Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-05-01
CURRENT AFFAIRS.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
\ Horrible Murder In New York.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Horrible Murder In New York.
A crime which in many respects resem-
bes the work of Jack the Ripper i'm the
Whitechapel district of London, came to
light i'm New York last Friday morning.
Thursday night man about b years of
age, who gave his name as c. Nicolo. and
a woman of about so, one of the lowest of
street harridans, applied for lodging at the
East river hotel at the corner of Catherine
and Water streets. They were assigned to
the top floor. At 9:30 Friday morning
they were called, but no response being
given the door was forced open, and on the
bed was the body of the woman, horribly
mutilated. Nothing was seen of the cou-
pie during the night, and no unusual noise
was heard A shoemaker's knife. with
which the crime was committed was found
under the bed. The police are making
every effort to discover the murderer. In
spectOr Brynes taking the case in charge.
Many arrests have been made, but the
right man has not been secured. The muir
dered woman was known in the slums as
>'Shakspere.' She came of a good family
and was the wife of sea captain named
Brown. She has two daughters of re-
spectacle connection in Salem, Mass. her
former home. The woman took to drink.
deserted her family, and for years has been
an Outcast in the streets of New York.
a Decision I'm Favor of the Louisiana
Lottery Company.
The Louisiana Lottery company has
gained a point in the supreme court of that
state. At the last session of the legislature
A nd nt Ia
cation for renewal of the lottery companv's
charter for % years. offering to pay the
state more than a million dollars year for
the privilege. \ bill embodying the requi-
site amendments to the constitution.
known as the lottery amendments. was
adopted by a twO-thirdS vote of the legiSla-
ture. and Il copy of the act was sent to
Gov. Nichols, who vetoed it. although the
friends of the measure argued that he had
no right to do so under the constitution.
The secretary of state having refused to
promugatc the act. Morris and company
applied for maudamus compelling him to
promugate the proposed constitutional
amendments. to be voted on by the people
at the next general election. The district
court on Monday rendered decision i'm
favor of the lottery company.
Ground was broken in Riverside park.
New York. on Monday for the Grant mon
ument. the day being the 60th anniversary
of Gen Grants birth. \ large crowd of
people witnessed the ceremonies. Charles
ii. Freeman, commander of the G.. \. II.
for the department of New York. threw
up the first spadeful of earth. The Grafton
was delivered by Cen Horace Porter
Members of the Grant family occupied soats
on the platform, including Mrs. Nellie
Grant Sartoris, who recently arrived in
this country on visit to her mother.
Philip l.. Moen. president of the Wash
burn Moen Manufacturing company of
Worcester, Mass. the biggest wire manu-
featuring concern in the country, died last
Friday. For the last II years a mystery
has hung over his apparently blameless
life, growing out of the Matchmaking oper-
ations of Doe Levi Wilson, To this
man. who was an ignorant hostler, Mr.
Moen paid between 100000 and 500. 600
during the seven years between 1875 and
1882. Wilson's brother-in-law claims that
Wilson saw some crime committed by a rel
alive of Moen's.
While Mrs. John COnard and two daugh-
ters were sitting around a centre table at
Washington. Pa, Saturday night. a lamp
which was suspended from the ceiling fell
and exploded, enveloping Mrs. Conard and
two children in flames. The younger
daughter died at midnight and Mrs. Conard
in the morning The elder daughter was
badly burned.
Phoebe Moore. an aged octoroon: who
died in a New Orleans hospital last week.
had romantic history. She was born a
slave and at II years of age was sold to
Thomas II. Benton. the great Missouri
senator. When she was rs years old she
was sold by Benton to Henry Clay, the
noted Wing leader. who gave her her free
dom. She married white man who was
killed in the war. She has always kept
sacredly the freedom papers, the deed of
sale from Benton to Clay, and several let
tiers which Clay wrote to her.
Mrs. Susannah Nelson, a cOored woman.
aged over l2S. died in Washington last
Saturday. There is thought to be no
doubt as to the correctness of her age. as
she was II years old at the time of the rev
olutiOn.
The Terminal Improvement company
are erecting building on the west side in
New York city that is to contain 10000
square feet, This building is probably the
largest piece of warehouse property in the
country. Its longest frontage is III feet.
A small cyclone visited East Berlin,
Conn, a few days ago. The frame of an
iron building, 200 feet long and so feet
wide, in process of erection by the Berlin
iron bridge company, was blown down,
causing loss of $1,000.
Rochester, n H., has voted to accept the
charter allowing it to become a city.
Illinois has received draft for $500, 600,
its share of the direct tax fund. A warrant
will soon be issued for S1S1 ,S91, in favor
of New Hampshire, the amount of that
states share of the fund, minus So, 754
withheld for arms supplied the state.
There were five cases of yellow fever on
the United States steamship Advance,
which arrived in New York last week.
Two boys, aged eight and eleven, stole a
five-gallOn keg of whiskey from wagon in
Brooklyn, n. Y, last Friday They drank
heavily of its contents. They were found
unconscious and taken to hospital. One
died and the other is not expected to re-
cover.
Reports from all over Minnesota and the