The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-22

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and Mexico will invade us ~ o"'o"'
me Minnesota law which nrovide,
,Hut 'hepriates might be sent m tb =,
tetie! cure institutes for trcatmen,
at lhe public expense has been do
ciarea unconstitutional by tb. stato
supreme court Public money cann ea
properly be used to cure drnnl, ennno'
any more than any other disease "s save
the court "'e' says
Inc Michigan bar associat;on l.a.
week at Its annual meeting al,ost
unanimously approved tho Tnrren os
system of land transfer ''''
Congressman "Cy"SuIloway Of Nav
hampshire is mad. President Cleve.
iahs' mas vetoed private pension hin
III iavor OF Caroline ID. Monatt ms wild.
oW OF MAJ. A. b. Soule. who died in
loo4' ohe afterwards marrying Monatt
VINO died in 1878, again leaving her n
wldow The veto is based IN tho
ground that her remarked terminated
ncr pensionable relation, as is certa;n
y the iact In law, and he saw no rea
son ior dlsregarding the law, Sulloway
IN writing to her of the veto saws Of
C!eveland In a Christian spirit and
Win ueslre to create within him a
spark OF patriotism, | wish for the re'
malhder OF his life he might receive
SUCH treatment and rations as our sol.
dlers had at Andersonville. &"
The federal supreme court has affirmed
1he constltutionality of the Louisiana
law providing separate coaches for ne
gro passengers on the railroads.
Several more steel rail orders with
American mills for Japan are an.
nounced, and Cleveland, O.. wire
hall mill has an order from that coun
try for 600, 600 pounds of its product
Ana SO the manufacturers that pretend
TO be IN mortal dread of Europe IN our
own markets, continue to show that
they can beat Europe anywhere else.
William T. Baker of Chicago, pres
ldent of the Democratic sound money
league of Illinois, says that ex Gov.
RUSSELL is very popular in his state
where he would be considered "a
worthy successor" to President Cleve
land.
Judge Atchison of the United States
circuit court for the Eastern district
OF Pennsylvania has rendered decis.
ION denying the interstate commerce
commission the power to fix rates, as it
undertook to do with the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad company, under its duty
to enforce the provisions of the law
that charges shall be reasonable and
Just and without unreasonable prefer
ence or advantage" The power of the
commission under the decision. there.
Fpr,- c inn IL IF
ular rates unjust but not of saving
what would be just.
Schatter, the father healer, is now
operating in Mexico.
The Duke of Orleans, pretender to
the French throne, has announced
himself a candidate for seat in the
Chamber OF Deputies and issues let !
ter in which he argues tn at the two
PRINCIPLES of monarchy and univer-
sal suffrage ale constantly tending to |
combine and to blend in a system of |
compromises.
Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria,
brother OF Emperor Franz Josef, and
heir presumptive to the throne, died
Tuesday at Vienna, aged 81. He did
nothing whatever in his life to make
any important impression even local
ly: he was an ultra Catholic and an |
ultra monarchist, foe to progress
and the people, and his death is re-
lief to the kingdom and even to his
brother, the emperor, who was, how
ever, warmly attached TO him.
Two deputy tax assessors in Chicago
have just been caught accepting
brides from property to leave
their names off the tax list. The chief
assessor for that district now declares
that he knew nothing about the men;
they were sent to him for appointment
by ward organizations of the dominant
part. and he took them as if by com
mand.
Fourteen world S fairs are being,
or will be, held this year. The Hun
garian millennial is still in progress,
as also are the Berlin silver jubilee ex-
hibition and the Genevan Swiss expo
sition. Other cities to celebrate on a
much smaller scale are Odessa, kiel,
Cannes. Mems, Roueh, Johannesburg,
Brisbane, Para, Namur, Paris and the
CITY of Mexico. The Swiss national
> vnosition has been devoted to the set
inc forth of Swiss life in typical
Swiss village, the separate houses OF
which have been actually transported
from different parts of the united can
tons. ,..;o
Venezuela, acting under the advice
IF Cleveland, has agreed to pay creat
Britain el60O for the 'Uruan mel
lent, or her arrest last November oil
British officers who undertook 10 es-
tabiish a military post on territory she
In imed. but she pays on condition that
i is considered simply as an lndemhl-
" for personal damages ana NOT az
,tfectine the boundary dispute ana re- !
fuses to apologize.
The Electrical Exposition at New
York Saturday night witnessed q" :
1 laddin-like achievement IN the sen Ni
no of A message from Chauncey VI. !
1enew $1,000 miles twice across tne :
.ontinent and twice across the ocean
'o =, fnur minutes. and in less than an |
,our a message went to ana teIuiued
rom India and the farthest ORIENT. ant.
mother flew down the west coast =,
,a,,th America, up the east, across ~
. .oa;n and back to New York IN a., u
' ,f;nntas Col. Albert b. Chanaler,
,rnsident and general manager OF tng
oostal Telegraph Cable company; ~. 49, a,as
g the sending operator ana iiio'i'''
, Edison the receiving one
rho ontcome of the German E.mpei-