The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-25

| was stabbed in the heart with a ha
pin by his wife just before midnight
Saturday night while dancing at {
| ball with a woman in Fernando's hall.
Mccoy was dancing when his wife.
from whom he has been separated. en-
tered the ball room and struck the
woman her husband was dancing with.
Mccoy pushed his wife away and
she drove hat pin into his breast.
Another Consumption Cure.
Experiments with new serum for
the cure of consumption began this
week in New York at the Italian hos
pital. The serum is the discovery OF
Professor Maraiano, of the University
of Genoa, and it is claimed that it will
cure any case of consumption not so
far advanced that the tissues have
been destroyed In the hospital in
Genoa So out of 100 patients inoculated
recovered, and the others. it is said,
were beyond aid. The composition of
the serum is at present a secret, but
Prof. Maragliano will make the formu-
la or the serum in a month.
Edward S. Stokes. the assassin of
the late Col. James Fisks, Jr., and
since celebrated as manager OF the
Hoffman house at New York, has
just won Il big suit in the New York
courts of appeals against John ".
Mackay, the bonanza king. The
decision is that MacBey must pay
Stokes 500, 600, and give up note for
1910, 600 against firm of which
Stokes was member when it was
made, on the return of certain securi-
ties. The suit was on a con
tract closing up a deal in telegraph
stocks and Mackay claimed that the
stocks were all bought with his money
and there was no reason why he
should pay Stokes any such sum for
giving them up.
c. S.. Merwin. a wealthy citizen
of Chicago. went crazy Saturday as
result of kick on the head from
horse a year ago, drove his wife out OF
doors, and stationed himself, revolver
in hand, in the upper floor OF his res
idence, firing at every one who passed,
He repeated the performance several
times. but his aim was bad and no
one was hit. A police officer was
stationed at each end of the block and
the way was barred to all. The occu
pants of houses on the opposite side Of
the park drew the curtains and shut
tors of their windows, and for 10 hours
he ''held the fort" in this way. The
notice tried to overcome him By fumes
Of sulphur from the furnace fire and
not succeeding, finally arranged that
an entry should be made to the room
from two doors simultaneously. Two
nolicemen were to enter at each door.
Each man had small hair mattress
for a shield. The plan was successful. |
the craZed man not having an oppor-
tunity TO fire before being overcome |
and manacled. He was then taken to
the insane hospital
Alpiers. La. had disastrous fire
night, go houses belng
burned, with a loss of fully S4oO,0 oo.
Algiers is a suburb of New Orleans;
The fire started in the oil-soaked
;hanty of an Italian twice burned OUT
before and is believed TO have been set
% get insurance. No water could be
and nine squares were laio
n ashes. Sixty spectators were pre-
.ipitated into the Mississippi by
.ollapsing wharf, but no lives lost.
There we're IS cases of highway rob
,erv in Chicago during Thursday
,ipbt of last week, nearly all ON Mich
Gan avenue, in the heart of the best
esidence district.
There was quite a snow fall IN IN
erior New York Monday.
Minnesota. the Dakotas and Mani.
cha have suffered terribly from sand
forms the past week. The wind has
Town 30 miles an hour and the
leather has been so cold as to make
n yeritabIe blizzard. The winds
a~s tanned smolderirg wood fires into
rasb hlaze and fires have started
and the loss to farmers
as hem heavy. Seldom has such
roe areas in the northwest been
H., fra Several lives are known