Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1904-09-02
80 YEAR OLD MURDERER
! CONNECTICUT FARMER ACCUS-
ED OF MANY CRIMES.
No Peace in Sight in Chicago Labor
War-John Redmond's Mission
Great Forest Fires in British CO.
lumbia-Georaia Soldiers Accused.

No Peace in Sight in Chicago Labor
War-John Redmond's Mission
Great Forest Fires in British Co.
lumbia-Georsia Soldiers Accused.
Gershon B. Marx, so years old, now
held in Norwich county, Conn.,, jail,
is believed by the state officials to be
the perpetrator of a series of cold
blooded murders and they began,
| Tuesday Aug. 80, systematic
search for bodies on the Marx farm.
Four murders and an attempt to poi
son another man can, 1t is believed,
be traced to Marx. The bodies of two
of his victims. Joe Pavol and Joe
Palm. have already been found and
Marx is awaiting trial charged with
Pavols murder The bodies of an
1S-year- r-old boy and Hebrew ped
dler are being searched for. The for
mer came from Russia, worked on
Marks farm for about six months
and then disappeared The Hebrew
| peddler went to the Marx home one
evening two years ago and he was
not seen alive again. A Polander,
| known as Joe accuses Marx of at
| tempting to kill him with poisoned
whiskey.
The motive for the crimes can only
be traced to an insane desire on the
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to persons to whom he was indebted.
The two men whose bodies have been
found were six months behind in
their wages, as was the young boy
| Harry, of whom no trace has yet been
/ found.
Marx always slept with his hired
man, his wife and four children
sleeping in an adjoining room. He
evidently drugged his victims when
3 al, 4 l1s, t,afy
wages, and then crushed their heads,
after which the bodies were dismem-
bered and buried. Each of the bodies
already found bears a ghastly hole in
! the forehead, indicating the cause of
death.
The Hebrew peddler probably was
robbed and then murdered. He was
never seen again after entering the
Marx house and Marx afterward at
tempted to sell lot of new and sec
ondhand clothing.
Forest fires which have been doing
great damage in British Columbia,
are now raging more furiously than
ever. 1t is estimated that millions of
dollars worth of timber is burning.
| Senator George Frisbie Hoar, who
| has been critically i'll at his home in
! Worcester, Mass, for some time,
passed his 18th birthday Tuesday,
Aug. 80. Many messages and remem-
/ brances were received, not only from
the senator's neighbors but from
| friends throughout the country.
The great shops of the Pullman
company near Chicago, Ill.,, are to
shut down Sept. 1, and thousands of
men employed in the various depart
ments of the car building corporation
| will be without work. Thirty thou
sand people at Pullman and in the
I surrounding towns will be affected.
During the last few months there has
been lack of new orders.
! Marshall Field of Chicago is the
heaviest taxpayer in the United States
according to Receiver Upham. Forty
million dollars is the assessed value
of Mr.. Fields taxable property, read
and personal, in Chicago, His real
estate assessment is $30,000,000, and
/ his personal property assessment $10-
! 100000. Next year he will pay on
an additional million dollars worth
of real estate.
J. A. Bishop, a prominent farmer of
Wilcox county, Ca, was murdered
few days ago on a train by negro
named Scott, who at once escaped,
but was located Sunday night Aug.
! 2S, in a house near the village of Re-
becca. He refused to leave the house,
which was then burned by the mob
and the negro running out was shot
two or three times. 1t is said he made
a confession duplicating others, who
are now being sought for by the mob.
A court of inquiry is investigating
the details of the recent lynching at
| Statesboro, Ga A local newspaper
man testified before the court Mon
day, Aug. 90, as to the conduct of the
state military at that time. He said
he saw the negro prisoners in States
| boro dragged along the road to the
stake within thirty feet of the militia
ry camp, where fifty men were drawn
up in line, and that there was no move
by the officers and men to rescue the
prisoners. The mob of 200 men, with
few exceptions, were unarmed.
/ The conferences of committees ap-
pointed last week to attempt a settle
ment of the Chicago stock-yards
strike resulted in nothing. The
chances for agreement between pack
ers and strikers appear very meagre.
| The packers say they are running
their plants and have nothing to ar
bitrate. Organizer Fitzpatrick of the
Chicago Federation of Labor denies
the truth of rumors that the strike is
about to be called Off Mr.. Fitzpat-
rick declares that under no circum-
stances will the strike be abandoned,
although he comedies the possibility
of an immediate settlement.
A test of the copper sulphate solu-
ton discovered by the bacteriologists
of the department of agriculture for
the destruction of algae and disease
germs in water will be made in con-
nection with the infection with ty-
phoid germs of the water taken from
the Potomac in the reservoirs that
supply Washington. The secretary of
agriculture has been formally re-
ouested to aid in the matter. Since
the announcement six months ago of
the discovery it has been used with
success in several large cities. among
them being Indianapolis, Butte. Monte
Springfield, Mass, and Baltimore. In
every place where it was tried the
copper solution was an instant sue
cess.
John Redmond. the Irish leader, and
Capt. a. ]. c. Donelan. Patrick O'Bri-
en-. Conor O'Kelley and Mrs. Redmond
were rendered reception in Carnegie
hall. New York, Sunday night, Aug.
2S. by the New York Municipal coun-
ell of the United Irish League of AM
erica. All the visitors save Mrs. Red
mond spoke. and $4,000 was either
subscribed or given to the fund for
carrying on the Irish movement. Mr..
Redmond said in part:
1T is but two years since | appeal
ed to Americans for aid. Dur
ing that time we have so strengthen
ed our position that we are now in
position boldly to attack the English
/ Government We have met the reyi-