The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-04-03
An Atrocious Crime.

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uh i at tneir home were murdered by n ion
WHO peat their heads to pieces, after which n,
nT tbH hn,ie TRUSTS were made into the bode
and H." Em ur"u Two daughters, Hattie, aged ?.
u nu, En''n's, aged -, and the family man SO,
| sunt, stillson, were attacked and ali thre
fatally Injured. They had been heater ahnu
nav iae oe n win blunt instrument, which mus
nave been of great size and weight. Alvin STOW
was among the most wealthy ana nromiuent n
sun county farmers and his wife was a mem
ner o. one OF the weaithiest and most prominen
shr"mIsj ~ northwestern Ohio. The crime i
s.iuuu9o ~ mystery and the whole county
n,g,,ated; The only suspicion as vet rests q,
oonh smith, who is employed Mt n black mil
h nop apon' an eighth Off mile from the ston
.ohcsteuu. smith was discharged nv Mr. SION
TWO weeks. The object of the mIlrderous n ~,
On the family was not robbery us numerous mr.
aicies OF value including two gold watches of tn
ascu people which were on the bedroom dresse
| Another Insult 10 the Flag.
INC American schooner civilian Todd o
Saials, Me, which arrived at Kingston. Jamaicj
boar Sdau ad from Mobile Ala was fred upon
W when !, SIN miles south of the Island of Pines
inc hrst intimation that the "TOdd" had tia
siIo was 10 DC lnterfered with was shot acros,
tbe 8mnr, Upon this she promptly displayed
| suinlng that that was sufficient. But three more
shots followed In quick succession A boat thei
put out from the Spanish war vessel and wal
marines, came aboard and announced his pur
pose OF searching the schooner for contraband
OF war. The schooner's captain protested ant
assured the spaniard that she carried nothing OF
inc SORT, nut the officer still insisted on making
z search. The American skipper of course. of
iereo no physical resistance, and the search was
ihade' The schooner had only legal cargo.
The War I'm Cuba
All the news indicates that the struggle is ran
ldiy approaching 4 crisis. The government has
failed, after repeated efforts, 10 induce the he
formists and Autonomists TO take pant in tho
elections generally. The Spanish are now on
the defensive. Every battle fought IN Cuba In
the past 80 days has been invited by the rebels
Ihey nave more ammunition now then they
ever have had, and If they can maintain I:
source of supply, there isn't ANYTHING that car
prevent them from winning. Wcyler asks fol
10000 more troops. Twenty-Five thousand in
surgents under AlaccO are swarming over the
provinces of Havana and Pinar Del Rio, and
~, 1000 spanish soldiers are in the same territory
There was battle the oath betweenG uano and La
re In which the Spaniards were badly defeated
ny 2'O0o insurgents and the Cuban jaunta in this
country claims, though Havana authorities
deny it, that Prince del Rio, the Spanish strong.
hold IN the western part of the island, was cap
tured by Marceo and the insurgents Saturday.
CaliNto Garcia, who recently landed with fill
clustering expedition, was with the rebels. The
hot lighting was done by the American artillery.
men, who came with HIM for the express pur-
pose of working the ilotchkiss and gatling guns,
OH Tue STEAMER. NltnOut tne aSsla-
lance of the American, Pinar dial Rio would not
have fallen. 1t was only their deadly fire, sent
into the town by the gatling and Hotchkiss guns
that saved the day for the insurgents. Follow
ing his usual policy, Gen Maceo did not hold
the town He simply destroyed 1t and then pas
scd out TO some othor place. There is report
that Gen Gomez Is dead, because lie had not
been heard from for fortnight But the best
Information Is that he is in Santa Clara province
broken In health and unequal to the strain Of
campaigning ut present because of the way he
overtaNed himself in his great raid.
Hippolyte's Death.
The news of the death of President Iiippolyte
of Hayti is confirmed and butchery Is suspected.
He was tall, fine looking negro 20 years old.
His hair was white, the expression OF his ace
kindly. lie was slow and deliberate in his
speech and seemed to turn over everything in
his mind before uttering it. He came into pow
cr through the influence of the United States
and this fact rather wounded the pride of the
Haytians. The old Legitime party opposed
every act of his, and hated him violently. Hip.
pUlytc led the revolt against President Leg
time in 1889. His army was victorious In al
most every battle and he entered Port au Prince
at the head OF his troops September 2, 1883. He
was elected president October IL. Hippolytc
was opposed to the presence of foreigners on
the island. He said that revolutions were TIRED
up by them SO that they could make money
They struggled letters and arms to revolution
lists, and did all in their power TO oyerth ow the
existing government, no matter now well II was
conducted
The Receiver of the defunct Fort StanwiN
bank at Rome. n y, has discovered a number of
notes amounting to several thousand dollars
purpOrting to have been made ny persons IN
town, whose names were forged, presumably
by the late Cashier Barnard.
The big elephant "Gypsy" owned by " II Har
ris, became Interchangeable at the winter quar'
tiers of Harris circle in Chicago, last THU sday,
and before she could be got under control killed
her keeper, tore down Il frame building ana
tod iutpp pNritpmpnt generally.
VIC Mcdonald, the millionaire tobacco man
ufacturer of Montreal, 20, has donated SJOO,ooO
TO McGill University for the purpose OF proviu'
ing Il building tor chemistry. mining anu arcn.
lecture. This brings :AlcDUnalu's donations 10
his University up TO 81 100000.
Frank O Driscoll, superintendent of carriers
in the Scw York postoilice, who lives at west
brighton, ) l, is accused by his wife of having
attempted to murder her by slow poison.
The new battleship "lowa" was successfully
lauac ut Philadelphia last saturday.
The Midway Deposit bank of Midway, by,
failed Friday.
pa,rick Sanbury died sunday night of hydro
nbnhia after terrible suffering, 1T Louisville,
XIV, He was bitten by greyhound Gu Zv,oeins
badly lacCrated. Signs OF INSANITY ueVe!opeun
few DAYS ago, the wound having previously
healed and the incident beng almost forgotten
Mrs Emma Booth Tucker, the second daugh.
tor of General William Booth, who, with her
husband, has been appointed to the commune l. vi
the Salvation Army IN inc thteu 1t'tcS 49,
in New York Sunday afternoon. her Dfolner,
darlington Booth, sent a letter of welcome. She
as her utmost efforts are 10 be devoted to ef'
fectlnn reconciliation
Robbers held up the FRISCO fast express near
Richland Mo, "Wednesday morning ana roDpeu
the express ear of about $4,000
Mrs Olga Deuss killed herself and three chi.
lren. the eldest being eight years old, at san
Francisco Monday night, by gas asphyaia,ti on;
oarlv in the evening and did not return until :
o'clock this morning, at which hour ne iouh"
b,s wife and three children dead in bed.
A waterspout in Turkey Cove, va, TUESDAY
irowned four children: In russell Coat,
Va Two men and three children were drowned
Con sum late secretary of war; under Hippo.
vte. has been chosen president of Hayti TO sue
iced him.
Ton versions were burned to death by a IRE
Wednesday morning In tenement occupi'" ny
Italians at 30 Union street, Brookiyh'