Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-08-02
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A contract has been made with the An
Choir steamship line for the transportation
of the Barnum show 10 Europe The peo-
pie will sail on the 10th of October and the
animals, vans etc, will follow soon after
Two hundred people in the 23d district of
Wilson county, Tenn, have banded togeth-
er for the purpose of driving Mormon cid
ers and converts from that county.
William Brodie, the man who, while in
state bordering on delrium tremens, stated
that he had committed the murders and
mutilations of women in and about the
Whitechapel district, was discharged from
custody at London Saturday, there being
no evidence on which to hold him and ply
sicians pronouncing him sane,
A cyclone in Hungary, Sunday swept
over large territory. Hundreds of per
sons were killed, the crops were destroyed
and enormous damage was done to houses
and churches.
A cloud burst ON circus during per-
Torrance in Writ county, West Virginia,
last week Friday. The canvas and para
phernalia were torn TO pieces, and the
whole concern was wrecked A trapeze
performer was drowned and it is reported
that some of the circus employees were
drowned.
Two boys were cleaning out an old well
in New York city, when they were over
come by sewer gas and died The father
of one of the boys, who went TO their as
sistance, was also affected by the gas and
is in a critical condition
The suspension of Lewis Brothers & Co.,
commission merchants of New York and
Philadelphia, was announced last week.
The liabilities are estimated at 81, 200, 900
and the assets at $1,000, 900. The embar-
rassment created great surprise in business
circles and has caused several other sus-
pensions
Several persons were poisoned at Laco-
mia, N. H., few days ago by eating vanil-
la ice-cream.
The loss by the wind and rain storm at
Chicago Saturday night will exceed 81 ,OOO,-
0OO All kinds of property suffered-goods
in cellars and Easements, streets, shade
trees, sidewalks, lawns, shrubbery, drive
ways, unfinished houses and dwellings.
There were A alarms of fire, many from
| lightning, and most from the destruction of
the insulation of the electric-light wires
Eight persons were killed by the blowing
down of tenement houses.
The British vessel Black Diamond, which
has been catching seals in the Behring sea,
was captured by the U. S. revenue cutter
Richard Rush, and taken TO Sitka
4. & A. H. Batcheler & Co. of Boston
and North Brookfeld, one of the oldest
boot and shoe firms in the country, has sus,
pended, with estimated liabilities of more
than million and half
John L. Sullivan was arrested in New
| York Wednesday on "a requisition from Gov.
Lowry of Mississippi.
An earthquake occurred few days ago
in Japan. The town of Kumamoto was de
stroyed and great number of people per
ished
| Dr. A. Il. Jones, Familiarity known as
| Col Jones, one of the best known citizens
of Cincinnati Ohio, was brutally murder
ed few days ago by his hostler, who beat
him TO death with a club. The murderer,
who has confessed, hid the body in a sack
and placed it in a sewer.
The Pilgrim monument at Plymouth,
Mass, was dedicated yesterday with impos-
ing ceremonies.
A young woman, a native Of this conn
try, died recently Of fever at Rome. Italian
law requires the immediate burial of bodies
in such cases. The American friends of
the lady exhumed the body, securely pack
ed it, marked it plate glass" aud as such
got it on board freight steamer aud TO
this country.
The news of the loss of the New Bed
ford Whaler Ohio, in the Arctic ocean, and
all her officers, is confirmed, Eight Of the
seamen were rescued.