The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1894-08-10

i Crown Point, Ind, has Il sensation someWh!
similar to the celebrated Cronin mystery. l.
George ID Brannon secretary of the Lake coul
ty board of health, was summoned to attend
man purporting to have been shot shortly afte
midnight Friday, Since then he has been missin
although his friends and family have made ever
effort to find him. Many are of the opinion tina
he was foully dealt with, the cause assgne
being the prominent part taken by the doctor il
the prosecution of a large number of Whiting
ipeople under the new health ordinance.
Last Chapter of the Great Strike.
At meeting in Chicago, Sunday, of the gen
eral strike committee, selected by the social con
|vention of the American Railway Union las
week, it was decided to declare the great strikt
off in Chicago. This does not include the Chica
go Il Eastern Illinois, nor the Atchison, where
settle, local grievances, and where they think
they have a fair show of winning. There were
"a local unions represented. The decision does
not apply to the Pullman employees. The eX
lowed Immediately by the unions throughout the
Western country.
Nicaraguan Forces Occupy BluefeIds.
An official message from Greytown states that
General CabeZas occupied Bluefields with his
troops saturday. No further details have been
in honor of the event and the firing of a salute.
President Zelaya has carried his point as to q
change in the constitution, the assembly having
Yielded to him. In this way coup d'etat has
feels satisfied with the situation.
Den of COunterfeiters.
Detectives of the treasury department have
Just succeeded in unearthing at Danbury, Conn,
the headquarters OF gang of counterfeitcrs, of
which Russell ID HOyt and Samuel Massey, who
are, now under arrest in New York, are the
leaders, and they made Monday one of the
most valuable finds of the counterfeiters' tools,
plates and paper that has been known in years,
including plates for $40 notes, bearing the head
of Webster and SO good as to have been passed
~ ea ss e.cas $1,000 IN snffs Gfeia
head, and the detectives pronounced il one of
the finest counterfets they had ever seen, and
about % pounds of green paper which closely
resembled genuine bank note paper, besides an
extensive outfit of tools. The officers estimated
that the gang could have issued half million
counterfeit dollars with the materials in their
possession. The gang was caught by a detective
who got into their confidence and learned
their secrets.
still Another.
The Gassard Investment Company of Kansas
City, Mo, made an assignment Monday. The liza
bilities stated to be $l97, 2SS and the as
sets 1921 $50 The heaviests losers are located
in New England. The company dwelt princi-
are said to have caused the failure
Peter Hersleb, who died at a hospital in Phla-
delphia last week once belonged to the nobility
of Copenhagen. Fifty years ago Hersleb took
sides against his kinsmenin an insurrectiOn, for
which he was condemned to death, and on his
escape heavy price was set on his head. He
mas llNeu the lie OF recuse IN this cOun rN Tor
half century and died very wealthy.
George Emerson, speaker of the Legislative
assembly at st. Johns, +, and James McGrath
eX-chairman of the board of public works, both
members of the legislature for the Placentia
district were unseated last week by a decision
of Chief Justice Carter who held that they were
disqualified from sitting in the legislature on
account OF corrupt practices at the recent cleo
tons. This makes IL members of the Whiteway
government who have been unseated while the
cases of two other members remain to be tried.
Fred McCrils of Woodsville, n H. aged p, a
freight conductor on the Concord and Montreal
ing while coupling cars. He was walking back
ward when his foot caught in guard rail and
he was run over.
A Rio .!aneiro special says; plot to abduct
or assassnate the president-elect of Brazil has
been discovered. The police are making arbi- |
trary arrests and an uprising is imminent.
BY decision of Judge Riner at Denver Col,
Margaret Billings and others who were compa- |
rativcly poor receive 5000 in cash and a one
third interest in the Emma mine at Aspen. They |
were the heirs of one Woods, who alleged who
a legged he sold the property while ignorant of
its value.
Bridgeport, Conn, escaped Saturday afternoon
whine preparations were being made for the
He chased a number of bicycle
riders round the track and bit mans hand Sc
verely before he was caught.
Fire started Monday morning in the left field
or womens end of the handsome pavilion of
the Philadelphia baseball club, and in half an
hour the grand stand, bleechers and in fact all
the woodwork was In ruins. Famed by a stiff
breeze the flames also swept several barns and
buildings near by. The total loss is estimated
at $4,000 The two games scheduled between
he Philadelphia and Baltimore clubs were
The origin of the fire is attributed
TO lighted cigarets having been carelessly
thrown under the grand stand.
Timothy Shea while under the influence of
liquor last week Thursday brutally
,ssaulted his wife with a Ratchet and knife. The
yoman though wounded in q places, will prob ,
IDLY recover. Shea was arrested.
Wilbur Fiske, Il years old, a student at the {
Jersey City High School, who formerly lived in 4,
Sew Britain, Conn., Is dying at New Jersey City ,
4 lockjaw, In childhood his nose badly ,
isfigured by fall. Recently il was determined i
o break and reset 1t to improve its appearance.
he surgeon accidently cut the peripheal nerve, :,
which produced lockjaw. All remedies have =
allied to relieve fiske.
While crossing a small stream in a stage coach n
ear Berwind, Col, last Thursday, an Italian, Il
IL wife. two children and the dri yer were n
wept away and drowned. An immense wall of
Tater, caused by "a cloud-burst farther up the ,
reek came down ana engulfed them. i
The entire business centre of La Moure, ID, II
ias destroyed by fire Thursday morning. Four l
locks of stores were burned beside the court 2
ouse, from which none of the records were
ived. 4
Letters from Carlos Ezeta, the busted presi- q
ent Of Salvador show that he is trying 70 foment
nj Nicaragua in hope of eventually making
imself dictator of all Central America. He had
plan TO create trouble during the coming elec-
ons.
The Warren Live Stock company of CHEYENNE,
20, has gone into the hands of a receiver. The "
abilities are trifle over $500, 600 most of which -
held by eastern creditors. L
Nearly 100 persons have been poisoned at u
hzabeth, NJ, by ice cream. X