Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-30

now, " whereupOn he fred another shot at his
helpless victim, shattering the bones Of ono
hip, and another shot was sent crashing
through the victims brain Th- murderer
then ran from the house aud, in company
with the old mans wife, went about among
the neighbors to arouse them and inform them
that sonnet ody had murdered Mr.. BRrrows
"A Concord N H., despatch says that
hunters who have lately returned from visits
10 Chatham, n. II bring startling reports Of
damage done to the forests in Western New
Hampshire and across the border in Maine
in the gale of week before last. They saw
tens OF thousands Of acres Of valuable forest
trees wholly destroyed All Of the old and
great deal Of the new growth is practically de
stroyed Where the timber Is not broken, it
Is so torn and matted and tangled in the de-
bris as to be almost worthless. In many in
stances the homes Of wood choppers have
been ruined, and much suffering among them
will ensue this winter unless relief is given
them. In confirmation Of this Hon. Ithiel L.
Clay, of Chatham, probably the largest own
or OF timber land in New England telegraphs
as follows Explorers just come in report
that havoc and destruction by the late hurri-
cane is far worse than we had reason TO e1-
pect The loss in Chatham alone will reach
/ 500, 900 II will take a century to fully re-
store our forests. The loss falls very serious
| ly on owners OF woodlands, while the lumber
business will be crippled for years
The state normal university building at
Carbondale, Ill, was burned Monday The
building was the finest in the state. Loss
&2jO,OOO
"A finely dressed and apparently cultured
girl supposed 10 be Ella Morrison Of Cincin-
natl left a sleeping car at Smyrna, Tenn, on
the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad Sun
day night, leaped from the platform and
broke her neck
A child Of John Haggerty died at New
Haven and was embalmed by an undertaken,
who left poisonous mixture to be applied to
its face A tWo-yeRr- sister OF the dead
child drank some Of the mixture and died
soon afterward Both children were buried
in one grave Monday.
-Bedel Heaton's livery. stable and u
horses we're burned Sunday night at POUCH
keepsie, n. Y; loss S75 900.
"A runaway team in Fifth Avenue. New
York, Monday night, broke down one Of the
electric lamp poles and trailed the wire upon
the pavement passing horse stepped upon
the wire there was a fash Of purple light a
report like pistol-shot, all the lights on the
avenue went out, and the horse fell dead A
moment later another horse stepped upon the
wire and dropped dead like the first The
avenue was Immediately closed to travellers Of
all kinds. OF course If a person had stepped
upon the wire he would have shared the fate
OF the horses. II was stormy night and
there were few people upon the avenue. or
the consequences might have been much more
serious
The graves of the Pilgrims who came TO
America IN the Mayhower and died during the
first winter after their arrival, have been dis
covered on Coles hill at Plymouth, Mass, in
the making Of improvements there. One was
skeleton OF a middle.Aged man. five feet nine
inches in height. In another grave the skel-
eton Of an elderly man was discovered. Tab
lets will be placed to mark the exact location.
Joseph Jefferson the actor, was stricken
with sudden and complete loss OF voice at
Peoria, Ill, Tuesday, supposed to be due to 4
severe cold. His physician says he may pos
sibly be able to talk again within week OF
ten days, but probably not within month.
Mrs. Ellen Long daughter OF Judge Ny.
ers of Princeton, Wis, on trial at hartford,
Wis, for numbering Harry Whittemore, Il,
has confessed. It is thought she murdered
the boy because be knew Of her intimacy with
his father.
Evans Davis Of GAINESVILLE. o., put a cap
on a gun which be thought empty Monday,
pointed it at the breast of his eight year old
son and had his -four. year.old son pull the
trigger. The gun was loaded and the boy was
killed.
Every business building in Albany, Wis
was burned Tuesday Three men were SO.
verely burned in making their escape from the
building occupied by them, one was crushed
by falling tmbers aud i've others dangerous.
ly injured. Every business house on the pub
lie square Of Waverly Tenn, and CowRn'i
building on Main street were burned Tues
day loss S6j, 900. Eleven business houses
were burned at Wellington, Kan, Monday
loss S23, 600
1t has been tradition in the Texas towI
/ of New Laredo that before Gen. Taylor cross
cd the Rio Grande in the Mexican war b,
: buried quantity Of whiskey there, and tn,
other day q man dug into some odd looking
5 mounds and found 10 two-gAllon jugs, ever
on full OF the finest bourbon ever tasted IL
that country.
Minneapolis Touring mills are greatly
, troubled by low water, anchor ice is FORMING
IN the siulces, and some think the winter
product likely 10 be reduced from one-third Il
7 ons.h half.
"A momentary excitement was caused a
the Fifth Avenue hotel New York, Tuesday
by the strange movements and startling tall
Of a well dressed man Of 60 years who an
nounoed that he was Kentucky Colonel Wit
had come east for the express purpose Of kill
ing President Arthur He was ordered away
. by detectives and left the hotel The ercum
stance, however, caused quite a stir among
: the throng in and about the hotel and led q
extra detective precautions during the ban
quet at Delmonicos, which the President at
tended
a Men employed ny rival gas fuel com
panies got into battle at Murraysvilie, Pa
, 40 miles east Of Pittsburg, Pa, Monday, fo
the possession of gas well, and one maj
hot fur Aad
, ly and many others were hurt
! The Daft electrical motor, which aspire
4 10 take the place of steam engines, seems u
D be making Roadway. The inventor is to equiI
4 the Saratoga Mt. McGregor and Lake Georg
D railroad with four 6ve-ton motors to be in op
D GRAFTON next year, each motor to haul tire
i passenger cars.
y George B. Wilcox Of Lancaster, o.,
0 under arrest for killing hack driver namet
Lewis Richwine because he dunned him TO
e 80 cents.
, Perhaps more extraordinary suicide wa
never heard Of than that which is reporteI
g from Venice Three young ladies went out
took their passage to the Lido, were observes
to be very melancholy during the journey
o and ended by drowning themselves. The
s appear to have taken their own lives, two on
q of mere melancholy, the third out of symps
thy and for the sake of company. They ha
=. lost their mother, one of them had weak sight
another was subject to fits.
The aggregate number of students a
: Dartmouth this year is 400, net gain O
% three over last year
-, "A young girl was seized on the street g
Il Newport, L. l. last Friday afternoon by
70 rufian, who cut her back hair, threw it o
:, the ground and escaped
y "A Southern Pacific train bound east wa
. ditched about - miles west of Deming, n
= NJ, Saturday afternoon by five masked mer
:, the engine and mail express cars being throw
!, from the track Engineer Webster was she
: and killed by the robbers, who went throug
: the train, holding before them ConductC
g Vaille and one passenger They secured SEQ
!, or 500 from the express car, the messengt
: Offering no resistance.
q Rev. Warren Il. Cudworth, pastor of th
70 Church of Our Saviour Unitarian at Eal
a Boston, Mass, while Offering prayer at a VI
n ion service on Thanksgiving day, fell deaC
probably from a combination of heart diseAi
!, and RpopleIy.
a POrsiga.