The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-06
4 Shameful Result.

hospital.
shameful Result.
The trial of the negro whippers in Colleton,
c. ends disgracefully in verdict of acquittal.
Here are four men, one q physician, the others
iarmers and all belonging to the upper.lcndom
ii Colleon county, who took an old woman of
10 young girl of II, and man. all negroes,
!ied,hem by their necks to wagons, dragged
them over partly frozen roads to n lonely place,
stripped them naked, and beat them with n
wagon trsce until the old woman and the man
we're so exhausted and bruised that they died.
There was no reasonable doubttha the beating
caused their deaths, and convincing proof that
the men who were afterward arrested and tried
we're the murderers. IL was also shown that
these negroes were only suspected OF stealing
some books from a church, that there was little
evidence and no proof that they did the stealing
and that the white murderers were drunk
enough when they committed this crime to EN-
facts four ilends have been acquitted. and been
made heroes OF by the people Of the section OF
The state where they lived
Missing with 100000.
John l. Cowen OF the wholesale lumber firm
CIV q Cowen Il Son of Pittsburg, is missing
The claim liz made that with him has gone sio,.
100. About $50 creditors have claims against
the missing man and detectives are searching
Tor him. Many serious charges, such as 1or'
gerry raising checks and other ugly transactions
are made against him.
Killed His Mother And Himself
Michael Kraemer, % at Long Island city, y
hot and killed his aged mother and then put n
bullet INTO his own brain. Death was instanta:
noous in both cases The Kracmer family bad
been entertaining friends. Plenty OF drink
vas supplied and the party became hilarious.
Michael had an alteration with one OF tne
guests and afterwards he and his mother went
INTO the kitchen where the tragedy was enacted
tSsaulted His Benefactors and Killed
Himself.
IYtIYp NDtaiun OS assaulted Grace ID anu
Jennie NJ Irving, two miles from OldtoWn, NE,
Tuesday morning, leaving them for dead; tnei
he blew out his own brains. The women VIII
both die. The Misses Irving are about ~ anu
Y years. Antoine was taken when i boy OF u
and given home by the sisters. The scene OF
the crime was an outhuildng where Antolhe ~
shocked her down and had bound her hands be;
bind her when Grace Irving, who had hearu
her sisters cries, appeared. Then Ah ts'
went at them with an iron bar and beat thei'
into inscnsbility. He then went to their ioofi''
where he got revolver and shot hlmseh
A Dubious Report.
It is reported from Paris that the Panama and
Nicaragua 1 anal companies have completed ar
engagements for consolidation Inc N icafa.s W. va
company secures the franchises ana asses s. ~
the other including the railroad across thc leti
mus, while the Panama company will receive
large share of the others stock Thls arranEe
nent will rel eve the Nicaragua company OF
possible competition and secure 1t q monop0iy ,
II the water way across the isthmus- Inc
French comnanv i rIad 10 be relieved of the
trouble and scandal which is certain to attend
any further prosecution OF the work IN whieh ~
much money has already been squandere"'
Holmes Must Hang.
The PENNSYLVANIA supreme court Wednesday
morning affirmed the verdict of murder IN tne
first degree in the case of Herman " Muuee,t:: |
alias ii II Holmes. found guilty ofthe muruc'oi
benjamin Pietzcl
a strange case which is puzzling the lheuio;aii |
frpYa n by
boy of English, Ind. Whenever he taxes Cu n
his Precipitation is red, like blood, anu VA
watery fluid which eXudes from ms mouth anu
eyes Is OF the same color. This fluid proves n
analysis TO be nothing but red water, but the
toctors do not know what colors II.
Fire in the buildings OF the Russell EVIL asyl
company's big plant uio e"''''
n0 damage.
Danbury, Conn, had a $4,000 lire IN .nt
4eaTt of the city Tuesday, 10 buildings, aii pu'
me Of wood, being burned to the ground.
Hiram Gerald, the fugitive treasurer oil inc
BroOkie,d, Mass savings bank, who empeLHieu
'J0,WJ, and q prominent cinzen OF tnat P.,h,
Fas arrested at Baltimore Nd. ne was ,r;and
~ means of letters he wrote Palmer irienu
or money to engage in a real estate specu'a'i""'
\ II Dean. alias ID W Woods and Met luskey
mas J III Shaw were arrested at 81 Iaul g, CO.. |
Monday. They had cashed raised urait 10
$50, 200 at the Nevada bank in san rIahciSs ~,
mi attempted the same game IN y :,'a hin.
he bank officers warned by detectNc, naP
BED the scheme in the bud and caused their ~
est
-Four lives were lost in the burning ., NJ"
rcncsee flats in L tea. y Y, TUESDAY inoil Ia |
.he structure was seven stories high WIN i,oro
lats on each floor. About 60 OF the na's .eens |
occupied and there were probably Jul pei e'"'
n the building.
\ mad dog starting at .Sth street ran wild ior
ia hours in New York CITY Saturday ana ne,
ore II WAS shot on Madison street had p''''"
e0rle, all but one nf them boys
Tine Atlas line steamship ltilsa, nj ancIoi hp
he NarrOws a. New York, was run nov sn,nT
"a Bourgogne and sank in ten minutes AN,
ay night. Her passengers took TO the Fissi"7
nj were saved.