The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1888-06-01

THE MORE IMPORTANT AND INTER.
EsIING EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
Wreck at Milton.

Vreck NJ MntOn.
a freight train leaving Milton station at II
O'clock saturday morning, and running wild
coIiided with a working train about a mile
ana half below the village. Neither train
was running very rapidly. and the results
we're not so disastrous as might have been
'Npecled. Several men In the engine of the
%ork,ng traili barely escaped by jumping; no
one was injured. Eight cars In ali were
wrecked. The wrecking train was soon on
nanu ana at early evening the track was
opened again The damage to the engines was
much less than at first appeared. none of the
WORKING parts being injured. The resposi-
pinty ior thc accident is not yet determined.
though It is known that the working train lad
the right to thc'road.
-, = Death by Escaping Gas.
w. II. PilIing from KeesvIle. N. ".
went TO burlington last week Wednesday TO
see about constructing DIR. w. s. Wcbb's
dock, and put up at the Hotel Burlington.
thursday morning he was found dead, the
result Oh heart disease, aggravated by escap-
ing gas.
Thursday afternoon fire was discovered in
the upper story of the building occupied by
Mace Il Reeves. undcrtakers at Winooski
The cause of the fire is supposed to be de-
fectlve flue. The damage was not very great
AZ the request of the respondents the case
OF Inc FRANKLIN robbers was continued until
June IL, and they were remanded to the Gus
tody of Deputy Marshall Bailey. The prs-
oners were taken to the Jail in Burlington, on
the o.45 train for safe keeping, the jail at St.
Adams not being secure. They are both
hard looking men, their appearance being de-
cidedly against them.
good deal of excitement was caused in
FRANKLIN Friday by the announcement that
Iva III. Corey, an old man who lived alone in
bis house 60 yards back from the road over
the line leading to Stanbridge. p. O.. had
been attacked by robbers, bound hand and
foot and robbed of his money and other val
uables about 10 o'clock that morning. and
that one OF the robbers had been caught i'm
Canada, while the other three had crossed the
line and were in the woods near Franklin
Centre. A Canadian officer with the help of
others succeeded in capturing two of these
but the other escaped. All that was found
on their persons taken from the old man
was razor. so only petit larceny was made
out against them, for which Judge Cleveland
hhed each SlO and costs amounting to 1888 |
each with cost of commitment to House of |
Correction at Rutland, amounting to S42.13
'ach. They were taken to st. Adams. Sat.
irday night to be kept at the Jail till they
'0uld hear from Montreal. where they said
hey could procure money by telegraph.
Robinson Bros saw mill in '.Nebraska,-
stowe, burned Sunday, loss $4,000.
lhe committee on the revision of the pre-
mum list for the state fair has completed its
oiH' anu dDouI 9iUuU VIII ne devoted to
MS purpose. Among the additional attrac-
ions viii be two balloon ascensions on the
econd and fourth days of the fair. when the
eronaut will leap from the balloon in para.
hnte at the distance of one mile from the
round.
The prevalence of measles at Weston
1ade 1t necessary to cancel all arrangements
or Memorial day.
A second attempt to burn the postoffice at
AIR Haven WAS made Sunday nipbt Tho
re was extinguished before much damage
ras done 80