The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-07-03
NOTINGs.

human and Is to be retired nas,
March' Gov. Evans is Tillman,s man
Tor the succession. "" man
John r. Russell of Massach use,,s :,
letter to Mckinley saws. M m ~
OF all your ndmiring and loving s, '''
porters more cordially and dis;nferaIt
tms H'ngratulates you and the coun.
uy 'nan 40. ! am your sincere polit.
and opponent, out no less your cordial
| among the graduates from the mad
,Gal department of the University n,
Michlsan last week were two CHINESE
girls who finished with a fine recnrd
OF scholarship. They came from Tho
| mission school at Kingkianr and arc
TO act as medical missionaries in OK
ma. III >ni-
All OF the Republican presidential
nominees except Fremont we're horn
within a section of country covered hn
the state Of Ohio and adjoip,np lana
IN Iennsylvania and Hardin county
niue southwest of Ohio. The Cleye-
iand rain Dealer prints map incIud
ing this section and it is practically n
map OF the state Of Ohio alone.
Reed will take the stump for Nc
hinley, but he has not fully decided
whether to run for congress again.
The conclusion of T. Thomas For
tune is that the success of Mckinley
at ST. Louis has done more to con.
solidate the white Republicans of the
south into ruling force than any 9th,
er thing that has occurred sin 10
1910, and the Afro American leader
seems something of the past.
President Cleveland left Washington
Tuesday for his summer nome at
Gray Gables.
The sixth annual convention of the
confederate veterans was held at
Richmond this week, opening Tues
day, with Gen. j. B. Gordon presid-
ing. lntermingled with the confeder
ate colors and battle flags were the ma
tlonal flags and just above the presid-
Ing OFFICER s seat were two large star
spangled banners.
1t is already evident that the anti
filled cheese law, passed at the last
session OF congress, will thoroughly
accomplish its purpose. Manufactur-
ers OF this bogus cheese say that the
tax imposed by the law is SO heavy
that they will have to suspend pro
dnction, except for the export trade.
There g financial crash in British
Guiana and business of all kinds is
PROSTATE. 1t was precipitated by the
disappearance and supposed suicide of
Hugh Sprotson, the leading financial
man of the colony, and the two banks
are only held up by the government
guaranteeing their notes, which it has
no legal authority for doing.
Wall street had semi panic Mon
day growing out of nervousness over
the silver question.
The Venezuelan government has Or
dered the release of Harrison and the
10 other surveyors arrested few
weeks ago for trespassing on the terri
tory in dispute between that govern
ment and England Thus the South
American Republic shows her dispo-
sition to be fair and reasonable.
The formal notification to Mckinley
was made Monday by the committee
from the st Louis convention with a
spread eagle speech by Thurston, who
talked about the principles of protec
ton and reciprocity as best exempt
fed 10 that splendid congressional act
which justly bears your name'' about
how the people "sowed the wind in
92 and chad reaped the whirlwind"
how the sufferings and losses and dis
asters to the American people for four
years of Democratic tariff are vastly
greater than those which came to
them from four years of civil war"
and how sterling patriot SIN, stalwart
Christian character.
and the purity, fidelity, and simplicity
Of McKinley's private life were going
to lead out of the wilderness and to
''the promised land of American pros
perity as an insured Inheritance. INC !
kinley in his reply did not quite toe
the mark on the money question
though he comes nearer to 1t with |
every speech, and all he said then
was that the dollar paid to the far
ner, the wage Garner, and the prisoner
must continue forever equal in pur'
chasing and debt paying power to the
dollar paid to any government credit
,r. He talked chiefly about the need
If a tariff that will protect every
merjcann and yet yield enough rev
niue. ODIlNlUuS Vi Tic ioS' .h"' 49,
,wn tariff bill fel. considerably snort
If the latter. Saturday there was
zig ratification at Canton with several
bousand people pre- sent, and another
peech in the same line from him
friday there was still another ratifica-
ion with 5000 ladies calling to offer
heir congratulations and 1t was an
occasion when Mckinley with his hne
ourtesv showed at his best,
Mckinley and Hobart met for the
irst time at Canton Wednesday ana
ad an extended private conference
!obart on his arrival had d great re
option.
The South Afr lea Chartered comla
Y has accepted, tardily and reiuctantly'
he resignation of Messrs. Rhodes,
,eit. and Harria, the three directors by
HON, as .the ciphered dispatches
rove. the piratical expedition and the
rebellion at Johannes
ure we're ORGANIZED. But it is not pc
eved in England that his retirement
5 more than nominal.