Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-01-11

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through them. Tue dead and dying were
scattered along tle track for ~ yards. The
accident SOS caused by the failure of the
men 30 station q lookout % warn % the ap-
proach % the train.
-Daumouth college is in luck The will .
Of JllIus Hal garten. NeE York broker Who .
died recently 10 SEltz-rlani, disposes Of 80. .
900 900. o. which over Slj0,o)0 is given 70
public institutions. and o. this SUN Dart
mouth get. $50 pl0
The severe weather Of last week caused
great suffering among the poor Of Atlanta,
Ga and on Saturday it was learned that hun
dreds Of poor women and children we're suf'
ferng for lack OF IRE 10 keep them warm.
The Constitution Sunday morning made an
appeal for money. provisions and fuel and
at noon there we're gathered Al is ofhce about
90 wagons containing wood aud provisions.
Merchants worth hundreds Of Thousands OF
dollars turned drivers. aud with wood and
provision wagons under their charge started
on tour Of the city. All day the Constitu-
ton office looked more like a military supply
depot than a newspaper office. In II were
hundreds Of sacks OF -four coffee and sugar,
sides Of meat and hams, and on the Sidewalk
cords Of wood, while the streets we're full OF
people clamori g for relief The weather
continued bitterly cold. but it Is safe to say
that by Monday night there was not house
or a hut Ia the city where there was not
cracking IRE and food enough for a week.
No distinction was made in the distribution
in regard to color.
The special car Of the Yale college glee
club was standing on the track al the depot
in Charlestown, Ind., Saturday evening, wait
ing for the Cincinnati express TO take them
on to Louisville for a concert, when the e1-
press came laundering along in the dark, and
the engine crashed through the Yale car,
breaking it TO pieces but leaving the express
car uninjured. One Of the young men had
both legs badly crushed and all Of them were
more or less seriously hurt. They were taken
to Louisville and given all possible care.
Proctor & CANDLES candle, lard oil and
soap factories and warehouse, were burned at
Cincinnati Monday loss $3.50, 600, fully in
sured.
The court house and jail at Jerseyville,
H., we're burned Sunday night with four
prisoners.
The Cul!om block at Mealyiiie. Pa, was
burned Tuesday loss szjJCo5, insurance
SlO9, OOo.
-Lu Ling. a Chinese Laundry man vas
found dead IN bis laundry in New York city
Tuesday. with u stab ounds il bis back.
The appearance Of the place indicated that
robbery vas the object but it is though. that
be may have been the victim Of secret or
ganzation said 10 exist among the Chinese IL
this country, which eIacts the penalty Of
death from those who disobey its laws.
-Myer Garfunckle, butcher at ~ Jeder-
son street. New York, Was burned up IN his
shop Monday. which be had set adre in start
ing Ere in his stove with kerosene.
A despatch from Independence, Iowa,
says that boy aud girl named Hines, aged 6
and years, were frozen TO death in bed there
last Saturday night.
During double ripper race between
two coasting parties at New Brighton Staten
Island, Friday night, one Of the sleds coilid.
ed with pair Of horses which fell upon the
coasters, and the second sled dashed into the
wreck. Nine Of the coasters, al young men,
were more or less injured-four Of them very
seriously The horses were so badly injured
that they were Rfterward shot
A negro who was hanged for murder at
Baton Rouge, la, last Friday, shrieked,
screamed, fought desperately, clutched the
rope above his head, and begged piteousy TO
be spared as be was brought on 10 the scat
fold. The sheriff had to call on the specta.
tors for help and finally the doomed man was
bound in cords and thrown from the trap.
Richard Evans's year-old son was be-
headed by train while playing in cattle
guard a. Seymour, Ct, last Saturday.
Mary V. Young, 18th wife Of the late
prophet Brigham Young, died at Salt Lake
. City last Saturday, in the 10th year Of her
age. Sixteen widows still survive the proph
ct, Il Of whom live at Salt Lake.
Grace and Mollie, little daughters Of Nil.
ton Highland, we're burned up in their home
at Mechanicstown, o., last Saturday.
The old St. Nicholas hotel building at st.
Louis, occupied by Chss. E Lewis, dealer IL
cabinet hardware etc, was burned last Friday
night causing a total loss Of $3.50 600 Sat
urday night Burrell Comstock d Co. furni'
ture establishment Merrick, Walsh d Phelps
jewelry house, and Whitman, Grey Ksmin
eki's china store we're burned; loss $500, 600
The beautiful New Park theatre suppos
ed to be FIRE. proof was burned at Cleveland
o., last Saturday Its said that the FIRE orig
mated on the stage from alsmp explosion. The
First Presbyterian church was also burned.
An eight years-old son of Louis A Sar
gent went into the picker-room Of the blank
ct factory at South Wolfboro, y. H, last Sat
urday, and By some means got into the pick
er. He was completely torn to pieces, part'
Of his body being scattered about the room
The treasurer of Yszoo county, Miss.
who was among the brutal sssassins who
burst open the jail in Yazoo City aud lynched
with horrible cruelty, four negroes, received
wounds during the melee from which he hai
since died
DIR. Edward Lasker. the eminent German
sgitator, died in New York Of heart diseas,
early last Saturday morning. He was at din
ner at the home of Jesse Seligman, the bank
er, Friday night and was returning home il
carriage when stricken by the sudden AnC
fatal attack. He was a years old, having
haer horu IN nufpEzr ! at Law n
in the province of Bosen. He came TO thi
country last May and was on the eve Of sail
ing for home to be present al the opening o
the German parliament.
The Higbee-Yaughanm mock marriage case
which grew out Of the Flstbush /. l Meth
odist sociable, where q dozen young peopl
went through a nuptial ceremony in order t
amuse themselves, was decided by Judg,
Ferguson at Gravesend last Saturday agains
Miss Hgbee She claimed that her part Of
the ceremony was gone through with in goo'
faith and brought suit for support. Thi
the Judge denies, holding that the marriag
ceremony was not legal The suit seems L
have been an afterthought on the part Of Mis-
Higbees mother
Three hunters we're frozen to death OF
the prsi RE in the Chickasaw nation, India
territory, recently.
THE CZAE GETS A BULLET N HIS SHOULDER
FROM THE SIHILIsTs.
"A Vienna despatch says it has turned GU
that the injury to the cars shoulder, receiy
ed recently, was got during an attempt upol
that beloved monsrchs life. The car wa
returning on the afternoon of December ! I l.
the CATCHING palace from a shooting eIeur
sion, accompanied by suite. The party no
ticed on the road ahead six men, apparent
I. peasants. The cars aides ordered the mel
TO clear out of the way The men appeare,
, to obey the order, but when the cars sledg
, came up with them they suddenly wheele,
around and fred at the car thrice and tw
Of them ran toward him. The horses draw
p ing the imperial sledge became frigLtene
and gslloped some hundred PAGES, when tn
J czar was thrown out of the sedge. A bulle
p lodged in the cars shoulder, but the woun
is not dangerous. The cars companion
: followed tie would-be Rsssssins, who escapes
in a neighboring wood. Owing to the dept
Of the snow the search was fruitless. On
of the pursuing officers yentured too far an
, has not returned.
p "A Dublin, Ireland, paper publishes wha
J purports TO be the confession of O'Donne
who murdered Carey, the Phoenix park az
sassin and informer The confession show
that O'Donnen deliberately killed Carey