Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-05-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.

ing, when Albert II. Beals of the Boston
firm Of Beals q Frickett, spice Dealers shot
his partner, A. Perley Friokett installing
him for a burglar. Beals tells straightfor-
ward story Of the shooting He says he and
his partner were on their way home from
New York, where they had been to buy goods
for the spring trade. They occupied the
same stateroom and had a considerable sum
of money with them. Frickett slept in the
lower berth and left the window open when
he went to bed. Beals felt uneasy about this
and woke up several times. The last time he
awoke the blinds were open a few inches,
and in the ray Of light which entered he saw
the shadow of a mans head. Leaning over
in his berth he called "Perley Perley ="
And Fricketts voice answered whats
that" Beals thought the voice came from
the berth beneath him, and that the head
was strangers. Taking his revolver from
under his pillow, he fred and heard some
thing fall. Getting out Of his berth he STUN
bed over body, and striking a light found
to his horror that it was his partner whom he
had shot. He at once rang the bell from his
stateroom and a steward came to the room.
He told his story of the affair to the officers
of the boat, and his explanation is generally
credited. He says he never carried revolv-
or until after his marriage, when his wife be-
ing nervous and afraid of burglars he has al
ways slept with Que under his pillow. The
shooting occurred soon after midnight. Both
parties were young doing prosperous bust
ness, and we're in excellent standing. Beals
is entirely unnamed by the dreadful event
lie is in custody at Fall River. II he IL
brought to trial it must be in the United
States courts. Fricketts wife went to the
store in Boston early Tuesday morning and
there first received the news of her husbands
death.
Arcadia, La, and vicinity were visited
Saturday by the heaviest hail storm ever
known there. The storm stripped the foil
age from the trees, killed live stock and did
great damage to the crops. The track Of the
storm was from four to five miles wide The
ground was literally covered with hail-stones,
some of which were of enormous size,
weighing three quarters of a pound and meas
uring II inches in circumference and inchts
in diameter.
"A terrific storm swept over the country
four miles north Of Benton, Tex, Friday,
tearing down houses and demolishing every
thing in its path. At least six persons were
killed. and it is feared the loss of life is great.
err than is known. The damage to property
is very great.
On Friday last third man was convicted
and sentenced in the series of Phoenix Park
trials. Michael Pagan has joined Daniel
Curley and Joe Brady as a condemned man,
and, like them, has received Just a months
grace of life, as he is to be hanged on the
18th inst. The trial of Fitz-Harris, known
as Skin the Goat" followed that of Pagan,
but failed of a conviction, the only evidence
against him being that of the informers
Lawrence O'Brien, q switchman, lost his
life in an attempt to save a woman who
threw herself in front of an express train at
Jersey City last Friday. The woman resist
ed and in the struggle both fell on the track.
Her body was cut in two and o. Brieu was
hurled from the track and lived only 10 min
utes. He was a cripple, having lost q por-
ton OF his right leg several months ago
while rescuing child who was in danger of
being struck by a train. He was 80 years
old and leaves a widow.
"A construction train on the Texas q Pa
cifc railroad struck a steer, Tuesday, when
two cars were thrown from the track, killing
three men and injuring others.
Fifty men got into a fight at a dance in
William Valingham's house at Nation, ILL.,,
Friday night and John Heron was killed and
lG Others dangerously wounded.
The pleasing old custom of n children's
floral procession is to be revived in Salem,
Mass, on the coming Fourth of July.
William Macduf, New York broker,
murdered his wife Catherine aud his six
years old son Willie about 6 o'clock last Fri
day morning and killed himself Mrs. Mac
duff was shot dead in the sitting room with
out apparently a word of warning The
child was shot through the head while sleep.
ing in bed, the fire smuggling his hair. Mac
duff was found lying on the bed by his dead
boy, dressed only in his shirt and drawers,
and shot in his mouth. He was a man of
good character and habits. His brother says
it was his wife's tongue that caused the
trouble. For more than year he had had
no peace at home.
Rev. Samuel Reiman, a well. known jew
ish rabbi of New York. was almost instantly
killed Thursday night by falling between the
Catharine street ferry boat Republic and the
bridge in attempting to jump to the bridge be-
fore the boat was made fast.
"A six days race for $4,000 between
Charles Leroy on horses and John S. Prince,
20-mile champion of America, and William
W. Woodside, champion of Ireland on BIZ
cycles, began at the Boston casino Monday.
The horseman has the use of as many horses
as he chooses and the bicyclsts are to relieve
each other at intervals. The race is from
~. 80 to TO- 80 p. NJ. each day.
One of the most destructive fires that
ever occurred in Saratoga county N. Y, took
place on Sunday morning at Fort Miller
bridge, destroying 13 buildings, including
the notorious house in which Mrs. Jesse Bill
ings was murdered June 4, 1873.
"A two-year- old colt belonging to Lyman
F. Rhodes of Dorchester, Mass, and valued
at $4,000, while capering about an Enclosure
the other day, cut his throat on a barbed
wire fence and bled 10 death.
The Northeaste IN railroads pile bridge
across Lake POnchartrain to New Orleans
will be the largest and best thing of the kind
in the country. 1t is to be 81 miles long,
the piles nearly all measuring 60 feet and
very large, and there will be 80, GA of them.
Paper has been put to some extraordina-
ny uses of late years, but the most surprising
violation of preconceived ideas in this direc-
ton must be credited to Breslau, Ger. A
chimney shaft 30 feet high, made entirely of
paper pulp impregnated with chemicals to
resist combustion, has been built there.
The first white person born in Australia
has just died at the age Of %. When she
first saw the light there were but 1000 eau
casians on the ''island continent" while now
there are 3, 900, 900.
-Chicago's 20 miles of cable railroad has
ia cars and the steam engines do the worn
of 1870 horses. The running time between
the court house and city limits-four miles
ia "a minutes less than when horses were
used.
ONtE lutuuu ~ CooNe
Garden last week. The number from Janu
airy to May is $1,000 less than last year
Moody and Sankey sailed on the Alaska
from Liverpool last Saturday for New York.
The hause made notorious as the scene
of the Carlton murder in WATERFOWL, near
Boston, was burned last week 1t had
been unoccupied since Cartons murder, and
the fire must have been incendiary.
Three passengers were killed and severa
injured near Olivet, Mich, last Friday. Fail
ure of the air brakes on a passenger traiI
caused its detention. when freight train, no
needing the signals, crashed into it, wreck
ing two cars. The accident was very similar
in its details to that at Spuyten Duyvil, N. Y
Florida papers are discussing the question
of division of the state.
Sitting null and his tribe have startet
for his reservation, on which they com meme
career as farmers.
One duly nominated candidate for thu
presidency is already in the field-Rev iona
than blanchard of Illinois, nominated by the
National Christian Association, whatever tina
may be.
"A great revival is in progress among thu
Boston evangelical churches. The awakening
exceeds that of the Moody and Sankey cam