Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1878-03-15
NEWS ITEMS.

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boats left Albany Monday for New York.
A dispute over the possession Of two cents
resulted in a murder in Baltimore last Friday
night.
Iowa farmers are blowing. wheat is foot
/ high in California. and corn is ten cents a
| bushel in Kansas
/ Mike GiIbon. O miner. was stabbed and
| killed by Swcde at Crown Point. y. Y, Sat
| uriay night
A colored woman accused Of iustigating
| incendiarism was lynchcd by masked mob
/ in Rockingham county, Va. last week.
Orange men and papists had a fight near
| Montreal, Sunday, and one man was stabbed.
| Six Of the rioters were arrested.
Elizabeth Fmntwein. II years old. was
] fatally burned at Baltimore. Nd saturday.
while trying to kindle a fire with kerosene.
Charles Patton. Is years old. shot Robert
McAdams, T. years old dead at Philadelphia
Monday. for refusing to divide a stick Of can
| dy.
A man named Paquet. who recently left
the upper Ottawa Canada -hanties TO walk
home. was out seven day, without food. and
on reaching farmhouse so porged himself
that he died
One hundred and fifty thousand cigars.
made in the United States, were shipped to
England from New York last week The ship
meuts for the year are expected TO reach g.
OOO. OO0 cigars
Gen. Grant and wife were formally pre-
scented to the King and Queen Of Greece on
Saturday. \ grand banquet in honor Of Gen.
Grant was given Sunday in Athens.
The Charlie Ross case Of the West hap
pened SIX years ago. when tie tiye-year-oid
son Of Prof. Lieh. now Of st Paul Mimi
wa, stolen from him in Iowa. and has never
since been heard Of
A woman in Central New York has reeov-
cred $40 damages from her own father for
circulating a malicious report derogatory to
her character, which led TO her abandonment
by her husband.
There WAS terrible colliery explosion at
Unity Brock pit. kearslcy. near Bolton. Eng
land. Tuesday afternoon. and about 40 men
who were working in the pit persisted. At
last accounts IL corpses had been found
The Chicago and Iowa railway was sold
at auction ON saturday. 1t was knocked
down TO J. NJ. Walker FOR $500. 900. The
purchasers are William G. Weld. George b.
Chandler and j. ". Walker. in trust for the
Chicago and Iowa bOndholders.
Prof. Cartier Of New York. tie champion
walter, danced l3t hours in one stretch at
Boston last Saturday II was accompanied
10y eight different women, and Miss Lizzie
Allen Of Cambridge won gold pin 10y dan
eng the longest three hours and seven min
utes
A fire at Spartanshurg. Pa. last Friday.
destroyed every business house III the place
and twenty families are homeless The loss
is 500, 600, and suspicious Of iucendiarism
rest upon W. VI. Jacobs, in whose store the
fire originated. and who has given himself mp
to escape threatened lyuching.
H., vK.f1..r..l-- =
gar refinery az Brooklyn, got into a bone
blaek vat over a boiling r.tort Saturday. and
was drawn down into the conical bottom.
whore the bouehlack escapes into the retort
He was rescued with great difficulty. after
sinking to his neck in tho hot mass. but died
in few minutes.
At Madison. Ind, few days ago. a lot
Of little Colored boys were playing court. and
sentenced one Of their number to be- hung.
H was accordingly strung up by his heel. to
door-knob and left there, while one of the
cNccutioners went down stairs to tell his
mother Of the affair She went up stairs and
found the boy in a terrible condition. with
blood gushing from his nose and mouth He
had lost hi cyesight and on the next day he
died
A few days ago the whole northwes; was
excited by dispatch stating that President
Hayes had been shot. The first report was
that hi- Gssaiiaut was the British Secretary Of
the Legation, and aftcrward it was stated that
Secretary Rogers had suddenly become insane
and assaulted the President with deadly re-
suit. drunken drummer started the yarn
Throughout Minnesota. it is estimated.
only half much fuel has been used the past
winter as in ordinary seasons stock Of all
kinds has required but about two-thirds as
much feed as usual, and fresh meat. butter
r.rtI hoe 81 =
market.
Tile Union Pacific railroad paid. last year.
IN round numbers. more than a million and a
half in interest on its first mortgage bonds.
more than half million on its land grant
bonds. and nearly million and quarter on
its sinking fund with =, 939. GOO dividends on
It's stock, making, in interest and dividends.
So 2au.GOo.
A violent earthquake shock was felt at
Columbus, Ky, early Wednesday morning
Il awoke residents and created considerable
con-t rEatiou Bedsteads were rolled across
the floor and bureaus and presses thrown
dovu. 4 portion Of the Mississippi river
bank caved in near the town. The move
ment WAS 20 violent as TO ring bells on loco
motives standing in sheds at the depot. The
rumGling lasted only few seconds.
Tile Home savings bank at Boston sus-
pended business Monday temporary iujuuc-
ton having been granted by the supreme
court About two years ago the deposits
amounted to SG.1GS. 2i3: since that time it
las endured protrncted run, and has strug-
gled under other endorsements its deposits
having diminished to S3,ll7, 49,. and Of this
amount -, 34l, j34 is invested in real estate
loans. 1t is thought that in time the assets
Of the bank will be fully realized and deposit
ors paid III full, but with such large proper
uon OF the assets III real estate II will require
a long time 10 wind up the affairs.
Shortly before the arrival of the 10.
coasting vessel at Iqui4ue, Peru, recently.
two stowaways, discovered on board. were
placed in irons on the deck. During the night
a Gillian trader on board approached one Of
them and accusing him Of stealing cheese
from him, cut of his head and threw it over
board, and then cut OF the hands to free the
body from the irons, and threw il overheard.
The victim Is companion was too terrified to
cry out and the murder was not discovered
TIL morning The criminal was turned over
TO the authorities at Iquique.
A remarkable miser has Just died at Gin
cinnati, O., in the person of Jerry Tullis |
He was worth S2,OOO.OGO or -, 900, 900, ac- |
quired by speculation and pinching economy.
lie owned large amounts of landed property |
IN Western cities and farming districts He !
lived alone in a wretched tenement starving |
himself and going in rags, and refused TO en- |
plOy doctor when i'll because of the expense
He said he cared little what became Of his |
property, but hoped whoever got it would en- |
JOY spending it as much as he had enioyed |
accommodating it,
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