Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-03-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The steamer City of Richmond of the
Hartford line was burned at her wharf in
New York last Friday The bodies of two
colored men employed on the boat were
found in the ruins after the fire had been
put out.
The verdict of the coroner's jury on the
recent tunnel disaster in New York city,
rendered on Thursday of last week, holds
the officers and directors of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford railroad com
pany the richest railroad concern in New
England responsible for the accident,
which caused the loss of six lives. The
coroner promptly issued warrants for the
directors, Charles P. Clark president
of the road, Chauncey NJ. Depew and Will
liam Rockefeller being included in the list
They all appeared in court and gave bonds
in the sum of $685. 900 each. Cornelius
Vanderbilt accompanied Mr.. Depew and
went upon his bond
The famous Gutenberg Bible, the first
printed book, was bought at the sale of Il
celebrated New York collection last week
by rich Chicago man who paid Sl4, 800
for it, and will give it to one of the libra
ries of that city,
Burglars broke into the bank at Freeport,
Pa one night last week and secured $1,000
in cash and $780, 900 worth of stocks and
bonds. About one-half of the latter were
negotiable.
The third largest diamond in the world
passed through the custom house at New
York Saturday. 1t weighs ll5 carats and
is valued at So, 900 The largest diamond
in the world, the Great Mogul, weighs 1863
carats.
Trichina, is getting in its deadly work in
I l.. he how
CURED within week.
1t is estimated that Harvard college will
receive 500, 600 from the estate of the late
Edward Conant of Worcester.
Over 1000 cases of measles have been re
ported in Boston since the beginning of the
| year.
In the Amoskeag foundry at Manches-
ter, n H. last Friday the bottom dropped
out of ladle containing 1000 pounds of
molten metal The fiery liquid was spat-
tered over 30 workmen and several of them
were severely injured, but none fatally.
Miss Zoe Gayton, California actress,
who started from San Francisco about seven
months ago, is now making her way across
New York Thus far she has walked over
5000 miles on the trip.
The census shows that in Virginia in the
/
made a net increase of ~ 00O while the
net gain in colored population was only 935.
The Arkansas legislature has passed an
Australian ballot law.
Twenty thousand bills were introduced
in the last Congress, and about 2OOO be-
came laws
Ex- Senator Warner Miller of New York,
president oe the Nicaragua canal construc-
ton company, is ON his way TO Central
America where he will make tour of in
spectiOn of the canal aud its surroundings.
He will cross the country along the line of
the canal to the Pacific coast and will come
home by way of California
The sailor arrested on a charge Of com
plicity in the Whitechapel murders has
been discharged, aud the whole matter is a
deeper mystery than it was before. The
London police have used bloodhounds and
talk of employing women and members
of the salvation army in their attempts to
discover the criminal
The old fashioned French bedstead ON
which Abraham Lincoln slept during his
presidential life at Warrington, and on
which his body was laid after the assasslna
tion, is now the property OF Mrs. NJ NJ
MagrudeT of that city. lt was used III tne
White House for several years alter"a'",
was finally stored in the attic, aud when
sold at a general sale of discarded furniture
was bought by Mr. Maguder' VINO ,y,.s. wa.
employed as a carpenter at tho
House. ,.. old
w. H. II. Murray has bought tns S,.oI on
Murray homestead aud farm III vi ,',srs
Conn. which he had to sell several i S'Ihiis ~
OnI s~o and he will pass the remainder o' .n5 n,i
lie there. doing quiet literary, ""'N Wv"
forsaking the lecture platform