The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1884-04-11
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Devourinr a Child.

Devouring q Child.
.,.,xor rnrAKs OF A WILD nov cAPTvNED IN
THE SANTA BosA MOUNTAINS 49,,
The Panama Star and Herald says: a wiz
boy was recently caught N r tne TamIM IHi e
vas carried to that town and put IN y wei
fenced garden, where he greedily consumed
f,,jt. lettuce, roses and the roots OF scveIal
nlanis. lie never spoke, nor appeared 10 nouce
those VIII went TO see him. He seemed pGs-
fc,ly harm less, but one day he scizea y cn me,
,ilrce wears OF age, and began to eat y. lhe
child's cries attracted attention, but before ns,
~sistancc reached the spot the young savage nau
deyourrd the flesh of the right arm and u part
of The face. On seeing the child was ABOUT 70
be taken away, he squeezed 1t to deaIh III M
arms. This wild youth Is now chainvu W, p"'
his captors are at a loss what to DO with MN,
a snow storm was general on Sundaythrongh-
ont northern Minnesota and Dakota
OCEAN n
,rbc steamer s.Daniel Steinmann" of the
White Cross line was wrecked ut SamDro, nova
Scotia. Thursday night, during a dehse iog,
and l2i persons persisted. One hle-Doat oily
GOT to land, containing five OF the crew ana TWO
passengers. In the morning 1t was dlscoyeIeu
that the vessels topmasts were still above wafer
and the captain and a boy passenger were
clinriny to the rigging; they were rescued.
THE vessel was from Antwerp for New YORK.
The latest details do mol. tiiitlgatstho horrors OF
the calamity. The captain, who Is but 70 years
old, realized his peril only when the vessel Was
in her extremity, and the passengers were caiieu
on deck to be swept overheard to certain oeatn,
Thern were on the stealner five officers ana ID
sailors and 30 passengers, OF whom ~ escspeu,
the captain, three passengers ana SIN ol IN
crew. Few bodies had been washed ashore az
last accounts. Sambro island, the scene OF tne
wreck. is about a mile and a half from the south
coast of Nova Scotia, on the westerly SIDE OF the
entrance to Chebucto bay, which forms the
harbor of Halifax. II Is a very dangerous 10
caIity on account Of the westerly current whlch
carries vessels from the east beyond tne harpol,
unjess great care is taken. In 1873 the Wnlte
star steamer Atlantic ran on the rocks 70
miles west of the harbor, and lost $40 passeh-
gers.
MONMOUTH, ILL, BANK suspENDs.
The first national bank of Monmouth, III,
closed its doors, Tuesday, on the discovery t nao
Cashier Hubbard had squandered from Sto,oVV
to 500. 600 in speculation. 1t is thought that IL
will resume in Il day or SO.
uouNTEgFEIrING SIcKLLs.
A good deal OF petty counterfeitiag has been
carried on Of late by the manufactlire OF cneap
iewely in gliding the new issue OF tue nVe-ceht
nickel, and in using them for scarf pms ana
other pattern of jewelry, which, while they are
new and bright, look very much likc q 20 Solu
niece. This use of the nickel has been held 10
be counterfeiting in the California circuit court.
Seizures of these pieces used for Jewelry nave
been made in Boston and vicinity, but no az
rests as vet have been made. Ii dealers commune
to deal in this kind of counterfeltlng, ltis stateu,
complaints will issue and the guilty parties VIII
be arrested.
DESTRUCTIVE FOREST FIRES IN NORTH CARO-
LIMA.
Tho most destructive forest fires ever known
in that section have been devastating Sin OF
seven border counties OF North Carolina ana
south Carolina for the last three days. vast
forests of long leaf pine, which formed the chief
source of the timber supply, have suffered.
Hundreds Of thousands of trees nave peen
burned, and some Of the largest turpentlne or
cbards in the state ruined. Many farm-h0uses
have been destroyed, and q number OF towns
have narrowly escaped destruction. Inc coun-
try, in great stretches. is a biackened wider
,r.. Mann families have been rendered home
less. The fire has swept here and there, some
30 miles in one direction, and 81 In another.
