The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-15
NOTINGS.

IoOulu CdTOllnd lHuOfSeS senate
l Tillman for the presidency on Il fire.
/, coinage platform.
= Returns from the town elections las
! week in Indiana indicate that the it'd
u which set SO strongly in the direction
: of Republican success two years ago il
now setting with equal strength IN tn,
. opposite direction. Fort Wayne re
turned to the Democratic fold ant
, elected the entire Democratic ticket
by large majorities, and Democratic
, gains and victories are reported from
! Terre Haute, Vincennes. Decatur,
Hammond, Greencastle, and from many
otner important towns.
Mckinley writes to Gov. Woodbury.
!, that he is deeply touched by the
manifestations of appreciation on the
, part of the Republicans of Vermont. -
The Denver, Col, Republican is a
good deal disguised with Senator Vol,
colt of that state he will not follow
Teller and abandon the Republican
party if it declares for sound money.
1t insists that the only method now
open to secsure just recognition for
silver at the hands of the Republican
party, through a positive and un-
equivocal demand that bimetalic
coinage bill shall be enacted before an
other protective traiff bill can be
passed "
In the case of William Mckinley ST.
lence seems1to be bimetallic, a @
The 9th annual reunion of the army
Of the Potomac will be held at Bur.
lington on the 10th and 18th of Sep
tember This will be the second meet
ing of the society at Burlington.
Wool sold for the lowest price on
record in Boston last week.
Speaker Reeds last days 10 public
life, the days in which the Republican
party concludes it has no more use
for him, are his most statesmanlike.
For instance, the House, under his
guidance this year, has passed upon 20
contested election cases and has decid
ed 10 of them in favor of Democrats
something fairly unprecedented in the
party's record,
Chill and Bolivia have bound them
selves by treaty to submit al! their fu :.
ture disputes to arbitration.
Ex Congressman Bland, the free sill
yer leader, who is to make fight for
the Democratic nomination. is great
grandson of President Monroe, de.
scendant of Bland, the Virginia pat.
Iiot connected with = the Jefferson
family and cousin of Lincoln. He
thinks his blood as well rs his ideas
should give him some standing in the
presidential race.
| Senator Dubois of Idaho has joined
Senator Teller in declaring that he
will bolt the Republican ticket in case
a silver man is hot nominated or Il sill
YER plank is not adopted. And he be-
lieves he has sufficient personal follow
ing in Idaho. addei to the following
which he will get from the other par
ties in the silver movement, to defeat
the Republican party for Idaho.
John II. Parnel, who settled in the
Southern states and became leading
agriculturist there, while his brother
Charles Stewart Parnell. became the
leading agitator in Ireland, has now
started out in new field. He sailed
for England on Saturday, on bust
ness mission. He will try to estab
fish produtive industries in Ireland,
with the double purpose of placing
that distracted country on its financial
feet and checking the rush of Irish
! immigration TO the United States.
Edward j. Addacks, who won so
much success in buying the senator
ship from Delaware. has succeeded in
getting himself elected to the head of
the delegation to st. Louis and he pro-
poses to throw the vote of the state for
Quay.
Recent reports from Matabeleland
| indicate that barbed wire defences
from Buluwayo keeping savages at
bay. Boston Traveller.
Sir Charles Topper the new Domin-
ion premier, made speech at Winni-
peg Friday in which he distinctly de-
| clared that unless it could be done
otherwise force would be applied to re
store to the Catholics the rights of
which, according to decision of the
imperial privy council, they have been
unjustly deprived as regards sectarian
schools.
China has now settled in full the
last of the American claims, that of
the Baptist Missionary Union, for the
property losses, aggreagting s., 000 200
in all in the Sechnan riots.
McKinley's friends are said not to
have yet given up hope that they can
induce Speaker Reed to take second
place on the ticket, which they realize
would greatly strengthen it in the
least But Reed says Huh when |
approached on the subject.
Gov Morton has signed the Great.
er New York bill"
b. H. Thorp has sold out his inter
est in the Middebury Register to Col. |
Joseph Battell, who now is the sole
owner of the paper, though Mr.. Thorp. |
who has made the Register so excel |
lent paper will remain in the office |
for the present.
H. II. Holmes lawyer at Philadel- |
phia announces after an examination |
of the papers that Holmes left no will
and made no provision for Mrs. Pretzel
as he had talked. Among his effects |
he desired to have sent to his first |
wife and son at Gilmanton, N. H. and |
these trinkets will be forwarded.
The German agrarians have succeed
ed at last in persuading the govern
ment to prohibit speculation in bread
stuffs on the Berlin bourse. The plan
is not only to stop dealing in priv.
ileges, but also to prohibit buying |
and selling for future delivery.
There was conference at st. Louis |
Sunday of representatives of six ma
tional orders and brotherhoods. at the |
headquarters of the Order of Railroad |
Conductors. to formulate plan for a
federation of these orders. 1t was de-
cided TO form one. excluding, however.
Debs' American Railway Union. and |
resolutions were Dassed in favor of tbo