The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-05-29

A new black bug, apparently Of a new va
rlety, has damaged much Of the new corr
crop In Illinois.
the suspended private banking firm o.
bunneil n Scranton ut New Haven has assets
OF SlooOOO and liabilities about 100000.
!, John Ryan's Sons of Atlanta, Ga, the lar
y gest nry goods establishment In the south
y falleu Tuesday with $l,000,000 liabilities.
:. Michael Gaulropp of No 1147 Stebbins ave.
n nue. new York died Friday In great agony
/ from Tie effects of dog Lite on the right
e hana received on April 26 last. DIR Rub
sald tDat the man died of pseudo-hydropho'
|, death.
7 DR.. L. Thacher Graves VINO has been con.
r nheu IN Inc county Jail since his arrest on an
Indictment for the murder of Mrs. Barnaby
, was Monday afternoon admitted to bail IN
@oo,oVV' tie refuses to tell who his bOndsmen
} are ana the court authorities keep It a secret.
The Jackson-Corbett prize fight at San
francisco Friday was declared to be "no con-
test" both men at the close of the 61st round
being too exhausted to strike an effective
blow. The first half of the fight IL said to
have been the most scientific contest ever. seen
On the Pacific coast.
Henry Brose of Etna and Thos O'Rourke
of Pittsburg, Pa, died Friday from the effects
of eating smoked sturgeon that has poisoned
more or less seriously 500 people In that city
| anu flCiuuys uc IucL uleu III IerrlDle agOQV
| and the other cases have become SO serious
that the authorities have taken hold OF the
matter and most rigid investigation will be
made.
| The farmers of eastern Connecticut are
| fighting hordes OF tent caterpillars with shot
guns or long. barreled revovers, for it Is i'm.
possible to stay their rsvages with kerosene
torches and other ordinary means. Cater.
pillars were never 30 numerous before In
many orchards the apple trees are enveIopel
In their silky webs, and have been killed out
right. The trees look as II confiagration
had swept through them. Almost every wild
cherry tree has been killed, except those In
thick forests.
That scrOfulOus faint which has been In your |
giving Hoods SarsapariIla fair trial. ii really
Is a wonderful blood purifier and spring medi |
cine.-adv.
Great interest is taken In the Hunter will
case Of Grown Point, N Y. Theodore Hunter
died about the middle of April. After his
queathing her $4,000. Mr. Hunter died in
great agony, and an autopsy of the stomach
revealed the presence of enough arsenic to
kill ten average men. Before the coroner the
woman admitted that she had purchased
Loison. The case Is being investigated at
Port Henry. The will Is contested by his
nephews and nieces and sensational develop
ments are expected.
A private letter at New York from the city
of Mexico. written May 10 by bushes man
who has ample facilities for getting correct
says there Is much reason to be-
lieve that the Mexican authorities are quietly
giving aid to the ChlaD insurgents. The
Esmeralda had been able to get all the coal
she wanted, and private advices from Mazat-
Ian reported that war materials brought from
San Francisco had been transferred there
early this month to ships belonging to the
Gillian insurgents The same letter mentions
rumors Of secret treaty between Mexico
and San Salvador against Guatemala.
A duel was fought on Saturday morning at
Chicago by Baron Rudolph Kalnoky de Kor-
ospatack, nephew of Count KalnOky of vi
emma, and young southerner, both of whom
were infatuated with an actress, Miss Matte
of the Duff opera Co. Kanoky, ac.
cording TO his own statement, was at one
time the stanch defender of Queen Natalie of
Servla, during her sometimes embarrassing
visits to the Austrian capital He had also
been chosen companion In the revels of the
say young Crown Prince Rudolph of Aus
ria, whose suicide shocked all Europe. That
went drove Kalnoky to wilder designations.
he has been following Miss AthertOn around
he country. but she refused bis advances.
The sOutherner seems to have Jared the same
way, and a talk of sympathy over drinks
nded In ords. Touchdown and chal- d
enge. Blood was shed, but the encounter
vas not fatal one. :
In the case of Clark w. Hatch, charged
With passing forged check, the jury at Wor. 4
ester. Ns;sS.. reported verdict Of "not
utility" Monday morning. 1t was great sur
rise. Hatch was Immediately rearrested
harged with the forgery of two checks pay +
BILE TO Robert z. Gannett as administrator, a
lythcaI brother of a mythical man on whom
e had got a policy, which he collected on
orged death papers. with the names forged
sureties on the administrators bond. A
rit of habeas corpus was filed by Hatch's
ounsel, alleging false arrest and impriso n
lent, and dwelling on the point that the
ebts for which be was arrested are inbound
d, and that Hatch was taken before be lad
nance, after his acquittal, to leave the dock
go to his home. The writ was granted :.
nd a writ OF protection was issued, j
pder- which Hatch cannot be arrested -.
,ithin the state lines on civil process or w
nti he has reasonable time to reach home m
Colorado Springs. Nothing is known about
le intention of the officers In pursuit. Hatch, Cl
ben last seen, was driving In a carriage
ward the north, and 1t Is probable that he ca
tends TO travel by team and throw the of. RI
GERS off the track. The Travellers Insurance 40
O. claims to have been swindled by Hatch m,
18th n lmber of these "straw" policies. -