Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-01-16
The Indinn. to snrrender.


The latest news from the Indian country
is that the hostile chiefs had big talk
with Gen. Miles on Wednesday and agreed
on a general surrender, the braves to
bring In their guns have them recorded
and be paid for them A friendly DISPOSE
ton was manifested and IN return Gen
Miles sent the Indians flour and other nee
essaries
Dispatches received at Washington last
night stated that the surrender of arms had
begun, and that the troops have the Indians,
some 1000 IN number, practically confined
within radius of ten miles.
DR. Tanner mas challenged Sgnor Succi
to fasting contest at the world fair.
Five inches of snow, the deepest ever
known and the FIRST in four wears at bel
Rio. Texas fell on Saturday night
over $500. 600 is left to educational and
charitable institutions by the will of Mrs
Elizabeth Perkins Fogg of New York. Har-
ward college being remembered with 5000
600 for the erection of an art museum The
relatives will contest the will
The selectmen of Woodbury.. Conn. are
to he arraiyned for manslaughter. in caus-
ing the death Of Mrs Catherine Meramble,
who died from exposure from being con
veyed To New Haven
Rumors are current to the effect that Jay
Gould has secured controlling interest in
the Atchiu,ou railway system.
The magazine of the bradford nitro-glv-
cerine company III Wood county, Ohio. ex-
ploded FRIDAY The ground was torn up
for half "A mile, and many trees destroyed
Nobody was near the magazine at the time.
A report comes from Kansas City that "a
number of the leading mortgage companies
are To toreclus- on 100. OUU acres of land in
western Kansas
A gang of five desperate afe-breakers
were captured on La Sale street at Chica-
60 Saturday night, while at work on a safe
which contained thousands Of dollars worth
Of diamonds
Two steamers colhded in the Firth of
Forth, Scotland, Sunday, and one of them
sank N a few minutes, carrying down u
men
The great harvesting machine trust, with
a capital Of $50 600 900, has gone TO pieces
after an expense Of $780, 900 mad been in
Cured
A cable on a car at the Atlantic mine at
Elk Garden, " Va. broke Monday and
the car dashed down the incline. Two men
who were Oh 1t jumped and saved their
lives, but third was killed The car ran
into group sitting around a fire killing
another man. one man who had three
pounds of powder in his pocket was knock
ed into the fire The powder exploded and
he was terribly burned. Others were bad
Is hurt
Emma Abbott, the opera singer and man
ager, after making ample provisions for
her father, mother and other relatives,
willed $4,000 each to eight different churches
II which she had enjoyed worship. and left
"a large amount 10 charitable institutions
1t Is expected hat bill asking for 80, o.
600, 600 for an uptown post-othce in New
York will be brought before Congress next
week
Nine persons lost their lives in a fool
hardy attempt to cross the Seine on the ice
at Paris on Tuesday Although forbidden
TO do so bv the authorities, a large number
started across the ice, which proved 10 be
unsafe In mid-stream and gave way, pre-
clpitatlng many into the water
A new theatre is 20 be erected in Boston
at the corner of Washington and Motto
streets. and a contract has been signed for
ITS lease for ten wears from completion
The latest suicide at Monte Carlo is that
OF a Young Russian noblemau who had lost
500, 900 rouhles nearly $500. 900 Of Amer
lean money, at the gaming tables
Rev Thos X Beecher of Elmira. y. y.
a brother of the late Henry Ward Beecher.
preached in his church last Sunday morn
ing sermon on the life of the late Mrs.
Olivia Langdon, mother Of Mrs Samuel l.
Clemens of Hartford, Conn 1t was i'm
possible for Mr.. and Mrs Clemens 70 be
present. but their house in Hartford was
connected with the church bv long distance
telephone a distance of 45O miles. and
worked successfully, the entire service he
lug plainly heard IN Mr. Clemens house in
Hartford A number Of Mr. Beecher's
friends in Buffalo heard his sermon in the
same way.
According 10 decision by Judge Lacomb
of the New York court of appeals, in the case
of the murderer JuglrO, sentenced 70 be exc
ruted by electricity, any murderers execu-
uon can be STAYED of continually if his law
yer chooses 10 adopt the tactics Of taking APP
peal after appeal n the United States su-
preme court and Keep this up indefinitely
The "Old Homestead has given place tc
"A revival of Joshua Whitcomb" at the
New y ork Academy of Music, which brings
out peuman Thompson IN his original role
1t is understood that Elaine Goodale. the
poet and weli-knoWu writer for the maya
zines, is engaged 10 be married 10 DR.. East
man, "a full-hlooded young Sioux Indian
who came East 10 he educated. and took his
medical iegree last wear at the Boston uni
verslty
Rev. " j. Savage Of Boston has been
invited 60 60 t. Chicago 10 take the pastor
ate Of the Unitarian church of the Messiah
IN that city.
II, Ryder Haggard the well-kuown writ
er,arrived at New York last Saturday night
from Liverpool, accompanied by Mrs Hag
gard
The state board of health Of Lawrence.
Mass has notified Mayor Collins 70 warn
the people Of Lawrence against using Mer-
rlmac river water for drinking purposes
without boiling > minutes and not 20 COO
the water with Ice cut from the river this
year Weeks of investigation prove that
the prevalence Of typhoid fever and kin
dred diseases IN she city Is due 70 the wa
ter. There are more than 200 cases there
nov The Merrimac Is the only water sup
ply of the city aud the ice companies
houses are already stocked largely with
this year river cutting, so the condition OF
affairs Is a serious one.