Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-11-27

suffocated in their beds.
Chief Engineer Bore of the steamer
Wandrahm, which arrived at Halifax last
week, drank carbolic acid in mistake for
his regular medicine, and died in fearful
agony.
tidal wave that swept over the Gilbert
group of islands i'm the south Pacific ocean
caused great loss of life and damage TO
property. Eighty people were drowned
upon one of the islands.
The wheat crop is so large at the West
that it is found impossible to supply the de-
mand for cars to bring it East Hundreds
of thousands of bushels are said to be piled
in heaps outdoors, awaiting the means of
transportation.
The Right Hon. Edward Bulwer- Iytton.
the British ambassador to France and the
only son of the celebrated novelist and 20
ct, died in Paris on Tuesday. The son
was well known as poet, writing under
the pseudonym of Owen Meredith
a despatch from Minneapolis says that
hundreds of men have returned from North
Dakota where they have been assisting at
threshing. They say that at least one
third of the wheat is still unthreshed, but
that they could not remain there with the
temperature lowering about the zero point
Col. Gardiner Tufts, superintendent of
the Massachusetts, reformatory. died Mon
day night of pneumonia, aged 90. He has
been in charge of the institution since De-
cember of 1884, when it was established as
a reformatory, and had made an excellent
record.
Almy was not informed of his death sem
tence until Wednesday, the delay being due
to the fact that the warden did not receive
the official mttimus of the court until the
night before. Almy said nothing on the
occasion except to ask for an interview
with the warden some time within few
days.
DR.. Andrew Mcfarland, a wel-known
insanity expert, and proprietor of pri-
vate insane retreat at Oakland, ILL.,, com
mitted suicide Sunday night by hanging
himself. He was a native of Concord, n.
| H., and was at one time superintendent of
the New Hampshire state asylum at that
place.
DIR. Thomas Hill, who was president OF
| Harvard college from 1862 to 1865. and
who was leading minister of the Unta-
rian denomination, and scientist of dis
tinguished attainments in astronomy and
mathematics, died last saturday at hi,
daughters home in Waltham, Mass, at
the age of "A.
An epidemic of diphtheria at Chatham
Pa, is assigned to a remarkable cause. 4
woman who had been in Brooklyn fol
some time returned She had diphtheria
in an undeveloped form and every woman
1 friend and child whom she met kissed her
Forty of these friends are now victims o
diphtheria.
Miss Mildred Burden was instantly killed
and Miss Katie Williams fatally injured al
the Main street crossing in East Hartford
Conn, last Friday night. They stepped
back to avoid passenger. train and in thu
darkness were struck by the rear end of {
freight train which was backing down ant
on which no lights were displayed.
A New York employer caused the ares
of one of the girls in his establishment fo
the larceny.of ten cents worth of dress
lining and pressed the charge against he
''for the principle of the thing" 1t ap
peared that the girl took the lining to MAKE
holders for the irons used in her work, anC
she was given the lightest sentence tina
the law provides, one day in the city prison
A syndicate of brewers known as tn,
Barley Syndicate of Chicago, have secured
250, 900 acres of land in North Dakota TO
barley farms, where they will send mex
spring thousands of German emigrant
from the Eastern states to raise barley TO
brewing purposes. TIL emigrants will no
be tenants, but owners of the land, whicl
will be sold to them on easy terms, with
guarantee for the sale of all the barle,
raised.
The CHILEAN government is coming to
more reasonable frame of mind, upon
sober second thought, and Capt. Schley o
the Baltimore has received cOmmunica
ton from the Judge of crimes at Nalparai
so stating that the request that the repre-
sentatives of the United States court o
enquiry be furnished with the deposition
taken at the investigation of the attack OF
the Baltimore seamen would be comple'
with. 1t was this request which was s.
loftily refused by the Chilians when tn
trouble between the two countries frs
arose.
John Hellinger, bright boy of II, lei
his home in Seventh street in New Hor
city last Friday night, to attend nigh
school, as his mother supposed. Two hour
later he was brought home in an expires
wagon, an unrecognizable mass. He ha
/, engaged i'm a prize fight with another boy
The affair had been carefully arranged
with boys for seconds, etc. Four Dune
gloves were used, and at the end of tn
fifth round Hellinger swooned. His sku
had been fractured at the base of the bral
= and he never recovered consciousness
The boys who were engaged in the atfai
have been arrested.