Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-02-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nellie BY, the globe trotter. has gone up
on the lecture platform.
A horrible story comes Of a six.weeks
old baby eaten alive by rats in basement
tenement in Kansas City, Mo.
Over 300 900 copies Of Edward Bellamy'.
Looking Backward" have been sold and
the demand for the book shows no evidence
| of decline
Last Saturday was Gen Sherman's 10th
birthday, and he had large number of
callers aud many congratulations at his
residence in New York
Sixteen men were whipped at Newcastle,
| Del, last Friday morning by the sheriff
The whippings took place in a rain storm.
| There were but few spectators
| Further investigation shows that the dis
astrous fire in Secretary Tracy's residence
was caused unquestionably 10y superheated
steam in one Of the radiators
Of the 30 newspaper men who rushed to
Johnstown to report its great disaster, but
two escaped a serious illness, and from the
| effects Of their work three have died
Four persons, riddled with bullets, were
found on the prairies 30 miles southeast Of
| Purcell, Kan, by cowboys few days ago.
| The four evidently comprised family aud
. hdh uttu ufhu several udAhs
Keuka, Fla, has a large colony Of Dun
kards. They are a thrifty people, and gen
orally build up wealthy communities where
they settle They now number about 100
600 in the United States aud claim TO be
increasing very fast
One who has Travelled extensively over
/ Nevada says that over 2OOO people are liv
| ing in houses liable 10 be swept away at
any time during the winter 10y a snow slide
and at any time during the summer by an
avalanche
On account Of al open switch two trains
colllded at Harrisburg, Pa, Sunday, and
were badly wrecked One man was killed
and several injured The negligent switch
man, who caused the accident, disappeared
Immediately after the collision
The dwelling of farmer near Steven
son, Ala was burned last week Thursday
night, and the entire family of six persons
! persisted in the flames The neighbors did
not discover the fire until Friday morning.
when they found the charred bodies in the
| ashes
The manufacture and sale of electric
| belts, brushes, shoes pads, etc has reached
such proportions in England that an effort
Is being made, IN the interest Of an ignorant
and deluded public, to restrict, and if pos
sihe to repress the traffic in such fraudu-
lent appliances Prosecutions have been
made for the purpose.
| From memoranda of the late Henry W.
| Grady, il has been found that during 1899
| he made loans To various people in amounts
| from $50 to $iOO, the whole aggregating
more than $l3O His purse was open to
his friends, and it is said that no one ever
went away from him empty handed.
Two Mormon elders who were gathering
converts in Marion county, Ala, we're tax
en- out Of bed at night, stripped covered
with tar and dry leaves aud touched off
but managed to save themselves hv lump
ing into a creek near by. Their followers
got them out Of the country the next day
/ An explosion took place last week Thurs
| day in colliery at Abersychan. near New
/ port, f. .gland Three hundred miners
were imprisoned and for several hours had
/ no communication with the outer world
/ An opening was finally effected and many
/ Of them were rescued but it is thought
nearly $50 perished
| \ resident of Kingston. Ont. has re
| ceived letter from England. which went
| into the when the steamship Oregon
was wrecked and sunk in 1856 The letter
/ was found buried in the sands of the beach
near Cape Hatteras, showing that the mail
| bag containil z the missive drifted 400 miles
| from the scene Of the wreck
Great damage has been done near Los
| Angeles, Cal, by the Los Angeles river.
/ IL has changed its course at almost right
angle, Just south of the city limits, and af
| ter crossing the country for six miles emp
| ties into the old San Gabriel river. The
! inundation covers large area Many or
ange, walnut, lemon and other orchards
are almost ruined. Growing crops in its
course are almost completely DESTROYED.
| The total damage in the locality is estimat
/ ed at $3.50, 900.
The members of the Italian colony in
! New Orleans are subjected to a strange
! kind Of persecution. Whenever one of
them appears on the street he is greeted
with a peculiar whistle, which, being often
repeated has become not only annoying,
but exceedingly offensive Even when the
Italian military companies paraded at JEFF
ferson Davis's funeral, they were not ex.
empt from the mhiction. The annoyance
has become so great that the members of
the colony who number 10. 900 persons in
all, have formally laid the matter before
the mayor and police officials, and evident
ly mean to have relief or know the reason
why.
An entire family was drowned at Kings
ton, n. Y. last Sunday. Four small chill
dren were skating on the ice of small
lake when they broke through into the wa
ter Their cries were heard and the moth
er, frantic with the thought of her drown
ing children, rushed upon the ice, which
gave way with her weight, and she sank
below the surface. The father then at.
tempted 10 reach his wife, and he, too, was
drowned. At night hundreds of people
were gathered about the lake searching
for the bodies
The inhabitants of Westport. n Y, on
the shores of Lake Champlain, have been
thrown into great excitement over horri.
ble murder committed in their village A
burglar entered the house of a Mr. Floyd
an elderly man. and demanded his money
at the same time shooting at him with a re
volver, the bullet taking effect over Mr.
Floyd's eye. When Mr. Floyd regained
consciousness he was lying on the floor be-
side his dead wife He had been shot twice
through the head and once through the
hand and fearfully pounded with a club
He made his way TO the nearest house 4(
rods away. The neighbors went TO hi.
house aud found that Mrs Floyd hal been
shot three times and then mashed beyond
all recognition The walls and furuitur,
were spattered with blood Mr.. Floyd can
4 not recover. A large sum of money was
known to be in the house and this is sup
posed TO have been the motive for the crime
A reward Of $1,000 has been offered for the
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