Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-01-02

ing the Vanderbilt interests, have bought
30, 600 acres of coal and timber land in
West Virginia, and large tracts have also
been bought by the Chesapeake and Ohio
and Baltimore and Ohio people. 1t is pro
posed to develop the rich coal mines on
these lands.
The Masonic temple, a handsome marble
structure worth $3.50, 600, at Baltimore,
was ruined by fire last week Thursday
The Grand Army veterans propose to
raise S200,0 900, without government aid. to
build memorial hall at Decatur, ILL.,,
where the first post was organized
Smuggler, the famous stallion, is dead.
The boiler in sausage factory at Gin
cinnati exploded Saturday, wrecking the
shop and seven dwelling houses. Two per
sons were killed and several badly injured
Dastardly and determined attempts at in
cendiaIsm were made at Cohassett Mass
last week Thursday, five fires being started
between and o'clock in the morning
The fires were extinguished without great
loss. Kerosene was used to start the fires
A horrible affair occurred in Galivans
livery stable on 4th street in New York
city one day last week. Two discharged
employees came into the stable and assaulted
Galivan with bale sticks, knocking him un-
der a carriage and breaking his nose ard
several ribs. Galivan drew a revolver and
fred upon the men, killing one and serious
ly wounding the other
Samuel Mickles, a st. Paul man. shot his
wife and daughter last week, and then com
mitted suicide.
Edward +. Fay of Hartford Conn,
while a Waterman in the United States en-
velope works two years ago, stole 1000
stamped envelopes. A few days ago it was
discovered that these envelopes were being
sold at Hartford. The matter was investi-
gated and Fay proved guilty.
Fifteen Italians have been arrested at
Pittsburg, Pa, for counterfeiting, and a
large amount in spurious silver dollars cap
tured.
John Little, on leaving Pittsburg, Pa
in May, 1889, for a short vacation, said to
friend, IF anything happens to me, take
care of my family Little was drowned
in the Johnstown food and his wife and
eight children left penniless. His compan-
ion sent 1000 letters to the dead man ) rel
stives and friends, and nearly all respond
ed, so that the widow received over 5000.
which bought her a home and left money
in the bank.
The schooner Lucinda c. Potter, bound
from Boston to Norfolk, capsized Sunday
off the New Jersey coast and only one of
the crew of Is reached shore alive.
The selectmen of Woodbury., Conn, take
the lead for official brutes Caroline Mer-
amble, pauper, was suffering from
broken hip and bed sores. The selectmen
had her conveyed to a New Haven hospital,
distance of 20 miles, in a beach wagon,
in which there was nothing resembling a
ha1 l. IL.
| legs were frozen before she reached the
hospital, where she died in few days.
A young man drove up in sleigh to a
| iewelry store on fremont street in Boston
and asked TO see some rings. The proprie-
tor showed him a folding case containing
rings and scarf pins valued at $3.50. The
| young man coolly folded up the case, put it
under his arm, ran out of the store, lump
ed into the sleigh and made his escape.
A fve-story brick building used as
! brewery, at the corner of First avenue and
goth street in New York city, collapsed
Monday while 30 workmen were repairing
It, A dozen or more of the men were
buried in the ruins. Two of them were
killed and several badly injured.
Another horrible disaster is reported
from China. A passenger steamer took
fire and over 200 lives were lost. Most of
those who persisted jumped overheard to
escape the flames.
While several hundred skaters were on
the river at Warwick on the Avon in Eng
land on Sunday, an immense assure sud
denly appeared in the ice aud 500 plunged
into the river Many were drowned, and at
last reports II dead bodies had been taken
out.
One hundred and twenty eight lake yes
sells are wintering at Detroit. Their ton.
mage is 81 900; value, 81 PAL 100
A heavy blanket of fog spread over the
whole central and southwestern section of
the country Wednesday night, completely
demoralizing the telegraph service.
1t is estimated that the combination of
the manufacturers of harvesting machn-
cry, recently made at the West, will throw
10000 men out of employment
There was a terrific cOnhagration in Lon
don on Tuesday when several large ware
houses were burned near Black Friar's
bridge. The property loss was about So
| 0O0, 600
The weather is colder in England than
before since 1913.
James r. Garfield, the second son of the
late President Garfield, WAS married in
Chicago Tuesday night.
Heavier SHOWS have fallen in West Vir-
GINA than before for 80 years. In the
mountains it is banked to the depth of sew
eral feet and in the valleys it lies three
feet deep on a level. Quails, rabbits and
other wild things are dying from starvation.
Two lepers have been inoculated with the
lymph according TO the method of DR.. Koch.
They have improved rapidly, and it is pos
sible that a remedy for this loathsome dis,
ease has at last been found.
George II. Greene and wife, who had
been married one week, were thrown from
carriage at South Coventry, Conn, last
week Thursday. He was killed and it is
thought that she is fatally injured
A carriage in which four young people
were riding was struck by locomotive at
Camden, Ind, and two of them killed.
The largest yield of potatoes TO the acre
in the American agriculturists contest is
reported from johnson county, Wyoming
S74 bushels and 4S pounds.