when he said
he believed it made difference of 10000
votes, and no one needs to be told that the
Republicans haven't half or quarter of that
number to lose this year. A big effort was
made In the last days of the canvass for Cra'
pc. A meeting of his friends was held in
Boston Friday, the state was bombarded
with addresses" and circulars, and change
of sentiment affected, which. II the work
had begun week earlier, would probably
have nominated him. As 1t was the Grape
movement, which looked ike an utter fiasco
after the caucauses were held last week, ma
terialized with 514 votes In the convention to
7l3 for Allen. Tremendous heat was en-
gendered while this was being done and 1t is
sure to be felt at the polls. The ticket was
completed with the nomination, unanimous.
~, OF w. H. Halle for lieutenant governor;
for secretary Of state, Col. William M. Olin;
treasurer, George A. Mar1en; attorney gen.
eral, Albert E. Pillsbury-al by reclamation.
The attempt to resurrect Mai. Gould, who
was forced off the ticket last year. was of
course failure.
Th ere were 1915 out Of possible 1860 dele.
9 ates present. Henry Cabot Lodge presided
and made long and windy address Of the
usual partisan platitudes. The great exhibi.
ton of oratory was ex-Gov. Longs address
In presenting Crapo's name. 1t was mas.
terful. The conversation showed that like
all Republican gatherings 1t was Blaine
body. Reeds and Harrison's names were
well received, but when Blaine was men,
Toned perfect storm broke forth-a wild,
unanimous shout went up from 1000 Threats.
Three times three cheers we're given with
will, only to be repeated. The storm subsid-
ed only to break out again with renewed
force. The platform praises the administra-
tion and the progress CT civil service re.
form" speaks for protection and pure cleo
u ons, opposes free coinage of silver, except
on an International ratio. praises the pension
legislation of the last congress, endorses the
governors council, and straddles on the tenn
perance issue.