The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-06-19
NEW WORLD.
AGAIN THE CRANK
"''" Bank President .nd rn.,. a.
tcmpts Suicide. nv

Wvc, cranK walked into Bank Presid.n,
MW9chUlI S office at New Amstera om,
h y, r., Monday afternoon ' amd
handed the latter note which a az
,nandod $1,000. The note said y no ue'
alarm "", ul'a would throw bomb If an
him u an was made. Wyckoff disregarded
ii; HIN an a.; stood up. The crank covered
i,a a, WIN pistol, warning him 70
doopr sui Wyckoff dashed for the
Inc al ahu Tue crank shot him through
me abdomen and then shot h;ms5ol,
through the neck. Both are danaor
99uLsiy wounded and may not reroser
me ne assassln's name was C. G. Clark
oiarK says murder was not in his
ssehehe. lie intended to Kill himseli
II ms effort to extort monav fa;l"d
ana now hopes for death. he Save no
h y sorry Tor his victim and denies that
we m.. nau any confederate, though a man
was seen running away.
SIark' whose real name later proved
70 De Geo. II. Sele, died at | o,cloci.
tuesday night. He was book can !.
Sasser, IN debt and discouraged. but
MS FAMILY was cared for. His wife
was with him when he died. She saws
sue knows no reason for her husbands
desperate act ""'' o
Nv" Hiorid" Women Fight a Duel to
Death.
Mrs. Robert Gresham, a young W i'd
ow, is dead, and Mrs. Mollie Gain Ell is
uylng, the result OF duel in which
ehey were engaged near Garment, Fla.
saturday afternoon. Jealousy was the
cause. Mrs. Gaines learned that her
husband and Mrs. Gresham planned
q meeting at the latter's home
Iaking her husbands razor, the Young
VIE wentto the widows home and
found them together. Gaines fled, and
MS wife sprang upon her rival using
tne razor with awful effect. Mrs.
Gresham picked up a hammer, ana
defended herself as best she could, hit
ting Mrs. Gaines blow after blow on
the head. Finally Mrs. Gaines
reached her rivals throat with the
razor, severiEg the jugular vein, and
causing almost instant death. Then
Mrs. Gaines fell unconscious. The
blows from the hammer had fractured
her skull and her recovery is impossi.
BILE. Both women belonged to good
families.
u.nr,. w.,
Henry Barton Beecher, son of the
late famous preacher of Brooklyn, was
put on trial at New York Monday be.
fore Justice Fursman in the criminal
charge of forgery The charae grow,
emf az the cn1lans;no ~ +ha n,on S
Casualty Insurance comnanv in 1909
The business was ~ ;nsnra ra;,roaI.
against losses by collisions and othar
accidents, # Is alleged that tho com
~ 80 ao;.aa 80 coo Son snat 'ne Ioii-
ra;Iro,ds n fa;led for s1nn oon 10
Sh.... rwu, So, ,y...
49,. " ~ ~" "''p'"''
D1'ais vi .yClone which uesas-
.a'eu ane Town Oh Iopac, state OF Jams
20, MeAlco' nave arrived. ~ was &C
coIlpanieu py Waterspout that ue-
tacheu from the sizes Oh the moup
lalns enormous masses ol-ioth anu
EARN Mud was plled up IN the streets
Oh Ine Town 10 ueptn or elgnt ieet'
ana Id some cases TO the leVel OF the
lower branches OF trees IN whlch tne
lnhapltahis nao cilmDed 10 escape
the lnundation OF water ana muu.
ihree-1 ourtns OF tne town was utterly
destroyed. Ihlrteen Dodles nave peeh
taken out from unoer the mass Oh
earth.
May be a Dro"th of Whisky.
1.-The Kentucky state distillers at
Wednesdays session in Louisville
adopted not to make or to permit to be
made any whiskey of any kind in the
tlietilleries which they own or control
in Kentucky from July 1886. to July
|. 1888.
Rushing for 1t.
Two American scientists, Lieuten
ant Peary, the explorer, and Profes
sor Dyche, OF Kansas, who accompa-
lied him on former expedition. are
now hurrying northWard, each win
party of his own, on strange errand.
It appears that on their former voyage
these gentlemen discovered in Green
and an enormous meteorite OF extra
ordinary variety and richness ID its
metallic constituents. This mysterious
mass fell from the skies many years
ago, and while the traditions OF us
descent are still preserved among, the
native Greenlanders, it remained IN
Known to voyagers from the south un-
i'll Peary discovered it,. Its great
yeight-somethine IKE tolty lons
made 1t Impossible lof reaiy parry W
1T from us resting piac .ho w.
heir ship, several miles away g.. . Inah
'utiit lnciT d no e9h.? a o vauabIe
however, and possesses eieli,t ;o u s that
tremendous interest 10 sclencei n 'nae
Lieutenant Peary ana Frolessof 10y cue
nave each organized eXpeo'ti:ohhs a,' ~
'ail to Greenland ana Dring ~ s+ paIh
% civilization for analysis anu stuu!'