Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-03-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Winter wheat in Illinois has been badly
damaged by cold weather
I Two Yale students were drowned while
sailing on Long Island sound Sunday.
Miss Rose Elizabeth Cleveland finds her
Florida orange groves profitable property.
Charles p Chase Of Hanover, Of the
Dartmouth class of 90. has been elected
treasurer of Dartmouth college.
The mercury was down TO "a at Charles.
ton, 5. c., last Sunday morning, and much
harm was done 10 truck crops.
While fire was in progress at Indianap-
oils on Monday, the walls fell, burying 10
tremen and severely injuring several others
A Harvard student was run over by
Boston electric car Monday night and lost
one leg. He was trying to board the car
while in motion.
The total shipment Of apples from this
country abroad during the export season
just closed has been $50 54S barrles, against
| ,230, 636 a year ago.
One Of Chicago's schemes for the worlds
fair ID the erection Of an immense circular
building covering 1913 acres, taking in the
whole exhibition under one roof, and having
in the centre a tower 100 feet high
farmer named Stanton, living near
Bromhed, Neb, shot and instantly killed
w. w. Lewis in his store in that place last
Saturday afternoon and was lynched in 30
minutes after committing the crime
A huge rock rolled down the mountain
side Friday and lodged upon the track Of
the West Virginia Central railroad about
40 miles west of Cumberland, Md. While
the men were removing the obstruction a
great mass of earth caved off, burying
seven of them, and three were killed
A Pierre, South Dakota, despatch says
Dirty Foot, a Sioux buck, while drunk,
picked up an ak and struck a squaw on the
forehead, cracking her skull crowd
soon gathered and Dirty Foot was seized
and thrown into the fire in the centre of
the tepee and as he tried to escape was
thrown back again and again, until burned
TO a crisp
The city Of Mexico is to have the finest
hotel on the American continent II is 10
be erected by Mexican capitalists and its
cost at the lowest estimate will exceed
S2,OOO OOO. Of this sum the Diaz govern
ment will provide 81 900, 900 in the form of
a subsidy. The hotel, when completed, will
be five stories in height, and will contain
400 guest chambers built about a court. 1t
will be constructed of stone quarried 20
miles from the city of Mexico.
A double brick house on Haverman's
avenue at Troy, ~ Y, was wrecked bv
land slide at o'clock last Saturday morn
ing, and three persons were killed The
clay bank on Warrens hill is hundreds Of
feet high, and towering at an angle Of A.
above the dwellers below. The parts which
became loosened started 200 feet of the bill,
and by the time the mass had reached the
ill-fated house, the force Of the tons upon
tons Of earth was terrific. Sixteen people
we're in the house, and it is singular fact
that all who were not killed outright sue
ceeded in extricatng themselves from the
mortar, bricks and timber unassisted
The work Of the Pan American confer
ence has so far progressed that adjourn.
ment is expected within the next 80 days
Senior Mendonca of Brazil, one Of the com.
mittee appointed 10 devise and report
plan for expressing the grateful apprecia-
ton by the visiting delegates of the courte-
sizes and hospitality extended by the United
States government and the delegates from
the United States, proposes that the dele
gates from Central and South America in.
augurate a movement for the erection in
Washington, as a gift to the people of the
United States, of monument to commem
all the nations on the western hemisphere
1t is suggested that the sum Of SIPS 0O0 be
raised and the monument be erected for
dedication in 1892.
Comparatively little has appeared in New
England papers about the Birchel- Benwell
murder which is exciting the people about
Niagara Falls. +. G. Benwel was enticed
by j. R. Birchell from England to this
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desirable farm for him to buy in Ontario
near the falls. The two men left Buffalo
for the farm, and some days later Birchell
returned alone. The dead body of Ben
well was subsequently found. Birchell has
been arrested and held for the murder He
is a wild young man, son Of a Lancashire
vicar, and married to the daughter of the
general traffic manager of the London and
Northwestern railway. Money was the Oh
ject of the crime, but it is certain that the
murderer got very little.
The mild winter has been disastrous in
its effects on the Pennsylvania coal miners,
and destitution, bordering closely on star.
walton, exists today in the coal regions of
that state. Never before, says the New
York Press, have such scenes been witness
ed in the Keystone state So pressing is
the occasion that relief committees have
been established in many of the towns aud
cities TO furnish food aud clothing to the
sufferers There are l20,00 workers in
the anthracite coal fields alone--the fields
which supply the market east of the Ale
ghanies These men have wives and chill
dren depending on them, and the children,
somehow, are more numerous amid such
poverty than elsewhere Sickness and
death follow in the trail of insufficient nu.
triton No one can foresee the end Only
starvation wages are earned at the best,
and the warm winter has caused a dsas
trous cut in the days of time that the men
have been employed.