Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-02-13
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Swiss village of Ruetti A large number
Of woodcutters were at work on the side Of
a mountain near that village, when sud
denly huge avalanche thundered down
upon the woodcutters burying % Of them
beneath a mass Of snow, ice, rocks and
trees
Boston has decided to build at once
schoolhouse to be used as high school for
manual training The experiment will give
New England people first t-class opportu-
nifty to observe the working Of such
school Those who know much about man
ual training predict great success from
the start.
A brother Of Robert Ray Hamilton, now
in Paris. has secured positive evidence
identifying the body found in the river in
Idaho last fall as that Of his brother The
evidence is from man now in Pau, who
was in Idaho at the time who knew Ham
ilton, and who makes IA deposition that
there is no doubt about the body being
Hamilton's.
A st Petersburg despatch tells of man
and his sweetheart who were out walking
when they were attacked by famshed
wolves. The man fought the wolves until
driven into a tree. from which he saw the
girl killed and eaten This so overcame
him that he loosened his hold and fell
among the wolves and was himself de
voured
A macaroni factory is to be established
at Minneapolis which will employ over 1000
hands 1t is found that much better ar
ticle can he made here than in Hungary,
the macaroni centre Of the world, and the
new concern already has a single order
from London house that will require the
consumption of 300 barrels of flour per
week.
A young school teacher, Miss Lent by
name, was 50 brutally assaulted recently
at her school near Winnebago City, MINI.
by the father and mother of pupil whom
she punished that she has died. The father
knocked her down with a school book.
while the mother seized her by the hair
and dragged her about the room, and end
ed 10y throwing her out of an open window
with the aid Of her husband.
The police of Havana had fight last
week with bandits which had taken pas
sage on steamer bound for Aspinwall,
causing wild excitement among the other
passengers. The police were finally victo
rious, and when the smoke died away three
bdnulAN were lNlllE ltdus huOlutI ntNtItlN
wounded and the leader, Montelongo, who
had ju nped overheard, was making quick
time for the shore. He was fired upon,
wounded.
letter from Shanghai gives the details
of terrible floods and famines which have
prevailed recently in the interior districts
of northern China. The governor general
of Li-Hing Chang reports that the people
of Schuan have suffered terribly by food
which destroyed temples, bridges and city
walls in no less than ten districts In Wen
Chaun the loss of life will reach fully 1000.
Immediately following the floods at Pei
Chang a fire broke out and destroyed -
houses. In three other places houses were
burned to the number of POO. The suffer
ing among the poor is something terrible.
The roads everywhere are difficult of pas
sage and crowds Of starving wretches are
on their way to Shanghai. How to deal
with them will be an anxious and difficult
problem for those in power
A gas feeder of the Susquehanna coal
companv's mine at Nauticoke was ignited
last Friday by men who were driving new
openings. The feeder rapidly increased
until the flames spread along the face OF
the workings, setting fire to the coal and
driving the men to the surface. In a short
time the interior Of the mine was a mass OF
flames. roaring like furnace and threat
ening total destruction to the entire under
ground workings Preparations were quick
" made to flood the workings, and trough
210O feet long was thrown down the slop,
to carry water into the mine. and a larg,
volume of water is now pouring down tn,
slope Whether this will extinguish tn,
| flames is a,question that no one can decid,
as vet In any case the work of flooding
the mine may require months, and in tn,
meantime hundreds of miners will be idle
Five Republican members of the SAINT
! Fe N. NJ city council were holding a con
sultation in the office of T. B. Catron las
week Thursday evening, when two mel
ran up to the window and fired at them, on
using a shotgun and the other a rifle. The,
seriously wounded Councilman j. A. An
chulta, and narrowly missed Councilme
Catron, Slower and Rarea. The assassin
disappeared in the darkness, hut were track
ed some seven miles out by posse, whe
they again eluded pursuit. The legislativ
assembly Friday passed an act in bot
houses appropriating $l0,O 900 for the deteC
ton, arrest and conviction of the assassini
and authorizing the governor to spend a
extra amount If necessary for their cal
ture. The governor has issued proclams
ton offering a reward of 5000 for the al
rest of the miscreants. The crime is b,
lieved to be for political motives.
Baltimore seems to be the city above a
others where unique schemes for getting
living without working are developed
is only recently that the ''godson of tn,
Senate" swindle, whereby nearly all Il
solons of the upper branch of Congre
were duped into giving money and m
mentOs to the father of an alleged chi
named in honor of the senator, was vi
earthed, and it became evident that Il
child bore the names of 40 or 30 senator
and that the father had cash and presen
in plenty. The latest dodge was discovers
last week, Some of the women workers
church discovered a man, wife and f'
children in destitute circumstances. I'll
man was apparently very dssipated, al
divulged to a clergyman that he had new
been married to the woman who was Il
mother of his children. The man desire
to turn over a new leaf, have the childrt
christened aud right the wrong of yeal
standing. Accordingly preparations we
made for the marriage of the couple al
the christening of the children, and we
, carried out with great rejoicing, and pre-
ents of clothing, provisions, etc, we
heaped upon the family. This was all vel
well, but the church people who broug
this family out of the error of their wa
ceased to rejoice when it came to the lig
that they had heen working the same rack
in various sections of the city under diffe
. ent names, and that the man and wont
had been married 10 times, and the ch
dren had received 30 chTistenings.