The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1885-07-17
W REVIEW EVIL OF THE WEEK,
NEW WORLD.
The Tornado


IrH NEW WORLD.
The Tornado
WHICH DEVASTATED PORTIONS OF NoRTHEh
500 ltl lps VERMONT
The tornado which devastated the countr
also visited northern Vermont last week Inm ns
tiav, At Burlington the roof OF the steane
Renders deck was lifted and dropped on
schooner in the lake. Tho roof OF the Amer
can house barn was torn away, Dilnds wer
blown offand tree uprooted. In me vicinity =
Burlington several horses were killed by iIgn,
Mug, and telegraph poles and fences were ieygl
ed. A bridge was blown into the WinoosS
cred wooden bridge 2l2 feet span and was com
pletely destroyed. At Waterbury great mum
hers OF trees were destroyed, houses stripped %
chimncys, and buildings damaged. The splr
of the Methodist church was blown down ali'
one elm tree .our feet in diameter, was toim , "
by the roots, Two barns at the Center vli. ny
blown down and d two sri Was at frs
thought that they were killed but they are nov
recovering. DR. Henry Jones new barn, Partl,
finished was destroyed, the workmen pareiy 90
Gaping. The loss is estimated at $ooo'
THE REBELS ROUTED AT BARRANaUILLA.
Senior Becerra, the Columbian minister al
Washingto,, has received telegram from bogo
IA saving that the rebels of BarranqullIa, persist
inc II, their determination to ascend the Magda-
lena river, lad been completely r0nted az Oaia'
mar. Their fleet OF 10 vessels suffered consul.
cradle damage through the explosion OF tne one
which Vas laden wi h ammunition. Almost all
of the revolutionary leaders are supposed 70
have been either killed or seriously w0unoeo;
LIS believed that the explosion OF the vessel
was caused by shot fired by the government
troops The government has taken vigorous
measures 10 prevent the reoels from op'a''i'nS
munitions Of war or provisions from tne eoao. !,
ana has already stationed gunboat at the pors
of SubaD,a. News of the final suhJngation OF
the rebels is expected by Senor Beccrra al any
moment.
THE 1ERHIBLE CRIME OF AN INfuRlArEp hos-
~ BAND.
Dsyil Conger. farmer living near Lewis
vile. q. killed hi, wife Sunday in most atro-
c,ons manner. In the evening he went INTO
sorinp house and drank some water from TN
cuo. throwing the remainder upon one OF MS
children. The mother demonstrated whcn ne
turned upon her in rage, struck her Di0w
with his fist knocking her to the ground. lie
sprang after her, and picking up an axe, struck
tie prOstrate woman with 1t, almost seVeflng
one arm and buryipg the weapon In her right
breast. A second blow broke in the skull ana
forehead The six chlden witnessed the trag-
edy and gave the alarm. Conger surrendered
to the sheriff and is now in jail. s.s's'
''i@ o. PANIC STRICKEN BY SMALL Pox.
The people on the small pox infected district
near CrOmwell's, la, are panic stricken and
seem to have lost their humane feelings. Last
week Wednesday man named Rey nolds dled
and up to Friday morning his body lay fester-
ing in the house where he died. 1t is impos-
sible to procure conveyance to remove the
body. A mother and five children are shut up
in house quarantined against the entire neigh
borhood and physicians came out from erosion,
but failed to secure means for removing the
body. A child two days old lies dead in another
house.
EIGHT PERSONS DROWNED BY THE CAPsIZING
OFA YACHT.
Sunday evening heavy wind and rain
storm passed over Lake Minnetonka, Minneso-
ia. The small steam yacht Minnie Cook, with
eight persons on board, was capslzed ana
every one drowned. The names of the unfor-
tur,ate party are IS follows: Ex-Mayor A G
Rard and wife, Mary Rand, and two sons,
Harvey and Frank II Coykendall and wife,
Kate Coykendal and Geo Mcdonald, engineer,
all of Minneapolis.
SIXTY PEOPLE POISONED WITH DRIED BEEF.
Sixty persons at Momence, III, have been
poisoned by eating, dried beef made from dis
eased cattle Mrs Shrouts, wife of a Momence
physician, died Monday, and many others are
dying. The sickness is attended by collie,
cramps, inflammation Of the bowels and vomit.
Ing. A dog was given some Of the meat and
died shortly aIter@ard.
"A BLOODY BATTLE BETWEEN COWBOYS AND
INDIANS.
tits rumored that battle has been fought be-
tween cowboys and Indians on the New Mexico
ranch of B Sau ghter OF Colorado City, Tex
no v InQinns sixteen
ported Killed. There IL great excitement
there.
Bishop Stevens OF the Protestant Episcopal
church has decided that women are eligible to
election on yestries.
At Cory, Penn, large number OF tramps
have taken up their quarters and threaten to
reign OF terror.
A forged check for $4,000. signed William
II Vanderbilt has been sent to Tie World Office
for the Bartholdi pedestal fund.
Tbs peace negotiations in Peru with Caceres
have completely failed, the latter requiring no
less than the retirement of the Iglesias govern.
ment.
The fl YER at Plymouth is disappearing. The
number of sick is 1853. During the last week
five now cases were admitted to the hospital
and 80 have recovered.
Julian Hawthorne, the novelist, who is spend
ing the summer at Sag Harbor, l. l, was fined
Friday $40 for assaulting a boy who threw
stones at pigeon in the authors yard.
Gen VIM N Grier, a retired army officer, died
at Napa Springs. Cal, of pneumonia, last week
Thursday aged y. He was an old soldier hav-
jny served in the Mexican and civil wars and
ia numerous expeditions against the Indians,
etc.
Great things have ever hinged on trifles. The
first family difficulty on record was caused by
an apple core; the last we heard OF was the
negligence CT father to keep up the supply OF
Or Bulls Cough Syrup when all hands had
ha
The Polish workmen of the Cleveland rolling
mill company will probably go 10 work In
few days. Their priest. becoming satisfied that
the men did not correctly understand the situa-
fairs and advising them TO go home and think
the m alter over and go back to work. ,r
The Allegheny valley was visited by disas-
trous storm Monday. Great damage was done
at various points along the Allegheny river. At
lightning struck the telegraph
office, killing instantly James McFeeder, a stud
emit, aged II years, and rendering unconscious
the operator Miss Mary Hazlett. The building
was partly wrecked.
A fire started last week Thursday in the
great cranberry belt OF Burlington county, New
Jersey, swept over thousands ofacres OF valua-
BILE bog and is still burning. 1t spreads to the
West Jersey meadows, containing thousands OF
acres OF grass and cranberries. Thousands OF
dollars worth Of the latter fruit, nearly ripe for
market, were destroyed.
All the mills and salt works on the Saginaw
river in Michigan are idle having been closed
by strikers. At Warner q Eastman's salt
works the strikers assaulted two employees,
colorcd men, named George and Charles Davis,
both OF whom were seriously injured. No
Dfher acts of violence have been reported, and
the situation is now quiet.
Six persons, the family of Samuel Baker, at
Blue Grass, la, were seriously poisoned last
week ty drinking wine from bottle in which
there was soue jinson root. 1t was used un