Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-12-05
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

pngfs Marx Hopkins is to build house at Great
~ uBtoh Mass, which will cost a mill IN dollars
i7o NV Ia ny ~ proDaoy more. Its Dimensions will be
bor Ug ,'O iee aud 1t will be built Of blue stone from
ner own quarry. II will contain labyrinth Of rooms.
Baoles towers aud pinuacles all on the most
mag nihcent scale. while the building ia going ON a
very nigh fence will incose il 90 that tho nrocess Of
uung cannot be seen. 1t is TO I've finished in three
denca a., Pans Indicate that there will be resi-
~ Amerlca TO compare with II In magnihcence.
Two carloads Of articlcs represep,ing collection
~ a. Nonena work from Iowa, aud bound for tn New
Hsin ap9sInoh' were destroyed in a railroad col
cannot be replaced and the ivomenis dcpartment in
'ne iowa exhibit will be failure
Two women who tried to drive In front Of rail-.
road train At Detroit Monday we're caugbt nv the To-
conceive aud crushed To death.
Science hall, at the Upivarstv ~ p,tsc,,sin yns
ourned Tuesday night. Loss S25iO0O.
cornerstone Of the American Unitarian asso-
Uu new building, at the corner II Beacsn aud Bow
Uoin streets, Boston, was laid Tuesday afternoon,
~ howard Sullivan, negro, was hanged at Salem,
wbVi3 tuesday, Tor the murder and rape Of little
"ulte glrl last August.
A woman and her I o. vo,rs l., ,.,.,, 81. .r. Loo,
s su persisted 10 swamp while retnrninq on foot
IRON the funeral Of the mothers sister al Oconto
frozen stiff. ' 'U'' ''" ~
M NJ Lloyd, principal Of the Davis grammar
sCnool az Westheld, Mass, took dose Of paris green
Guy MS throat While sun ering temporarily from
i"s9uly last tuesday morning.
Last Friday man employed on the Washington
tmyDinument was standing on Of the inside scat
near the top uf the shaft when he lost his bal
snee and fell of. Luckily the sleeve Of his coat
caught on large nail which projected from another
seanod about ten feet below and there he hung sus-
penuea until rescued. Had the nail given way or
lance of over 500 feet.
A,-Matthew McClrron, New York laborer, put out
az WIGS eyes with shoemaker's awl last 10 q
'unAen quarrel and ran away. He arrested.
Two burglars out Of three were CAPTURED at Gard.
her Mass, Tuesday night, while in the act Of rob-
uing Jewelry store. They used reyolvers but hurt
-, -I6e winter drowning season opens with the death
OF l2.years-od boy at Br!dgeton, Me-. on Tuesday.
he broke through the ice while skating.
"A wealthy Englishmau Of 40 married his aunt at
mHWaukee, VIE, Monday night. They had both
come from Preston England. distance OF 400 miles
TO get around the English law which forbids the mar
Lurmeu ~ the house OF relative aud the bride and
groom left at once on their return to England
Fanny Eseler, the famous dancer, who created a
London last week.
"A decision In favor Of the Bell telephone compa-
ny was rendered 10 the United circuit court ia
New YORK Monday in its suit with the Peoples COM
pauy 70 establish the priority Of the Bell and Draw
oaugh Inventions. The decision is said to be worth
100 millions of dollars to the Bell people. The case
now goes to the supreme court
The Middletown n. Y. National bank has failed
through the criminal recklesuess of its president in
making loans to spectator The directors left ev-
erything to him and now they find that the banks
been wiped out.
The Yale-Princeton foot ball match played In New
YORK city last week, was one Of the most brutal and
Hlckening exhibitions which this country has ever
seen No smuggling match Of the lowest kind ever
surpassed It for vciousness, bloodthirsty anmosity
personal violence aud utter disregard Of the feelings
OF tue spectators. One man was all but killed; .
other had his head broken aud his shoulder dslocat
ed. Blood flowed like water aud there scarcely
one OF the contestants who not ut subject for
hospital treatment after the game was finished. The
performance is everywhere condemned. Harvard
college will either abolish the game make Its stu
dents adopt new rules.
AN "American Electrical Exhibition" is 20 open
in Boston next Monday Ia the Charitable Mechanics
association building which will show all recent tn e
ventions aud discoveries in electrical science.
"A fourteen .years.old boy named Thomas Collin =
is supposed to have been carried Niagara Falls
Tuesday evening by slipping in to the ai-rac under
the road near Prospect park. He at work at
P. NJ, wheeling sawdust and dumping into the
and bis barrow was found alone tipped up late In the
evening.