The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-25
NOTINt!s.

+ The Boston Standard, a. 7. \
organ, formally declares that IN
, patriotic fraternities are the Repubi
can party of Massachusetts,, and poll
ticians might AS well make their cal
culations upon that basis. y
: The voters of Ware, Mass, aE
parcntly do not partake of the a. /
A. panic. At a special town meeting
Saturday they elected Rcv. Jane
Boyle, the Catholic priest there,
member of committee TO look afte
the new school building there.
Tx Senator George i. Edmunds ha
ANNOUNCED that he will spend the res
of his days in Philadelphia.
The two new gun boats Nashville
and Wilmington were launched from
Newport News Saturday with imposing
naval ceremony. They are practically
the first vessels of the new navy
which while perfectly scaworthy fol-
round the world cruises, with thcil
remarkably large radius of action, are
peculiarly adaptable for service on tho
inland waters of the United States
and other countries.
DR.. Kitazato, prominent japanese
physician, claims to have discovered a
sure cure for cholera and in his hos
pita practise to have reduced the rate
of mortality by its use to ID per cent.
where the average through the empire
is 6S per cent.
| The 4. p. \. is now reported to
have its national headquarters located
in Boston.
Pope Leo has written a letter TO
Archbishop Satoli disappearing of the
religious congresses which have grown
so fashionable in this country of late
years and in which such liberal minded
Catholics as Archbishop Ireland and
Cardinal Gibbons have participated.
The pontitf recommends that Catholics
hold their congresses. and invite every
body to attend or at most if they at
tend any such congress as the Parlia
mcnt of Religions at Chicago. they
must do it by holding separate meet
ings at the same time. in halls of
their own. The Pope. even as Arch
bishop Ireland has to interpret him.
thinks promiscuous assembages of
Catholics with men of all forms of re.
ligion, Buddhists and Mohammedans
as well as non-C Catholic Christians.
upon the same platform for tho dis ,us-
sion of religious questions, has tend
ency to create the notion that all forms
of religion are regarded as of equal
value and suiiiciency, which would not
do at all. Even the Catholics who
took part in the Chicago Parliament,
Ireland says. satisfied their conscienccs
by emphatic declarations that no other
religion was on the same footing as
theirs. Still Ireland believes that
friendly opposition shows such as the
Pope requires, at future congresses.
will greatly increase Catholic attend
ancc at them, where may be exhibited
1.-The fundamental truths sacred
through all the faiths, and 'thc
good portions of each one, although in
many of them fragmentary and incom-
plete. y
FIX Gov, Oliver Ames of Massachus
etts, died Tuesday at his North Eas
ton home at the age of GA, He came
from a family that had for four gencr-
ations been shovel manufacturers at
North Easton, and under his able
and far sighted enterprise
the business. constantly growing from
the beginning, has become the great
est of its kind in the world. He was
a man of signal ability as fnancier
and taking the business and the estate
IF his father, Cakes Ames which had be
came burdened with -. 600, 600 of debt
because of the latter's great railroad
operations. Oliver even in the hard
times following 1873 paid it all off and
also paid LOCO, 600 Of legacies. and
placed the business on firm founda-
ions. When he left school ne served a
i've years apprenticeship in the shovel .
'hops so that he knew the business
thoroughly in every part His poiiti
al life began in 1880 when he was
Elected state senator and in 1882. The
ear of Butlcr's success. he was chosen ;
lieutenant governor. and though he ;
agreeable relations with
Butler throughout the latter's cratic ,
erm. he was reelected the next wear q
nd three times successfully on the
robinson ticket and in 1887 was :,
hosen governor and given the Gus j.,
omarv three terms Since then his :.
lmc has been devoted to his large I
usincss affairs. including director '
hips in dozens of banks and corpora y
ions, and many generous charities. He q
as since the time of the Mckinley ,
Ill been out of sympathy with his g
arty on the tariff question, believing q
nat the best and healthiest develop
ent in manufacturing is hereafter to t
1mc from low duties. He called Il
imself a protectionist but not an ex- %
cme one and that meant in Republi- "
IN slang that he was free trader. " Z
The reports of the treasury officials "a
axe il clear that the determination II
fur seals is rapidly approaching as 1t
result Of the unrcstrained capture
nee our defeat in the arbitration. OF
ecrctary Olney has called the atten- II
on of Russia and Japan to the sub II
ct and they are both willing to co IN
nerate in regulation of the catching. "
II England hangs back and her on pc
'sition If persisted in will make ac-
IN 10y any other governments useless. q
The Democratic state convention in Sc
tab Tuesday, 10 take action on the pl
reference of the Mormon priesthood Ga
It'll the Democratic candidates had a Fl
1rmy season. The majority of the ri,
lcgatcs were Mormons, but they were at
strong in their dcnunciation of the ia
urch e attitude as the genties. Ii er
rs decided not to withdraw the ticket he
d organize an anti statehood party. an
at first threatened. but. am address
rs adopted denouncIng the church an