The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1880-03-26
NEW ENGLAND NEWS.

draw from the presidential canvass.
Probably untrue.
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Vermont
A MURDERoUs AFFRAY AT UNDERHILL. -
TWO MEN SHOT. THE AsSAILANT Es
CAPES. HI VICTIM WILL PROBABLY
lie.
A deadly ARRAY which may result in
the death Of one Of the victims, occurred
al Underhil un the 18Th. under The follow
iEg circumstances: A, about p m, Jo-
seph Dexter and his three hired men,
Blodyett, Morehou-e and Weston, were
taking their upper when Victor Ii Love-
ly came into the yard and began looking
over the buildings. Sering him, Mr.,
Dexter went out and asked him what he
was there. for. Lovely answered that he
would let him know. an alteration
sprang mp between tho two men At
length Mrs. Dexer. fearing for her hus-
bands safety, ;old the hired men TO go
out aud protect Mr.. Dexter. They went
out, when Lovely drew revolver and
struck Blodgett a violent blow on the
head knocking him down. shot More
house through the head and fired two or
three shots at the rest of those present,
fortunately not hitting them. The would
be murderer then fed. A warrant was
Immediately issued for his arrest but his
arrest is not yet reported. Morehouse is
dangerously wounded and his situation is
critical.
Later.-Lovely has been arrested and
baied at $500 by Mary Ann Wooduff,
with whom Iumor credits Lovely with
living on infamous terms, and the
would be- murderer is now at large. In
| the mean time Warehouses; condition is
reported US critical, be having eau I ht
| cold in his wound.
A man named Clivy of Worthwhile,
after threatening 10 kill all his family, has
mysteriously disappeared.
The case of James Balchelder, the
Brandon bank wracker, has been brought
to n close by the entering of "a nolle pro
Segui mt the present term of the Rutland
county court.
Euos b. Hlzon of Cabot was acquitted
in the Washington county court Friday
of the charge of burning his own saw
mill
The tlial OF Joseph B. Woods and
Mrs L1man A. Smith, for homicide al
Williston, which was to take place at the
April term of the Chi,tenden county
court, will not occur until September, Al
there W Il be no grand jury at this SEES
sion.
On Tuesday, Henry, 13.year old scr
of Charles Mower, fell from the cupola
of William Britton's barn, near Ascutney
dam distance of IS feet, shrinking o. a
plank floor, and was carried home for
dead but after a few hours showed some
signs of life.
New Hampshire.
A TRAGEDY, IN WHICH A LEBANON
| MAN FIGURES.
A shocking story involving a citizen
of Lebanon, comes from Aurora. Ill.
Wells B, Brown, who disappeared in Feb.
ruary from Lebanon, leaving wife and
two children. is said to have eloped to
Aurora with Mrs. Josephine E. Stevens,
divorced woman, and the story is that
|
morning with their throats cut, the wo-
man having bled to death, while Brown
will recover. He is supposed TO have
committed the murder and attempted
suicide, because his relatives had secured
a warrant for his arrest as q bigamist,
and his previous good reputation at eb'
anon causes many to believe that he is
insane.
Levi w. Skinner of Littleton jumped
from Car on a trestle at Alderbrook on
Wednesday, to escape being crushed by
logs which he was unloading, and died
of his hurts Friday.
The theory that Joseph E. Putney, the
mail carrier who was found diving in his
yard at West Rumney a few days ago,
was murdered is now generally abandon
ed, though some suspicious circumstan-
ces are yet unexplained.
Henry III. Hayes of Sunapee. sentenced
to 90 years in the state prison for man
slaughter, has been given a new trial by
the supreme court at Concord, on the
ground that Angel, the man he killed,
had no right to order him from house
owned by his wife.
Col Phineas Adams of Manchester,
owner of valuable collection of coins,
has sold silver dollar of each year from
the date of the first coming for $500.
Massachusetts
The body of the child of Homer Wei.
lingtop, who died last June of suspected
poisoning, was exhumed at St. Auburn
Monday, and the vscera were given to
Prof. Wood of Harvard college for analy-
sis
DIR. Henry M. Leach of Charlestown
and John G Nichols, 90 years old, were
arraigned at Boston Monday on charge
of abortion, fatal to the mother, Miss
Matte Foster, and were held under heavy
bonds.
E. Spencer Walker, Is years old. son
of the late Capt. E. A. Walker of the
navy, committed suicide by shooting at
Newton Friday, being respondent be.
cause absence from school had put him |
behind in his studies.
Mrs. G. L. Chamberlain of Williams
town, and Joseph Kane of Haydenville
were arrested and put under S., 600 each |
for attempted murder in
leaving baby, their Legitimate child on
IN unfrt qucntcd road, apparently to die.
The Boston Journal office was burned
IN Sunday evening. Monday morning
he paper appeared at the usual hour
hough somewhat reduced in size, and is
ued oy the courtesy of the Herald
The committee appointed to investi-
ate the affairs of Emmons, the default
ny treasurer of Everett, discover among
lis papers checks drawn in favor of sew
raj Everett people aggregating about
1000. which seems TO show that they
Guild tell something of where the money
gone. 1t is thought that he loaned
honey very freely to citizens who are {