The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-11-10

ArotiTsr train robbery took place late Friday
night at Oybnan.. Ark, on the Iron Mountain
railroad. A south bound train was held up by
seven masked men who as soon as the train was
brought 10 standhill began firing into the ex.
press car, causing panic among the crew and
passengers. They killed the crew who resisted
and robbed the passengers. After robbing the
train the bandits ga Hoped of Into the darkness,
and toe train proceeded TO Little rock. A Sher-
III Immediately organized posse and started In
; pursuit They caught up with the train robbers
county shortly before noon Sunday. The BAN
dts showed fight and fired vollcy at the posse
The hie was returned and the battle RACED for
nearly half an hour. Three OF the bandits were
ffiufS ~esssded and they hoisted a handkerchief
as flag OF trsce.- The posse advanced and
! placed three OF them under arrest. The others
escaped but Will probably be captured.
The propeller Albany of the Western transit
company, loaded with grain, and the propeller
} Philadelphia of the Anchor line, loaded with
coal and general merchandise, two OF the lare.
Aux BarQues, near Sand b. ach Mich, In the
dense fog Monday night. and both sank sho thy
afterward In zoo feet OF water. 20 lives we're
lost,
Henry L Strickland. the pastor of the two
churches ut East Falmouth, Mass, and who has
generally stood respected in the eyes of the
world, has been discovered "a beamn mist:
In England, the second In Providence, X l, and
the lind In Augusta, Me. He has fed for parts
unknown.
The suffering in Seward, Grant, Stanton, Nor.
ton and Stevens counties In southwestern Kan.
sas is said to be heartrenderlng: There are
scores of families without food,and the problem
OF fuel to keep them from freezing Is unsOlvcd,
| TO say nothing Of the pangs OF hunger. Not a
| spear Of wheat or co WAS raised there this
! yea. Ard there is no employment for the nun
dreds OF ldle men.
| PrenIergas,, The assassin of Mayor Harrison
| of Chicago, was brought into court Monday,
plead not guilty and his trial was ordered for
The 9Th. Prendcrgast presented stoiid indif-
n Wh
his shitipg eyes neither move nor betrayed
any other emotion.
A boat containir q about ? workmen on their
way from Swinburne Island to South Beach.
Station Island, was capsixed Sunday afternoon
and all on board were thrown into the sea, Ten
are know to have been drowned.
A tat,ie took place Thursday night at the
home of VIM X Arouse Rushvilie, Ill,
whiIe two officers went there to arrest Charles
Robertson. After the officer had read the war.
rspt ae placed his hand on Robertson's arm, the
prisoner drew revolver and with cry to his
fiends to kill the officers. pushed It In Officer
London's face and pulled the trigger. The
weapon missed fire, but instantly there was a
general melee. The OH GERS we're badly cut and
bruised, but not seriously hurt.
q. A burglar entered the house of Frank b
ISSiscler at Wilmettc, suburb Of Chic ago, early
bunday morning and assaulted Mis- Cron, the
motter-in law of Wnee.er, ana set fire to the
house. She died white being taken to Evans.
ton. Mr. Wheeler was awakene | by the noise
times, killing hia,.
The tables we're turned in Virginia last week.
negro mob lynched white man for killing q
negro.
The house of Geo Cooper near Rock Island,
Illinois, burned last Sunday night. Cooper took
his wife and baby 10 a neighbours house, but
forgot his two step.children and they were
b. rned to death.
There recently died in New Jersey at the age
of % theorist who has spent all his fortune, |
which at one time was considerable, and all his
life, In a vain attempt to solve the problem of |
extracting the silver which lies In solution in |
the sea from the salt water which holds 1t. He |
lived down on the coast in a cottage which he |
built ycars ago, and on every side were con |
structed sluices. runwavs, washes, aud the va /
rious appliances with which be was ex Experiment. |
ng. The Inferior of the cottage resembled the |
apartments of a medieval alchemist rather than |
hose of a nineteenth century house by the sea.
i was fitted with retorts, phiais. and crucibles,
md In the corner was diminutiye furnace.
some ten years ago he was Joined In his Iabors
~ young woman about Is years of age. She
ltended him up to the day of mis- burial. but
ince that time che has disappeared and no truce
# her can be found. The cottage is dilapidated
nd no heirs have claimed 1t, nor have any pa
ers been found to indicate the name or origin
f Its strange occupants