The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-17

4 on suspicion of being guilty OF GRAMS muIuci
While the Orangemen of Ryehouse, HertIoru
shire. were celebrating the same anniversary
Sunday. thew were attacked by mob OF Cath
0lics and a desperate fight followed. Fence
paIinps. table legs and chairs were freely useo
and many heads were broken. The police were
, powerless. The riot was queled by the priests
THE CHOLERA scouRGE DECREASING.
The suffering 10 the cholera districts in Spain
is increased by the stoppage OF exports or I'VE
, stock, fruit, flowers and vegetables under tne
sanitary rules. The wealthy are most gener.
ons. The clergy arrange for the distribution
NJ food Deaths occur daily of devoted ply
| sicians. sisters of charity and public officials
The heat is intense. The scare 10 subsiding
There are increased arrivals OF army surgeons,
nurses and medicines. general decrease OF
cholera IL reported throughout Spain. DR. Fer
ran who went to Madrid to protest against the
coyernments's stopping other doctors practic-
ing incubation was informed ~ the governor
that the permission granted himself mad been
withdrawn. The doctor says he shall leave
Spain, The governments action Is charged to
Dir Ferran's strange treatment OF foreign doc
tors. He Is said to deny that he made any Sc
cret of his system or that he made any charge
for incubation. "
THE PAIL MALL eAzErTE's SCANDAL TO Re IN.
| vEsTIGATED.
Excitement over the Pail Mall Gazette's rev.
| Citations continues. The archbishop OF Canter'
bury, the bishop OF London, Cardinal Manning
and Samuel Morey have begun a work OF In
| curry into the charges lmade by the Gazette,
according to the proposition OF the propre1,ors
proof Of all it, charges. A mass meeting OF
| women has been held at Princes hall to consid-
err means OF pr otec1ing young girls from the pit
| falls Of London. The meeting resolved that
| laws on the subject should be made more ehec-
| tive and that The age OF consent be raised from
Tha bnvr, the house fOf
| commons Tuesday said that the government
| would not proceed against the Gazette for pub
| fishing the matter. The large numter of Aews-
| BOYS under arrest for selling the papers have
been discharged.
COURT SCANDAL AT BERLIN.
= A Berlin letter gives these particulars of
court scandal: A prince 30 years, near rela-
tive OF Emperor William and son OF one OF the
heroes OF the French war, after an entertain
ment with companions at the emperors chateau
Sans Souci near Berlin, went to house FIRE.
auented by the tennessee Doree. The carousers
sang and shouted and threw bottles through the
windows. In the midst of the Orgie, the prince
quarreled with Lieut. Prittwiz of the LIST reg-
ment of Silesian cuirasslers, and boxed his ears.
The police arrived on the scene and persuaded
the party to 60 home. Lieut. Prittwitz, feeling
dishonored before his comrades, and -etquet
forbiddng duel with prince OF the house OF
Hohepzollern. shot himself, leaving letter of
explanation. Emperor William, on being IN
formed of the affair, wrote a letter of coincidence
10 the Iieutenants father. The prince is under
military arrest
PARIS LATEST TRAGEDY. =
Paris is excited over a horrible boulevard
tragedy. The architect Caudray, although mar
ried and father, maintained a liaison with
NINE Bessier, wife of a shop-keeper on the
Boulevard Voltaire. The lovers quaITeled last
week thursday during Bessier's absence from
his shop. Caudray called upon Nine Bessier,
shot her dead and put bullet through his
heart. M Bessier returned shortly and stum-
bled over the dead. He had never believed the
shock of the revelation his mind broke down
and he fled, a raving maniac, yelling his shame
up and down the boulevard.
ENCOURAGING AN INCREASE OF POPULATION.
The French chamber of deputies Friday af-
ternoon voted an appropriation of $500, 900 to
be expended by the state in maintaining and
educating every seventh child born in French
families. This action was taken to revive an
obsolete law enacted during the French Revo-
luton in the interest of increase in the French
population. The present enactment applies to
either sex, and is confined to the children of
parents in needy circumstances. An attempt
to reject this latter restriction was negatived by
vote Of 200 to III.
SERIOUS RIOT IN LERlDA.
A dispatch from Lerda Spain, says seri-
Gus riot has occurred there on account OF the
opposition of portion of the populace to the
payment of certain taxes. The governor, who
endeayored to pacify the rioters, was stoned.
The mob then became more demonstrative and
threatened to burn the town by the use of pc
tro!eum. The military were then called out to
restore order and fired on the rioters, killing
three. One soldier was killed. Many of the
rioters were wounded The shops were closed
and the streets held by soldiers. ~
THE ENGLISH CONSUL CLERK FLoGGED BY
RUSSIANS.
The Russians imprisoned the clerk of the En-
glish consul at Askabad and logged him and
threatened him with death unless he divulged
the names of English agents secretly operating
on the frontier. Finally, after spell Of hard
labor they released him. He has arrived at
Meshen. There are numerous indications OF
Russian aggressive intentions on the frontier.
= GEN GoRDoN's RANSOM REFUSED.
The Paris 1ntransigeant prints letter from
M Billing, a former diplomatist, saying that
the Mahdi, before the capture of Khartoun,
offered to release Gen Gordon for ransom of
release reached Paris. NJ Billing forwarded the
proposal to Lord Lyons, the British ambassa-
dor at Paris. England rejected the offer.
There were 1868 new cases Of cholera in Spain
Tuesday and 673 deaths.
A terrible famine prevails in Kordofan and
has extended to Khartoum.
A rising among the natives at Senegal has just |
been suppressed by severe measures.
Anarchists of all countries will convene in
universal congress at Barcelona from July rs to !
80.
The shah of Persia has given $500 toward |
the erection of a Presbyterian mission church |
at Hamadan.
Earthquake shocks of great force occurred at |
midnight Tuesday night at Smyrna and at |
Chesme, in Asia Minor.
1t is rumored that the Russians have advanc- |
ed in force to Zulfikar pass and are treating Per-
sianitenitoIy as if it were Russian. ~
Earthquake shocks continue to be felt in the |
vale Of Cashmere at intervals of three days. |
A severe shock was felt at Serinagur July 4. |
Maria Ivanoff, peasant woman of the village |
of, GlazunOva, Russia, has distinguished her |
self by giving birth to five children in three con-
secutive days.
While Emperor William was taking drive |
Sunday miseraby dressedtnan threw flower |
empire brcak" The man was arrested. He is |
supposed to be insane.
The Countess Romeral, who has recently died
of cholera at Madrid, was the first case among l
aeople Of means and position and living in |
good neighborhood. Her death was within an |
hour flor refurnipu from q theatre aud xvae