Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-01-20

rdCy is charged against AuaHlS am
the Legislature is petitioned to opei
Charges of padding and repeating arr
e made by Peabody.
u y There will be no investigation fol
q the present of the charges preferred
/, by the Rev. DIR. /. N. w. Irvine
n against Bishop Ethelbert Talbot OF
q the Central Pennsylvania diocese OF
p p the Protestant Episcopal church the
= board of inquiry having found that
. through an error in its makeup, ii
g. lacks canonical authority.
q France and Morocco have settled
their differences, the sultan having
satisfied the demands of France and
z foreigners will not be obliged to leave
! Tangier. Secretary Hay has asked
, congress to appropriate $500 annu-
! ally for minister to Morocco, as a
safeguard of American commercial
interests in a country where import
ant changes are probable. Nine Eu-
ropean powers have ministers in Nor
Deco, while the United States is only
represented by consular office.
Henry Jackson, son of a well-to-do
ing maniac last week As hours after
his return from the State agricul-
tural college ct Lansing. He went
to the college the last week in De-
cember to take a special course in
live stock studies, and was a strong.
bright lad, of excellent habits, 10
years of age. Jan he was sent
home under guard in horrible con-
dition and his parents attribute his
death to hazing. They will invest-
gate.
Ex-Governor Morgan G. Buckley |
has been chosen as the nominee OF |
the republicans of the Connecticut |
general assembly for United States |
senator to succeed Joseph r. Hawley. |
In connection with this nomination
Rev. DR.. Newman Smyth issued a
statement declaring that the lowest
ebb of Connecticut politics within
the memory Of man has been reached
and that we may now look for the
turn of the tide and the flood the bot
tom having been removed so that all +
who have eyes can see
Henry Phipps, former partner of
Andrew Carnegie, will give 100000
to erect model tenements for the
working people in New York city. The
houses are to be erected and man.
aged on a business basis. the earn :
lngs to accumulate and be used in
erecting more buildings. Every tene-
ment is to be built after the most
modern ideas. with large, light rooms, {
for children, and hum |
bred and one conveniences. The I
rents are to be fixed in accord with
those of surrounding tenements.
District Attorney Jerome of New
York city has undertaken the job of i,
gambling in that city =,
md announced last week that every
keeper of a gambling y
house in New York will be summoned t
o appear before him to tell what he
,nows about the business. Mr.. Je- n
ONE has secured statements from
.udlum, prominent gamblers of New y
FORK, under the Bowling law, which q
xempts the gamblers from punish c.
gainst themselves. He hopes by Ii
reating others in the same way, to ST
ain possession of all paraphernalia p,
nd permanently close every gam >,
ling place. Several raids have been ~
made by Commissioner McAdoo
ii
t Jerome's office in response to sub h,
oenas and have made revelations m
egarding their business. Hundreds III
card sharps' are preparing to
eek new fields in the south or west =.
The Mormon side of the Senator nj
inoot case az washington mas been tn
iven hearing during the past week. n
he testimony goes to show that the -
Iormon morale is of the highest type III
nd to refute the word of witnesses
no have declared the contrary to of
= true. w. j. Mcconnell, formerly
United States senator from Idaho,
I'D twice governor of his state, said =
lat the Mormons in the Idaho legis-
ture were superior in morality to Z
lie Gentle members. ]. w. N
Infection Of Idaho declared that y
e Mormons are all sick of polygamy N
Id three witnesses for the defense N
stified that polygamy is dying out
Utah so rapidly that there is no
ed of prosecutions. 1t was de-
AIRED that the younger Mormons are
opposed to polygamy, and that if
ey thought it was being taught
ere would be a revolution in the
urch. 1t was admitted that Sena-
Smoot had to get the consent of
church to become a candidate
!. senator, but only in the form of
leave of absence from his church
Ties, and 1t was declared that he
uld not have been nominated and
cted without it, Senator Smoot ~
IS pronounced by Judge James
ner Of Salt Lake. formerly of the
preme court of Utah. one of the
ming men and one who had always
'od for the enforcement of the
VS.. Polygamy is decreasing SO ran 10
y. said the witness, that he believed III
an would be better in ten years
IN any state In the union.
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