The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1879-05-30
SUMMARY OF wEEK NEWS.
FOREIGN,

FOREIGN.
Lord Chelmsford, the British soldier
whom the disaster ut lssandua and his
Indifferent success in South Africa since
has made so unpopular, has Mt last been
superseded by Sir Garnet Wollseley -
In the South American war Gen. Daza,
with 6000 Bolivian troops, has arrived Mt
Tacna and made combined movement
with the Peruvian troops to Taracapa
The two Peruvian monitors ut Callao
will soon engage in active business. The
Gillian fleet lies quietly off Iquiqui. but
several guano ships have been driven
from the guano islands by the CHILEAN
admiral is again badly dis
turbed politically, and the government
is importing muskets and powder. Bust
ness is very much depressed, and there
have been several failures AZ Port au
Prince. -Four hundred more French
communists have been pardoned.-M.
Senard was elected vice-president of the
French Chamber of Deputies Saturday
to replace Albert Grevy.-The iron
screw propeller Ava, 2600 tons burden,
has been sunk in Indian waters, and 66
of the crew and passengers were
drowned. agitation against Tur-
key in Crete is increasing, and in one
section the mountaineers are under
arms.-News of the safety of the Nor
denskiold arctic expedition has been re-
ceived in Eastern Siberia. it
is believed. is trying to induce England
to con eur in the establishment OF Eu-
ropean protectorate over Egypt. and If
the khedive will submit to it France will
consent to his continuing his reign:
otherwise not.
DOMESTIC.
The Gros Ventres and Mountain Crows
fought a severe battle recently near the
Bear Paw mountain in Dakota, in which
several Indians we're killed, including
John Bongear, Gen. Miles's half-breed
scout.-The will Of Judge Asa Packer
of Pennsylvania, who died last week,
,gives over S2,300000 to public and
\ charitable institutions Ream
of the Culpepper (Va) Times, Philip M.
Jones and G.. w. Jamison had row
Sunday in which seven pistol-shots were
fired, Ream being fatally wounded in
abdomen and Jones shot in the shoulder.
Jamison, who did most of the shooting,
was unhurt He was put in jail.-M.
A. Goldsmith, teller of the Broadway
savings bank of St. Louis, has been
proved to have been an accomplice of
Kreiger, the thieving cashier, and to
have stolen $500, 900 of the funds. Not
a cent can be recovered. Kreiger has
delivered himself to the authorities, and
is in jail. The grasshoppers have des-
troyed the grain in the vicinity of Nor
folk, Neb.-Joseph Casey, II years of
age, while filling street lamps at Belle
vue, Pa, Saturday night upset an oil
can over his clothes, and, it is alleged,
another boy set him afre. In his fright,
he rushed for river quarter of mile
away, and before he was caught and the
flames eXtinguished was fatally burned.
Fourteen men, four white and ten
black, were arrested near Murfrees5oro,
Tenn, Saturday and Monday, who by
their burglary, robbery, arson and muir
der have long been a terror to the COM
munity. 1t was with great difficulty that
the excited populace uld be prevented
from lynching them, Gov. Marks coming
to the Jail and appealing to them to be
quiet. TIN Wetzel county, W. Va, a
similar band of desperadoes who call
themselves ''red men," are spreading
terror They have killed several per-
sons, flogged Others, women and emil
dren included, numerically, and warned
others to quit the county or they would
be hung. The crime of one woman who
they have thus threatened consists sim
ply in refusing to keep company with
one of the gang. The town of Littleton
has been served with a notice by the
gang that summary vengeance awaits 1t
on account of the sympathy manifested
by the people with those aggrieved by
the visits of the ''rcd men. "-The I'm
derwood war has again broken out on
Upper Tygart creek in Carter county,
XIV. Two members of the Underwood
family have been shot dead from an am
bush while at work in their fields. Jesse
Understood has entered the field as the
avenger of his iamily's wrongs, and IL Is
feared that there will be great deal OF
bloodshed. Farmers in that ncighbor-
Ahood who are afraid of assassination are
Yforsaking their fields. Andrew Carpen
ter, while at work in his yard in Breath
lit county, has been shot by an unknown
/ person in ambush, and anarchy nearly
I
veins near the surf, c. and covering an
! area of several miles have been discov-
cred at Hot Springs, Ark. Fred erlck
| Lincoln was fatally, a negro badly and
several others slightly injured In row
between negroes and whites at repub-
| lican primary election at Pttsburg, Pa,
Friday. Tie leaders have becn arrested.
y. NJ. French's menagerie establish
ment near Detroit, Mich, was burned
FRIDAY, and the famous trick elephant
Sultan" i've lions, zebra, leopard and
other valuable animals perished.-P.
|. Walker, while attempting to cross the
Niagara river Saturday, lost control of
his boat and was carried over the falls.
He was a noted smuggler, had often
crossed the river at that point, and had
saved two young men from like fate.
Another insurance company: The
new directors of the Globe insurance
company of New York have found
deficit of 100000 where the state exam
liner found only $780, 00.-Myriads OF
ocusts have appeared in the vicinity of
Independence, Mo. John T. Vincent |
and four companions were attacked by |
80 Yankton Sioux Indians between Forts |
heOSu anu hsslnlDOlne recently anu dlttT |
20 hours hard fighting aud killing II of |
the enemy, escaped, out without their |
horses or wagons. -Eighty-tiv mount
ed police under Col. Macleod have left |
Bismarck, Oak, for the Canadian posts
on Sitting Bulls side of the line Sitting
Bull recently moved north on the way to
Saskatchewan with five lodges, and Long
Dog, the head warrior of the next cam.
paign, promises to come south and give
the whites tussle. John. III. Lewis
and his son and John Lumpkin and two
sons, neighbors and farmers, living at
Winchester, Ind, got into quarrel
Tuesday about ditch which Lewis was
opening, in which Lumpkin's eldest son
was killed, himself and youngest son Sc
verely injured, and Lewis's son fatally
hurt The elder Lewis has surrendered
to the police.
NEW ENGLAND.
NJ. Frank Paige, the swindling Boston
boot and shoe dealer, has been sen fenced
to two years at hard labor in the house
Of correction Tor oonspiring to doheud
his creditors. He restored 1000 Of his
creditors money.-Thomas Hickey of
Terryville, Conn, who pleaded guilty
last week to manslaughter in killing
Thomas O'Donnell, gets seven years in
Middlefield, Conn, had