The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-09
THE REFoRMER: BRATTLEBoRo VT, FRIDAY AUGUST O. 1896

years. Holmes has two married sis
tiers, who live in Boston, and on,
brother.
Once when Holmes had to fly from
Chicago because of his swindling, 1t
went no further than the stockyard
district, where he opened IA restauran
under the name of Fl. II. Howard. III,
employed a number of young women Il!
Mattresses and is said to have had /
new force nearly every day. Among
them were two girls who came from
Wisconsin. A few nights after they
began work the neighborhood was
startled by screams coming from the
building, and were just in time to
the hallway leading into the house.
The girls were in their night cloth.
| ing, and it was some minutes before
they could be quieted sufficiently to
tell their story. They said they had
been sleeping together, and had been
awakened by man who gained an en-
trance to their room and who applied
wet cloth to their faces. They
thought the cloth had been saturated
with chloroform. Neighbors took the
girls in and cared for them, and be-
fore the police had an opportunity of
arresting Howard he had disappeared.
More About His Burlington Attempt.
Mrs. b. f. Pietzel now at Chicago,
tells of a narrow escape she had from
death by dynamite plot which Holmes
had fixed up for her in the long chase
which he led. Mrs. Pietzcl in the vain
hope of meeting her husband. The
last point they reached was Burling
ton, Vt. There Holmes engaged rooms
for Pietzel with Mrs Richardson,
at No. 26 Winooski avenue and there
she says he arranged nitro glycerine
trap in the cellar few days after
wards Holmes went to Boston and
wrote to Mrs. PietZel to look in Ger
tain place under the flooring in the
cellar and she would find bottle of
itro-glycerine. He said ii was in a
dangerous place and directed Mrs.
Pietzel to carry it up to room in the
attic. Holmes had SO arranged that
she would fall ON the bottle. Mrs.
Pietzel however started to search for
the bottle from the opposite direction
and by so doing missed the trap that
was laid for her.
Dastardly Plot.
Police Commissioner Roosevelt was
probably saved from sudden death by
the discovery Monday morning by Miss
Daisy James, clerk in the general post
Office of a box addressed to Theodore
Roosevelt central office, New York,
and supposed to contain a samll dyna
mite bomb. The package attracted
Miss James attention by its general
appearance. Investigation revealed
brown tube, which proved to be a shot
gun cartridge. 1t was about 2ls
inches long and evidently loaded.
From the cartridge there ran fuse
which had coating resembling tai
low. On the cover was a piece of
sand paper Three matches We're ar
ranged so that when the top Of the box
was pulled open the matches would
scratch against the sand paper and
ignite. The fuse was placed SO that
the burning matches would fire IT. The
box was opened at police headquarters
when it was found that the substance
Of the supposed cartridge was only saw
dust. Somebody has played poux.
some Gold Finds.
y gold nugget which sold for SD |
was found n Byron. Me-, about three !
weeks ago and now the place is wild /
with excitement. Investigation by ex-
perts leads to the belief that there are |
deposits all through that sec
ton and stock company has been or
yanized to work it.
What is believed to be the richest |
gold mine in the world has been I'M
covered at Victor, Col, by S. Stratton.
4 millionaire miner. 1t is at point /
where two ore bearing veins meet and |
the ore is estimated TO be worth $40,
100 a ton. There are several million |
dollars worth of ore in sight.
From Alaska come reports of rich /
5nds which are to be developed
There is IA rich field of gold in the I
own of Byron, Maine, and a stock .
company will be organized to work IT, /
Some Rat,iesnake Bites.
William Morehead and Thomas
farmers on Buffalo creek,
county, W. Va, were work
ng in an old brush grown field, when
10Th were bitten by tremendous rat
lesnake. Morehead was struck on the
eg, and Bloomfield on one of his toes.
leg swelled in few moments
o almost the size of his body. He
ived in fearful agony several hours,
lying from the effects of the bite.
who was man of intelli-
,ence and quick action, as soon as he
vas bitten took out his knife and de
iberately severed the injured toe.
lis action was SO quick that the
olson, rapidly as it infuses itself into
he blood, did not have time to pene I
rate to any great depth, and he felt
10 i'll effects from its action. In the {
anne neighborhood, only few days
efore. two boys, about ID or l6 years {
Id, were passing through an old field
ear Broomfield's house, when one of
he boys was struck in the calf of the ,
az by rattlesnake. They quickly
lied the reptile, and then the boy I
tho had escaped its fangs sacrificed his !
riend's wound with his knife and de |
berately put his lips to the wound s
nd sucked out the poison with the !,
lood. The injured boys leg panied /
i'm for several hours. but the poison 1
ad been entirely withdrawn, and he
; now as sound as ever.
seriou. Race Trouble in Illinois. .
The Italians of Spring Valley, ILL.,, I
roke out Sunday in a war upon the {
egroes. The Italians, for many {
lonths. have wished to drive the I
egroes out of the district, and when /
n Italian was set upon and fatally {
ounded by four negroes, mob of |
YER 300 Italians. headed by martial |
lusic. started out for the negro village, q
seated two miles west of Spring Val |
", and fell upon them like lot of /
nache Indians. The men were drag.