The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-10-16

Walla county. oregon. lhst Weeh Weuhesua
afternoon. Cashier Holmes was IN the ban
alone when a man entered and asked hoy
much money John Smith Of Portland had o
deposit. Upon the cashier saying that n
p such man had any deposit the VISITOR drew
- pistol and covering the cashier, said: "Yo
ID are DIN liar" At this junctnre two con
federates came up on horseback. one OF then
\. sitting ION his horse with a pistol In eacl
,s hand and warned the people back, the othe
70 entered the bank and poured into sack nj
= of the money on the counter--about $35O0
70 The three men then escaped to the mountain
i In the direction of Cornucopia.
II Weekly Review of Trade.
|. RIG. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of trad,
q says: From all parts of the West and Soutl
IS come advices that business Is gradually I'm
e proving, and the Improvement is felt at East
fl ern centres. There Is still most encourag
u Ing absence In any trade OF that speculative
;, excitement and over confidence when Is sc
:, often presage of disaster. Purchases arr
. governed by unusual conservatism, ana ye
!, chief Industries Is decidedly favorable. The
e market for wool Is quiet at Boston and else
where. but sales are not small and re eipts al
the West greatly exceed last years.
Children Lost and Found.
The three-year-old daughter Of Joseph ky.
. an, VINO lives two miles north OF Castleton
straved from home last week Thursday after.
a | noon. the W0OIe Jo'hpu III the
, search, but when the next morning they were
. | still missing, a force of $50 men from Fair
, Haven andC astleton renewed the search, which
. continued until O'Clock Friday afternoon,
, when william Brown, who had become de-
tached from the main force, found them In
Beaver meadow about two miles from home,
fast asleep In swamp. Mr.. Brown gets the
800 reward offered for finding them alive.
The American Board OF Missions.
of In Aynop {n n
board began at Pittsfeld, Mass, Tuesday
Rev. DR.. Storrs, the president opened the
meeting. committee on nomination was
appointed by DR.. Storrs, and t ose on ar
rangements and business were elected. The
committees on nominations Is: DR.. HaWes
of Burlington, w., President Franklin Garter Garter
Of Williams college, DR.. William Hayes Ward,
editor of the New York Independent, Prof.
Franklin W. Fisk of Chicago Theological
seminary and Edward A. Studley of Boston.
| Five missionaries and fourteen assistants
| have gone abroad or are on the way; for east
and west central Africa 8, European turkey
10, Western Turkey l, Central Turkey 3.
| China 9. japan 6. Several others have recent
! " been appointed and will sail soon; % have
| returned or are on the way. In the middle
district Secretary G. III. Daniels reports that
| he and IA returned missionaries have made
| $50 addresses among the churches at an aver
age cost for travelling expenses OF " LOO eoch.
Much literature has been distributed, yet AL
of the 1113 churches OF this district have
made no gifts to the cause. The total amount
received from gifts and legacles IS S232 SD,
an increase over last year OF S56,6Ol. From
the middle district Undian and Michigan to
the Rocky Mountains, office at ChicaGo) 300
special meetings are reported and marked |
Increase of Interest has been awakened In
proportionate giving. While there has been |
an increase of over "a per cent In receipts |
over last year. and % ~ per cent In d0na'
lions alone, yet there has been failing OH IN
the number-only four-seeking service
abroad. There Is a gain of a most 40 per
cent In the number of contributing cl u'ches.
Total donations and legacies In 1890, 1885,.
022. 80: in 1891. S11S, 05G.49. The report closed
with detailed comparison or receipts from
donations with those of former years. and
shows Gain In $3.50 $40 Oh, and of 500, 71510
over the average for the last five years. Leg
acies show gain over last year OF 1896 80
and above the annual average of the last two
years by S65 1857 Adding income from
general permanent fund, the total from Gifts
and leo aeies for the year Is SOL ,417.65. The
report of the work In foreign lands showed a {
marked Increase In almost every direction. {
There was an earthquake in California q,
Monday, the severest for years. t,
1t Is greatly feared that during the coming
winter Montreal will suffer a repetition of I
he smallpox epidemic of 1885. Already 40 5
tHSGS
IF the province, and 1t Is felt that only eX I
RENE care can save the city. t
Lieut.. Schwatka, the Arctic explorer, who Il
1as Just returned from another journey into
Iaska, reports that the most striking feature \
IF his trip was the breaking through on d
glacial Ice of the st. Elias range of mountains, lu
a feat never before accomplished by white
men, In the country hack of Elias he saw
over 30 peaks from 10000 to $1,000 feet highs <
A bout 800 miles of new and unknown terri. u
DRY were opened up, of which good surveys
md maps were secured. The evidences of o
valuable mineral deposits IN the region trav- a.
,rsed were very numerous and served to Ia
strengthen the impression that Alaska's min. b
,ral wealth is prodigious.
There was serious attempt at revolution g
It Montevidio. the capital of Uruguay, Sun d
lay evening. The members of revolutions n,
Try club, In the suburbs of the city. fired re
Upon the troops stationed near at hand, bat
we're overcome after considerable loss. h,
Many ringleaders of the assault, including y,
PRIEST, have been Appreciated. Unsuccess. a,
u attempts were made to assassinate Presi. II
lent Obes. and to capture the junta.
There was an earthquake In the manage. a,
nent of the Adams Express Co., Monday, n
When its president, John Hoey, was summa. 81
lily discharged and Its vice president, Clapp n
pooner, forced to resign, at meeting OF the
directors at New York. They had been in
deal" by which they sold to the Adams Co., III
he Boston dispatch company and the Kns- !,
ey express company for about SS50,000 when !,
he cost to themselves was only about $780, a.
90. The facts were brought to light I'm a ~
egal action brought by their partner In the y
deal" for an accounting, and they offered no Il:
efense simply because none was possible. g
recent census bulletin says that the coal II
roduct of this country has nearly doubled
] the past ten years. Nearly 100000 persons J.,
re engaged In the industry, who receive In -.
vages over 800. 100000 annually. NJ y,
Ninety arrests of postal employees and 9th. be
rs were made during the month of Septem- al
err for violations of The postal laws In break lo
lg into post-offices, robbing the mails viola tie
ons of the lottery law, and for various other bi
fences. This is an unusually large number M
arrests for the period.
The town of Kiowa. Kansas. is In tur-
oil. the citizens being In open revolt against T.,
er warfare against whiskey ''joints." She Ia
rs been petitoned by the business men to n ~,
sign. and her husbands name is said to be t ~,
/ the petition. h tn
A food and health exposition. the first of a.
kind ever held In New England. opened A,
the Mechanics Fair building, Boston, last FRI
eek. All kinds of food and health appli. tic
ices are exhibited. The retail grocers' as of
citation has brought about this movement, pr
e object OF which is to unite the manufac- fie
rers of food products and the wholesale and
tall sellers. so as to give the consumers a the
tier insight into what Is being done for \
EN-. oo,
The Indictment against Dominick O'Maley, Gle
e detective who obtained such nOtoriety Pre-
I'm his connection with the trial of the eit
llians accused of the murder of Chief OF the
lice Hennessey at New Orleans, has been for
andoned by the State. O'Malley was tina
roI vxff hribtpy iurnrs