The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1896-05-29
THE WAR IN CUBA

Another Cuban fllihusto,;, :.
Saturday. oachonVille, Fla.
y column Of 800 Spanish ,,oo
wb; i ans 10 Colonel Acosta s command
G Ga,le conveying provision train from
b1 os TO Quemado De GnineS
i ,as peen surprised and captured hy
Insurgents under Generals Iavas az
M,aodnnt o General Come ' w GU
-,uoo followers and six pieces Of art;i
lerS are still encamped at palo Pr;oto
ano tne government troops are afraid
10 attack him. Colonel Polanco no "r'
,hn. Jung the SPANISH forces. learning
n rlal Gomez was preparing tosattacl,
racas'; started with 800 men for thot
punt put encountered large body ~
l insurgents and beat "a hasty retrea,
IheSpanish colonies. Molina nndSar;n
nave nave inflicted crushing defeat upon n
90 ; Oh rebels 1900 strong near Qua.
halary' \ second attempt was made
py Spanish troops to invade Cubitas
lhe seat OF the Cuban government. but
sustained crushing defeat General
Maceo sent an envoy from Pinar del
MO Province to General Palma with
important dispatches and if is thought
now that the situationithrou ghout On.
ga IS much better for the canse of
freedom than it has ever been before
Zen. Weyler has instructed his officers
10 modify their war policy and adont
more human methods. 1t is again
rumored that CAPTAIN General Weyler
VII soon be succeeded by Blanco.
Poiaviea or Pando. Smallpox and
!eiiow fever are now raging in the
cities, besides in the army. A formal
rremonstrance against the attitude of
tne United States in regard to Cuba
VIII be presented to the government at
Washington, and it is probable that
senior Dupuy de LONE, Spanish minis.
ter at Washington, will also be instruct
ed to protest personally against the
policy being pursued by the American
government. 1t was also decided that
the government send 400, 600 troops TO
Cuba on September 8.
Rainfall of 10 Inches-Towns submerg.
ed.
A rainfall of from TO 10 inches in
southeastern Kansas FRIDAY flooded
the Fort Scott corner of the state as it
was never known to be before. Many
miles OF railroad and thousands of
acres of growing crops in Coffey, An
derson and Linn counties are still I'M
der water, while many farms and towns
are submerged. Two miles of Missouri
Pacific railroad in Anderson county
have been washed away and the com
pany is endeavoring to save 10 miles
which are under water On the Kan
sas City. Fort Scott and Memphis rail
road in Linn county freight cars are
standing half submerged and the road
runs through lake 10 miles long.
The damage to property and crops
cannot be estimated
Kills His Baby and Then Cuts His Own
Throat
Joseph b. Holt, who murdered his
infant child and then cut his own
throat at his home in Mechanic Falls,
Me-, Friday,is still living but that he
will die is certain. Holt. who was EN-
ployed in the Poland Paper company's
mill, is % years of age. He was mar
red two years ago, and was the father
of bright little S-months-old boy.
Mrs. Holt, whose maiden name was
Somerset. is a native of New Hamp
shire. She was widow when Holt
married her, and is comely woman
Of about the husbands age. She has
a child by her first husband. The Sc
cret Of the tragedy was Hollis jealousy
Of his wife which was entirely ground
less. Mrs. Holt is in a precarious con
Iition and Hollis wounds are such
III NJ he cannot live
slept "a Hours and Died-Overdose of
Drug.
Miss Sarah O. Bishop, %, Of New
Haven, CT, died about midnight Sat.
urday night, after au unbroken sleep OF
81 hours and her death is attributed
to the use of a new drug without prop I
er medical advice She had been EN- /
ployed by DR.. Clarence Skinner as an
assistant in clerical work and on Fri |
tav about noon complained of feeling |
i'll. She lay down on couch and the /
doctor soon noticed that she breathed |
unnatural. He tried to awaken her
out failed and four physicians were
and all five doctors used All !
methods known to medical science to
restore the young woman to conscious /
ness. but without result. Miss Bishop /
slept on until death came Just before
midnight. The coroner SAD ne
thought the girl probably died Of eX. !
,essive use Of . new drug ammani" |
which she had taken to relieve mead |
ache
Tennessee Town Company Fails.
The Connecticut stockholders in the !
Cooperative Town compa |
~. organized in 1890 with authority |
- issue SO. 600. 600 capital, but which. |
,fter attempting to build up a city at
Tenn, on cooper
tive basis suffered financial collapse
AVE just received statement ron
he directors. The lands and property |
IF the company have been sold 10
ieorge H. Towle of Boston TO pay the
iebts OF the corporation which the a.
.ectors say, are approximately sloo' Wy.
The property has now passed into the
,ands of the Watauga land company |
pbich has 60, 600 shares. of which ~,
OO are TO be left in the treasury OF TIE
,omnanv. while the other 30, GOO are 10
no offered for sale to the stockholders
If the cooperative town company
whole Family Murdered-Robbers 'he
w Motive.
The entire Sawyer family, consist
,a Of father. mother and grown up
~, ~ we're found murdered 10 their
,o one mile east of Ava, Mo-, Sal,
1rday. Ernest Z. Sawyer, the son, haa
,toh wounds In throat and righ.
,raos+ had both Jaws broken and head
IL "a" lace beaten TO a jelly. He had
NJ nmn,dered in the barn and inc
oeer draeged to the house. The
J .,.ils If both father and mother were
. X ur,I piled together under bed and
,ouna with a blanket. The OBJ ect