Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Twenty nine horses were burned in
stable fire in Philadelphia Monday night.
A large cotton factory near the city Of
Mexico was burned on Saturday. Five lives
were lost and 100000 worth OF property
destroyed
Within week 10, 600 work. men at Pitts
fold Pa, have been thrown out OF employ.
ment 10y the shutting down Of the iron mills.
A brutal fellow named George Wilton
shot and perhaps fatally wounded James Ba.
ker at the Soldiers Home in Togus, Me, last
Saturday.
-Galena, Ill.,, has a female resident, Mrs.
Bridget Doody, who has just celebrated her
18th year.
During fight in gambling saloon at
Denver, Col, on Monday, one faro dealer shot
and killed another.
Correspondents at st. Johns, N. f., and
Halifax, N. s., send distressing accounts Of
shipwreck and loss of life during the late de.
struotive gales. A Norwegian bark was
stranded on Green Island, and out of a crew
of twelve only two escaped.
"A schooner is reported to have been lost
on Lake Erie with seven lives during the late
gales. Several lives were lost on the river St.
Lawrence during the same storm.
One man was killed and FIVE men injured
by an explosion of fre.damp in the coal
mines at Streator, ILL.,, on Monday.
Tho Salvation Army meeting at Kings
ton, Ont, WAS the scene of disturbance
Monday in which the police we're worsted.
The cutting Of wife's throat by mo.
rose ill-tempered husband, who took de-
light in killing her" was reported from st.
Louis on Tuesday.
The health Of Queen Victoria has greatly
improved during her stay at Balmoral Her
walking powers have in great measure been
restored, but she is still unable to take long
walks or to ascend steep stairs.
"A negro who went by the name of Hen
ry Hanson, formerly held on a slave in Mary
land, died at Hyde Park, Mass, a few DAYS
since at the supposed age of 1l2 years When
Lafayette visited Baltimore in l77G he, RS a
small boy, followed the procession and when
Fort McHenry was rebuilt in 1914 be and an
adult son were employed in the work. The
old man used to tell horrible stories Of the
brutality of slavery, and his back bore nu.
merous great welts, left by whips long since
worn out. He was married four times and
had numerous children, but long ago lost all
trace of them. He never realized that sav-
cry is at an end, and never could be induced
to tell his real name for fear his "Ole Massa"
would find him out and take him back to the
South.
The trotting horse Frank, owned by Kee.
nan Of Boston, last week Thursday trotted at
Prospect park course, Brooklyn, with run.
ming mate, mile in 2.OSt, the fastest time
on record.
DR.. John l.. De Conte Of Philadelphia
the distinguished scientist is dead at the age
of 80 years
The cornerstone of the first Swedish
Methodist church in New England was laid
at Quinsgamond village, Worcester, Mass,
last Saturday.
The mercury was 30 below zero in Da-
kota last Friday morning, and 10 to 20 be-
low in Minnesota.
Great havoc has been wrought in the
forests Of Maine by the late gales. There
are wide stretches of country where all stand.
ing timber has been leveled to the ground.
The wife and daughter of an old man
named Garrett Maybee of Brookville, l.. l.,
were murdered aud himself nearly beaten to
death last Saturday by an unknown fend
whose motive was robbery The mother and
daughter, aged II and 3G, had gone to the
barn to milk and were killed by strangling
The old man, half blind, was left in the
house, and was beaten with a heavy milk
can.
The directors Of the Fitchburg railroad
in their annual statement, just published, re.
pun AhhA III HlhNt VI lut utllGltuClth VI tue
two past years their road has earned its div.
dend, 6 per cent, and instead Of deficiency
of Sl29, 0OO as was the result Of operations
in 1882, they now show a surplus of nearly
So, 900. The number of passengers carried
increased from ., $50, 600 to 3, l5S, 600 their
mileage from 35,liG, 600 to 80, COZ, 600; tons
of freight handled increased from S22 900
to 2,O3l, 100, and tons carried one mile from
l29, SIS, 900 to 1853, S6j, 900. The increase in
net earnings is due to several causes, the
more important of which is q larger traffic at
better rates and the improved economy which
the increased mileage enables the business to
be handled with.
Secretary Folger has issued call for ten
millions OF three per cents.
A company has been formed to bridge
the Mississippi ten miles above the big St
Louis bridge. 1t is believed to be Gould
scheme. Another bridge is talked of by
rival company three miles below the city.
"A furious storm prevailed on the New.
foundlsnd coast last Friday and Saturday, at.
tended with great destruction OF life and
property.
An attempt was made by some fendish
fe low Monday night to blow up the house Of
John Long in Dedham, Mass The family
succeeded in getting out before the explosion
occurred. The house was badly damaged.
The weather on the Atlantic for the past
twelve days has been the toughest known by
old ship captains for many years. All the
incoming ocean steamers at New York tell the
same story and it was feared once or twice
that they would all go to the bottom.
Heavy rains have swollen all the streams
in the vicinity of indianapolis and most of
the northeastern part Of the city is under wa.
ter, covering the first floor in hundreds OF
- /,
will lose S2jO,OOO.
1t is thought at Duluth, MINI, that the
steamer Manistee, which left Nov. 10 for
Ontonagon with % passengers and a crew OF
20 is lost as part of the cabin has been found
washed ashore.
1t is said that during the gales from No.
vember IL to November II, 55 lives and 60
vessels were lost on the great lakes. Twenty
six vessels representing 5000 tons and value
of 100000 are total loss.
The French brig Vaceburg was sunk at
sea in a collision Oct. 80. Out of her passen.
gers and crew numbering 100 souls IS were
lost.
In a cyclone at Melbourne, Ark, We'd
nesday morning, one family of four persons
were killed, and others we're crippled. The
court house, two churches and other build
ings were blown down.
In the cargo Of the Danish steamer Helm.
dial, which came into port at New York
month ago with fire in her hold, were $50
boxes of eggs containing GO dozens each.
The water which was pumped into the vessel
to quench the flames became heated and boil
ed the eggs hard. 1t was suggested to one
Ellis of New York that the eggs were still
available for salads and kindred purposes,
and he bought them for $500, intending to
retail them TO hotels and restaurants. When
he set about retailing them, however he
found that the fumes Of the Swedish matches
which got afre had impregnated the eggs
with the odor Of sulphur, and that the entire
lot of $50, 900 was unstable Not only we're
they unstable but they could not be given
or thrown away. When he began dumping
them in the street he was threatened with ar.
rest, he was forbidden to offer them at the
offal dock, and was told that if he deposited
them within the limits of New York city he
would be prosecuted. At last accounts the
unfortunate specuator was trying to think
what he could do with his white elephant.
On the oath of September last Ada At
kinson, beautiful girl of 10, was found muir
dered in her room in her fathers house in
Benton county, Ind. She was the daughter
of Cephas Atkinson, a man of wealth and
position in Benton county The GIRL WAS not