Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-02-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
JUDGE LYNCH N MONTANA.

The Butte Inter Mountain paper, western
Montana, has an account Of the lynching Of
10 or ~ men by vigilauts, which has not been
heard of by telegraph. The lyuching occurred
at Weeksville new railroad point near
Missoula. For several weeks there had been
a yeritabe reign of terror in that region, the
courts were paralyzed and the citizens finally
took matters into their own hands and organ.
lied n vigilance committee. The Inter Noun
tain says. "Once organized, no time was
lost in carrying out the object of the associa-
ton. On last Sunday night four despcradoes,
known as Ohio Dam 'Blondy, Ell Enright
and another man, were arrested The first
three were hanged Without ceremony and the
fourth was converted into lead depository.
At the " another camp two mile, west Of
Weeksyille, similar scene was enacted,
three men. names unknown, being hanged
on the same tree and at the same time. When
the coach left Weeksylle so a lady pHsseu-
ger stated to Mr.. Hart the bodies OF two men
were still dangling in the air from u limb Of a
tree 1t was also reported to her that tue
three victims at the " were similarly sls-
pended, having been thus left by the aveng-
ing vigilants SO that there should be no pos
sibility of a return to life. On another au-
thority it is learned that last Monday witness
ed the hanging Of three more men whose high
crimes had become known, and who were
considered too wicked to b. allowed too fl ct
the earth any longer with their presence
ANOTHER OCEAN STEAMER SUNK.
The Castle line steamer Kenmore Castle
2OOO tons, from London for Shanghai, with $
passengers and 40 seamen, went down in the
bay of Biscay last Friday aud the captain
first mate and 30 seamen, all Asiatcs, we're
drowned. She sank so soon that only one
boat could be launched in which the eight
/ passengers and eight of the crew embarked,
the former in their night dresses. They Were
picked up in an exhausted condition by a
freight steamer.
Eugene j. Hosley, freight conductor on
the New Haven Il Northampton road at the
| time of the accident at Zoar, Mass, last Sep
TENDER, when three men were killed, was
brought before j justice last Friday and held
in 5000 bonds for granddaughter for appear
auce before the grand jury After the acct
dent, although the blame was placed almost
wholly on Hosey, he went to work at West
field, where he remained till last week, when
he was arrested.
/ A horrible tragedy occurred near vii
| liamston, n c.. last Friday, the participants
/ being father and son. King Griffin, the
] father. was coming from the premises Of
/ Simon when an alteration began between
/ them. Simon rushed at his father with an
| axe, when the old man retreated to the house,
/ picked up gun and discharged its contents
| into Simons breast killing him instantly. A
coroner's Jury returned verdict of ''self-de-
! fence
Charles W. Ordway, fourteen years old,
| is to be tried for murder in the first degree
for shooting his stepmothor, at Loudon, N.
H.
The smallpox isspreading in southwestern
Virginia and the people are becoming excit-
ed.
At St. Louis, on Monday a prisoner
about to be put on trial for murder shot him
self in the jury room, having an instant pre-
vously put bullet through the brain of his
devoted wife.
The gang of highwaymen who recently
attempted to rob a train on the Central Paci-
tic railroad have been captured Eighteen
well-armed men started in pursuit of the rob
bers. They learned that the latter were in g
"stockade' in the mountains about fifty miles
north OF Deseret On the way TO it two OF
the bandits were severely wounded in fight
and taken into custody. The advance was
then continued and the 'stockade" was reach
ed soon afterward. This the sherifs com
pletely surrounded, and upon learning theil
situation the three remaining robbers sur
rendered without struggle The five con
stituted one of the most audacious and sue
cessful of the Western gangs of thieves.
Three degrees below zero in Texas is al
extraordinary freak of this winters weather.
A New Brunswick On. j. despatch say
that a woman in a band of Hungarian gypsie
encamped near there recently sold for a rec
shawl the dead body of her baby to be fed t
some trained bears owned by one of tn,
band.
A very Enlightened" coroner's jury ha
been summoned in New York in the case o
George Mahan, who killed a fellow patient il
Bellevue hospital last Sunday 1t is compos
ed of ex-Mayors Hall, Ely, Grace, Cooper anC
Wickham, Gen. Grant, ex-senator Conkling
William II. Vanderbilt and Jay Gould.
The body of August DiefTenthal, a Ger
man immigrant who died recently on his wa
to California, was dug up Tuesday and 5000
in currency found upon it.
"A serious railway accident has occurred
in Hungary. Six cars fell down a steel
mountain. The accident happened on a rail
way running up hill to coal mines. The lin
is constructed on principle similar to tina
of the Rigi Railway. Some of the teeth o
the engine wheels broke and the train, whicl
contained number of miners and women
began to recede, gaining fearful velocity
Most of the miners jumped out in time L
save their lives, but seven women and severa
men who remained in the train were killed
DUN tue I4ulptIOI Willhm anu IrlnC
Bismarck of Germany are ill.
james l.. Livingstone, West Berlin
Mass, farmer about 60 years old brutal
murdered his wife, Mary Ann A. in a drunk
en- quarrel Monday night, and then deliber
Rtely called in the neghbors and confesse,
the deed. The couple were seen in Clinton
the neighboring town, as late as 8 o'clock tn
evening previous, both being intoxicated.
horrible sight presented itself when the neigh
bors entered Livngstones house at his sum
mons at o'clock Tuesday morning. Th
floor, walls and furniture of the kitchen wer
covered with clots of blood In the neigh
boring bedroom, where the murderer har
placed it, was Mrs. Lyngstones body. He
face and head had been crushed in in place
and hacked beyond recognition with blum
Ratchet, while her clothing was saturated will
blood. Livingstone looked on without dis
playing any emotion. He has five children
who have lived away from home for som
time on account of the barbarism of the par
! ents.