The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1889-04-26

mouse. Monday on his return from bust
ness trip he found bis house burned to the
S,ound. A short distance away was tne
money trunk. with some bloody weapons
Among the ashes OF the house there were
bones enough raked together to show that
inc entire family had been murdered and
then the house fired. There is no clue the
murderers.
Reports from the eastern section OF the
state Of Guanajuato confirm earlier reports OF
r,ch deposits of gold In that region, where
cleveland, O., company has acquired con-
cession of mineral lands embracing many
square miles. II all reports are true--and
dislnterested persons are authority for them
then the discovery Of gold IN Guanajuato Is
the richest since the California discovery In
ic4y, and the consequences to the finances
ana commerce of the world can hardly be es.
tlmated. The gold is said to be found In
combination with species of rock rarely
Iound bearing the precious metal, and the
WORK or extraction will have to be carried on
VAIN improved machinery, but there is appar-
ehtly enough of 1t to keep an armyof miners
| employed for century to come, as gold Is
| 1ound IN entire hills. Great efforts are being
maze TO Keep all information from the press.
4 At Pennington. Pa, Tuesday an ore mine
smart 10 feet deep caved In while Is men
were in the mine. Richard Ettiuger was
A crushed to death while the otherf succeeded
In crawling out without any serious injury.
The fiercest and most destructive fire New
4 DIRK has seen for generation occurred
\ there Frioay 1t started in some lard refine
rics on 5Dth and Goth streets, and extended
beyond Goth street. The tire lasted from
1 till0 O'clock. The $50 employees found escape
1 by the stairway was cut off and most OF them
had to jump from the windows. One man
was killed and number were injured by
jumping from the burning buildings. The
loss is over $20O0.O00.
The Groux brothers and three other tough
ailbirds beat their keeper insensible and es-
capped from st. Joseph's, Quebec, last week.
The Giroux men We're captured seven miles
from jail the others are still free.
The CLYDE steamer Saginaw. which left
port do paiy Hayti, April 10, reported an
nther hattie in that republic. The fight Is re-
oorte,l to have taken place at Treu on April
10, { nd, as the account of it came from port
in sympathy with the eof Hippolyte and
the North, the victory is said to have been on
that side. Gen. PequaDt commanded the
forces of Legtime and was beaten back from
Trou with great loss, One-half of his men be-
ing taken prisoners. An officer of the Sagi-
nav said last night that he had heard that
outrageous atrocities had been committed by
the retreatng troops. Ail was quiet at Port
de Paix when the Saginaw left. Two hum
dred conscripts for Hppolyte's army were in
jail in Port de Paix when the Saginaw reach
I'd that place, and day or two later the man. |
Df-war Jacmel, formerly the Mercedes OF
Novelty, now in command OF Capt. Compton |
and IN the service of Hipdoiyte, came in and |
look these conscripts on board. They were
hen transported to Cape Haytien and placed
n the ranks of the Northern army.
Christian Holworth of Lowville, N. Y,
who has been insane for years owing to hard
ships in the war. has received back pay and
pension amounting to $13,006. This is the
argest but one ever paid. He gets. $40
month for life. He has a wife, three daugh-
ers and two sons.
At Depere, Wis, Sunday night a fire start
ID In wooden-ware factory, ard before it
0Mld be subdued had spread to many neigh
'oling houses, making the largest fire ever {
.uown in the place. The total loss on dwell
ngs and contents will probably amount to |
100000 or more, and only one-quarter of 1t |
overed by insurance. The steamers were |
DING good work when the wind Suddenly |
hanged and the fire hemmed the engines in, Z
nd the firemen fled. The engine were all L
urned.
1t is stated on good authority that the v
Weldon bill providing for the return to the a
nited States of all that country's criminals (
present in Canada will be passed by the II
anadian parliament Notwithstanding stren-
Gus opposition to it by prominent influential
merican boodlers at present in Canada. Mr..
veldon has received several threatening let j
RS, supposed to have come from American
gitives.
A fire at Detroit, Mich, Monday, was
remarkable for the fact that
ough little daMege was done to property,
ur lives were lost by suffocation or hurn. -
e. The fire was caused by the dropping OF
lighted lamp.
Manager Robinson of the Buffalo, N. Y,
exposition has secured novel
traction, human sky rocket, the handi- II
lft of Mr.. Edselle of CaIIao. Peru, former
of the United States navy. The apparatus
insists of combination of rockets of inn
,nse power, with a parachute attachment N
lich folds over the apex. Four tubes from "a
framework contain the explosives. the
me of which is dynoascenimitc and whose
,ure is secret. A small volume of the solid nA
kes a great volume of vapOr which lifts ~
machine rapidly. A test was made un.
Peruvian government patronage, near
lao. in December, when the charge touched
electricity sent the machine up 15,545 feet
the descent by parachute was perfect.
aerepaut landing some five miles away
he British steamship Pine Branch arrived ~
Nd, Monday. from Rio Janeiro, o.
reports that yellow fever is terrible at ~. pr
tos and Rio Janeiro. The number of or
tbs at the latter port has reached 100 ga
Chief Engineer William Thomas of the TIA
e Branch was left in the hospital in Rio pr
GIRO suffering from the fever. of
! Patrick county, Va, pitiabe state of LU
irs exists. due to the extensive forest fires
week. Hundreds of people are left
leless and utterly destitute of every
ms of supporting their families. How
can live without aid from abroad until
incoming of the next crop is hard to see,
even then numbers of them are without
es to protect their crops and plantations
without houses to live in. q
sastrous forest fires have ra Zed in various IS
$ of Massachusetts this week. causing
destruction to timber lands. Monday,
doing thousands of dollars worth OF 4
age ragged In Hoyoke, North Adams and NJ
field. fierce wind rendering the flames y
aud blowing down trees and
raph and telephone wires. Large gangs
en- fought the flames, but 20 no purpose, Ute
there were several barrow escapes from zen
and seri Gus injury.
rumOr was current Sunday that yellow
: had again broken out at JACKSONVILLE.
Surgeon-General Hamilton telegraphed
r. Daniels, president of the state board q
ealth. about the matter, and received
iSthat the report was false.
lillian ID. johnson, of Burvile, Conn.,,
arrested Friday charged with a brutal
llt upon Miss Bertha Cook, Campbell
d teacher johnson has very bad rec
having been convicted OF an atts"P r =.
also for unlawful cohabitation: The
lg was so strong against him that IN TAX
him to the iail some towns had to be
led by the OH GERS for fear OF lynching.
e non arrival of the Monopgahela at "a, ,
has caused considerable uneasiness. Inc n
has now hoon ont over GO days, and no res
of her arrival has been rece,Ve T.h Is pui
ed with stores. and in addition carried iii
. deck load Of coal ana should have made n.J
journey in about 40 DAYS. 1t is feared !tOt
vas caught IN the gale and the fact that jOt
condition was not of the best causes fears Boo
her safety, -,
cyclone passed through Hinckley, III.
.Sdav p;,vL. xyrec king The town in the