Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-01-24
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

At least $50 people were killed bv the
collapse of theatre at Hauting, China.
early in December
Salvini, speaking in Italian before the
| Twentieth club at Chicago, Friday night.
said that he had acted for the last time.
not only in Chicago and America, but also
in Italy.
The New York post-office handled up
ward Of SS9 600, 900 pieces of mail matter
last year, of which BIB, 600 600 pieces were
delivered in the city. The net revenue for
the government was over 81, 500, 900
Wild hogs entered the cabin of farmer
Friday in the Chickasaw nation, near Ar
buckle, and devoured little child which
was alone in the house, the rest of the fam
lily being a short distance in the cotton
fields
John Kunze, the convicted Cronin muir
derer who has been granted a new trial,
has been admitted to bail in the sum of
5000. The bail was furnished by dime
museum manager, who signed Kunze' S
bonds, and the little German in return for
the favor will appear on exhibition at the
museum
Mr. Stanley. whose arrival at Cairo was
reported last week, is expected tn make a
prolonged stop there, partly for reasons re-
lated to the recent expedition and partly to
avoid the very great change of going from
Central Africa into northern Europe at
the bad end of the winter.
The governor and council of New Hamp.
shire have awarded a contract for a monu
ment and statue to Gen. John Stark to be
placed in the state house porch, Concord.
at cost of $4,000. The design is bv
Charles Conrads of Hartford, sculptor of
the New England Granite company, which
has the contract for the work. The statue
will be of bronze, eight feet high, resting on
a pedestal of Concord granite eight feet in
height, and will be ready for unveiling by
the first of October
In connection with the suggested inter
continental railroad to connect North and
South America, Capt H. C. Parsons of
Natural Bridge, Virginia, the well-known
Nermonter, proposes the construction of a
line of road from Cartagena on the north
ern coast of the United States of Colombia
2000 miles southwark through a region
never yet penetrated by civilized men, to
Cuzco in Peru, connecting there with the
road running northward from Buenos
Ayres. The natural opportunities that
would be here opened up TO civilization for
the first time Mr. Parsons paints as mex
haustibe and indescribable.
Heavy snow storms and terrible blizzards
in western Wyoming, combined with the
freezing of the water holes, have created
havoc and great mortality among the cat
tie, sheep and horses. Horses have worn
their hoofs to the quick TRYING 70 beat
through the crusted snow. Cattle and
sheep are helpless game has been driven
from the mountains, and antelopes have
been killed within the city limits of Evans
ton, while the stock has drifted TO the rail
way. In two cases at least, men have been
frozen to death,
state official who has recently returned
from a trip through northwest Kansas, says
that thousands of bushels of corn are being
burned for fuel. In some counties the mar,
ket price of corn is less than 10 cents a
bushel, while coal is from % to 35 cents a
bushel The corn makes excellent fuel
In all the principal corn producing counties
it is stacked up in great racks without pro-
lection of any sort, it having been impossi-
BILE for the last 30 days to obtain cars to
move it in.
1t is related that few Sundays ago
preacher at Atlanta Ga, had selected as
his text for his morning discourse 1T is
easier for camel TO go through the eye of
needle than for rich man to enter the
kingdom of heaven" He intended to
Scotch EN-" When he entered the pull
pit he found a note, and it was from the
richest member of his congregation, aud it
read as follows "When the collection for
foreign missions is taken up this morning
put me down for 5000 The sermon was
preached on the text Take heed that
ye do not your aims before men to be seen
of them"
Edna Wilson, aged Is, living in the Big
Horn Basin in Wyoming, left her mothers
home on horseback last August to visit a
neighbor. Her way was across a ford of
the Big Horn river. She failed 10 reach
her destir alton, and il was believed she had
been swept away by the rapid current of
the river aud drowned. Although the riv-
er was searched for miles below, the body
could not be found. About week after
her disappearance, j. McCoombs a promi-
nent young stockman of the basin left the
region. As he was the girls lover and was
paying her attention, it was thought that
Edna and McCoombs had eloped Ne
CoOmhs, however, returned and denied the
elopement story. He sold his ranch and
left the country for good. Last Monday
the buyer Of McCoombs's ranch discovered
the body of the girl, buried in the earthen
floor of deserted hunters cabin, in an un-
frequented part of the ranch. The head
showed marks Of a bullet hole McCoombs
is believed 10 have been the murderer, aud
the people of the basin at once raised mon
ey 10 run him down.