The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-03-20
NEW WORLD.
Gamblers yictimiLed.

Horse racing gamblers were extensively vie.
timized Saturday by false telegram sent from
New Orleans to the various pool rooms 9scF inc
won bv Plue but the official result was changed
by the telegraph operator ut the race track 70
read that Royal Nettie hau come unueI uuc
u,rc first she was i0..O.l shot and this deiiD'
ar1te classification OF the result by the operator
was no doubt the consummation OF cafetuly
laid plan by himself and coniederates AT various
points Money had been placed Viii j." y rGr
dom which indicated that the schemers were
hacked with all the capital necessary 10 ihakc
the fraud q gigantic success. lumeuiateiy aI,el
the kilograms agents called at me poor Iooiiis
and collected their winnings one room III Sl
cooo was hit to the extent OF SSoVo. Another
los; $4,000 and IN the whole city the amount Is
estimated at $lS,0p.
Was Bound to Beat His Competitor.
Because a rival paper "scoopedn him on an
important item n week ago, JACK Mercnah,, LtI1
editor of a Midyale (Neb) weekly, wrote thriil.
inr account of his suicide for publication IN Iast
Monda, IS issue of his own aper ana sMaIIoM n'i
poison halt an hour after his contemporary hau
,ryonr TO press He was evidently IN earnest Al
Ssclf de iruction for he locked himself IN ms
sanctnm 10 give the fatal drug time to take el-
feet and refused admission to his foreman,
who went to Merchants assistance rs soon ~ ~, nc
uIsoo a,temuted by his superior. The
foreman burst the door and summoned
phvsician. with the latters help the editor was
sloyei 10 read his own obituary. Tue Opposition
came ont later with an extra giving an account
of tie affair, Including Its happy termina.ionS,
hut Merchant Is much consoled by the thouSht
that the original anu ony nuemv, ,,o,er scvera,
hours before the rival paper WAS aoic 10 'o"'"
its subscribers. -.
Postmaster A Cooke of Taintor, Ten is short
over $1,000. He attempted TO commit s"isiu.
with narcotics but was resus'''''e '
under arrest.
,arr;b;e murder wa committedat syracuse,
Ny Sunday morning at about $50 ocIock' I hi',
which the perpetrator of the ueeu hihe' s'',
self. Thomas Pelkinton, empiosneu ,,. 10 one mi;e
hand on the Mynderse farm, ABOUT ohc ,,'i..
nor,h of this town. because his love was no s,
tnrned fired two shots from his rev1iNsr d. sI
Minnie Mansel, aged -, with 'at'i mn NJ avn
then Completed the tragedy bv ,ahins ~, U" W.
i;rc Th,. indications are that he tr'ed Z" W
-ault her before the murder.
lanes ] C0rbett has slgnen me aiiieI 'r,,n ne
cement forwarded by the Northern spor,lnE
club of London to ngh, n neSt iune for pure
~, ~ 40 O00 The article will now go 10 FH%>i'"
mons for mis- signature - -,
!. is reported that the WESTINGHOUSE 'na
General Electric companies nave 49, Go ami ,hst
go, tier they will work in harmony; iniS
a !, end 70 expensive litigaiion,ahh iil 10.
allies in all contests WIN IN, md
,,ir interests. Itsis strong cviIy ,.-. ~
u ~ ,,,ht will he for the financial aaEHhtIE',
18th narties 10 IL, whatever may DC wv
upon the puoht' -, -. . Il, y, the
paul p LayCien. epiieptie, teh y, ~ - ,nS
yard OF neighbor at Lima, ono, NO., ,cI,,ii.iy aud
was set upon by loch Va H'o7
~robably fatally bitten -
4 o,;,lenic of small poN il pres ailnS ~ -.
- An and in connection with the en"t' ,;,
the board Of Iealih'o snpgre,S s ih %friGsc in
OF now -, ntc,y rs, he brought before tI.e
snch ~. bcal,h ofliccr- nf New Orleans ha.t
s entered private houses AMI lakgn Ir ie' cloth,
oily 20 ine pse mi furniture in the Infected hors,
ing. hn,s or i 10 be, brought isa.iIisi,
: M L assrond that they violated
on 9 nj liz iefaI rights BY such invasion ei
dOmicile.