The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-08-23
Some Hone for Them,

funds for paying the debts OF the w
p. Rice investment companies will b.
interested to know that the Texas ant
Pacific railroad is building into Deni
son, Texas. Various other industries
have either been recently established
or are about to be established there
among them being 800, 600 cotton
seed oil mill and IA large grain depot
The syndicate have had some idea o
selling out their interests in Dcnison
but NJ. f. Foster of Milford, N. H..
who has recently visited the place ant
who has had a considerable experience
with southern cotton mills, advises
against such course.
Ex-Justice William Strong of Wash
ington, who retired from the supreme
court of the United States in 1850,
died Monday afternoon at Lake Mime
waska. n. Y. The end was not uneX-
pected, as Justice Strong had been
critically ill for some time. He was sc
years old, born in Sumers, Conn, dies
cended from commissary General in
the revolutionary army, graduated
from Yale in 1928, served in congress
four wears from 1916 as democrat, was
for II years, from 1857 to 6S chief jus
| tice of the Pennsylvania Supreme court
and was appointed to the federal court
by President Grant in 1870.
An Alleged Confession by Holmes.
Another queer development in the
queerest of all cases, that of III. Fl.
Holmes, the wholesale murderer is re-
ported from Columbus, Miss 1t is
stated that woman registered in the
Gilmore house there Jan. Is last, with
5 year old girl, and called on Il jus
tice of the peace and produced a paper
which she claimed she had found in
II. II. Holmes effects at the Castle.
This paper, which was signed III. H.
Holmes. gave detailed account of the
murder of George III. Thomas, and his
subsequent sinking by Holmes and
Pietzel in the Tombigbee river near
Columbus. The woman stated that
she was Holmes wife and that he had
i'll treated her for the preceding two
years, and that she hoped by his con
viction to secure her share in his prop
erty.
Holmes lawyer at Philadelphia re-
ceived despatch, probably fake
though Holmes professed to be affected
to tears by it, signed Minnie Williams,
one of the mistresses whom Holmes
was supposed to have murdered, stat
ing that she is ''alive and we'll"
detective has been in Burlington this
week looking for further evidence
about him. He brought photo
graph of the trunk which plays such
an important part and it was positively
identified by Miss l.. NJ. Strain as the
one which she saw taken from the
house ON Winooski avenue. W. b.
McKilip was seen and through him it
was learned that Holmes had passed
under the name of james A. Judson
when renting the house on Winooski
avenue, saying that he wanted it for
his sister. Mrs. Cook, who occupied
it was identified as Mrs. Pietzel and |
her daughter Dessa. The register of
the Hotel Burlington was also examin- |
ed where Holmes had signed his name
as g. d. Hale. He passed under the
name of Hall at Thomas Ahearn's on
George street where he boarded.
Thirty eight Italians and Lithuani-
ans have been arrested near Prince
ton, H., charged with participating |
in the recent murderous assault on /
colored miners near Spring Valley.
Seven lives were lost Saturday by /
the upsetting of IA small sail boat near
Ocean City. Md. The boat contained
10 persons and three were rescued.
Five persons were poisoned and came
near dying at Post Richmond, 5. l.. by
eating canned tongue.
Champion James j. Corbett, from
whom his wife recently obtained dl-
vorce, and Jessie Taylor of Omaha,
otherwise known as Vera Stanwood,
the actress. were married here this af
ternoon.
Near Abeca in the Seminole Reser
walton, Oklahoma, the other day,
party of Indians, negroes and white
outlaws raided the store of Samuel
Norford. securing several hundred dol
airs in plumber They then dragged
off and outraged five women of the
The Chicago police believe the ne
yroes of that city are making secret
to send an armed body OF
men to Spring Valley. ILL.,, to force a 1
light with the Italians there in retail {
alton for their outburst against the ,
negro miners two weeks ago 1t was :
earned Saturday by the police that a /
.olored man whose name is supposed I
% be Robinson has been canvassing
he pawn shops in Chicago and has
bought over 100 revolvers
Thomas Hovendon. one of the chief
If American artists, was killed near
Pa, Wednesday, while !
to save little girl from : !,
,eing killed by locomotive. The :
hid also met her death beneath the !
wheels of the engine. !. s.~.-Es.s.11aaM :
DeRoy Cardiff, aged nine years, 8
committed suicide at Warsaw, Ind, |
" taking heavy dose of rat poison. \
lis mother recently obtained divorce i
from her husband, and the little boy +
eft note saying that he could no !
onger''stand the taunts of his play +
oates about it.
Highwaymen held up train on the y
;hicago and West Michigan road near a
Jew Richmond, Ind, Tuesday even h
ng. but got nothing but some valua-
les from the passengers. "
Furnace "H'' of the Edgar Thomp- p
On Steel Works (Carnegie's plant at L
;essemer. near Braddock, Pa, explod e,
a Tuesday morning. killing seven men Il
nd badly burning seven Others. The Ct
len we're Poles and Hungarians. \ r;
,rge barrow loaded with raw iron ore fc
ad fallen through huge bell ON the W
% of the furnace stock. Fourteen OF
zen were engaged in an effort to re- "
,oye the barrow from the bell so it
1uld be closed. Suddenly the explo-
ion occurred and not one of the men
scaped either death or injury.