The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-11-01
company has just accepted an order for
/, 100 tons Of ship armor for the Rus
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company has just accepted an order TO
| /, 100 tons Of ship armor for the Rus
| sian government.
Senator Teller Of Colorado is prompt
to knock over the scheme to unite thu
Republican party on q semi-silvel
basis by nominating him for vice
president on ticket with Reed. liz
says that if an eastern man is nom
mated or If the eastern states dictate
the nomination Of gold man, he viii
resign his seat in the senate and retire
finally from politics rather than follow
such lead.
DIR. William II. Cook, physician
of long experience and high standing,
has published pamphlet condemning
the use OF anti-toxine in diphtheria.
He says the serum from horses pro-
duccs blood poisoning and that doc
tors are fools to inject it into the
human body.
Senator Chandler had an article In
the Concord Monitor Monday night to
prophecy that Il war between this
country aud England is inevitable. He
says we'll be forced both by British
disregard of our direct interests and
by cncroachments upon other American
nations. 1t will be fought BY us.
having Russia as our European ally.
As war offensive on our part it may
net happen within 20 years. AS de
fensive war. ii may come sooner and
should be welcomed. One sure result
will be the capture and permanent
acquisition Of Canada by the United
States.
Pension Commissioner LOchren has
submitted his annual report this week.
1t shows $40, 524 names to be on the
pension rolls, an increase OF $50 during
the year. The new pensions granted
numbered 80, lS5 aud 42O6 names that
had been dropped from the rolls were
restored, carrying the aggregate up to
l,0l2. OBJ, but there were p, deaths
and IA, 575 names dropped. He es-
Inmates that $40, COO, 600 appropria-
ton will be sufficient for next year,
unless there is further pension legisla-
tion. There have been 294 persons
of fraud in pensions, many
OF them, especially in the Buffalo and
Iowa nests. attorneys who had put
large number of fraudulent
cases.
Antitoxin treatment has just failed
in two remarkable cases, one OF cancer,
the other OF lockjaw, at the Pasteur in
stitute at New York.
Gen. Michael Kirwan Of New York,
who is said to be a relative Of G. B.
kirwan. and who was appointed by
Tammany at Platt's desire a police
commissioner, has bolted the fusion
ticket. = have no desire, 4 he writes
to Chairman Lauterbach, to see the
grand old organization an annex of re-
form mountebanks who ignore it when
they are successful and damn it when
defeated. Kirwan was one Of the
officials whom Mayor Strong elected
from office.
Gan the son of a Chinaman. born in
ms country. become naturalized
This Is question that has /
,een carried up to the federal supreme /
;ourt IN the cases of several such per- i
IONS who have been denied the privi- !
eye. The constitution declares that
az. persons born or naturalized in the
United States and subject to the juris- /
lction thereof are citizens of the
United States and of the state wherein /
hey reside. = This would seem 70 +
'ialniy indicate that any person born
,ere is entitled to the rights of citizen
MP. no matter what may be the race
I ms parents, but the United States
tatutes seem TO be in conflict with the
constitution on this point.
Countefreiters are now turning their
ttention to the counterfeiting of rare
ostage stamps. and stamp collectors
re IN a state of mind over fear of the
disability that some of their rarest
nd most highly priced specimens NAV
e spurious ''''