Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-30


at almost any price along the rivers.
A negro named Green shot Mrs. Lowe,
the wife of a well-known farmer at Queen
City, Tex, Saturday, and then killed her
seven-years-old daughter and threw both
bodies into the well. He fed, but was
captured and placed in jail A crowd
broke down the jail fastened Green to a
tree and burned him to death.
Edison says that his newly perfected
motor electric system for steam and street
cars will take the place of steam, not only
because it will run easily at 100 miles an
hour while steam strains itself to make GO,
but because of economy, as it will get one
horse power out of two pounds of coal,
while the locomotives now in use require
six pounds of coal for that amount of pow
er.
The Brooklyn police are confident that
they have captured the fire bug who has
been operating so extensively among the
tenement houses in that city. He was
caught Saturday night setting fire to a
house in which 20 people were sleeping
and escaped, only to be captured an hour
later Just as he had started fire in a
frame stable. He is u years old and is
thought to be insane on the subject of
| fires.
The Massachusetts, towns in Worcester
| county presented an unusual appearance
| last Friday. The ground was covered with
/ from two to four inches of snow, while the
/ leaves on the trees had hardly taken on
| their autumn colors and flowers in the gar
/ dens were i'm bloom. In many places the
winter apples had not been picked. 1t
was the earliest snow fall i'm that section
for IL years.
The INSTRUMENTATION" spirit ran
away with the Wesleyan MethodiSts of the
| United States at the annual convention at
Grand Rapids, Mich, last week, when they
refused to extend the hand of fellowship
to G.. X. Riley, who represented the Hi
nois conference, and turned him out of the
meeting. Mr.. Riley had joined the Grand
Army of the Republic, and this Offence
was classed as deadly sin by the church
as the Grand Army was considered secret
organization.
A rare curiosity has been found at Mo
rec, Wis, in the centre of a saw log 3:
inches in diameter, in the shape of an In
dian tOmahawk. Ii is six inches in length
and has two and one-half inch blad,
made of roughly forged iron, showing thu
rough workmanship of a century ago
There were ten inches of solid timber owe
the head, showing the indenture of pOr
ton of the handle in the timber, which
was of different timber from the tree
Judges of the growth of pine timber sa.
that il has been in the tree two centuries
as it was 20 feet from the ground.
The inspectors along the border repor
that there are 10000 Cinnamon at Van
couver and along the line of the Northern
Pacific railroad who are suffering for wan
of food Hundreds OF the Celestals ar
being landed at Vancouver. An intluen
tial Chinaman who has returned home ha
spread the report that it is easy to get int
the United States from Canada, and it
also believed that the Canadian govern
ment is assisting the Cinnamon in order
get the $50 which they are compelled t
pay to come into that country. If the bi
rush is not stopped soon there will be III
! told suffering among the new arrivals.
Su Penn, a Corean prince, was kille
> on the 22d inst. by train at College Sta
ton, Md, near Washington. He came I
this country with the commission sent on
bv Corea years ago to investigate the pros
ress of civilization in foreign countries an
= had decided to make his home here. ii
persistent refusal to return caused the col
= fiscation of large estates owned by hin
Il Becoming interested in agricultural az
Il vancement he studied at the Maryland a!
Il rcultural college, and after being gradua
o ed last June, obtained "A position in the a
ricultural department at Washington
J. where he devoted himself to translatiT
a and compiling data concerning agricultu
n in China, Japan and Corea. Su Penn ";
d 40 years of age. Recently he endeavorC
II to obtain permission to return to his II
tive country, but the request was refuse