Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-05-08
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Death Of Dr. Boutwell,.

Brooklyn, who inhaled the cork of a mp1i-
cine bottle into his left bronchial tube April
Is. and whose plucky fight for life has at
tractcd general attention and sympathy.
died Sunday night. Nothing but his mag
nifccnt physique and his iron will kept
him alive so long under the strain of the
repeated operations. When DIR. Boutwell,
swallowed the cork he did not think it a
serious affair His efforts to eXtrcate the
cork with his finger only pushed it further
down. and he believed for a time that he
had gotten rid of it for good. He preached
two sermons next day without any great
difficulty, and it was not till Monday even
ING that he decided to see DIR. Rushmore.
The doctor did not consider the case Sc
rous one, and only after the usual meth
ods of removing foreign substances from
the throat had all failed did he begin to be
alarmed. DR.. Boutwell, was taken to the
hospital three days later, and while there
three operations were performed Trache-
otomy was finally resOrted to. and a flexi-
BILE silver corkscrew was pushed through
the windpipe and an attempt was made
with it to draw the cork. This experiment
failing, it was decided to remove portions
of two ribs and cut the cork out of the
hronchus, but the sufferer did not rally
sufficiently to stand the shock. The case
excited general interest among the medical
fraternity being almost wholly without
precedent
The doctors of the Massachusetts general
hospital at Boston are at work upon case
similar to that of Rev. Dr. Boutwell,. A
nne-years-old Charlestown boy named
Mile while running and eating tamarind.
drew one of the seeds into his left lung.
Tracheotomy has been performed, but it is
feared that as in DIR. Bothwell's case pneu-
monia will set in and cause death.
Inflated Johnstown, Pa. had fire last
Saturday morning which consumed the
Baptist church, three stores, a Photographic
gallery and physicians office.
\ swift and terrible fire occurred i'm
fireworks factory on Union avenue at New
York last Friday. -Four young women lost
their lives. an the proprietor was severely
burned.
shocking accident occurred at the
BcsSemer steel works at Troy, y. Y, last
Friday, when a large ladle of molten iron
was accidentally overturned, and the con-
tents fell upon three men. Their flesh was
eaten to the bones, and two will die.
Fire destroyed $4,000 worth of the prop
erty and horses of Irwin Bros. circus at
Sing Sing, y. Y, last Saturday.
Archibald Andrews, the oldest man i'm
North Carolina died near Hillsboro last
week, aged 107. He leaves brother. Hen
ry. now over 100 years old. Both men
were farmers, of temperate habits. and eX-
pert hunters after they were 80 years old.
The decrease in the public debt during
April was 81 100000
An Alaskan exploring party, which was
sent out year ago, has arrived at Port
Townsend. Wash. The party crossed the
Chilkat mountains and discovered and
mapped new rivers, lakes and lofty mount
aims.
The indications are that the peach crop
in Delaware and Maryland will be the larg-
est ever harvested, good judges predicting
that it will surpass the crop of 1875, which
was six million baskets.
\ York, Pa, swindler has left that place
after reaping riches by phantom fortune
scheme. He posed as a solicitor, and in
formed hundreds of people in England that
a distant relative of theirs had died in this
country, and that it would be necessary for
the payment of fee before the legacies
could be forwarded. The fees gathered in
were about $50 each.
lege arrived in Boston Sunday morning.
having made the trip from Yokohama, ia
pan. in Is days, lacking six hours This is
by far the quickest trip from Japan that
has ever been made. Across the continent
from Vancouver to Montreal was trip of
four days, and he came on from Montreal
to Boston in II hours.
The boiler of locomotive of a moving
DAYTON
Ohio, last Friday, killing the fireman and
terribly scalding two other men.
Extensive forest fires have been raging
in Atlantic and Ocean counties, y. j.,
and the damage is estimated at over $780,
600. Many dwellings were consumed and
the inhabitants fled for their lives.
Fifty years ago Eben jackson became a
boarder at a Brooklyn, n. Y, hotel, and
has lived there ever since, thus beating the
world record as hotel guest The 5Oth
anniversary was deliberately celebrated a
few days ago.
United States Consul Jay Ewing, nephew
of Secretary James g. Blaine, at a board
of trade banquet last week at Vancouver,
b. c., refused to join in drinking to the
toast, Her Majesty the Queen" When
an explanation was demanded he said that,
as All OlllCldl representative VI lilV Cllll-
ed States he acknowledged no right of
the British sovereign to this courtesy. Hos
tile feeling against him is so strong that his
withdrawal will be asked for.
Henry Wildes, Lynn, Mass, carpen-
ter, was run over by train at Beachmont
Sunday and both legs were cut off. He
crawled mile before he found assistance
and was taken to the hospital. Both legs
were amputated, and while the doctors
were dressing his wounds, although suffer
ing intense pain, he laughed and chatted
in the most uncOncerned way 1t was at
first thought his wonderful grit would en-
able him to pull through, but toward even
ing he began to sink, and just before nine
o'clock he died
Charles Pratt, the vice president of the
Standard Oil company, died in New York
Monday night. He was worth Sl5, 100000
and had founded the Pratt institute in
Brooklyn at a cost of 81 100000 He left
$4,000 TO the Emanuel Baptist church of
Brooklyn. He died very suddenly, and his
last act was to sign a check for $1,000 for
charitable purposes.
"Old Hutch" the Chicago speculator,
who disappeared last week, was found wan
dering aimessly about i'm the streets OF
Evansville, Ind. His son, who is one OF
the most responsible members of the Chi
cago board of trade, gave orders that he be
left to himself, with suitable watch kept
OF his movements. The old man finally
returned to Chicago, and on Monday left
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