Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-05-17
NO. 20.
IN GEN ERAL.

Two men were shot dead near Ports
mouth, Ohio, Saturday night by jealous
Virginian
Three Bald Knobbers, self constituted
regulators who murdered two men in
1887 were hanged at Ozark, Mo, last week
Friday.
Miss Kate Drexel of Philadelphia heiress
to six millions, has renounced the world
and entered convent.
Herty Of Boston won the six days foot
race in New York last week, scoring $50
miles, which is far below the best rec
ord. A six-day woman's bicycle race is
one of the sporting attractions Of the me-
tropolis this week.
In 1886 there were three cities in Kansas
varying in population from Il, 900 to So 900
each and now there are six, and in the
same time the number of cities and towns
with population of 1000 or more has in
creased from 5j to 107.
The largest horse farm in the world is
said to be at Cheyenne, Wyoming terrific
ry. 1t includes l20, 900 acres, and requires
100 miles of wire fencing TO keep the ami
mails in bounds, with 6j men to look after
them.
company in Montana with capital Of
$3.50, 900, will irrigate 5000. 900 acres of
land in the northern part of the state.
Two hundred miles of bitches have already
been built, and Lake Benton has been tap
ped.
Stephen Bates a well-to.do farmer living
in the southern part of Danbury, Conn,
horse whipped three respectable young
women Wednesday evening in the presence
of 300 citizens and factory employees, and
he narrowly escaped rough handling from
the crowd. The women were gathering
wild flowers on Batess land
Blood oranges, for which a big demand
has already sprung up in New York, prob
ably because there is a big supply, have
long been popular in Paris, so popular that
suspicion was cast on their genuineness.
The supply Of blood oranges in Paris year
ago seemed to enormous, and the question
arose whether common plain oranges were
not colored by artificial means. On sub
mitting blood orange to an analytical
chemist it was discovered that fuchsine, a
red harmless coloring matter, had been in
lected with a small syringe
A cage containing 10 miners was ascend
ing the shaft at Kaska William colliery near
Middleport, Pa, Thursday of last week,
and had reached height of about 16 feet
from the bottom, when an empty car was
pushed over the top of the shaft by two
Hungarian laborers. The car struck the
ascending cage shattering it to splinters
and instantly killing every one of its occu-
pants. The cage with the 10 victims was
hurled into a hole at the bottom of the
shaft where the water from the workings
accumulates and the manged bodies were
not recovered for some time.
Last Fridays thunder storm was very
severe and widespread. 1t did good deal
of damage in southern New England, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania \
man was struck by lightning while at work
in his field at Surry, Me-, and killed. An
$4,000 fire at South Fo1boro, Mass,
and a $4,000 fire at Leominster, Mass was
set by lightning In Philadelphia the dam
age is estimated at $50, 900. p. T. Barn
um's circus at Wiliamsport, Pa. was dam
aged to the extent of about SIC, 600 An
unfinished building at Fair Haven, Conn,
was blown down, killing one man and in
iuring IA. Severe effects of the storm
were experienced at Pittsburg Pa West
Virginia, Ohio and some parts of the west
Nothing is heard from Washington, says
the New York Sun, of the appeal to Con
gress for the coinage of half cent pieces
that was adopted by the convention of the
newsdealers' national association These
coins are greatly needed in trade, accord
ing to this appeal, which says that the
American cent represents a higher value
than that of the smaller European coinage
higher than English farthings, French cen
times, German pfennigs, or Dutch halve
centen, and that the difference in value be
tween the American cent and the small
Asiatic coin is still larger" 1t is under
stood that Senator Blair of New Hamp-
shire favors the coinage desired by the
newsdealers' national association, but he
has few hackers