Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-04-10
THE NEWS n BRIEF.

H-I a. lrl~Ehtr7 10 li.r genera |HuIrIrl'r
but the vote va, 10 tine negative 4 ~o o. $50
s stir has been caused 10 many quarter
hy a rumor tina, Mr. paru-. ha, been pri
vately married since the % Shea divorc'
proceedings and that the woman is no
Mrs O'Shea
be telephone service At Albany. s. y.
,~as ruined on Monday for the second tim
" thin two months Fourteen hunire,
wires we're destroyed and one huIIdn.
damaged The los. TO the telephone com
pauy is $50 OD0 The acciien, wa, cause,
by the telephone wire. becoming crosse,
with the railway trolley
The tug Tempest fouudered at Cleveland
Ohio, saturday. and three men went dowr
with u
A man at Reading Pa vas bitten by pei
parrot Soon after he had shooting uang,
in the hand. which swelled rapidly In fv,
day> blood poisoning was evident aud he
died after intense suffering
Lowell Mas. suffered the worst tire Ir
many wears last SUNDAY Some boys touched
a match 70 waste paper IN al alley and the
fire dropped through a grating into the eel.
lar Of the Eisou block. which was de
stroyed The Masonic Temple was badly
damaged, aud hundreds of volumes ia the
public library, which a. IN this building
were ruined The los was $4,000
Danvers Mass IL greatly excited over
attempted inceudiarisms seven fires having
been started IN that place within week
There was a merry Wedding at East
Railway, y J and "a hen the bridal couple
left to take train. the friends CROW dei out
to storm them with rice aud old shoes An
intimate friend Of the bridegroom dis
charged a revolver. supposed L. be loaded
With blank cartridges. intending the firing
10 be d salute The revolver va, loaded
however, and the bullet struck the bride
groom who fell to the sidewalk lead
Adelbert Shaw. q Harvard college stu
dent and candidate for the varsity cray,
wa, drowned in the Charl-, river Moni av.
toy the overturning Of the lal,.treAk bat in
which he was practising He ATTEMPTED On
swim ashore, but b-came exhausted and
sank before several students who we're IN
the vicinity, could 20 70 hi, rescue
A large frame building at Rochester. Pa
va, burned Mondsy morning and niue Of
the tenants who could not inl their way
OUT persisted. One girl Jumped from a
second story window, but her father moth.
er, brother and two sister, were sutfocated
seven Of the victim. were Italians
The grip was at it, worst iu Chicago las'
week aud the death rate was the hiyhes,
ever known, being Il Gj per 1000 per an.
mum The deaths numbered 800. Of 50 Aicl
ju9 were from throat and lung disease a
marked falling of IN the death rate is Motel
this week
One Of the largest cattle deals ever con.
summated has just been completed b.,
wealthy stockmen of the West and Chic,
20 packers. The d-a' involves an ou.Isy
OF $1,000 900. and $1,000 head of cattle
have been bought IN Texas and are 10 h-
shipped 70 the Chicago market
I be women's aid association of Wellesley
Hills, Mass. has succeeded IN raising $50
OU" for the erection Of a new couyale,ceuts'
home there and work las already been be-
gun on the foundation
Warner Miller and the party which left
New Nork q short time ago 10 investigate
the work upon the Nicaragua canal were
wrecked upon the desolate Roncador Island
IN the Caribbean sea. The party Of % per
sons spent four days on the island when
they were discovered bv a steamer and res
cued
4 bank at Atlanta, Ga, missed checks
to the amount Of $1,000 and detectives
who were put to work on the case found
that lO-years-old boy was in the habit of
shaking the drawer of tine bank at the
post-oitice, and the lock being defective he
was able 10 secure the letters So far $40
900 Of the checks have been recovered
A Kansas City man has been granted a
patent for the manufacture Of egg, He
mas all the machinery in readiness t. begin
competition with the American han.
Eleven men were terribly burned at
brando3cS, Pa. Tuesday bog auexpl9.iou of
natural gas