Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Flood Rock Ia sinking at the rate of four
feet . day.

Flood Rock is sinking at the rate of four
feet . day.
"A mother and daughter we're murder
ed In their home In the thickly settled
part Of Kansas City Wednesday afternoon.
They were found, the mother on the bed
and the girl kneeling by the bed. side,
her head on her mothers body. Probably a
tramp assaulted the mother and being sur
PTised by the girl killed them both.
"A murderer who was In jail at Wlnches-
ter, ILL.,, awaiting trial for killing two old
women, was taken from his cell by mob of
76 armed men Tuesday at 2 A. NJ, and shot
fatally.
"A foot Of snow fell In the northern pen
insula OF Michigan Tuesday, blockading the
railroads. There was light fall at Galena
and Monmouth, III.
smallpox holds steadily on its course In
Montreal. the deaths averaging 80 or 40
a day. There are said TO be over 100 cases
at Ste. Cunegonds, an outlying suburb.
An emigrant train on the Pennsylvania
railroad was run into by an express train
near Hackenssok river bridge, N. j., last
Sunday night and three persons killed out
right and several others badly hurt eight in
all died-An Of them emigrants. Early Sun
day morning three train men were killed and
i've injured In an accident on the Northern
division Of the Boston & Lowell railroad
midway between East and West Andover,
N. II. A long freight train was found to
have broken in two when it reached West
Andover, aud the engine went to look for
the missing cars. Meantime Q passenger
train came along and went on toward East
AndoVer and soon the two trains oollided in
the fog. Both locomotives were demolished
and their engineers were missing. After a
long search the men were found in the debris
dead.
Frank LArabse of Richmond, N. H., q
town adjoining Winchester, was shot last
week Thursday night by his nine-year old
son, who had been away horseback riding.
On returning home he saw q gun in his faith.
or's wagon, the father having been hunting.
Not knowing It was loaded the boy aimed al
his father and pulled the trigger. The con.
tents entered the fathers left side, who fell
while going into the house and almost imme-
diately expired. He was 45 years old and
leaves widow and two children.
Rev. O. M. Booth, Baptist evangelist
and formerly pastor of q church at New Mex.
loo, N. T., has been suspended from the
membership Of the State street church in
Springfield, Masa., and win doubtless be ex.
PEELED. He has confessed that the letter on
which he was received into the Springfield
church was forged by him and that be has
also forged the names OF several Plainheld,
Mass, men by appending them to a paper
certifying to the good character Of a woman
with whom he had associated, who had pre-.
viously confessed TO him that she was a pros
titute. Mr.. Booth has held successful" re-
yival meetings In PlAin6eld aud other places
In the vicinity. For the past year he has
been acting pastor Of the Baptist church in
Oummington, Mass.
-Franols j. Meade, young man who was
pardoned at the Concord, Macs, Reformato-
~ October 1, having served eight years OF q
ten years sentence for burglary, was married
last week to young lady whose father was
prison officer, and between whom and the re-
cent prisoner an attachment sprung up while
the latter Was serving his sentence. The girl
seems to have begun the loVe-making, and
before her father was aware Of IT, his daugh-
ter and the convict were engaged. He vain
ly tried to break up the affair, but finally
yielded, and Meade has been given q good
place as lAster in one Of the Lynn factories.
"A statue OF the late VIM. E. Dodge was
unveiled in Central Park yesterday.