Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-11-12
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two local politicians at Aenia, Ind, John
Shaw and James Fennell the former a Re
publican, the latter Democrat, quarreled
recently over election results and Fennell,
knocking Shaw down. stamped ON his face
and fatally hurt him. Fennell then fed
and has not been captured.
Marshal Vantry McBee rode into Tchula,
La. Monday and amused himself getting
drunk and shooting negroes. Three colored
men were wounded and McBee concluded
to get out of town. His horse fell and
broke its neck and the man went back,
drank more whisky, and shot another negro,
this time killing his man He then fled to
swamp and the whole town is out out hunt
ing for him in wild excitement.
One thousand women dressed in black ar
rived in body at Brussels Tuesday from
Charleroi 10 petition for amnesty to the men
convicted of participation in the labor riots
Of last March. The women had arranged
to walk in procession from the railway sta
ton 10 the Legislative chambers. The bur
gomaster, however. refused 10 permit this
but allowed the delegation to present their
petition at the city hall. The women were
greeted at the railway station by IA great
crowd who cheered them heartily.
l.. q. Hill of East Machias, Me. and
Charles ,s Of Wellesley. Ne state deer
wardens. were shot dead Monday near the
Fletcher Brook house in Hemenway town
ship Me, by one Of two poachers who had
been dogging deer. The deputies were
about to secure tine dog when the shooting
occurred. Frank McKeavy, II, happened
To Ice on the scene and saw the tragedy, and
was too badly scared to give the alarm.
His father, Thomas McKeavy. soon came
up, and they summoned the nearest help,
the poachers having driven off in their
wagon meanwhile. The McKeavys then
went On to Machias and notified the author
tiles. The murderer appeared to be 81
years of age and his companion 30. Two
officers are on the track of Calvin Graves
and James Mcfarland of Hancock, Ne,
who are supposed 10 be the poachers.
The employees Of the great pork and beef
packing concern at Chicago have only fin
ished one strike to go out on another, this
time for the eight hour system No less
than 10000 men are now out men who
were disposed to keep at work on the old
basis have been violently assaulted and the
government has called out two regiments Of
militia to preserve order. The packers have
signed an agreement pledging themselves
not to re-employ any man who will not sign
an agreement removing his connection with
the Knights of Labor.
Lieutenant and Mrs Hem are still living
on board the disrnantled Galatea in New
York. They will return to England the
last of the month, leaving the cutter behind.
rockingham, the express messenger
whose car was robbed recently of large
sum in Missouri, has been indicted for grand
larceny and for receiving stolen property.
Lawrence Donovan of New York jumped
from the new suspension bridge at Niagara
little past the centre, last Sunday morn
ing. His jump was witnessed by four or
five persons, and he was accompanied by
Professor Haley and IA Buffalo reporter.
He made the jump successfully, a distance
of 100 feet going straight down, feet first.
He came up dazed, but struck out for the
boat in which were the reporter and Haley
and proved TO be but little hurt.
Seven persons were burned TO death in
barn at Fussdorf Moravia, Wednesday.
Sixteen others are missing and are suppos-
ed to he dead.
Wednesday morning the Hartford, Conn,
police found Jesse II. Lord formerly one of
the editors of the Post and more recently
on the Scientific American, lying ON the
grave of his wife in the old North cemetery.
He had shot himself through the head with
a revolver.
The light in the statue of I.iberty's torch
has gone out and nobody knows when it
viii be lighted again, for there is no money
to do it with until Congress makes special
appropriation.
The cathedral at Grau in Hungary, the
most magnificent building in that country,
has been greatly damaged in the interior
by fire.
Dispatches were printed in all the daily
papers ON Monday, giving a circumstantial
account of how the United States revenue
cutter Manhattan had been seen to founder
in a heavy gale off New Haven harbor ON
Sunday, but the story fortunately proved
To have been unfounded.
An unusually great loss of life has been
reported this season from the great lakes.
Tourists who have sailed ON those waters in
summer can scarcely form an idea of the
storms which sweep across them in winter
and the privations and suffering of the men
who sail those inland seas.
Three TO six inches of snow fell in the
central and northern part of the state ON
Saturday night and Sunday. Sleighs We're
out in some cases. Snow also fell in New
York, Pennsylvania and other middle states,
and reached as far south as Cincinnati. The
snow storm started in Manitoba and moved
to the Atlantic seaboard. Snow fell ON Fri
day as far south as Cincinnati.
Thomas Stevens, whose tour around the
world ON bicycle has made him famous, ar
rived in Hong Kong Oct. A. He was not
permitted TO cross Afghanistan, so took a
steamer from Calcutta 10 Hong Kong,
whence he will go ON his bicycle to Canton
and thence to Shanghai, where he will take
steamer for Japan.
The Standard coal mine, one of the larg
est in Westmoreland county, Pa, is ON fire
and the whole property is threatened.