Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-12-23


burg. Twenty-Five cases with two deaths
were reported last week.
Fire DESTROYED 100000 worth of prop
erty at the corner of Flushing avenue and
Ryerson street. Brooklyn, n. Y, Sunday.
Charles Bamer died in st. Louis Friday
aged %. He was one of the best-known
musical composers in America, having ar
ranged over 5000 pieces.
Over 1000 persons have signed the tenn
perance pledge at New Haven, Conn, since
Thomas Murphy, son of Francis Murphy,
began his crusade there.
A London despatch says: The country
seat of Sir Cecil Miles near Bristol was
visited by burglars Sunday, who succeeded
in stealing jewels valued at $l75, 900.
The superior court has sustained the will
of the late Erastus Brainard of MiddletOwn,
Conn. His daughter claimed that the will
was a forgery. The amount involved was
100000.
ID. +. Sibley, one of the oldest board of
trade members at Chicago, has failed with
liabilities of over S250,0O0 He was caught
with 5000, 900 bushels of corn on hand
when the freight rates were cut.
Phil Armour, who has just given 81
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tional institution, began life poor farmer S
son in New York state. More than $50
OOO, 600 are invested in his business. His
pay roll calls for $4,000 annually, and
he gives away fortune every year.
VIM. Cattlme and Oliver Jeakles toied
/ in the city workhOuse at Napoleon, Ohio
| Saturday. They are sons of parents
/ worth 100000 These young men, with
/ 10 others, were arrested and fined for a.
/ tending a prize fight. All but these Two
paid their fines. On advice of their attor
ney they refused to pay, went into thu
chain gang and will sue the city for dam
ages.
A despatch from Durango, Cal, says tn
excitement there over a gold discovery 1
the greatest since 40, and towns are bein!
depopulated in the rush for the placer dig
gings in Southern Utah, where the Sal
Juan river empties into the Colorado. Il
Albuquerque, n. NJ, nuggets are on eXhi
bition ranging in weight from one to tiv
ounces of coarse gold, and all classes O
people are hurrying to Utah.
A stranger walked into Joseph Man
ders pawnshop at Louisville, KY, las
week, pointed pistol at the proprietor
picked up $500 worth of diamonds, steppe
out of the door, boarded a passing stree
car and escaped. The proprietor was da7
zled by the boldness of the thief and SO
in his chair for half an hour before he il
formed the police.
The body of j. Walter Bradlee, 81,
member of the board of selectmen of Mi
ton, Mass, was found hanging Friday af
ernoon to a tree in the woods at MattapaI
A letter addressed TO his wife was found
the dead mans pocket which said; 81 al
out of my head. God bless you and TO
give me for what l have done" His a.
counts were in good condition.
In order TO counterfeit the monopo
sought to be established by the Canada
. Pacific railway by securing possession
! the IntercolOnial railway and the establish
ment of a fast line of ocean steamers b
tween Halifax and Europe, the Gran
, Trunk railway proposes to inaugurate
the near future the fastest ocean steamsh
service in existence between Portland an
: European ports.
Hon. Leopold Morse, one of the be
known citizens of Boston, fell from
stroke of paralysis in the Vendome hot
p Thursday evening of last week, and die
soon after Mr.. Morse was born in Bav
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