Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-04-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

General f. u. Spinula. representstiv.
from the tenth district Of New York Ji.J
n Washington Monday night.
Cark's Arcade, the largest building IN
Elizabeth, n. j containing the post. Office
armory, court offices, law offices and stores
was burned Monday, The loss is estimated
ut $500 600.
A New York pool seller has been sen.
fenced 10 three months Imprisonment aud
to pay Il line Of $1,000.
Two workmen were replacing a lid ON n
large hot water tank in BROOKLYN. n. Y
Monday, when the tank collapsed and botb
we're fatally scalded
Much excitement exists at Dubois Pa
over the poisoning of dozen children.
who ate wild parsnip roots Three of them
died in commissions and the others are in A
precarious condition.
According to a census bulletin on rail
road transportation the number Of passen-
gers on the railroads in New England in
1889 was lO3,3il,3S7 The number of tons
of freight moved was 81 9gj, 500.
Forty masked men broke into the iai at
Nealand Wash, Saturday and shot two
murderers, who were awaiting a new trial.
\ wall fell on Race street at Cincinnati
saturday, and 10 stone masons were buried
under the debris. Two of them were killed
There is great excitement in Schuylkill
county, Pa over the discovery of petro-
eum in supposed immense quantities.
New York has developed the latest insur-
ance project, a rent guarantee company.
the business of which is to insure landlords
against losses by bad tenants.
A party of American engineers have
gone 10 Panama to make "A survey Of 5000
miles IN south America ON the proposed
railroad which will connect New York and
Buenos Ayres.
a formal order has been issued, extend
ing the civil service over part Of the In
dian service.
The secretary of the navy has closed a
contract with Wilmington. Del con
rern whereby IA plant will lee established
for making gun cotton and smokeless pow
der for naval uses
1t wouh seem from the action taken Mt
the interstate convention Of miners and
operators at Pittsburg last week that
ij,0OO mine workers Of Pennsylvania will
stop work May / This would affect 500.
600 persons directly, and hundreds Of thou
sands indirectly.
champion bounty jumper in the record of IA
man whose mother has made two appica
tiuns for pension The records show that
the man was shot 10y order Of court mar
tial while Il member of Pennsylvania com
pany lie enlisted rs times within |
months and received 1919 bounty money
The death Of the Swedish count Leweu-
haupt occurred at Wilmington, Del, Mon
laH A 49,. n
illness, and only ten days after his mar
riage to the daughter of Secretary of State
Bayard The wedding was a brilliant affair,
many friends from the nobility coming
from Europe to be present The count
was draughtsman, and had been in Penn
Sylvania several years. His brother was
the Swedish minister to this country during
Cleveand's administration
DIR. Ehen Tourgte, founder and director
of the New England conservatory of
music at Boston, died Sunday night. He
founded the Providence and New England
Conservatives in 1867, and in 1869 was
made doctor Of music b. Wesleyan univer-
sity. He will be greatly missed in Boston
musical circles.
The death rate in Brooklyn, ~ Y, was
the heaviest last week ever known, $50
deaths being reported to the board of
health. Grip was largely responsible.
The notorious DR.. Blood who was
thought to have some connection with the
celebrated Sawtele murder, committed
near Rochester, n. H., has been found at
Springfield, Mass, where he was practicing
under the name of Lewis.
Seventeen patents we're issued this week
to IA Massachusetts, man, who, it is claimed,
has solved the problem of applying ball
bearings to every shaft that turns, be it
big or little, vertical or horizontal. Ball
bearings, as,every one knows, are in uni
versal use in bicycles. A perfect ball bear
ing has long been dream of inventors,
since 10y its use friction may be reduced to
minimum, and power, heat, wear, oil,
etc, be greatly economical. If the inven-
tors expectations shall be realized the re-
suit will he revolution in mechanics.