Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-11-26
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Ihr details which have come iu slowly al
last week storm ON the great lake. ,hnv
an appalling list of disasters At l.o.t d,
vessel, were either lost co.. badly damaged
ana - lives were lost The damage to slim
mns is estimated at Si2i 600
Forty room, in Queen Victoria, palace nt
hampton we're damaged hy fire la,i Friday
lhN"lNing loss of about SIT. 900
News has been received in London tbot fl
snip crowded with native laburers RETURNING
from Queensland plantations has fnuud.r.d
lives NV
The lamps in l.ibcIty's torch were noai,
lighted Monday night. and viii b.nc.rnrtI
Toe kept burning 10y the lighthouse board.
One fireman was killed and several 9th
erS were overcome Thursday eyenint, y,bila
working at fire ON Friend street Boston.
\ tug boat exploded in New York bnr
Dor Thursday afternoon killing four men.
lwcn'y-scven Gloucester vessels and l3G
hNcS were lost IN the fshrrie, DURING tb.
past year, which has been AN unusually III,
astruus one.
II, NJ HoNie the first vice president of
the Missouri Pacific railroad, and IN, rr,r.
sentative of that corporation in the pr.ot
STRIKE OF last spring, died at New Norl,
tuesday. The strike broke down his health
ana he finally Succumhcd To severe opera
tnn for gall stone
=, great star" was raised throughout the
West Ind of London Tuesday afternoon L,.
tine liung of cannon i'm st. James pork IA
celebrate the birth of the Queen. nr,,.
Srandchld. y dense fog was preyailm, at
the time and for a while the drtonntious
were believed to be those of some dynamite
attack.
One of the worst blizzards ever expc,i
chced m the northwest ragged over Dakota
from Monday till Tuesday noon Twelve
inches of snow fell and the gale drov. il in
10 drlitN that greatly hindcrcl travel At
huron the Thermometer fell 10 % hrl,v-
zero Some trains were SNOW hound and
some stage coaches have not been heard
from ana much alarm is felt for their safety
general and apparently successful re
wont Is IN progress against Purtul1iese nm
thorlty in southeast Africa. An American
missionary send, a report that ON Octobpr
-hi a battle was fought between 5000 Port
usurSe and friendly native, ON the one sid,
ana jo,UuO hostile natives ON the other. The
Portuguese were routed with great loss.
me Killed ON both sides is estimated at 5000
men.
Gen. Booth, the original organizer of the
salvation Army, is now i'm this country.
Not more than 40 per cent of the strik
ing Chicago butchers have again obtained
employment.
a stage coach that left Ieadvillr. Col
one morning last week with nine passengers
Tor Aspen, was caught in a snow slide ON
top OF mountain - miles from Aspen hate
that evening, and coach passengers and
horses were carried over a precipice 200
feet high, and We're buried deep in the snow
az the bottom of the declivity. A relief
party succeeded in digging out the passen-
gers. -Four were uniniurcd but The re
manning five cannot probably live.
John Carey of llnlyoke heat his son over
the head last Sunday 50 that he died and
has been arrested for manslaughter.
Hindu philosopher, only 26 years old
and named Mohini Mohun Chatterii. arrived
in New York by the Aurania, Monday.
liahu Chatterii is Brahnin of high caste.
a graduate of the university of Calcutta.
theosophist, but am independent one. a veg
etaran, and "A very handsome man. with
long black hair and beard. lie made SEN
sation in Russian, German and English so-
elety of the learned class, and saws he has
come to America 10 study and not To lecture.