Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1878-11-20
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GENERAL NE VS.,

GENEHAL NE Wo'
George Phillips was found dead
at Cincinnati, tho l0'h, A post morlem
examination reveled halt gallon Of
whiskey in the stomach, aud four
large oysters forming n valve and pre-
venting the whiskey from coming
up when Phillips tried TO relieve hls
stomach hence his death,
Another terrible domestic tragedy
occurred in New York Friday a man
90 years ofage became Jealous OF MS
wife 40, aud cut her head open with
an axe, lilo then cut his OWL throat
and died IN a few hours II ID belley'
cd that tho woman will recover,
"A Girl In 81 Joseph Mo went to
u drug store to buy arsenic with which
to kill herself The clerk happened
to know that she had quarrelled with
her lover, and no guessed her purpose
lie gave her corn starch instead o.
Arsenic, and hurried out TO tell her
lover, The lover repented having
grieyed the girl, went TO hr home
found her lying .on sofa waiting 10
die OF dose OF coru starch and made
up with her,
Mrs Alexander the Bridgeport
Conn. murdcrcsS, has been convicted
and sentenced to lite imprisonment
"A special from Pembina, Dakota
says that w II Anderson, a Dallas
Texas sheriff, attempted to arrest WIN
Collins Of the famous band OF train
robbers IN Pembina Friday evening
The men exchanged fires aud both
dropped dead
The suit Of Cornelius Vanderbilt
to recover 100000 from VIM II
Vanderbilt has been indefinitely pos
poned, owing to the will contest
Several shops connected with the
central prison at Toronto, Canada
were burned the 18th, the total dam
age amounting to 100000.
The extensive farming operations
of M L Sullivan in Illinois have result
ed in bankruptcy. He cultivated A.
900 acres, was called the Corn k'ng
and was rated as enormously wealthy,
his property did not brin' at sheriff sale
enough to pay his debts within $780,
600. His land will DO divided into
farms.
"A lamp was overturned ir n sleep
ING car on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Saturday, morning setting
the car on fire. The thirty'dve pas
sengers escared with only their night
clothes, and the car was burned with
all their baggage and valuables'
Another survivor of the i'll tated
Huron has turned up He was pick.
ed up the day after the wreck by
a Norwegian bark, having drlfted
sixty miles out to sea was taken 10
Norway and brought back to Baltl-
more by the same vessel.
AN attempt was made Saturday
to assassinate Humbert, King OF
Italy. The would,be assassin was
arrested. The King was slightly
scratched by the mans poniard.
"A strict watch is now beng
kept over the grave in the Nj oravlan
cemetery, New York, where Com
modore Vanderbilt is buried.
Joseph Wars talle", aged eighty
years, tax collector OF South Easton'
Penn, committed suicide by hanging
He was short in his accounts.
Charles Brewer, OF Wapplngers
Falls, N Y, has killed James Patter-
son, eighty,fivc years old while on d
spree.
Eight yonng men left Hartford
last August to nurse yellow fever sui
ferers in the South, Harry Brooks the
only survivor has just returned,
In gambling room in Nevads
the janitor, in opening the place II
the morning, found Il man sitting
dead at the liable, with cards still III
his hands. He had been shot at poker
by his adversary, who had fled.