The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1891-11-06
NEW WORLD.


"oheu CHosen Tor PRESIDENT.
A dispatch from Santiago de Chill announce
tne opening of the CHILEAN congress. Til
conservative party Immediately placed Jorg
selection which the Liberals VIII indorse
me same dispatch says that the Junta ha
n released the majority of the political prison
- ers.
Is The Tennessee Convict Camps.
q The failure Of the Tennessee legislature t.
70 ADJUST the difficulty about the EMPLOYMENT O
!, conv'cts In the mines In competition witt
u free labor mas brought on another seriou
9 state of affairs. The miners who desiste,
= from their rebellion on Gov Buchanan'
>. promise to call an extra session of the legs
u lature' have how taken the law into the
v own hands again. Friday night the stockad,
!, at the Tennessee Mining company's plant wa,
= burned, the magazine blown up, the convicts
TO the number OF 300 turned loose, given cit
:, izens' clothes and told to leave the country
!. Large numbers of suits of citizens clothes
were purchased several days ago, and 1t Il
. now certain they were for the use of the dis
charged convicts, whose escape would be IA
ciiltated by d1scarding their striped clothes
Saturday and Sunday the same thing was
done al The morning stockades at Coal Greek
ana Ollver Springs and now not convict re-
mains at any one of the mines In the East
Tennessee coal region. Seven mines are
operated In the vicinity of divers, of which
number only the Cumberland mines were
worked by convicts. Hence It was the only
one mo!ested by the miners. Fully five
hundred criminals are now roaming at large
In east Tennessee and eastern Kentucky.
Most of them have made for the mountains
of Kentucky. About 20 have been recap.
tured. The greatest excitement prevails In
the surrounding country and naturally with
so many hardened criminals, including a
number OF murderers and life sentence men
let loose on them.
An Omaha paper contains nine columns of
advertisements of city lots for sale for taxes,
The boom there must be off.
The State bank at Homer, Neb., was
robbed early Sunday morning of $1,000 by
two masked men. The robbers went to
cashier Freese's residence, woke him up and
compelled him, at the point of revolver. to
20 with them to the bank and open the safe.
They then gagged and bound him. Mr..
f'reese afterWard freed himself, but the rob.
bers had escaped.
| The New York custom house authorities
think they have unearthed smuggling
scheme the extent of which they cannot tell
at present: SO far they have In their posses
one consignment. The goods were taken
from the steamship Ell Dorado, which was
wrecked in Bahama reefs two or three
months ago. Nine cases of the goods marked
'nnene towels" were brought from the
wreck back to New York and placed In the
custom house. But when the boxes came to
be opened to see how badly the contents
were damaged they found that only three
cases contained towels; the other six were
filled with gloves, with layer of towels on
top. The kid gloves In the six cases are val.
ued at over $4,000. The custom officers
claim that this scheme of smuggling has been
going on for some time.
ho tn
against Clapp Spooner, its vice. resident.
has been amended to charge him with the
transportation of 100000 In money and
valuables.
The Mexican village of Santa Rosa was
burned by Yaqui Indians on the night of
Monday, August, 10. The Indians came down |
from the mountains and suddenly fired the |
village and Instantly killed several Mexicans |
who failed to escape. A detachment Of sol. |
ders was at once sent in pursuit, but none of |
the Indians have been captured and 1t is
feared that thev are carrying on depreda.
lions In other parts of Sonora.
There is considerable excitement at Bridge.
port, Conn.,, over the rumor that the prison.
ers at the jail are being poisoned. A large
number OF them have Deen suddenly taken Ill
within the past few weeks, and no cause has
been found. 1t ls thought possible that some
prisoner may have tempered with the food.
Jacob Lawrence, an Old man employed as
: car INSPECTOR for the Reading company at
Gordon, N. Y, was last Friday caught be.
tween cars and so badly crushed that be died
The following day. Since then 1t has been
earned that he was worth about $4,000
which Is invested In real estate In Brooklyn,
Y. Y.
j. p. Withrow & Co. the extensive furnace
builders of Newcastle, Pa, are financially en-
oarrassed ,and have applied for receiver. The
nv.Iu Late \ H. h-t~&
i ties at ssI4 P 90. '' 'i'''''0 anu ''' "'
Fl. A. P. Carter, Hawaiian minister
% the United States, died Sunday MORN
ng In the Everett House In New York
where he has been nopelessly III for the past
wo months. Mr.. Charter was born In Hon
,lulu In 1868 of American parents. He was
educated In Boston and then returned to
where he was engaged In business.
Ex-Mayor Carter Harrison has bought and {
AIKEN possession of the Chicago Times which
he will continue as Democratic paper. 1t
In Galveston, in sinking an artesian well.
which is now 2O40 feet In depth, gray and
eeen clay mixed with wood, lime concre.
ions and pebbles, were found at a depth of r
80 feet. The age of the wood is estimated r
t 100000 years by Prof. Singley, and In the r
which is 106 feet In thickness, he T.
ound seeds resembling apple and blackberry e
eeds. C
Three convicts escaped from the Michigan
tate prison at Jackson on Thursday by
leans of a tunnel 80 feet long and 10 inches
n diameter, from the iron shop to the point ~
ust outside the north wall. =,
G. E. Bllsh, proprietor of Eagles hotel at a
eekskill, N. Y. was murdered there Monday b
cold blood by Fl. Z. Belts of Brooklyn, %
Tho claims that Blish alienated the affections ir
bis wife and robbed him Of nearly $10O,0O 8,
A Dennison, Texas, despatch reports that =;
child of Mrs. Deering, In the ChOctaw Ma 10
on on Blue River,w strangled by large ~ l,
lake few days ago. ~ ~
Five murders within 90days Is the record Of ~
eorgiana, a small town In Butler county, Ga. 10
onday morning the dead and mangled bodies N,
Thomas Shemard. aged so years, and his ~
lie were found In bed at that place. Dur. :
z the night both had been Drained with an
Re, which was found by the bed. No cause
IF the deed is known, but 1t is believed that
e murder was committed because the aged
'uple were against the moenshiners, des-
rate gang of whom operate in this vicinity
I'd are already responsible for two previous
urders.
The Itata case came to an end in the United
ates court at Los Angeles, CAL, Monday. -
ldge Ross decided that our government had
business to NEEDLE with It, and dismissed
e case.
the body of George Heidecker of Green y
wnship, Pa, was exhumed after having
h,..l @g