Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-11-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A negro named Rouse was whipped to
death by regulators in Dooley county, Ga,
Saturday night, receiving 500 lashes on his
bare back. His brother Was lynched in
March for outraging and butchering young
farmers wife named Dalles and Rouse had
made threats of vengeance against the muir
dered woman's sister.
Two young men were instantly killed by
the explosion Of q dynamite cartridge Mon
day morning at the new Croton aqueduct at
Wilson's Station, N. Y. Since work was
begun-in May-upon this aqueduct &c men
have been killed and 26 others have been in
jured, some of them for life. Ten thousand
men are employed on the work.
Capt. Couch at the head of 1000 men
well-armed and equipped is reported 10 be
on his way to the Oklahoma territory, de-
termined TO hold the land II he has to fight
for 1t. Some Of the invaders have reached
Oklahoma already, staked out claims and put
up signs, mo trespassing allowed on this
farm" Gen. Miles has ordered Mai. Sum-
ner to proceed to Oklahoma and eject the
boomers.
Ferdinand Weird, an account of whose
sentence and incarceration in Sing Sing pris-
on is given on our first page, did his first
days work on Monday shoVeling ashes away
from the furnaces, 1t proving that there was
NJ NuChut OcuOu LOf Dlu1 III tue blON6 Q0DArL-
ment. He worked diligently and ate heartily
at dinner of oorned beef, cabbage and coarse
bread.
The funeral of Gen. George B. McCel-
Ian took place Monday morning at the Madi-
son Square Presbyterian church In New York.
In accordance With the wishes Of the family
and with the preferences often expressed by
the general, the ceremonies were very simple
in character, but . great number OF we'll
known people assembled TO show their re-
spect for the dead commander. The SER
! vice, conducted by Parkhurst, the pastor, was
only half an hour, the two hymns selected
being tavorites OF the general. The burial
was at Trenton, N. ].
George Miller was hanged ct Grand
Forks, OAK, last Friday afternoon for muir
dering the wife and 11-years-old boy of Rev.
O. II. Smell, q Methodist minister near Ink
ster January 20. This was the first legal
hanging in North Dakota
Harry Ward Beecher's watch was stolen
Tuesday by pickpooket at q New York ele-
waited railway station.
-Loring L. Lord the l6-years. old son of
Charles A. Lord OF Pride's Bridge at West.
brook, Me-, committed suicide last week Fri
day afternoon. The school teacher had ac-
cused him of breaking window. He went
directly home, took a gun into the yard 10
clean 1t, loaded 1t and fred it into the air /;
then put in a tremendous charge OF powder
and large quantity of shot, took the gun
into the shed and dashed II, 10 q saw. horse,
tied a string to the trigger and the end of the
ramrOd to the string, knelt down with his
ear close TO the muzzle and exploded the
charge, which made q clean hole through his
head, an inch in diameter.
Mondays storm, which brought high
wind, snow and rain hereabouts, Is said to be
the severest that can be remembered In Bos-
ton harbor and along shore. The wind had
increased TO almost q hurricane at 3 A. N.
and throughout the forenoon the gale dashed
the waters In the hRrbor into q mass OF foam.
ing pillows, causing many collisions with re-
sulting loss to vessels. The gale was the
heaviest known on Cape Cod for several
years.
The Andre monument at Tappan, N. Y,
was blown up by the explosion of dynamite
cartridge on Tuesday evening. Both basel
were blown into atoms and the iron fencing
that enclosed the monument was completely
demolished. The shock was so great that 4
broke the glass In houses q mile away.