Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-12-15
IN GENERAL.

Up at Ogdensburg, n Y, a debating 20.
cicty found out whether tar was explosive by
applying red hot iron to a barrel of the real
article. The sound was heard two miles dis.
tant.
John Herner Of Milwaukee, Wis, died
recently, strangled by his own corpulency.
He was % years old began to grow fat when
lG, and at his death weighed 4sG pounds.
-Four Cinnamon were killed and four bad
ly injured by an explosion in railroad tun-
mel near Riddle, Or, last week. They acci-
dentally drilled into charge Of giant powder.
There are % cremation societies in Italy.
Times go by turns and changes come by
chance. The Romans of to-day are going
back to habit in vogue among the Romans
of 2OOO years ago.
The town Of Petasky, Mich, recently had
a beautiful mirage by which the Beaver is
lands, 10 miles straight out in the lake, were
plainly seen, and the phenomenon was even
distinctly photographed.
"A woman named Kathi, ono of &c women
arrested several months ago, at Vienna Ger
many, for poisoning their husbands, was
hanged last Friday. She confessed to having
murdered two husbands. -Four of the other
women have been convicted
Frank Frayne the actor, was DISCHARGED
from custody Saturday in Cincinnati, the JUS
the statute for manslaughter, as the gun was
not pointed at person but at an odject on
Auna Won Behron's head. Miss Van Beh-
ren'- funeral took place in New York on Tues
day Of last week.
Gov. St. John Of Kansas ascribes his
failure to secure a reelection in the recent
contest to the combined effort of the liquor
dealers of the state against him. He says
they organized 300 liquor leagues, which took
an active part in the campaign. In plain
English rum did it,"
One hundred and fifty fat men had a din
ner at Bloomington, H., the other day, whose
aggregate weight was 1925 pounds. The
limit of leanness was 255 pounds. David DA
Wis, 35S, was expected to preside and deliver
an historical address upon the early struggles
of fat men in the section, but business called
him to Washington.
Oregon reports case of hopeless incom-
patibility. Years ago couple were married
with apparently favoring breezes then the
woman was given divorce because the man
beat and otherwise naltreated her, then they
repeated the primary counting act, the man
backed out, and now the woman has brought
suit against him for breach of promise.
Good society" at Indianapolis was much
excited last week over the arrest of VIM. f.
English, candidate for Congress in the recent
election and son of the would be vice presi
dent Of the United States, Wm. II. English,
on a charge made by Elizabeth Williams that
he is the father Of her ilegitimate child. Eng
lish was held in $1,000 for examination, and
afterward the excitement was increased by the
announcement that the affair had been patch
ed up, Miss Williams Withdrawing her com
plant.
BY the decision of the United States
supreme court, last week, the title of the
Arlington estate of Gen. Robert Z. Lee, now
held by the government as a national bury
ing ground, reverts to the Lee heirs. They
probably will not care to take the property,
but will have a legal claim upon the govern
ment for its value in cash The estate was
sold during the war for non payment of tax
es Although the amount of the tax was ten
dered, the tax commissioners refused to re-
ceive it except from the owner in person, and
as Gen. Lee was busy with the rebel army.
he could not attend to the matter. justice
Gray dissenied from the decision on legal
grounds, and his opinion was concurred in
by Chief Justice Waite and by Justices Brad
ley and Woods.
"A gang of body-snatchers has been un-
eartbed at Philadelphia which has been at
work for years but has only just been dscov-
cred, Robert Grew, superintendent of the
Lebanon cemetery was in the gang. Its mcm-
DeTS were arrested anu IN tue testimony AT
the preliminary trial it came out that if the
wagon from the dssectng rooms came and
the driver said they were short the cofiius
were opened in the receiving vault, the
corpse "snatched" and the farce of burying
the ewpty coffin wrs gone through the next
day. The records of the burials found at the
cemetery showed that in two months 80 bod.
les were in one grave. The members of the
gang were held in $4,000 each. The crowd
who listened to the examination made rush,
| threatening to lynch the prisoners, but were
restrained by the police.
While an old house in the Rue Vieille du
Temple, Paris, was being demolished a few
weeks ago, a mass of hidden treasure was
brought to light, In a copper jar were found
1922 gold pieces of an intrinsic value of more
tnan $50, 600. Many of them are exceedingly
rare. Two workmen made the discovery
and, according to French law, they were enti-
| tied to one half the value of the coins, which
was promptly paid them by the owner of the
! house. No sooner had they received their
money than they took their departure and in
! dulg"d themselves in long carouse. After
| they had recovered from their dissipation
they set about digging among the foundation
! at night by the light of a lantern in the hope
! of finding another mass of treasure. Of
course they found nothing. In day or two
| they disappeared from Paris aud have been
! heard from 10 more. The old house WAS
erected in the fourteenth century and had
been occupied by Superintendent of FL
name.
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