Windham County reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1901-1906, 1905-11-03
THE ARNA BUFFALO ROBES.
GEN ERAl NEWS.

A monument to Pope Plus X. sub
scribed for by Catholics all over the
world, was unveiled Sunday. Oct. ~,
at Riese. the little village in the Vene-
tan province where the pope was born.
His holiness is represented in the act
of administering a benediction.
The publishers of the Reformer are
pleased to announce that they have
renewed their arrangement with the
publishers of the New York Weekly
Tribune Farmer and are enabled to
offer that valuable agricultural paper
with the Reformer for full year
each to pay-in-adv subscribers
for s1.75. Sample copies free.
There have been so many applica-
tons for pensions and increases ana
especially for old-age pensions unde,
Order rs of the pension bureau at
Washington, that the secretary of the
interior will ask congress to make q
deficiency appropriation of three ana
one-half millions to meet the deflclt In
the current appropriation. The number
Of applications for pensions under the
old age order has far exceeded the ex-
pectations of the officials of the bu-
reau.
Burglars early Tuesday, Oct. a.
Ridgeville. Ind, and stole $4,000 and
after a running battle with a posse of
citizens. in which the cashier of the
bank and two robbers We're wounded.
the safe blowers escaped. For more
than an hour the town was practically
at the mercy of the robbers. who
openly walked the streets shooting at
everything in sight and apparently
taking their time in leaving the scene
of their crime. Cashier Ransom re-
ceived a flesh wound in the forehead
but was only slightly hurt. There
We're seven in the party of craftsmen
and all escaped. going toward Union
City.
Nearly $4,000 of the money stolen
by George Edward Cunliffe Oct. 3
from the Adams Express company in
Pittsburg. Pa. was recovered at
Bristol. Conn. Friday. Oct. 20, at the
home of Joseph w. Boardman, Cum
liffe's brotherin-law. For just a week
the fortune had lain in an old suit case
unknown to Boardman. who was hold
ing the valise. expecting its owner
would call for ii any day. The exact
sum found was s79953.55. Cunliffe,
when told by detectives of the recov-
cry of this money. said that he had
burned the rest of the amount stolen
about $4,000, but detectives after
ward found $1,000 in a trunk belong
ing to a butler in a prominent family
at Black Rock, Conn. but the butler
and the family by whom he is EN-
ployed are ignorant of the fact that
the large sum was found there
A sad tragedy grew out of the Hal
lowe'en sport of a number of Stock
bridge. Mass, boys Tuesday evening.
oct. 81. when Walter Webster. is. of
that town was shot and almost in
stantly killed by William Jones, a
colored boy of about the same age.
The shooting took place near the viii
lage cemetery. where a number of the
boys had assembled. the fatal shot be-
ing fired by Jones as he was passing
i'm team. The boys were throwing
apples at passers-by and pelted Jones
and his party literally. This was i'm
mediately followed by single shot
and the death of young Webster.
Within an hour after the shooting
Jones was arrested in his home. He
claims that when a girl in his party
was struck by an apple. he fired a
shot TO brighten the assailants.
United States Commissioner Ridg-
way at New York Saturday. Oct. IS.
discharged from custody Frederick
Peckham and Moses Haas. who were
charged with having conspired with
Edwin s Holmes. jr. to defraud the
government by securing advance in
formation of the governments cotton