Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-01-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF


Five boys who were skating ON the
Charles river near Cambridge Mass. Sat
urday. broke through the ice and two of
them were drowned.
Danbury. Conn. made over $500. 900
hats last wear about 25o.O0U more than
ever before.
Mrs Della Fahey, widow of Milford
Mass 40 years of age. had paralvtic
stroke Wednesday aud fell upon the stove
remaining there until she was terribly
burned from head 10 foot. her injuries re
sultIng fatally
he Engineering News says that 5isj
miles of railway track were laid in tins
country during the past year. W being laid
in New England ia 1881 The increase IN
the United states was lO9l
Emma Abbott the we'll known singer and
manager of English opera died Monday at
salt Lake City after a brief illness with
pneumonia She expected 10 die and told
her physician on New y ears dAy that her
next song would be sung in heaven a
singular coincidence Is that she died on the
anniversary Of her husbands death The
burial will be- at Gloucester Mass, beside
the body of her husband
ID. l. Moody opened a series of meetings
IN Boston sunday evening
A story COMES from New Martinsville "
va. of two women who fought duel
with butcher knives in the kitchen of one of
them b. was "a desperate encounter aud
one of the women was fatally cut 90 the
face. neck and breast
a Dot oft Italian lahorers employed on pub.
hr improvements nt harnegat Park IS. D..
rrnw riutul- because their nav was slow 900
coming. aud the state militia was ordered to
300 ready for duty last saturday The diff
Guilty was arranged and qrfet restored with
ont the aid OF the troop,
Miss Mildred Fuller daughter of Chief
Justice Fuller was married at Washington.
tuesday night TO Hugh Campbell Wallace
of Tacoma. " ash
s. man was brought into a Boston station
F house Monday night charged with a curious
crim--tnat of stealing 500 hens from pou'
try wards iu " wakefield and Melrose The
fowls were dressed and sold On Boston dea.
pr-
Charles Bol also known as Charles hing.
of Middleton. Mas, Is tine oldest man lu
New England lie expects TO celebrate his
ll uth anniversary ON the 18th
There was shocking murder at south
-eabrols Mass tuesday night A nus
band came home from Newburvport drunk
Illus exasperated wife had angry words with
him about some wood. and the result was
that she sei2ai butcher knife. plunged it
into ms breast and be died Immediately
Catherine station. Ala INDUCED Iu ii
RIOT O. few DAYS ago The difficulty began
with fight between two merchants. Their
friends took up the contest and blood flowed
freely During the riot mot drove the
cplored postmaster out of town.
The virtue Of the corset mas been discoy
erred A burglar at Los Angles, Cal, shot
at a woman The bullet struck her corset
and glanced OFT and she escaped uninlured
Dr Schhemauu. the celebrated archa1io-
eisj whose explorations on the supposed
site of Ancient Troy have male hun famous
died recently at Berlin, Germany, aged 81
government inspector mas found that
over 2l.uuu stamped envelope. have been
stolen from the contractors at Hartford
Conn They were taken bv d night watch
mau. VINO sold them The contractors are
responsible aud Will indemnify tine govern
meut
Frederick Remington. Harper war art
I-, was captured Monday by "a small party
of hostile Indians near White River. south
Dlko,a The Indians uuarmei nm and
told nm 90 900 home. after taking hl- 90
ulrr1 aud sketch book from MIN
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attendance and many officers and attach.
of the treasury department were present
Much apprehension is felt along the lower
Mississippi over the unsafe condition Of the
ievees and a prospect oi a repetition OF last
>urIur. ovprfil. ON account of the uuu-u
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men, nEr''N''ura' l'ur'A'ls' anI ProprleS.'
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The postal clerks Of England are goln.
ONT 900 strike because mate clerks hav'
been d'sn'~,-H ana women nave been EN-
pioYed To take their places
a pnvsiciau az Windsor Mills J. q DIE.
10 q tragca. death last sunday night la
n mistake for preparation he hud made as al
eXpectoraut % relieve asthma he took
- draugut from bottle OF aconlte. His owl
o. and other medira, efforts % relieve hln
% failed and bee Went 90 the priest house
D. made ul- confession. received the sarrH
IS meut- bal hts viii drawn. and then wen
e home and died lu agony with his vouu
" wife ani th'~e rhl'fen around MN
Eleven 1r twelve miners were killed d
.t Angel camp. near san AndreAs Gal Mou
b. dav The men were being lowered into tn
Utica mine and when about 100 feet tror
-he surface the rope broke precipitatiu
'- al. distance of 4Nn feet % the bottom "a
"a tine sinai,
The vii. of Mrs Elizabeth ferElu, Fog
Dr. Yt New YORK leaves about $500 upb o. boo.
ptai- and asvium- of that CITY. ter whol
' estate amounts 20 over S2.Vf' '"'
six pauent- in the Massachusetts seuerl
hoSPita. we're treated with pr Koch s. !Nmp
DO last "eeh
Fred Onhete' ui AunuIn' n. D. ha
broken the record at jumping the rope II
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d ID DUN 60, M last week revle'
'i trade stated that the record OF the yea
n lu-t CLOSED showed an extraordinary voluu
20 of business In many hnes-inciudmr iroi
cotton leather boot anu shoe ana meat pr
1uctlon-surphsslnE all precedent 10
business of the clearing house exchange
Do was iu per cent larger than III any previo,
et wear The record OF failures IN nnmne
cd and u amount OF hamhtles. was large
.f than In any wear since 1881, although on
trf- more than M 1881
a hvey fire broke out IN the ritth aveuu
q theatre about midnight FRIDAY, and destrol
le ed that building and spread 10 those adloli
iI M, Hermann theatre being destroyt
p" and the Sturtevant Rouse damaged. II
u total loss "h' a""u' s'"u'V'o. Inc rH'
avenue uNea"e "n''" mas "eeu uu ne