The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-10-05
German Army Officers Arrested.
NEW WORLD.
Cocaine Caused Death.

| Inc proprletors OF the estaDnsInlent were ar
rested.
| HypnOtism In COurt-A Murder Case u
| he Defended on French Lines.
| When the wife of DR. Henry CT Meyer i
| tried at New York on the charge of being impli
Gated in the series of murders for which hel
husband Is now serving life sentence, some
very:unusual and interesting Testimony is likely
| to be produced. Meyer studied hypnotism In
Chicago, and the theory Is that he took his al
| legged wife there that he might practice on hel
Messrs Brooke and Sullivan, who will represent
her, assert that whatever she might have done
| to suggest that she was a cO-conspirator against
the life of Baum was due to the hypnotic intiu
ence of her husband, DIR O'Sullivan is making d
study of hypnotism for the purpose of making a
defense on that ground, Expert Testimony, vii
practical tests of hypnotism will be produced
during the proceedings.
Old Offender Unearthed.
Capt Henry w Howgate, fugitive from
Washington, ID G, since the winter of 1881, was
arrested at New York Friday on charges of en-
bezzlement and fOrgeries aggregating $4,000
He was formerly chief and also district officer
of the weather bureau There are no less than
seven indictments hanging over HOwgate, each
containing a number of counts. While awaiting
trial he asked permission to visit his house. He
was permitted to go In the custody OF deputy
He went to the bath room alone and escaped.
He was known 10 have left Washington with a
young woman not his wife. When he fled from
w
ergetic; now he is bent and broken, with gray
hair and beard He is go years old. Though the
officers have been hunting all over the country
for T" HEo%gt he has been Lyme sans st in Se
hand books in the basement of 80 Fourth ave
nue., under the name OF Harry Williams. Before
Commissioner Alexander, H0wgate admitted
his identity and was held in $4,000 bonds.
Shot Dead by Her Brother.
CHASTITY murder was perpetrated on Bel
Of WOrrp Mass SatIlr0a via fternOOn,
William Carr, Al years old, employed at the
Washburn & Moen manufacturing company's
works, shot and killed his sister, Mrs Ellen Lu.
cier, Al, wife of William ID Lucier. a cousin of
the Lucier familytOf musicians, and also EN-
ployed by the Washburn Il Moon company as
assistant foreman. There had been trouble over
but 81 in her will. Carr, it is said became angry
when he learned he was to receive such very
small sum. He had been drinking of late and
the thought of being sighted in the will preyed
caliber revolver. He was standing but few
feet away, and the bullet entered the woman's
head on the right side and passed completely
through her SKULL emerging on the other SIDE.
Mrs Halliday Reformed.
MrsHalliday who while insane murderedSarah
McQuillan and daughter, Margaret, NC
last fall, near Middletown, is a model prisoner
at the insane hospital at Matteawan, NY. DR.
Allison, superintendent of the hospital, one OF
at the trial, knew. that the mutterings. incoher.
ence, and general viciousness Of her conduct
from which the prisoner was suffering, and he
quickly gave her to understand that the kind Of
treatment she received in the hospital would
depend entirely upon her own conduct. There
was at once marked improvement in Mrs Hal
liday's mental condition. She became quiet,
tractable and decent and Clearly In speech ana
habits, and has continued SO up to the present
time She is made useful and helpful IN the
work of the hospital and Is by all odds the best
scrubwOman about the place, being careful ana
painstaking and quite an artist with brush and
pail
A Panama dispatch says: "News has been re-
ccived from Costa RIGA of an anarchist attempt
to assassinate President Inglesais. During the
military review in San Jose an anarchist Mi
canor Araya, fired five shots at the president.
Inglesais es aped on horseback. Araya was ar
rested and would have been killed by the police
If the crowd had not interfered."
Now that the civic federation has won the an
ii gambling crusade in Chicago Hammond, Ind,
has become mecca for gamblers. Within a
radius of 500 yards no fewer than seven gamb-
ling houses have been established within three
days and the city is filed with sporting" men.
The existence of gambling in the city, it is said,
is not due to insufficient legislation but to the
lax enforcement of the law
Nearly all of the village of Jonesville, Is miles
west of Williamstown, Ky, was wiped out by
fire Sunday night.
The Mirror Lake house at Lake Placid N Y,
was totally destroyed by fire at midnight Sun
day. strong wind was blowing and nothing
was saved The loss is upward of $l500O0, and
Burlington agencies The cause of the fire is
Peace has been restored in Hayt.
Excessive rains In Cuba have inundated the
towns of Sagna Crences, Lajas ,Sitieslto and San
Domingo and surrounding county. At Sagne
families are homeless and the inhabitants have
sought salvation on the roof of the twO-stOry
buildings, which alone are not under water. The
loss of life Is estimated at 200, while the damage
to property will reach $4,0O0.OOO.
The National bank of Fayetteville, n Y, failed
to open its doors Monday morning. The bank
had capital of $50, 900 surplus of $500, owed
depositors $36 900 and had outstanding loans to
the amount of 100000 II is intimated that the
suspension was caused by a shortage in the |
cashiers accounts.
L Pease and Ulysses Aaram met at the |
Cheerydale church at Canton, Ga, Friday and |
luarreled as to who should escort girl home. |
both had pistols and they began hiring simultan- |
eously. Pease received three bullets and Aaram |
,wo. Both were fatally wounded. |
A waterspout near Valencia. venez, last Friday |
N crops of s450,O Heavy rains continue. Many |
houses and bridges have been carried away.
Another effort is to be made to raise the Hus-
var, the British vessel which came over here In |
he British soldiers, and which was sunk in Hell
late in New York harbor. Several attempts
ave been made to raise the sunken treasure,
nut all have thus far failed A new process Is
row to be tried. The searching vessel VIII be
,nchored securely and will pump all the loose
sediment and decaying matter in the bottom of
he harbor, allowing 1t to run through selves.
n area will be covered large enough to make II
ure that the remains of the Hussar have been
jumped up, and II no gold Is secured the pro-
noters of the enterprise will decide that the OFF,
ers of the vessel ente ed into plot to sink her
md make way with the treasure committed to
heir care.
The largest gang of moonshiners that ever left
he Big Sandy valley passed through Ashland,
Ky, Monday on the way to Louisville, where
hey will be given early hearings In the United
tates court. There were 106 offenders, ranging
n age from Is to 50. In the past Elk months
ireer and his deputies have destroyed 81 sepa |
ate stills and thousands of gallons OF "moon-
hine."
Prof David Swing Is critically III from acute
aundice al his home I'm Chieago.
Martin Irons, the strike leader of 1876, was an
ested Sunday night by the Fort Worth, Texas,
'olice on a charge of attempted assault on a
even year-old girl.
A III Golden Of Newburg, Ny, was struck by
lightning las Thursday and completely scared
yer from head TO foot. He and some compan.
ons had taken refuge in barn to escape a
hover and he was the only injured when
he bolt struck. His friends thought him dead
nd he remained unconscious for several hours,
ut finally revived, and appears to be suffering
10 Ill effects from the shock except the severe
urns on his skin.
An old wardrobe which had stood for years i'm
he house Of David Morrison at Allegheny, Pa.
vas being moved last "wednesday, when the
'ottom fell out and fs5.op0 In government bonds
vas discovered. Morrison died five years ago.
md though he was supposed to have been
rorfh $780, 600, his widow denied all knowledge