Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-04-24
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Inc steamer Connecticut, which left
Stonington, Conn. late Friday night col
lided with three-masted schooner Satur-
day morning off Huntington. The schoon-
er struck the Connecticut near the pilot
house, tearing away stanchious. engineer 5
stateroom, and badly damaging the wheel
house. There were 700 passengers ON the
Connecticut, but no panic took place. The
damage will amount to 10000.
During the year 1890 Yale college re
ceived cash gifts amounting to Sl,lj1,21
\ disease called spotted fever is raging
in the vicinity Of Milan, Tenn. Over so
victims died in two days. and SO far not a
patient has recovered.
plan has been proposed at Hartford to
lay out a system of connected suburban
parks, each accessible tn some populous 10.
cality, the drive hich would connect them
making the circuit of the city. 1t is esti-
mated that 1000 acres now easily to he pur
chased would suffice for the park, and that
the whole land could be- bought for less
than 100000
New York had a half-million dollar fire
last Friday morning, the Ross building aud
buildings on Bank and Greenv ich streets
being destroyed
Rockland county, y. Y. j, greatly ex
cited over the incendiarv fires that have re
Gently occurred in its borders. and which
are thought to be the result Of the brick
makers strike
The managers of the mammoth pulp mill
at Madison, Maine, in which ex-Secretary
Whitney and other New Workers are in
terested, have purchased Il. 600, COO feet of
spruce logs to keep the big factory going
during the coming summer, and other large
pulp manufacturing concerns on the Penuh-
scot, kennebec and Androscnggin rivers
have bought logs in proportion, thus pro-
vldlng market for great quantities of
small stuff which would be of no value
as lumber. There is enough material Of
this sort in northern and eastern Maine to
keep the pulp mills going for generations.
as may be realized from the fact that the
wild lands of the state cover an area of
1890, S36 acres, and only a small part of
this vast tract has been shoru of its forest
growth. All over the state paper mills are
springiny up beside the pulp mills, and the
business bids fair to take rank among the
leading industries Of Maine
While fire was at its height at the cor.
ner of Court and Hanover streets in Dos.
ton last Sunday the walls fell, and the
burning timbers imprisoned 20 hremen.
The men were all rescued after an hour.
hard work, and none of them was fatally
injured
A Dayton, Ohio, woman placed her dia-
monds, valued at $500 under her pillow
wrapped up in tissue paper. In the morn
ing she picked up the paper, and thinking
it bit of waste threw it into the stove
with the rubbish
R. 7. Almy * Co the WASHINGTON
street clothiers at Boston, have failed, with
liabilities of 100000.
A terrible tragedy occurred Sunday
morning in a tenement occupied by Italian
rag pickers in Hoboken, y. j. Angelo Ga
both stole into the room where his mother
in-law was sleeping and stabbed her with
his stiletto, killing her instantly. He then
stabbed his father-in-law in the neck. The
old man shouted and the two sous came to
his rescue. They fired upon Gaboth, who
fell mortally wounded. One Of the broth.
ers was also hit by a bullet, and Gaboth's
wife, who attempted to interfere between
her husband brothers, was twice stabbed.
A young German couple registered at
the Grand Union hotel in New York Sun
day, and Monday night they were found
dead in bed, locked in each others arms
They had inhaled gas through rubber tubes
held in their mouths.
Detectives have unearthed at Pittsburg,
Pa, gang of thieves who have in a few
years past taken 81, 900, 600 worth of goods
from freight trains on the different roads
entering that city. Five of the leaders
have been arrested.
Edward Higgins, aged 81, of Bridgeport
Conn, Saturday night wagered 2j cents
that he could 60 hand over hand on a rope
from one mast to another on a schooner "
ing at the wharf in that city. The rope
was about 40 feet from the deck When
L.-..A H. Z 4 Il