Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-09-05
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

A Kentucky family Of II brothers mum
bers among its offspring 81 pairs Of twins.
One Of the RATS in the Leary log chair
has become separated and broken to piece.
| on the Maine coast, making total loss, il
said.
Oklahoma on Friday organized its first
/ legislature, Farmers Alliance men being
made president Of the council and speaker
of the house
Oliver Wendell Holmes celebrated hi,
/ slst birthday at his summer home at Bev.
ery Farms, Mass, Friday, in a quiet way
receiving congratulations and gifts from
hosts Of friends
An attempt was made Saturday night T.
again DESTROY 10y fire the extensive stable.
Of Senator stanford at Palo Alto ranch in
California where two or three years ago SC
many valuable horses were burned to death
The city Of Tonawanda, ~ Y had | | fire.
within - hours last week. \ half witted
fellow Of about y years has been arrested
and has confessed that he set the fires be
cause tie owners Of the places refused him
employment.
The French commission of inquiry which
has been Investigating trans Saharian rail
way schemes, has approved a route from
Constantine and Biskra in Algeria, across
the desert to Lake Tchad The length of
route is 2OOO miles. The project is backed
by the hanque Russo ct Francaise.
The schooner Wave from New Brunswick
collided in a storm last week with another
schooner, and afterWard struck a reef and
went down with all on board The other
vessel also went IN pieces, but the crew es-
capped on RATS
Frederick Kimball, who absconded from
Worcester, Mass, in April with cash and
bonds belonging 10 the Peoples Savings
bank to the amount Of Sii 900, arrived in
this country from Europe Sunday and was
arrested at the pier at New York. All
the stolen bonds were found secreted in
his undertaking
An enemy Of Randolph Petty, living near
New Brunswick, y. j., put Paris green
into his well, from which his family and
others in the neighborhoool used the water
Thirty persons were poisoned, ten Of them
being dangerously i'll. The identity of the
puisoner has not been discovered.
Milton Redin, spectator at balloon as
cension at Woodfed, O., Friday, was acci-
dentAlly carried up 1000 feet into the air
while clinging to the end of rope. While
making a desperate effort to Chamber into
the basket his hold was loosened and he fell
to the ground. The body was found half a
mile away horribly mangled.
An attempt was made Saturday to wreck
the Chicago express near Albany, n. Y,
ties being piled on the track District
Master Workman Lee said the ties were
undoubtedly placed upon the track by the
Pinkerton men in order to make the com
pany believe that their presence will still
be necessary to protect the property and to
preserve order, but this is discredited bv
the company, who have put an extra force
on guard.
Joseph j. Welch, the section boss who
had charge Of the track repairing gang at
Quincy at the time Of the recent disaster,
has been arrested for causing the accident,
the judge deciding that Welch was respon-
sible for the track jack being placed in po-
sition between the rails, which was against
the company's order that it should be
placed outside. The penalty is 20 years
imprisonment
As the result of an incognto visit among
factories and tenements at Berlin, William
of Germany has started a fresh air fund,
having issued orders TO the medical staff of
the army TO visit every place where the
government controls factories, carefully ex
anime all the children and youth therein,
and when they fail of certain standard
of health, dispatch them to the shores of
the North sea for a fortnight's rest for all,
to be prolonged in the case of the very fee
hle until they shall be restored to health,
and all at the expense of the government