Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-04


EX-Gov. Conway of Arkansas was
burned to death in his house near Little
Rock last Sunday.
Patrick Martin of Bordentown, y. j.,
was swindled ont of 5000 on Wednesday
by the gold brick game.
Brooklyn, n. Y, had half-million dol
lar fire on Sunday, when the large cstab-
lishment of Smith, Grey Il Co., at Fulton
and Flatbush avenues, was destroyed.
The international seven days bicycle
race at San Francisco ended Saturday
night. Ashinger, American, won by two
feet over his English opponent, Woods
Louis Cyr, the Canadian strong man.
now in England, raised a bell weighing
273t pounds with the right hand to arms
length above his head in London last week.
The ocean record was broken again last
week by the steamship Majestic, which
made the trip from Queenstown to Sandy
Hook in five days 20 hours and % minutes,
The United States and Brazil mail steam
er Advance arrived in New York Thursday
night. The voyage had been one of sick
ness and terror, as Is people were stricken
with yellow fever, three of whom died.
The street car employees of indianapolis
Il
been stopped, and the police are powerlesS
to control the angry mob. Several small
riots have taken place.
The United States grand jury has in
dcted all the officers of the whskey trust,
charged with violation of the Sherman an
THRUST law. Two or three of the men
have furnished bail in the sum of $4,000.
They are to appear in court at Boston
next Tuesday.
John ID. Rockefeller, the Standard oil
king, has made another gift of $1,000, 900
to the University of Chicago. The total
of his contributions to that institution to
date is 81, 100000. This last gift he says
is made "as a special thank offering to
Almighty God for returning health.
1t is estimated that 400 900 English min
ers will cease work in a fortnight in an effort
to prevent the masters from putting into eff
feet the scheme to reduce wages. The
mining industry throughout Great Britain
will be greatly affected, only few miners
standing aloOf from the movement.
George 5. Moore, for 20 years one of the
most prominent business men in Louis
vile, KY, and the largest broker and deal
er in pig iron, friedrich and coke in the
South, has disappeared, and the indica-
tions are that he has gone to Canada Tn
official figures place his shortage at $4,000
A Denver, Colo, despatch says the Mol
lie Gibson mine will distribute a dividend
of 1928, 600 among the stockholders o
record for March. The estimated Apri
dividend will amount to 100000. This il
the greatest dividend ever paid in on'
month by any silver mine in the world,
A violent storm ragged in Portugal las
Saturday. A despatch from Oporto say
that at least 300 lives were lost, mostly o
fishermen. Whole fleets of boats wer
swept out to sea and SINK with all OF
board. The storm was also very severe OF
the Spanish coast and many vessels wer
wrecked.
Rev. Mr. Pinkham pastor of a Bridge
port, Conn, Baptist church, created a sen
sation Sunday by placing a bottle of bee
on his pulpit and making a sweeping de
nunciation of the city officials generally
He stated that he had purchased the bee
at saloon a short distance from hi
church Sunday morning.
Postal inspectors are investigating tn
loss of 5000, 900 worth of mortgages ant
notes which were put in the mails at Min
neapolis for Duluth, for collection by tn
Superior Bank of Commerce, by w. y
Townsend on January IA. Mr.. TOWNSEND
came to Duluth few days ago and was as
tonished to learn that the package had no
been received
Thirteen new cases of typhus fever de
velOped in New York on Monday and Tues
day. All the patients have been remove,
to the Riverside hospital. The doctors ar
somewhat alarmed at the outbreak. Sever
of the patients are the Messllia's passen
gers, who have been in a quarantine
house, while six are persons who contract
ed the disease through contact with it.
A year ago Lewis Asher, a prominen
merchant of Springfield, Ohio, was bite
by hog he was attempting to drive into
pen. Last Friday a black spot appeare
on his tongue and soon had spread owe
the whole surface. Then the organ bega
to SWELL Despite the efforts of physician
the swelling continued until his mouth wa
stretched wide open and filled with tn
enormously swelled organ. He finally die
from blood poisoning which was the re
suit of the bite.
A sensation has been caused at Belfast
Me-, by the marriage of Ann French,
widow, aged 80, who has fortune of 500
600, to Herbert c. Penny, aged 49, an itin
Grant peddler of Amherst, that state. tn
marriage has occasioned great eXcitemen
and three mobs have called at Penny
house. All the windows in the buildin
were broken with stones. Penny, revoll
er in hand, was found in a loft. He e.
capped into the street, but was captured an
carried about the CITY by bowling mol