Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-03-03
THE LATEST.



As the Queen was walking from the depot
at Windsor to her carriage last evening a man
in the station yard deliberately fired a pistol
at her. The man, who was a miserable look
iug object, was Immediately seized by sever
al policemen and taken to the Windsor police
station. No one was hurt. The man who
fired at the Queen gives his name as Roder-
lex MacLean. The Queen drove off to the
castle Immediately after she was fired at The
miscreant was followed to the police station
by large crowd of people, and would have
been lynched had not the police interfered.
MacLean is p years old He states that he
is grocer's assistant. The doctors pronounce
him sane. The revolver was a six ohambered
Colts American make
Fuller the Murderer KiIIs Himself
Edison L. Fuller, the convicted murderer
of Witham of Readsboro, who had once be-
fore made an attempt on his life, hanged
himself dead with his suspenders yesterday in
his cell in the state-prison at Windsor. He
was found some 10 minutes after he swung
himself off, but could not be resuscitated
He left a note for the superintendent, telling
him not to blame him for he could not help
it, and requesting that his body be sent to
his wife His son will take the body to
Readsboro for burial
The MissisSIPpi Floods.
This mornings despatch says: Zone hun
bred families below Memphis, up to and in
GLIDING Hopefeld on the Arkansas side, are
utterly destitute. Fifteen persons were
drowned at Riverton Landing, Miss, by the
flood. The river now extends practically
from the bluffs, or Bayou Macon Hills in
Arkansas on the west to the Yazoo hills or
Chickasau bluffs on the east a mean width of
$50 miles. Forty persons have been drowned
near Helena, Ark. Not less than 80 600
hpa Of haa
numbers that escaped the flood are dying.
By the break of the levee of Rverton
Miss, the country will be flooded in Bolivar.
Washington, Lefore, Warren and Issaqueno
counties, and may reach within short dis
lance of Vicksburg. Fully 80, 900 people suf-
fer, and the probable loss cannot be estimat-
ed The river is rising at a rate of 10 inches
in "a hours. houses at Indian Bay are float
ing away. A Little Rock ARK } despatch says
that in the White river valley hundreds of
families are homeless and without food and
clothing 1t is believed that many will perish
from starvation.
Floods in New England.
The recent rain and thaw has done consid-
cradle damage in New England. The tracks
of several railroads, including the st. Johns
bury a Lake Champlain and the Central Yer
mont, were washed away in various places. A
Burlington despatch reports many washouts
the nooulng OF houses, and the destruction of
a 5O-foot trestle- work on the Burlington a
Lamolle railroad The wind on Mt. Wash
ington blew at the rate of 100 miles an hour,
and carried off the operators thermometer be-
fore higher rate could be measured. There
were floods all over the northern part of the
state The storm was heavy throughout
Connecticut and Rhode Island, and many fac
tories and mills were obliged to suspend. A
temporary trestls on the Vermont q Massa-
chusetts branch of the Fitehburg railroad was
carried away Thursday, causing delay to