Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-03-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The new gunboat Bennington. of the
same type as the Yorktown and Concord
made successful trial trip last Saturday
Ground will be broken for the Grant mon
ument IN Riverside park, New York April 21
Money to complete the monument fund is
to he raised by series of entertainments
Henry Meyer, the proprietor of a we'll
known hotel at Port Richmond. y Y
gave directions before his death that his
ashes should be scattered to the winds from
the top of the statue of Liberty on Bedloes
Island, and last Saturday four Of his friends
carried out these instructions to the letter.
The Remington paper company's largest
pulp mill, about two miles below Water
town, n. Y, was almost totally DESTROYED
late last Saturday night by the high water.
causing about $50, 600 damage and killing
an employe.
despatch from Salt Lake saws that a
regular exodus of Mormons from Utah 10
Mexico is quietly taking place, and within
the next three months large number of
the saints will have left.
Cape Cod was visited by a terrible tenn
pest Saturday night. The lightning PLAYED
havoc, destroying no less than six buildings
and causing serious injury to two churches.
,Hermon, St. Lawrence county, N. Y,
village of about 800 inhabitants, was near-
ly wiped out by fire early Sunday morning.
Pneumonia caused l3S deaths in New
York city last week.
call has been issued for a national Re-
publican league meeting, TO be held at Gin
clnnati April 81, when officers will be
elected and the place selected for holding
the next convention.
Tremendous floods on the Colorado and
Gila rivers have inundated an immense
section of country and have practically
wiped out the town of Yuma, Arizona
Fourteen hundred people are homeless.
and it is feared that hundreds of lives
have been lost in the Gila valley For 200
miles along the valley everything is in des-
olatlon. Costly farm buildings, stock and
fences have been washed away. The rail
roads we're submerged, in many cases their
tracks were washed away, and it will be
several days before connections are estab-
lished.
1t is said that a threatening attack of
heart disease is what has sent Mr.. QUAY To
Florida for the benefit of his health.
A large freight steamship, the Iowa, has
been abandoned in mid-ocean, rapidly sink
ing, on account of holes made in her sides
by great ice field which she encountered
ON her way TO Liverpool from Boston
The crew was brought to New York bv
passing steamship that went 10 her assist
ance. The Iowa carried general carpo
and 422 head of cattle
The February public debt statement
shows an increase of nearly 81, ,OOO, 600
jackson S, Schultz, a promin ent New
York leather merchant and manufacturer.
a man active in behalf of clean politics. and
withal vigorous and unique personality,
is dead at the age of 70.
Anna Dickinson, the noted writer and
lecturer, is insane, and has been taken TO
an asylum at Danville, Pa. The cause of
her trouble is said TO be nervoust haustion,
resulting from overwork and W, rry over
Strengthened financial circumstances in
which Miss Dickinson and her sister have
for some time been placed. The poor
board of the county had to take charge of
her removal to the asylum
A novel sight was witnessed at Pough-
keepsie, n. Y, last week, where the rail
road tracks were covered with water aud
men were placed on the pilots of engines
with pike poles to float the drifting ice
away.
An Arctic expedition ON new plan is TO
De undertaken TINS season. Civil Engineer
Peavy of the u. S. navy has obtained
leave Of absence for Is months, and will
set out this month with small party of
followers for Greenland, undertaking an
overland journey by sledge and on foot,
saving in this way hundreds Of miles of
travel, and hoping 10 reach a point nearer
the north pole than any previous exped
tion, and returning at the end of next sea
son in time to catch a passage home by
some belated whaler.
The Congress which expired ON Wednes
day lost an unusual number of members by
death-l2 representatives and three soma
tors, Samuel j. Randall and William D.
Kelley of Pennsylvania aud $ 5. Cox of
New York " ere prominent in the list The
death of Senator Hearst of California took
place last Saturday after a long illness.