Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-10-13
IN GENERAL.

H. @. Mead wealthy banker Of Wapa-
ca, Wis, was found murdered IN his bank on
Monday. Several thousand dollars were stol.
en- by the murderers.
The contemplated gathering of veterans
of the Union and confederate armies engaged
at Culps and Cemetery hills Getty has
been postponed till next year.
"A 14-years old girl pleaded guilty at Chi
cago, Thursday, to 10 indictments fIr burgla-
ry and larceny. Her father is druukard and
her mother has been in the state prison for
stealing, and the latter had trained her child
in crime until the girl had become daring
and expert burglar.
The steamer Herdor, of tho Hamburg
American packet company's line, with mails.
passengers and general cargo, from New York
for Hamburg, ran ashore near Cape Race, N.
F., Monday morning, during densa fog. Her
10 passengers and the crew. numbering l1S,
all landed safely at daylight, together with
their baggage and 7G bags of mail
The house Of a man named Rosecranz,
near Baxter Springs, Kan, was burned Friday
morning, and two Of his daughters, aged seven
and II, persisted in the flames Tho elder
girl had succeeded in getting out of the burn
ing building, but went back after ner sister,
whom she had dragged to the stairway when
the floor fell, carrying them both into the
burning mass below.
"A crazy Frenchman ran amuck Tuesday
afternoon through Nth street, Now York,
stabbing women right and left with pair of
carpenters compasses. Six women were in.
jured, three of them seriously.
"A half. crazy youth Of Is who wanted
permit to carry pistol SO that he could shoot
the President was arrested and locked up in
New York the other day.
In the CONGREGATIONAL rburrl nj Clpu-
cester Mass, last Sunday a lad fred pistol,
the ball from which struck the pulpit and
glanced within yard of the minister's head
He said he didn't know it was loaded
Rev. J. L. Benton, state superintendent
of education in Arkansas, commit / suicide
on Monday by jumping from the balcony Of
Judge Gregg's house. in Fayetteville. He
was mentally unbalanced"
An English syndicate is trying 10 buy l..
800, 600 acres of land in Mississippi for tim
Der and cotton purposes, and also for the
purchase of 10000 acres in Texls.
Herbert Spencer has abauu1 ued his
Western trip because of continued i.health,
and will return to England as SOC as he is
able to stand the voyage His debility and
nervousness are increasing to an alarming ex-
tent
Washington is growing very rapidly.
The permits for building Issued during the
past year were 1889, representing az outlay
of 81, iGS, 9S6, which is half million more
than for the preceding year There is mark
ed improvement in the character md value of
the buildings erected.
In Europe electric railways aEo growing
rapidly in public estimation, not only on the
Continent but in Great Britain. Already 100
miles Of electric transit are in operation, and
there is every probability of the total mileage
being considerably increased before the end
of the present year.
Eight hundred thousand people have
come from other lands to the Unued States
during the past twelve months. With the av-
erage increase Of population added, the gain
is >, $50, 0O0-or 49, 900 each week.
-Forty-six Of the counties of Illinois pro-
duce coal valued at the mines at S14 600, 900.
The product this year was 1000, 600 tons an
increase since 1850 Of 5000, 600 tons. Hi
nois now ranks second only to Pennsylvania
as a coal producing state.
The failure of the hop crop in Europe
gives American hop growers a regular bo-
nanza. The price of hops has advanced with
in six weeks from thirty-three to ninety cents
per pound, and is likely to 60 to e collar.
A Wisconsin woman who 20 years ago
captured another girls lover and married him
and is now Il rich and childless widow, has
spent time and money without stint in hunt
ing up her unfortunate old rival and wants
to give her 500 600