The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1893-11-10
The A LEGGED Plot 10 KID Gov. Flower

1t Is rumore! about New York police head
quarters mat Superintendent Byrnes has OF
tained positive evidence against the sender o
| the internal machine to Gov Flower ut IN,
Windsor hotel In September 1892. OnIy ON
| more link In the chain OF testimony was needed
II was said, before an arrest woi,d be made
The disclosures which will follow, 1t was limited
will be startling IN the extreme. IL was jntIma
ted that the person imDlici ted IA n well known
man who cut no small figure in New York poll
tics and that his scheme was the outcome OF n
serious difference with Gov Flower or his politi
cal managers. An arrest is expected to be made
within week.
An Astounding Comics ion-Great Bos; on
Fires Set By Boy.
Lewis L Wright, an Is years'-old lad. EN-.
ployed by firm In the Halfway building, a
large structure on Atlantic avenue in Boston oc-
cupied by many business tfGses, was arrested
on Ine cnaIRe VI naFing made several attempts
to fire that building. lie Plead insanity and
was committed 10 the Westboro IL sane asylum.
Now he has cor fesssd that be- set the Lincoln.
street fire. Mach TO-, when the Ames building.
Dmreii 4 COS building ard other property
valued at - 900, co., AMI five ,,ves were lost The
sibi:arity In the Origin OF the fres attracted the
i1re marshaPs attention, as they were all set IN
the toiletroon D. He tells now it was done, he
nae Oeen sent py MS employer about 4 O'Clock
that afternoon on an errand 10 school street and
on his return stopped at The Ames building 10
TO get catalogue of goods from the firm having
an omce on INT third door. Finding the Office
L
the wav seeing The toilet .roo m omen he went In
On sne moor we're several ne y spapers, which he
piieu Up IN one cor er, directly ainst the pine
eneatning anu unuer the ms meier, and then set
oh NY. nc tn' fan dosb stairs and back 10
the Halfway building Were seeing an alarm
had pc, sounded. ne ansounccd TO his employ
ers that tnere was IRE ON Lincoln street.
Later ne went over to he fire and cooliy eur.
also confessed that he se the lires In the Haiha-
way building, for Whit he vas arrested: that
ne hdu an uncon Toiaht desire TO do acts which
ne could moi accounts for. Wright has q widow
who is much effected bv the waywardness of
her son.
An ATTEMPT ~as made Sunday evening 10
ouTn the inmfn street Universe ist church, |
al Cambrioe. pert, Mas, while /, was liled with
peop'e. anu y u mad Dt q nttte more Roadway |
pastor, Rev Geo W RehneiI hss ;ust he ruu his |
sveping niseourse, the subject being 1.-THE |
woIIu W wheS be smeIled smoke as IL pa /
pea we,e lining. he quietly and without any |
Informing Messrs 49,. srd s,r.,ue mem.
oe,s Oh .ne cnoir. his suspicious he returned
70 Wv H1t " NE platform and resumed his
49,, iclhi the blaze In a corner room
without giving snvt,s,m lis n"sI;tsepx GER
taln ,na' me IRE va of incendisry origin. for
na.tnes sere touil near by. No reason can be
- a. ~ - Ioi .he tdother than that OF maligDity
RE, rresiuent HlPP5lyte of Hayti. claims TO have
an Elaborate p aar seiIs the goverpment ana
"a, "i IIN nuuoer of Rngishmen In the
$500 - ~ ares that be will use rine ana
-, "eieiesslJ IL there lie any uprising
xI, he sues nship City of Alexandra. Of the New
= hen ,aa euha nail line. was burned las, -
= . : ,seltF- I've niles from Havana. me ne
80 Sausel o. an explosion. Eight OF TIC cre~
Fe'isheo' The eau e Of the explosion isunksoSn'i