The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-06-29
NEW WORLD.


shot Through the Head and Still Lives
few weeks ago stillman Y Crosby of Attic
bore, Mass, placed q revolver to the right side
OF his head and fired. The bullet entered the
head Just forward of the right temple, passed
through the front lobe of the brain and came out
On me back side OF the parietal bone, making a
ulagonal wound large enough TO insert the IN
deN finger into, through the brain. Mr.. Crosby
Is now nearly well, and suffers no pain. At no
time has he been unconscious or his memory or
reason been impaired, although part OF his
Drain oozed from the wound. Such wounds are
always expected to cause immediate death, but
IN IN ~, rev weeks MI Crosby will be able to attend
10 ms business. The case Is attracting the at
tcnton of the medical fraternity in that vicinity.
A Remarkable Case.
Eta Beale was struck by lightning
day at Waterloo, Me. She was holding
IN her lap little child and there
q terrific clap of thunder followed by n binding
Hash of lightning. Miss Beale gave a scream
anM pitched out Of her chair, letting the child
her side only to find life extinct. The child was
uninjured, save for u small burn one foot and
leg. Miss Bealle was considerably burned, as
was also her clothing. None of the others in the
room felt more than passing discomfort from
the shock. The house took fire and burned to
the ground I'm spite of the rain and efforts of
neighbors to extinguish it.
Tarred and Feathered.
A garing outrage connected with the recent
N,
mitted shortly after midnight Sunday morning.
Adjt Gen Tarsney of the Colorado national
guard was decoyed from his room, beaten by
A large number of detectives sent by Gov Waite
In u special train succeeded In rescuing the gen
era who was seriously hurt.
Catholic Summer school.
Archbishop SatOlli has written Father Nc.
ManOn, chairman of the board of trustees of the
Catholic Summer school, that 1t is This desire to
fha
Plattsburgh, Y, on Sunday, July l5 The pro.
gramme for the school just Issued shows that
II Will last four weeks.
The tug James ID Nichol of New York, having
on board a persons on fishing excursion,
at y 100 O'Clock Sunday afternoon. As near as
can be learned, 90 persons were saved by the
steamer Algonquin and three tugs which hap
malnder of the party, numbering 20 persons or
were drowned. The tug was prob
ably overcrOwded, as before she went down she
to the signal officer at the Highlands
to be top-heavy, and was rolling heavily.
Stephen ID Kish aged 20 years, an employe of
the Bell telephone company while repairing u
wire on pole eight feet high at Rochester, n Y,
got hold of a live electric light wire
Mrs Margaret Wiley, aged 80 of Paterson, N
J, lost both her eyes during the severe electric
storm on Tuesday one of the eyes fell into her
lap and the other fell back into its socket and
appeared TO DE lOSt IN ner neau. Dr JOnn IL
Banta, Mrs Wiley's physician says she has been
afflicted with tumor of the nose, and that the |
fright snapped the muscles of the eyes and |
he balls became dislodged. The eye |
ball that fell back into her head in coming back !
II its place it can be PARTLY seen through the |
small opening of the eyelids Mrs Wiley says |
she can still see trife. She experiences some
pain In the empty socket.
Robert J CULVER, class of '94 Williams college
suicide at his rooms at Williamstown
Mass, Saturday. Gulliver was very popular and
in college circles. Dependency
'ver fear of failure to graduate is thought to
nave been the cause.
Walter E circuit of Northampton, Mass, who
vas bitten bya dog month ago, died at the
Eastern Institute, Y, Monday. DIR Labadean
Oes not think the boy died of hydrophobia but
rom gastritis. His body was taken to Northamp-
on for burial
Thomas A Edison was injured Friday night by
fall from chair while sitting on the porch of
is boarding house at ogden, Y.
The little village of Keighly, Kan, was practi-
ally demolished bya wind storm Monday night.
S there is no telegraph office the full details
annot be obtained
Edward St'Onge shot Chas Reed at South
dams Saturday. He had been in LenoX for the
asst three weeks and returning home late found
is wife sitting I'M Reeds lap. 1t is believed that
eed was badly wounded. Reed had been call
X on Mrs StOnge during her husbands alb
,nce and St'Onge hearing it was prepared to
ave revenge.