The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1881-11-25
torn open again by chicken. The hand
and arm swelled badly, and he died in a
few DAYS

torn open again by a chicken The hand
and arm sweled badly, and he died in
few days.
THE MANsoNvILLE CHILD MURDERERs,
A North Troy despatch says Mrs. VIM.
Peters, one of the Mansonville child
murderers, was captured Wednesday.
| She refused TO be interviewed, and re-
fused to disclose the whereabouts of her
husband, who is supposed to be on the
Vermont side of The line. A warrant
has been issued by the commissioners for
his arrest here. The woman will not
again efiecther escape. The parties who
assisted in her release Sunday night are
to be arrested. Threats of lynching Pc
tiers, if caught, are freely INDUCED in.
ACCIDENT AT FAIRHAvEN.
About nine o'clock, Thursday morning
of last week, old Mr.. Ryan was found
sitting on box, dead, with gun be-
tween his knees and pointed directly at
his breast, though the body was still
warm. His clothing had taken fire from
the gun, showing that it must have been
close to his body when discharged. His
friends say he had gone out to shoot
cat, and that he had probably sat down
ON the box until he caught sight of her,
and while waiting met his death by some
accidental discharge of the gun. No one
thinks he committed suicide.
AN IMPORTANT ENTERPRISE.
Burlington is vigorously pushing its
project for permanent exhibition grounds
and buildings. Half the needed $4,000
capital has been subscribed, and leading
residents are said to be taking hold with
such will that success is almost assured.
The organization will be called the Cham
PLAIN Valley Exhibition Society, and a
lot of 35 acres is being negotiated for,
with the purpose of opening an exhibit
ton of machinery, agricultural products
and fancy goods next year.
WOMAN TO BE HANGED.
The supreme court at Montpelier Sat
urday overruled the exceptions raised in
the case of Mrs Emehne Meeker of
Waterbury, who murdered an orphan
girl there in April, 1880, and she was sem
fenced to be hanged ON the last Friday
in March, 1888. Meanwhile she will be
confined at Windsor If Mrs. Meeker is
finally hanged, she will he the first woman
ever meeting that degrading death in
Vermont
Joseph Garrow and Edward Amell, the
two highwaymen concerned in the rob-
berry at Winooski Friday night, have
been jailed at Burlington in default of
$500 bail each.
Dr. H. B. Blackstone of North Troy cut
himself with dissectlng knife a few days
since, and will probably lose his arm.
There is much lawlessness in Corinth.
Plum ey Norris, while returning with a
school teacher from Ely, was assaulted
by two incipient jail-birds of Corinth and
fired upon several times, the young ruff
fans using obscene and otherwise indie
cent language Outrages of another char
acter have been perpetrated tbere-among
others the contemplate one of shearlng
off the tails of horses standing under the
postoflice shed on dark nights
At West Randolph, last week, VIII lie
Mr.. Tanner, a mason, was working at the
Mouton stock farm, bank caved in,
buryine him in dirt up to his neck. He
got out alive, however
Early Tuesday morning an attempt
was made to rob Swift's fur and millinery |
store on Main street. st. Adams. A flu |
tile attempt was made the night pre-
vous. There are several thousand dol
lars worth of furs in the store. The
doors are provided With burglar alarms,
and Mr.. Swift was aroused by the rear
door being forced open and the alarm be-
ing struck He discovered the form of
the intruder and attempted to discharge
the rifle, but it missed fire, at which the
intruder fred pistol shot at Swift, who
covered himself behind the stove, the
ball penetrating the cast iron stove and
making large hole Swift then success
fully fired his rifle at the would-be ass
ASSN, who Immediately turned and fled,
crying out to his confederate, for Gods
sake run" 1t is thought the intruder
WIS hit by Swift's shot.
A dispatch from Brooklyn says: "The
relatives of Catharine Carlin, who died
in October on the train at ST. Adams,
during the journey from Montreal to
this city, and who was in the company
of another woman, believe she was poi
soned The body, which was interreH
here, will be exhumed and an investlga-
ton held. The cause of the crime Is
said to be jealousy" ,
New Hampshire.
CHILD MURDER AND SUICIDE AT STAFFORD.
Mrs. Jonathan Waldron of Stafford
aged 80, killed herself and her nine years
old grand child Sunday during a fit of
insanity. Mrs. Waldron had been sick
and little fighty for some time, though
she was not considered dangerous, and
nobody outside the family knew of it,
and she had been worrying good deal
about the child's future, whose mother
had recently died. Mr.. Waldron laid
down for nap Sunday, and when he
awoke he found the little girl dead on
the kitchen floor and his wife speechless
and dying near by, both with fearful
gashes in their threats from a razor.
The circumstances indicate that when
Mrs. Waldron found that her worn out
husband was asleep she called the child
to her by the offer of a piece of cand
and then cut her throat and murdered
herself They were not out of the hus-
bands sight more than five minutes.
A probably incendiary fire burned
Henry T. Armington's steam sawmill at
Warren early yesterday morning: loss
81 800, insurance 81, 100.
P. j. Devine, horse thief from Low
ell, took to the Merrimac river near
Nashua Sunday night to escape from the
police, but when half way across was
pulled down by his heavy boots and
overcoat, and was drowned.
There are 81 Baptist churches in the
state, with S915 members, but only 80
have settled pastors, though there are 81
ordained ministers of the denomination.
Their oldest church is that at Newton,
in 1850, and the largest is the
Nashua, with 573 members. The benev-
olent contributions the past year amount
to between $4,000 and $4,000
H. E. Woodbury., general manager of
the great Burlington lumber business,
has "mysteriously disappeared" The
scandal connecting his name with that
of fine youLg, lady is supposed TO have
set him crazy.
Massachusetts.
John Skeiun of Boston learned Sunday evening
that his wife, Margaret, whom he had not seen
for 10 months, was living with Michael Quinnan
as his reputed wife. SkeInn called at the house
TO see her but met Quinnan instead, and was
ordered of Skeinnan refused to go, when Quin-
nan hit him terrible blow in the face with an ak,
which bids fair to make him a murderer. Both