Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-11-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Terrible Results of Sundays STORM,
The storm Of Sunday night and Monday
morning will long be remembered as one
OF the most terribly destructive i'm its eff
iect on shipping which ever visited our
New England coast II is estimated that
40 vessels went ashore along Massachusetts
bay, many of them being completely wreck
ed The loss of life was appalling and
simply unprecedented in such a connection
One fishing schooner with iG men on board
went down and carried all but one An
other schooner lost three men, and anoth
err had two officers washed overheard. Be
sides these known cases of death, there are
grave suspicious that other crews have
been swallowed up by the waves Aban-
doned vessels have been found but their
crews have not been heard from, and it is
feared that there will be additions to the
list of the dead
Charles j. Parsons, the inhuman North
ampton, Mass. contractor who was ar
rested for assaulting and imurisoning Po-
lander in his employ, has been placed un-
der $1,000 bonds to appear before the grand
jury.
Pocomoke City, Md, was wiped out by
fire last week Thursday, the loss being up
wards of S2j00OO.
The longest sentence ever imposed by
the New York courts for first offence of
forgery was that melted out to the forger
bedell who got p years in Sing Sing last
week. Bedell swindled his employers and
their clients out Of SEGA 600
Ned Malcolm and Frank Mottler, boys.
fell from a tree while nutting near Stew
artsville, Ind. The former was killed and
the other fatally injured.
John Roche and Patrick Cavanaugh drop
ped 100 feet on an elevator at Lawrence,
Mass, on Saturday Neither was killed.
though Cavanaugh's injuries are..serious.
The international association of fairs and
exposition, in session tatfChicago, proposes
that the international exposition in 1892,
commemorative of the discovery of Amer
lea, he held in Montreal.
Three men were killed aud three badly
injured 10y an explosion Of dynamite near
Schuylerville, n. y, on Saturday.
Gen Harrison took a half holiday and
went fishing last Saturday afternoon, and
II the despatch which brings the news can
he relied upon he refused to tell any lies
about his catch when he got home lie left
indianapolis with two friends at noon,
drove three miles up White river, and at
l;3O the party returned home with p fat
and shining black bass, hut the general re
fused to tell huw many of them he caught,
for 1t was the agreement to pool the results
of the afternoons sport.
An Italian who came to New York this
week from jacksonville was seized Wednes-
day with a disease believed to be yellow
fever. Anxiety is felt lest the infection
may spread through the densely populated
Italian quarter of the city.
At a hearing before Judge Colt Of the
United States circuit court at Boston,
Wednesday, in the famous Knibbs valve
suits against New Hampshire cities judg
ment was ordered for the defendants in all
cases.
JAY Eye See, the famous PAGER. cut his
foot with piece of glass in his pasture at
Racine, Wis, and nearly bied tn death.
He is valued at $50, ZOO.
The beautiful brown stone church Of the
First Congregational society at Northamp-
ton was ruined by fire Tuesday afternoon.
The building cost SG5, 600, exclusive Of the
church parlors, which were saved, with the
church tower and part of the walls and
basement.
p. T. Barnum, the Snowman announces
that he has retired from the circus bust
ness He has given up his handsome resi-
dence, Waldmere and will spend the re
manning days Of his life in a modest cottage
overlooking Long Island sound.
As might be expected for advertising
purposes), Mr. Barnum denies this an
nouncement since its publication, and says
his agreement with his partner, Mr.. Bailey,
is for 30 years, alive or dead.
Miss Kathleen O'Meara. whose graceful
and interesting contributions to literature
had won for her many friends in this coun-
try, died in Paris on the 10th inst.
The report Of the general superintendent
shows that during the past year the gov
eminent life saving stations have saved
s., 9GG, $50 worth of property, and of 1850
persons involved in wrecks only II per
ished.
The steamer cutter Allentown, of Phila
delphia, foundered off the coast of Cohasset,
Mass, during the storm of last Sunday and
Monday, and all of the crew of p persons
were drowned.
The frost has evidently put an end to the
yellow fever epidemic at Jacksonville, Fla.
Less than 20 cases of the disease are now
reported within city limits
The office building Of the cotton. mills at
South Glastonbury, Conn, was destroyed
Tuesday by an explosion of gasolene, ignited
by a lantern carried by a workman who
was looking for leak \ weaver, Young
woman, vas buried by falling wall and
instantly killed, and four men were severely
burned.
A prisoner condemned to be hung to day
at Wythevile, Va, for murder, was forc
bly, taken from the Jail yesterday morning
10y an armed band of men friendly TO the
prisoner, who carried him away and hid
him.
The recent cold snap has been practically
ruinous to apples many thousands of bar
rels of which have been stored on the side
walks and streets of Lockport, n. Y. The
thermometer has registered ten degrees
above zero for two days. At many farms
apples stored in barns, piled up under trees
and barrelled but not headed, have been
frozen.
A young law student was murdered in
New Haven Yesterday.