Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-23
IENIX, BRATTLEBORO, FRIDAY, OCTOBER %, 1891

! achieved by steam may be attained, and
the other the application of electricity to
the propulsion of street cars without the
use OF the dangerous, unsightly and incon-
venient overhead construction.
The financial circles of Boston were start
led last Friday by the announcement that
| Irving A. Evans, the well-known broker,
had taken his own life at the summer home
of his uncle in Allenstown, N. II. Mr..
Evans was only 40 years old, but he had
won a reputation in the financial world.
and was known as "Nervy' Evans on ac-
count of his daring in speculations. 1t is
supposed that his mind was unbalanced by
the recent loss of half a million dollars.
A New Orleans despatch records this
variation from the ordinary lynching pro-
! gram: The first white man ever executed
| by the law or a mob for the murder of a
negro was lynched at Columbia, in Cald-
well parish, this state, Monday night. On
the 10Th an old negro woman named Hagar
| Stirling was brutally murdered by white
man named John Reese. A mob of
masked white men put in their appearance
late Monday night at the parish jail, com
| PEELED the jailer to surrender the keys,
! took Reese from the Jail and hanged him
! to a tree.
A syndicate at Fort Collins, Colo, has
undertaken the most gigantic irrigation.
scheme in the history of the West. 1t is
to divert the waters of the Grand river to
the eastern slope. A tunnel will be bored
through the range to tap the stream,
and the water will be conveyed to the
! plains by small creeks and prehistoric
streams to a natural reservoir, which will
/ hold millions of gallons of water The
/ people of western Colorado threaten law
| suit If the scheme is attempted, as the
! Grand river is the main source of their wa
/ ter supply.
Five battered and blstered safes, filled
with the charred remains of bonds and
money relics of the recent railroad wreck
and fire near Mngo Junction, o.. were re-
ceived at the treasury department at Wash
| ton on Tuesday for examination and the
| redemption of such of their contents as
may be identified. There was large
amount of money in the safes, but much
of the currency has entirely lost its original
character, and cannot be redeemed. Two
hundred thousand dollars in bonds, belong
! ing to the Lafayette National bank of Gin
cinnati, were taken from one safe They
were only slightly burned, and will be re-
/ deemed.
Andrew J. Butterfield, a lumber dealer
of HoOksett, n. H., died last week Thurs
day as the result of injuries received in
! quarrel in notorious road saloon in that
town on the Sunday previous. The man
who made the assault on Butterfield was
Chas. Colby, the proprietor of the saloon
For some slight cause he knocked Butter
field down, pounded him, and kicked him
in the abdomen until he was unconscious
! RnttnrtiplI Ngac fol IN 10 nd
er left his bed. 1t was four days before
the authorities knew of the affair. Colby
has been arrested. He admits making the
assault, but says he had no idea of killing
Butteriiell.
William Henry Fitzhugh Lee, second
son of Gen. Robert +. Lee, member of the
last two Congresses and member-elect of
the next Congress, is dead at his home in
Fairfax county, Va. Gen. Lee was born
in 1887 at the Lee homestead, now the
soldiers cemetery at Arlington, and was
graduated at Harvard in the class of 1857.
/ The same year he was made lieutenant
in the 9th United States infantry, and
served in Utah and California. He after
ward resigned his commission and devoted
his time to farming in Virginia. At the
breaking out of the war of the rebellion
he joined the confederate army and rose to
the rank of major-general. At the close
of the war he returned to his Virginia
farm. In 1885 he was elected governor of
the state.
The great shipbuilding firm of Harri-
son Loring & Co., propretors of the City
/ Point works, South Boston, have made an
assignment. The liabilities are stated by
Mr.. Loring to be 1915, 900, while the assets
are nominally put at 100000, which in
cludes every dollars worth of personal
property owned by the individual members
of the firm. The firm is building United
States steel armored cruiser No. IL for
the government, at a contract price of
1914, 900, with 100000 added as a speed
premium, and is also constructing half
dozen steel tugbOats also for the govern
ment, the latter being nearly completed.
Mr.. LOring has been in business for 40
years, and his failure will cause general re-
greet. His capital was largely locked up in
material and supplies, and he was unable
to secure money on his government work.