Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-01
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

In front Of her IN deep turrOw winch her
prov has plowed in the sea bottom AZ the
ship has settled back. The divers believe
that the ship il broken in two, and no at
tempt will be made to raise her. 1t is still
disputed point as to whether a sunken rock |
has been found and whether the ship struck |
outside the buoy as claimed by the captain
fund is being raised in Boston for the Gay |
Head Indians who saved % lives from the |
wreck at the imminent risk Of their own.
The ship City of Macon has taken the place |
of the wrecked ship. The investigation of
the disaster which it was intended to begin |
Wednesday has been postponed on account
Of the illness of Capt. Wright.
--Tilden G. Abbott, for 10 years cashier of
the Union Market national bank of Water
town, Mass, absconded Monday, with $751;
100 in funds and cashiers check of an un-
known amount. Mr. Abbott was at the bank,
Saturday, when it closed. but soon after dis
appeared. His disappearance was not known
at the bank until Monday morning, and his
family supposed that he had gone to North
Reading to visit his parents. lie was prom
inont church member and Free Mason. The
state bank examiner is credited with saying
that the wrecking of this bank is the worst
case of bank defalcation that has ever occur
red in New England. 1t now turns out that
the directors of the bank knew several months
ago that Abbott had forged an $500 check on
n Watertown firm and turned it in AZ au as.
set of the bank when the bank examiner was
coming. Abbott was suspended for the time
being, but afterward was reinstatod.
A fire broke out in the Minnesota state
! prison at Saltwater at 1l:4j Friday night,
and in spite of every effort all the buildings
were destroyed. The prisoners, including
/ the Younger brothers, were taken out and
! placed under a strong guard in the yard.
| When the fire department arrived 1t was i'm
| possible to do any effective work on account
of the dense smoke At ! o'clock it became
evident that the prison was doomed, aud
Company X of the state militia was called
upon to assist in removing the convicts.
About $50 in all were shackled together by
means Of long fine chains and removed to
different points in the prison grounds. Soon
| after this the entire institution was mass Of
flames and was totally destroyed
Another murderous assault, similar to
the Maybee aud Townsend crimes, was per
petrated on Long Island Thursday night at
East Meadow. Seah Sprague, a wel-to-do
farmer there was attacked as he was entering
his barn by slim mulatto who struck him on
tue head with fish plate or railroad frog and
left him for dead. The mulatto then went to
the house and meeting Mrs Sprague in the
kitchen, aimed blow at her and demanded
her money. She ran screaming from the
house and the man escaped. general alarm
was spread and the farmers htehed up their
horses and started in all directions to scour
the country for the perpetrator. The man
was arrested the next morning and locked
up.
Two children were burned up in Ishma
ell Ivick's house in Oaugeburg county, 5. c.,
Sunday. The father aud mother went away
and left them alone in the house.
In Howard county, Ark, two judges Of
Al. ,.,f11.,, Go
day because they granted an appeal IN the
cases of three colored men sentenced to be
executed for murder.
The Brigham Young academy at Provo
City, Utah, a Mormon school with 400 stu
dents was burned Monday night. Loss $50,
600 No lives were lost
On Monday, at Cleveland, Ohio, a
four. year old boy set his clothing on fire while
| poking shavings into the stove, and died in
an hour, after great suffering. lie was the
last of five children, the others dying within
a short time of dphtheria. The mother be
came a raving maniac after his death.
james Mcbride, an oiler in the Brooklyn
bridge engine room, was caught in the fly
wheel Monday and his head was completely
severed from his body AZ he was carried and
!, struck the edge of the flooring.
9 The creditors of Daniel F. Beatty, man
ufacturer OF organs at Washington, n. j.
u have granted him an extension His liablli
- ties are about $4,000.
q A westward bound passenger train OF
the Nashville Chattanooga a St. Louis roa,
, was wrecked Monday by striking rock which
v had rolled down on the track. Tho engineer
and iremen were killed.
Reports from different sections of Cali
fornia indicate bad condition Of the crops
j. This has been the dryest season in sever
- years.
= William II. Craft accomplished at syria
y cuse, n. Y, Saturday night, the feat Of walk
y ing 3O2 miles in 100 hours without stop
e He was in a critical state from exhaustion a
c the finish.
IT Two boys, each nineteen years old, wer
:. hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind, last Frida
n for the murder of a lad two years younger
!. in order to take from him few dollars whic
At he had earned and saved They were allow
m ed to make an exhibition of themselves o
A. the gallows, singing and praying as thong
al they had got the start of their less enterpri
a ing fellows and were on short road to glC
Is ry.
William Combs, farmer 80 years Of az,
living near Elgin, ILL.,, cut his wifes throf
to last Friday. In her dying agony she wrench
n, ed the weapon from him and stabbed him fl
I'd tally.
b. brooklyn had a diamond robbery la
IN Sunday which was particularly daring pieC
OF of business. A jewelTy store in Fulton-s
sn was entered in broad daylight, the safe, whiC
or could be easily seen from the street, WI
he pried open and precious stones worth ov,
81 900 were carried away in safety.
:. Two double ripper" coasting seds, eac
T., bearing l3 men and girls, came in collisic
- on a hillside at Irvington on Hudson, Satu
u day evening, while at high speed. Fo,
n IL riaI
~. sensible. They will be MANNED for life al
r Nv some of them may die. The seds we
ho smashed to splinters One person was killt
20 at Tarrytown Monday by running into a va
Gu on while coastng.
M Mr.. LAWN, Pittsburg, Pa, jeweler, G
opening his store Tuesday morning, disco
lila cred mulatto at work on the safe, who dro
he him at the muzzle of pistol into ba
room ard escaped with $500 worth Of je
to elry.
TO- A national agricultural convention is
of DO held at the Grand Central Hotel Ne
of York, Feb. 6 and 7, under the auspices OF 4
Tor American agricultural association. Dscr
he sionH will be had upon dAirying cattle bree
40 ing and feeding, the tariff, transportation al
other subjects of direct interest Address
will be delivered and papers read by leadir
TO- men in agriculture and public affairs from
ed sections of the country.
"A strange and fatal disease is reported
m. have broken out among the cattle in t
'rd western part of Dallas county, Tex. Lar
ter numbers have died, the disease failing
in yield to treatment. A mass meeting of Gait
he men was held at Grand Prairie Wednesday
'rk take steps to check its rAyages
President Arthur gave the first state di
iy- ner of the season at the White House Wednt
oW day night to the members of the cabin
their wives and a few other guests T
&C whole of the main floor of the White Hou
lr' was brilliantly lighted and handsomely dec
=, rated with flowers and tropical plants fro
me the conservatory and botanical garden
ert Thirty six covers were laid, and the dim
er- consisted of 81 courses.
a. n The great strike of Pittsburg windo
ny glass blowers has at last ended The conf,
ence committee of the strikers and manufa
-, turers have reached an agreement and I
X men will return to work after a seven .montl
Az rest as soon as the furnaces are heated. VIII
NJ. both sides made great concessions, the teri
~ at which work will be resumed favor t
10 workmen.
"A war is raging among the oleomargt
hat inc dealers which has reduced the price
md that precious product to 10 and 10 cent
tbe pound. The war was started by Boston fri