The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1890-10-17

:, Sixteen hundred Jnea are at work on the
Nicaragua canal and the railway. which has
been extended four miles inland along the
line of the former.
The right to use the vestibule car, which
has been In litigation little over year, was
decided last week Ia favor OF the fuIlman
Company. The use of Wagner or other cars
with u vestibule attachment by tne Boston
Albany and other roads, Is henceforth Forbid
den.
William shum, Munce, Ind. printer,
ton of murdsr case, and beheaded himself
I by placing his neck on the rail In front OF an
approaching train.
| DR.. Robert Sacasa, who succeeded TO the
presidency of Nicarauga on the death of
| Eyaristo Caraso. In August, 1882 has been
reelected by an overwhelming majority Tor
term of four years, af ter four days polling.
What's better for a wound than Salvation
| Olly Echo answers: "Wnat." We answer:
Nothing" $50 say we all OF US, SO say we
ALL" Only % cts.
A poor unfortunate 10 Milwaukee is said to
have sneezed himself to death. Alas! poor
creature, living In the light of the nineteenth
century and never heard OF DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup. Well, this Is more than Egyptian
darkness adv.
News has been received from Rosario god
mine, 20 miles inland from Mazatlan. OF
terrible explosion which occurred the latter
Part Of September: An; An american Ma ~, named
working with nine MeXicans In GO.foot level
near the magazine, which contained several
hundred pounds of dynamite. This exploded
In some way, and the ten men were blown
almost to atoms.
There IA no longer any concealment OF the
fact that the western part OF Kansas e beng
rapidly depopuated because 1t Ia subject to
drouth of such intensity as not to warrant
farmers In risking cultivation Of the soil.
The weekly edition of the Atlanta Constitu.
tion was seized by the postal authorizes last
week under the new anti.lottery law. When
the law was passed theConstttution ANNOUNCE
ed that the newspapers ought to assist the
government In executing Its provisions and
promptly stopped the publication of Its lot
terry advertiseing but 1t announced CHRIS
mas distribution of prizes for Its own sub.
scribers, as many papers do, and 1t was for
this that 1t was prevailed against.
The largest glacier In the world, so far as
Is known, was recently discovered In Alaska
by members of TIE U. S. Typographical Sur
vey while making an attempt to climb Mount
st. Elias. 1t Is twenty-five miles long, ten
wide. moves fifteen feet day, and Is covered
with circular crevasses. 1t was named the
Lucia Glacier. The explorers met with a
lahlai'HinS ulsuppoihthc"e III 'hcii c"oil W
reach the top of the mountain. After many
perils, they worked their way up Aug. 2G)
to slope of hard snow reaching to the sum-
NIT. Their altitude was 5000 feet. and In a
few hours they expected to tread the peak.
A sudden snowfall covering the ground to !
the depth of four feet, with failure of pro-
visions and oil. baffied their expectation and
them TO turn back. They sue
ceeded, however. In determining the position
of this mOuntain-that 1t lies within the |
boundarles of the United States-and also IN |
revising the estimates made of Its height. |
Instead OF 1850 feet above sea level, as given |
in the latest U. S. government maps. Mount
st. Elias was found to be but 1880 feet
high,