Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-06-12

boats. The story is received with incred.
unity by the navy department at Washing
ton.
Miss Nancy Howe of Winchester. Mass
Dequeaths to that town her homestead
valued at $4,000, for town hall or library
purposes, and about $4,000 to missionary
societies and for charity.
Gov. Russell has signed the municipal
ightlng act. After persistent and heated
agitation of over two years, the principle
has been established that cities and towns
vi MASSACHUSETTS can supply gas and electri-
city to their inhabitants, but they must not
make profit of more than per cent.
a number of negro gamblers from Baton
Rouge, La, have made a practice of visit
ing the levec camps at West Baton Rouge
anu Pointe COupee parishes Immediately
aiter pay day, and robbng the levee hands
with their gambling devices. One day last
week the gamblers male their customary
visit, and while a number of negroes were
engaged in game of dice dispute arose.
which resulted in one OF the gamblers
shooting levee hand. The levee hands at
once organized into body and avenged the
death of their companion by hanging the
three gamblers to a tree.
Mass, schoolhouse, 1-2-story building
in which were $50 pupils in four rooms,
but the teachers coolly marched the chill
dren out in order and no one was injured.
As time goes on and Hiram Sawtele sees
no way of escape for his neck from the
halter for the brutal murder of his brother.
he has taken to making confessions of how
the deed was done. In one story last week
he said Isaac Nvac EillaJ l,, o,r,,,t IS ~.
Blood without his (Hiram 81 knowledge.
n few days later he said that Blood's agent
killed Isaac as soon as he refused to make
over part of his fathers property to
Hiram. According to this story Hiram
was present at the time, but the deed was
done before he could prevent it.
p. r. Barnum's estate proves to be worth
over S4,0O0,000, nearly S3,000,OO0 of it in
real estate
There were sharp earthquake shocks on
Sunday in several parts of Italy, including
Venice and Milan. The centre of the dis
turbance was at Verona A subterranean
noise was heard like the roar of artillery,
which was followed by three strong shocks.
The inhabitants rushed into the streets i'm
terror. At Marcenigo three persons We're
killed. and at Badia II were badly injured
by falling houses and chimneys. At the
latter place another shock was felt at 8
O'Clock in the morning and much addition
al damage was done Following this dis
turbance an eruption of Vesuvus has be-
gun.
The fruit crop of New York will be very
small owing to the late frosts.
The grip has reached Alaska and is max
ing sad havoc among the natives.
Rev. DR. Wright, the pastor of promi-
nent New York city Methodist church, was
deliberately fired at at his own door Satur-
day night by begging tramp imposter
whom he refused aid after looking up his
record.
Twenty-three tramps boarded freight
train on the Louisville division of the Penn
syvania line near indianapolis, Ind, sun
day. The tramps overpowered the train
men and ran the train to suit themselves.
The officers at Columbus Ind, who were
notified, found the tramps in a box car, and
when they attempted to raid it We're met
with volley of shots, which they returned
The tramps were finally routed and nine of
them placed in Jail. \ drunken mob also
took possession of a freight train near
Seymour, Ind, and knives were used freely
between them and the trainmen. Three
men were badly cut.