Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-03-27
NO. ID.
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

ExSpeaker Thomas q Reed has gone to
Europe.
During the wear 1890 there were 10. l03
deaths and 80, 2j0 births in New York ritv
New Hampshire has appropriated S2i.
900 TO provide for its exhibit at the worlds
fair.
magnificent monument in memory of
the abolition Of serfdum hv Alexander II
has just been placed in a square in Moscow
The six days foot race at New York last
week was fizzle "Lepper" Hughes the
winner, covered 5lS miles, and Bennett.
the Canadian, who was second, $40 miles.
Capt. Baldwin of Gen Miles's staff gives
the official figures Of the number Of Indi-
ans killed during the recent uprising nt POI
ard the number Of arms taken as PSI
The largest amount ever received in one
week Of dramatic performances was S43. Se0
at the fremont theatre in Boston last week,
when Sara Bernhardt was the attraction.
One Of the largest pensions of recent
years was awarded to Dr. Manhattan Pick
EFT of Cory, Pa, formerly a member Of
the 18th New York volunteers He re
ceived ZIG, 600 back pay
Through the efforts of Minister Phelps
the embargo on American beef landed at
Hamburg has been removed 1t is expect
ed that Mr.. Phelps will obtain the removal
of the restrictions placed on the importa-
tion of American pork.
young woman at Buffalo, n. Y, took
ten grains of morphine with suicidal intent
Tracheotomy was performed and an appar-
atus for artificial respiration inserted AZ
ter l3 hours of unintermittent initiation Of
the lungs artificially, consciousness was re
stored and natural breathing resumed. She
recovered
Last week Friday three revenue officers
from Greensboro ~ c., raided the Illicit
distilleries in the mountains of Surrey
county. They had destroyed several small
stills, when they came upon a large one,
with several thousand gallons of mash and
barrels of whiskey Six men who we're at
work at the still fed to the thicket. The
officers were fired upon and two of them
killed, the other escaping uninjured.
There is at least one good thing to he
said for Senator Peher Of Kansas He has
a wife and eight children. and the latter,
including three daughters have all been
taught trades. The boys have all learned
the printers trade, and the eldest daughter
has been taught to set type. One son is
locomotive engineer One daughter does
amanuensis work and reporting, but also
sets type.
One of the greatest undertakings of 1891
will be the extension of the Great North
ern railway from the north central part of
Montana to Puget sound, distance Of 500
miles across the Rockies into the Koolena
country, and through the entire length uf
the state Of Washington to tide water
When completed it will be the shortest line
by 2jO miles of any trans-continental route
and opens up a large area of undeveloped
mineral, timber and agricultural country
step-son of Senator Vance of North
Carolina, while crazy as the result of
spree smashed a window Of the White
House Saturday night and attempted to
gain entrance, with the intention of assault
ing the President He was arrested, but
after the effect of the liquor wore off he
said he had no remembrance Of what he
had done and was discharged, after send
ing a written apology to the President. Mr..
Harrison declining to press complaint
against him.
kimball Union arademv. recently burned
at Meriden, n. H., has a wonderful record
in the number of successful men it has
turned out. There has been within the
ranks of its alumni 333 clergymen includ-
ing several ID. Ds., 26 missionaries, 21l phv-
sicians, BIB lawyers, 81 editors, 43l teach
ers, ll2 farmers, 1928 business men. seven
college presidents, "a professors in colleges.
six members of Congress- four justices of
higher courts and two members of presi-
dental cabinets.
The famous Hatfield-McCoy feud which
has made of Wayne county, W. V, and
Pike county, Ky, a bloody ground for 30
years has come to happy and romantic
end In the course of the vendetta it is
said that POO lives have been sacrificed, but
the feud only became open war within four
or five years, when cold -blooded murder
followed assassination so closely as to horri-
fy the country. This new activity dated
from the murder of a Mccoy, who had
married his cousin, by Hatfield who had
been betrothed to her. A marriage will be
the beginning and end of the affair, as it
has been arranged for a nephew of the
Hatfield faction to marry fair daughter of
the house of Mccoy in May, when a big
barbecue will be held in Wayne county,
near the Big Sandy
The great snow storm and blizzard which
swept over England two weeks ago was the
worst which that country has experienced
for % years On the coast it is estimated
that shipwrecks cost 20 lives Inland there
40 ho outh lOSS vi lllt, Oul lLe unNOuleu
cold and snow caused intense suffering In
DevOnshire and Cornwall the great depth
of snow entirely isolated many of the
country hamlets, and the scarcity of food
was such in many places that actual starva-
tlon threatened. On several snow bound,
unheated English trains the passengers
barely kept from freezing. One of the pit
iful features of the visitation was the loss
of live stock caused by the storm and cold
weather
Within the past three months two stores
at Homestead and McKeesport, Pa, have
been robbed of thousands of dollars worth
of goods. Last Saturday night D. H. Gil
kerson, the leading detective of Pittsburg,
and his assistant, Murphy, entered house
at Bull Run, a small mining town, and at
tempted to arrest one Fitzsimmons and his
wife for having committed the robberes
Fitzsimmons fired at Gllkerson, who fell
dead with a bullet in his brain. \ fusil-
lade between Murphy and Fitzsimmons and
his wife followed, until the revolvers were
emptied. By this time a crowd had col
lected. Fitzsimmons was living on the
floor, bleeding from several wounds Three
bullets had hit Murphy, In the excitment
Fitzsimmons had recovered and escaped to
the mountains, Murphy will recover Mrs
FitZsimmOns WAS arrastad