The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-07-13
NOTINGs.

NOIlNGSs
The gold exports fell last week to 81 100,
OOj.
A son of Commodore McDonough, the hero
OtLake Champlain, died In New Jersey re
Gently.
The trial of W. S. Streeter ut Minneapolis
Mimi, resulted in a disagreement of the jur
0rs.
Mr.. Gladstone mas formally and finally de
clned to stand for reelection in the MidlOth
Ian district. He Is determined to retire from
public life.
The president has approved and signed tho
act providing that term of the Circuit ant
District court of the United States for the dis
trict of Vermont may be held in Montpelier
Max Taepfer, II lunatic, was arrested al
Philadelphia Wednesday for having writer
letters to President Cleveland threatening his
life unless given situation.
Lord Randolph Churchill, the br illant but
cratic young British Tory, arrived in New
York last week and will spend the summer al
Newport and then proceed to a journey
through the west and to Japan.
81 have great faith in the administration OF
President Cleveland said Senator Walsh OF
Georgia in his Fourth of July address to Tam.
many, and 10! there was loud and prolonged
cheering. Then Walsh went on to vigorously
defend the income tax just as though David
b. Hill were not the ideal of Tammany.
Venezuela has declared commercial war
against Great Britain and suspended temper
arily the payment of interest on such of her
debt as is held there because of the latters
refusal in most positive terms to arbitrate the
Guiana boundary question.
Gov. Flower of New York has determined
to appoint a commission to make further in
quiry into the question of the sanity of the
Halliday woman, who Is under sentence of
death in New York for murder.
EX-Gov +. b. Winans of Michigan, elected
by the Democrats i'm 1890 and the first gov
ernor that party ever had had for genera
ton, died on the Fourth at the age of IS. He
was native of Avon, N Y, graduate of the
University of Michigan, and wealth-miner
in California in the fities. He returned to
Michigan in 1858 engaged in farming and was
a member of Congress in 1886.
The 18th international Christian Endeav-
or convention opened at Cleveland, o., We'd
nesday evening with gatherings in IA churches
and the Y. M. G. A. auditorium. Each meet
ing opened with praise service at 1870 o.
ed diyines. A large number of delegates
from all over the United States are present,
and it is expected to be as large, if not the
largest gathering of its kind ever held.
Another reminder of the old days comes by
way of the Vicksburg, Miss, Herald, which
SAYS:
President Debs says the first shot fired by the
federal soldiers will bring on civil war. We adj
wise him not to fight the United States army.
We've been there.
Speaking of Senator Proctor's tariff speech,
from which the REFORMER quoted SO largely
It the time, the Washington Star says: "Sen-
ltor Proctor achieved a sudden reputation as
senatorial humorist by making what is
probably the most unique speech on the tariff
dill that has yet been delivered. The senate
vas convulsed by the senator's opening SEN
ences and the closest attention was paid to
he quaint remarks of the tall statesman from
Vermont" The Post said: ''Senator Proc
or's dry wit and his early Sunday-school
raining were combined in speech upon the
ariff which was an oasis in Il desert of dreary
ak"
The laying of the Commercial Companys
bird cable, the seventh across the Atlantic,
vas completed last week.
The report of the national railway commits
ion shows that the roads had as hard a time
$ the rest of us last year. Over 81 per cent
f their stock paid no dividend, and II per
ent. of the mortgage bonds, and over so per
ent. of income bonds, paid no interest. The
otal of all dividends paid was but about 2 per
emit. fthe gross earnings of all the rail
Dads, amounting in the aggregate to some
1 ,22O 900 900, over 1926 900 900 went for op-
employees. II
The federal supreme court has rendered Il
ecision in case against the collapsed Fideli-
National bank of Cincinnati, that is of i'm
ortance to national banks. 1t holds that
oney lent by one bank to another cannot be !
covered at law unless the officers of the bor-
wing bank were duly authorized by the di- a
,ctors to make the loan. That il the presi-
,nt and cashier, or either, cannot borrow \
oney in the banks name and the bank be r
lid responsible, unless their actioni is author i
ed by the directors. This decision has led n
any of the New York banks to warn those =
banks to which loans are some !,
mes made that hereafter applications for !,
ans must be accompanied with the written II
surance that the directors have authorized
e applications.
The destruction of the once beauteous 3
hite City on the shores of Lake Michigan -
as practically completed last week in the :,
Irning of the six great buildings that made ~
blaze that could be seen for 40 miles. The 9,
tire Court of Honor is wasted by fire and a.
ere remains only congeries of dismal iron a.
eletons hooking the vision of transcendent a a
auty which delighted millions of visitors =,
It year. The statue of the Republic now ~
inds solitary in the basin as if it held its roy
place amid the strife of men. The fire has
morally been credited to the strikers but re-
the systematic way the other IL
'uctures have gone, suspicion may properly &
directed to other quarters. At all events A
G work of the removers is much facilitated NJ
the destruction of all the staff and all the p
BOD work which were valueless and the fire q
ough fierce was brief and cannot have in al
'ed the iron frame work to any great eX- II,
It, III