Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-02-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Charles Bradlaugh, the well-kuown Eng
lsh radical is dead
Meissonier the greatest of modern French
painters. died Saturday. aged about -.
Prof Koch is on his way to Egypt for
three months Of needed rest
A steamer from Hong Kong brings news
Of a terrible disaster on the river Nangtse
on Christmas dav. steamer loaded with
cotton took fire and of 400 Chinese natives
on board 300 persisted either in the flames
or by drowning
Masked robbers held up the stage run
ming between chihuahua and Pemos Altos
Mexico. Saturday night and got away with
$1,000 in silver bullion.
Two masked men went into tent in
railroad camp in Missoula county, Montana,
and shot five men, two of them fatally, Sc
cured 5000, and escaped to the mountains.
W. d Epson. the manager of large
iewelry firm at Waterbury, Conn, has
been arrested and fined $50 for eXpectora-
ton He emptied the contents OF his to
bacco-chewing mouth on the plate-glass
window Of rival dealer.
Sara Bernhardt. the French actress who
is to bring out Cleopatra in this country,
arrived in New York on Tuesday.
An electric car on the route between
Bruckton and Whitman, Mass, at cross
| ing on the Old COLONY road, became caught
| between the rails Before the people could
get out of the car locomotive struck 1t,
| smashing the car and badly injuring sever
al people.
The state legislative comm,ttee lind that
| the disaster last week he the Mammoth
| mine near Scotdale, Pa, in which 1870 lives
D N.asa, Ia MN b
| eral contributions are pouring m for the re
/ lief of the destitute families
A Chicago paper prints a report stating
| that the funds for the worlds fair are 50
/ DOC. 600 short. and another appeal for aid
will be made to the people of the city.
The Delematers are again under arrest
at Meadvile Pa, under charge OF emoez-
| element
Three persons lost their lives in lire at
| Findlev. Ohio. Friday night Of last week
The public debt reduction in January
| amounted to nearly GIG ,OO,uuu
Michael Eyraud the Paris murderer who
strangled a notary TO death and whose
| crime was divulged by his mistress, was
/ guillotined early Tuesday morning He
/ angrily refused all religious offices and re
PEELED the priest when offered the customa-
/ nv last kiss Just before his head went un-
| der the knife. and his head fell into the
sawdust.
The Rev sam Jones was caued Tuesday
at Palestine. Texas. 10y the mayor Of that
| place, who owed him grudge for re
/ marks made in one Of Jones's lectures last
/ fall In the melee Jones got the cane away
/ from his antagonist and gave him some
/ sound whacks IN return before bystanders
] separated them
The remarkably mild weather which has
prevailed in the Northwest was followed on
| Tuesday by a severe storm and cold wave
which swept over the Dakotas Minnesota,
! Nebraska aud as far south as st Louis.
where a zero temperature was recorded
/ Much live stock Is said 10 have frozen u
death
The Cunard steamship Umbria brought
| distinguished passenger to New York from
| England on Monday He was Sir Belvi-
dere a St Bernard dog, for which Mr.
| Sears of Melrose, Mass has just paid
| $1,000. The animal is three wears old,
weighs 220 pounds, and stands "a inches
| high 1t is needless to say that he is the
choicest Of his kind.
The first patient to be treated with the
| Koch lymph in this country, New Haven.
/ Conn, consumptive 30 wears old, has died
] Heath was prOhah-N hastened pN the use OF
the remedy. though doctors consider this
having nothing against it. His lungs we're
already far gone and he also suffered Sc
verely from distressing affection of the
larynx.
A Denver, Col, despatch says that the
! Newcastle coal mines have taken fire, fol
lowing an explosion in the mines, and the
underground fire extends for miles The
heat and smoke are suffocating and the
people are fleeing for their lives
Seventeen men were drowned Wednes
day in a river at Jeanesvile. Pa They
were working on a slope under worked
out and abandoned slope which was filled
with water A hole was inadvertently
blasted through into the old working, let
ting down the immense body of water
and drowning all the men in that part Of
the river.