Few places, it is reported, have escaped. Inc
fires we're set by sparks from burning Drush,
driven by high winds into the turpennne
woods. The total loss is something like : ,000,-
600,
MYSTERIOUS MURDER-A WOMAN FOUND
WITH PART OF HER HEAD BLOWN OFF.
Edward Swears, q well-to-do farmer at Stony
Creek, Warren county, N. Y, upon returning
to his home Tuesday evening, from which he
had been absent since morning attending the
town election, found the body OF his wife lying
across the threshold of the door leading from
the kitchen to the sitting-rooin. The entire top
of her head had been blown off, apparently BY
Il shotgun wound, and a piece of the skull lay
about ten feet from the corpse. Blood stains on
Il broom close by and upon a small pile OF dirt
indicated that the woman had been murdered
while pursuing her household duties. The body
was cold, and fires in the stove had gone out
and other circumstances proved that she had
- -. 1oa1i a,,n finNa kn .nFo 'lhn-n IL fn /
clue to the murderer and the object of the crime
is Il mystery.
NLEGE RECOVERY OF A. I. STEWARDS
REMAINS.
An item is going the rounds, credited to the
Chicago Intcr-Ocean, to the effect that a notori-
Gus crook named Sweigels, who was serving a
sentence for robbery in an Illinois penitentiary
had confessed to a detective Of being one of the
Stewart grave robbers. The story goes that the
crook promised to restore the body oAly on
condition Of his pardon from the Lenltentiary
and receiving a part OF the reward. His pardon
was secured, and, according to the detectives
story, q syndicate, with q capital Of $4,000, was
formed. for the purpose of working up the case
ard securing the reward OF Sl0O,0oO by Judge
Hilton for the return OF Mr. Stewart remains;
lnttw0 or three visits were made to New York,
nj has NEGOTIATIONS were conducted througha
em4 le detective OF New York; that Inspector
Uytues OF New York became offended because
he was not consulted after the first visit; that
the remains were finally returned upon the
rayinent of $4,000 by Judge Hilton.
HORRIBLE WIPE MURDER.
Mrs DR. l.. NJ. Beach, the wife of a prominent
physician of Altoona, Pa, was discovered IN
her residence Monday morning with her head
almost cut from her body. The doctor has
been arrested, and it is said he has admitted
TINT he committed the decd. Two large knives
and II cleavar used for amputating purposes
were found beside the victim.
What a foul mass of rottenness these star |
route infamies have been from beginning to
cnd.-[New York World.
DISEASE N FILTH.
The attention of the board of health of New
York has been called to the fact that there IS
typhus fever in the district on the east side in
llabitcd by Polish Jews. 1t is spreading rapid
ly. Many eases have been sent to the hospitals
in the last few days. The Jews of the district
referred to are crowded into filthy tenements
devoid OF ali sanitary arrangements.
The Wyoming state-rrowers' Association
yl.ss, lnel1ljers have S20e, 900, 900 Invested and
osa e.91G,9 o head Of stock, held its 18th an
uual meeting at Cheyenne, Wy, Monday. Sec |
retary Thomas SturgiS submitted a report, III
which the questions of contagious diseases, a
national organization of cattle breeders, the use
oi government lands for grazing purposes
transportation. and other questions of only local
Interest were considered. Resolutions were un-
animously adopted iudorsing the provisions OF
the pieuro-pnenmoaia bill. recently. passed by
congress.
Tiers was q lively time in the Sharon d-
voTcc suit ut San Francisco Wednesday, pistols
beeing drawn all around as the result OF u re-
fie tion on one of the witnesses churches.
The carriage factory of J.. Kemple, in st
Louis. Mo-, q three story brick building, cayed
in eariy last Sunday morning aud was totally
destroyed. About a dozen employees with their