Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-12-17
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF
rerFibIo Disaster on The mi..i..,rn,.

"'r"e bSnSter on the mississinni.
Ihs steamer j. NJ White one Of the fnstas, 49,,
uu'Sl tuNt plN upon the Mssissippi ri,"r ~, hIlu
fire While loading cotton at Point t,t,,' Taught
9unNr 9alon h4uge, La, at about n 6'cloci WeS
gay Winl "iu III rev minutes burned IA H., ' ,,
ters edge. So swiftly did the nnwes 49,, W. tlle wa
hut Tow OF the people ON the hnat eop.ru,l mat
one KNOWS now many persisted Tho n,'idiu, 40
rs 'si'"'eh Nv 90 OF more aud perhaps mn,' r.n'
N or w. Many OF the crew escapad W"ryy lSayyh
passengers persisted Some of tbcr, , .uuleo OF The
by the Hames I'm their rooms and ,yerr ,, wl,lgnt
death OTHERS gained the deck and wera Wins, ai, To-
knocked INTO the water and dro,rnrd ,aI'S elther
m the explosion that followed ~, "9Wh up
reached the magazine Particulars nf ~ .i'e nre
disaster are very meagre. Thomas parr" " .i
second engineer, was ON duty when tba a., y, uhe
out in the cotton amidships Wiiia y, ue ilre broke
chlti engineer Of the boat saws the ,,,,
pat To WORK, but without avail Tom MIX" IRE
' hniI and 'ii,ln Eaye general alarm by ringing
people IA the cabin The Gre spread ranj1i Iu tn9
',' uSs ',,im 10 IIltes the boat had burned 10 th
' ,,o,o,fj, inefe We're -four kegs Of powder in
them the hnmes shot up over ion f,,t Ia iv''VI,e'
SiEhl was most henrtrending The sh1ntin,i 's
u' women ana children for help was dreadfmI VI
Murdered for the Price Of Her Raj,
negro brought to the Maryland medical c,,
Ngr az baltimore last Friday evening tbe Li. s
white woman, and left it with Nnda,ne,," p Sy OF
lh' nuvItu lanltQr, saying he would ralI a5a&
ior rG sIn the price agreed upon The head was
the lclt breast The body was idantigN ',,uS ~
~
"l Enlly Brown dsspated beggar 90 vasrs lily Ky
VINO ior SIN months had been boarding viii a c,i'
nFu lnlnlly IN the western part of the CITY and i,
was slirhised that she was brutality mnriar"di az f
Iur price her body would bring for use on tbe ~
"cllls uahle Perry denied that he oyer savy H.
W"liWh' but ne was known to have bepn "A Lnori,r
aI Lht same house and to have eaten LrsnLfast
WIN il'r ON the morning of her murder liz vVn.
ulTtSItu as accessory To the crime Later t,b,,
Toss ana Albert Hawkins, both colorej were ar
rested ana confessed to having killed the woman NJ
lhr lnStigatlon of Perry. They followed hert" h,r
room ana Ross smashed her head with n G,irp
Whilr hawkins held her and stabbed her tbrni,,,L
tht heart with knife They then carried ~
u"uN 70 the university in bag furnished Inv per
~ VINO received il and shaved the head to 'rinta
d'ntlhcdtion difficult The price to be- obtoin%d
Tor tue body was the sole object of the murder
Three 10 foot boilers in a sawmill at Eyonsvillc
lim, exploded last Tuesday wrecking the mil
NnlHE one man ana wuundng seven others
three nighwaymen boarded a train Mt n ,ynt,r
lAuk ~ texas ON saturday: one of their n,tn1Ler
'""p,u ne engineer and fireman and another unt,
on the locomotive, while the other two Went
through the cars and collected what bontv tbsv
'"uld unmolested by the 10 odd passengers.
-Four New York gentlemen propose to build ea..h
Aacht 10 contest for the huIiurs of defending In.
Americas cupagainst the Scotch cutter thistle
The Madison Square Garden property i'm New
l0iA Guy mas been sold to- wealthy svuirntp o,,1
will be rrluudelpd ''''