Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-03-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Springer, N. M, was reported in the
hands Of outlaws on Monday, aud troops have
been ordered from Fort Union to the scene
of action. The day before noted desperate,
"Bilr Todd, was arrested and lodged in iail
He Immediately telegraphed the fact of his
arrest to Dick Rogers, the leader Of des.
perate gang Of outlaws Monday morning
Rogers appeared with number Of followers,
went to the county Jail where Todd was con.
lined aud attempted his rescue. The officers
opened fire from within the Jail, to which the
outlaws replied. A desperate battle ensued.
The attacking party hnally withdrew, leaving
three Of their number dead in the street, Rog.
ers among them. The remainder of the par
ty hastily left town to summon reinforcements,
and the same evening returned with 20 men
and surrounded the ji determined to mob
the officers, who had taken refuge ia the build.
ing. During The night company of troops
arrived from Fort Union aud restored com
parative quiet, though at last accounts the
cowboys still hung about the town and some
OF them were very defiant.
"A Philadelphia butcher, who kept
small meat market aud variety store, with O
clearinghouse attachment, has been detect.
ed in stealing and butchering dogs, which he
served to his customers, and is under arrest
II took three or four large CANNES a week TO
supply his trade, and his customers and
boardors are trying to forget that they have
ever eaten of the choice "veal and lamb
chops" which we're bis specially. The man
is a Russian Jew.
"A freight train on the Pennsylvania rail.
road WAS deraied Monday evening, demol.
ishing 20 cars, and killing a brakeman and
four tTamps.
AT Quincy, ILL.,, the colored people have
set up roller rink OF their own, and no
white folks are allowed to intTude.
Mrs. Theodore Tilton is now at Old
Point Comfort with her brother She is de-
scribed a. ''short stout woman, with a sad
face and gray hair, cut like a school boys"
Hundreds of the inhabitants Of south
western Virginia are emigratnR to the west
The country they leave consists Of bluegrass
grazing lands and is fertile, but owing to the
want Of railroad communication and last
years drouth the movement approaches an
exodus, and has been going on for months.
"A Rome, Ga. man, while digging in his
garden last Saturday, turned up several pots
of treasures, one Of which contained 1900
gold dollars. 1t was on place owned by a
wealthy family during the war, and the mon
ey was undoubtedly buried to hide it from
Sherman's soldiers.
About one o'clock last Sunday morning
so masked men went to a house in Clay
county, Nebraska, and took a man and WON.
an who were suspected of robbery and hung
them on a bridge near by. Five other in
mates of the same house were warned to
leave the county or suffer the same penalty.
A North Adams, Mass child died lately Of
diphtheria. As the father was Protestant
and the mother Catholic, difference arose
as to what minister should attend the funeral.
No settlement being reached the child was
buried without ceremony of any kiud.
Another oath. bound band of murderers
has been unearthed this time at Wichita Falls,
Tex, where three citizens have been killed
since January l. Twenty-ihree men have
been arrested, among tn sun the sheriff of Will
bRrgeT county, seven of bis deputies, and the
editor and proprietor of the Vernon Guard
newspaper. Eleven men had been condemn
ed to death by the gang.
Two hundred and seventeen miners were
imprisoned by an explosion of fire-damp in a
oolliery OF Oamphauson, near Saarbruck, in
Rhenish Prussia Wednesday morning, and
only 80 Of them have been rescued. II is
feared that the 200 others, men aud boys,
have been sufocated.
"A Marquette, Mich, despatch of the 18th
said A terrible blizzard has been prevailing
here sinoe Sunday. No trains. have arrived
or departed, and no mails have been received
Ei1ce Sunday The snow drifts at the cuts
on the railroad are eight feet deep, and sever
al locomotives are dersiled.
A rebellion has broken out on the isthmus
of Panama. Early this week the town was at
tackled by force Of $50 Columbian rebels.
Colon was reported to be 10 the hands Of the
rebels aud traffic was suspended on the Pan
anna railroad An English gunbost guards
the railroad property at the Panama end of
the line.
More than 100 people, including several
women, two doctors, a lawyer aud minister
have been indicted at ST. Mtry's, W. Va, for
playing dominoes 10 public.