The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-02-02
NEW WORLD
Niagara's Great Water Power Plant Tested.


The first tes. of the big power TUNE st NIAGARA
Va lie which has ALREADY cost $40 0,OOO WAS
made priv ately Thursday The gates we're raised
and the waite, from the hydraulic car 81 WIS per.
mitted to run into the wheel pit OF the Niagara
Into the penstocR. structure Is feet in dame
Ter falling 1855 teet an then. striking upwards.
running through three of the largest turbine
wheels ever made nen res,
tails and two miles from the place wnefe sne
river Is tapped The test was o ccesstui IN
every way. The mills contract calls for $500
horse power and the cost Including the lease
OF the land ia IS per horse power per year tor
"a hours day. The 5000 horse power electric
generators for the transmission OF power Will
be put In operation June when all the scien
lists and engineers of the country Will be Invited
TO attend.
An Ingenious RObber.
John Dalton train bber. was captured sat
urday at DradwoOd, d, 10 an express car ne
had himself ex Or ssed on the inside OF stuffed
buffalo, but this game was spoiled by his remov-
ing one Of the ANNA g glass ewes, through the
socket of which h. 9 uck q six BhOO'er, cover ng
the messenger, who jumped upon the oatk OF
III atufTt d animal. Da ton WAS arresun a. the
staff, n. The safe in the car contained $5o.0o.
Insurance Frauds.
Postofice Inspector Salmon has found that
eeyeral insurance companies at Clevela nd. u,
have been doing big business on claim that
thew had over 100000 capital stock. wnen they
those concerns WAS the Crescent insurance com.
PAW, which went into receivers hands last
Nay, with ass to of less than e2o0, Though tne
sS0. DO. Inspector So mon Saturday caused the
o. rast Of Drake. the vice president and treas
urer, and w 8 Jasper. the secretary OF the com.
on tbs .so caused .hs
Of &c Artherho!t the attorney and general
manager Of the Ohio fire Lloyd on similar
charge. This company claimed to have CAPT.
tai OF over 60 900, and the indie tions are that
It has no assets Arthe holt 10 the police court
pleaded guilty to violation OF the
state insurance laws. but his sentence was sus' |
renaed pending his trial by the federal author
tiles Artherh0n, Drake and Jaaptr were hello |
BY the United States commissioner In 81 90.
The Great California Fair.
The great California mi winter fair was
opened aturday most auspiciously IN the pres
ence Of large cro' d Of people from az over
the world 4 hundred structures, ca. and nall.
exhi' its OF the highest merit. Natu
rally, the exhibits ar less numerous and NY no
Columbian exposition. but they are still runner
Jus enough to occupy AN obser ant visitor for
weeks. thirty, eight nations are represented IN
b manufacturers building liz the greateet OF
he main buildings, that of mechanical arts. lie
coated the great mini z displav-the greatest
aver presented In the history OF the world. Ills
,vclusively of California mines. The great fair
o the cheering and plaudits Of $4,000 pc pie.
he ground was first broken. II has cost about
\ ri o.000. and Is second In extent only TO the
'arIs I'd Chicago expositions: sixty acres OF
Golden Gate park have been devoted to the ex-
,osition. Thi. space is covered by five main
'uildings grouped about central vallev. from
be center OF which rises an electric tower 26O
eet In height. This tower is covered by ln"an-
esc ri lamps and surrounded Dy search lights,
vhich throw theirb beams on the fountains and
'anbs Of a 'wers about. or light mp with silvery
ceAn. The principal buildings may be de.
cribed - folows' Manufactures and liberal
r's. lS2 feet long and 226 feet wide; manufsc.
ares and LIBERAL arts annex: $40 feet long and 60
mex galleries. 1880 square feet; mechanic
rts building. $40 feet long and l60 feet vide:
1'al area OF building. including galleries, on
QuaYe feet: horticu tural and agricu'tu al build
e, 400 feet loLg and and 100 feet Wide; total ,
rea Of building. including hall floor. 1881
luare feet; building of fne arts, total sDace In
,,nissision building, 10 square feet; total floor
res. II. AGO square feet; festival hall, l4lxlSS |
,et. ,
The bach bone OF the Psnbury hatters' lockout I
apparently broken and ills probable shat all
the IS factories that have been closed for nine
eeks against the unions will be running on full ,
me next week.
Ore in Bath, Me. Saturday destroyed large !
umoer Of the best buildings Ia the business
orth OF damage.
The eudden disappearance of oliver La Sale :
Palmer IL said 10 be due TO charges made !
gains, him BY Miss Bloomer. who formerly |
orked In tile family No criminal proceedings
"" been Instituted against Mr. La Sale. His [
mily 10 left almost entirely destitute.
number OF families have been found frozen
death after the TEL rible BLIZZARD of Friday at
uthrie. Oklahoma. Il
The most disastrous fire from which Palmer |
ass.h Q suffered for many years broke out FRI !
~ evening at III. 30 and the Holden opera house I
ock WAS burned to the ground. Assistance from {
DrinRheld as CO lied. the loss 10 Estimated Ut
oO.to0. The new Masonic building WAS barely
we'd. IL
z between Rishop Bonscum o" the Lincoln !
eb. do 'ese and acme of bis priests eliminated {
oDdsy 10 the arrest of the bishop on the charge
criminal libel. Father Corbett Of Palmyra,
30, IL his accuser.
Mrs Burton and her son Cyrue OF Morocco' :
"a, had the hyarophobia, used maidstone and .
ed.
Ex-Gov Jas e Campbell Of Ohio. who Was Z
,oWn 70 be badly embarrassed financially be |
re ne went out OF office, lie still worse on now q
9 appeared 10 New York court Saturday. de
airing that he was utterly unable to pas . o.
dsment OF $4,000 which has been hanging Al
nee July
When the two cases bv the Peoples Fire In. i.
race Co, agsibsl DR. U Moore were resch, y
In the supr.m me court al Manchester, Nj
turd- j W Eel ows counsel for the resp.rd |
4, movrd postponement until the Nay term OF o.
nrt. the motion wac granted and the ball d
ed 81 el0 100 and IS 900 respectively In each tt
&c II
rne safe in the Office at the Pacific iron works
HOusatonic avenue at Bri ,geport. CT, was u
oxen open Monday noon. while the m were b.
dinner, and diamonds valued AT between In
30 and t250o we're stolen, the robbers making hi
od their escape. III