Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-30
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

lne natural gas supply IN some sections
of Ohio is becoming exhausted.
A gold mine which promises rich returns
has been discovered at East Pittston, Me.
Two British vessels collided off Falmouth
and the CharlwOod foundered with loss
of 10 lives.
a cyclone swept over Conneaut Ohio,
Tuesday night, leveling 30 houses The
total loss will be about 100000.
Freight and passenger trains collided at
GlenwoOd, Mimi, Tuesday night and five
persons were killed and seven injured
The Kentucky villages of Pine Grove
and Lancaster have been almost entirely
wiped out of existence by fire.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Bartlett celebrated
the 10th anniversary of their marriage at
New Haven, Conn, last Saturday.
A petition to the car of Russia with re-
gard to the Siberian exiles has been signed
by over 100000 American citizens.
The president of Brazil has asked for an
appropriation of S55O,00O to provide for
the representation of that country at the
worlds fair.
The schooner Redwing from Noank,
Conn, was wrecked off the coast at Lewes,
Del, last Friday and the crew of IA men
were drowned
The Boston brokers firm of Irving A,
Evans IL Co. have made an assignment.
Mr.. Evans, it will be remembered, COM
mitted suicide few days ago.
The live-story factory of the New Eng
land preserving company of Charlestown,
Mass, was damaged to the extent of S25.-
coo by fire last Monday night.
The board of regents of the Smithson-
Z Ion, inc hn,.
ed a gift of 100000 to the institution from
Thomas G.. Hodgkins of Setauket, n. Y.
Meiringen, a town of 5000 inhabitants
in Switzerland, has been almost entirely
wiped out of existence by fire, the only
! buildings left standing in the place being
| two hotels.
The corner stone of the new divinity
! building at Tufts college was laid last Sun
day with impressive ceremonies. The
building is the gift of Rev. DIR. A. A. Min
| err
Z. f. Garcia, paying teller of the Louis
lana National bank of New Orleans is a de
faulter to the extent of $4,000. His
shortage had been skilfully covered from
bank officials for 10 years.
While returning from church at Potts
torwn, Pa, Sunday, Katie Cole, aged Is,
ltli uedu Ill a coughing IT. AhNCotlSdblOil
showed that tight lacing of her cOrsets
caused her DEATH
The hearing in the Searles will case, in
volving S40,OOO,000 was decided in favor
of Mr.. Searles at Salem, Mass, last Satur-
day, but Timothy Hopkins took an appeal
and the end is not yet.
The office of the Omaha Neb., Street
Railway company was robbed by four
In Iall
intendent Bates and two assistants and
then blew open the safe and stole $1,000.
Malignant diphiheria is epidemic in the
village of Socialville, Ohio, Is miles from
Cincinnati. The disease has appeared
with alarming rapidty, and numbers among
its victims children and grown people alike.
The attempts at relief in the famine
stricken districts of Russia are so badly
managed as to he of little value, and tn,
authorities have forbidden the Russian pa
pers to record the true state of affairs.
Berlin has Jack the Ripper sensa
: ton. The dead body of an abandone,
woman was found horribly slashed ant
mutilated in her lodgings in squali'
quarter of the town. The assassin, wh'
is unknown, escaped.
John Hanrhan, an Austin, Pa, rail
|
side gear engine last Friday and was draw
upon the cogs He was terribly injured
and lived for % hours with the flesh tori
from his heart and lungs.
ID. Dickinson of Deep River, Conn.
, found 100 $1,000 bills in his barn recently
From the sub-treasury in New York, wher
he sent the bills for examination, the
were returned to him Saturday punche
full of holes and marked "Counterfeit.
DISPATCHES have been received in Lon
don from Japan telling of violent earth
= quake on the japanese island of HondC
destroying many lives in the cities OF HOG
and Osaka. Three hundred are said t
have been killed in Osaka alone.
The Chicago milkmen have formed
trust and raised the price of lacteal fluid
eight cents quart, an advance of tw
cents. This action means that the house
wives of the city will pay out over Sl2,OO
more each morning than they have bee
doing.
Ralph Cunningham, the son of prom
inent business man at Fostoria, Ohio, a
tempted to commit suicide by crawling inl
a red hot furnace. He was pulled out
the engineer but his head and body wei
SO badly burned that recovery is doub
full.
A large counterfeit establishment
New York was broken up last Saturda
and the leaders arrested. The New YOI
officers have the names of 5000 persons
different parts of the country who ha'
written with reference to buying the ''gret
goods"
The proposals for supplying the propose
increase in the ocean mail service we
opened at Washington Monday. The biz
cover SO routes on the Atlantic and 10
the Pacific coast. The increase of this sc
vice will necessitate the construction OF
new vessels at cost of 100000.
The children of John Cummings,
farmer living near Penetanguishene, On
set fire to their house Sunday while tho
parents were absent, and three of the
nerished in the flames The mother
turned in time to rescue fourth chi
but was herself probably fatally burned
battle between the Blood Indians, vi
had been stealinghOrses, and the Canadi
police took place near the information
boundary line, about so miles from ASS
IS. aboine. Mont, last Saturday, in which 81
eral men were killed on both sides.
The record from Queenstown to n
York has again been broken, the Teutol
lies of the White Star line, which arrived Iu
as day, having made the trip in i've days,
ate hours and three minutes The perlol
a iS ance was all the more wonderful as