Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-02-19

The will of Mrs. w. S. Appleton gives
$50, GOO in public requests, Harvard uni
vcrsity and the Museum of Fine Arts in
Boston, receiving $4,000 each. The re-
mainder is given to a number of religious
and educational societies.
A buggy containing John Westgate and
son was struck by locomotive at Ire
mont, near New Bedford, Mass, on Tues
day. Both men were horribly mangled and
died within few minutes. Their home
was nearby, and Westgate's wife and
daughter witnessed the accident.
Love for scientific investigation led Baron
f. Van Wilmowsky of Poland, to come to
this country and to procure work at the
Thomson Houston electric company's plant
at Lynn, Mass. His identity was discov
cred by Polish washerwoman, who recog
niZed the royal crest on one of his hand
kerchiefs.
5. w. Edgcl Of Waltham, doorkeeper Of
the Massachusetts senate, disappeared three
weeks ago and no trace Of him can be
found. He was a veteran Of the civil war
and lost an arm at Cold Harbor. He has
been employed at the state house for %
years. 1t is thought that he may have be-
come insane and wandered away.
A young couple were married at Berkeley,
Cal, last Saturday, and while the bridal
party were standing on the track waiting
for the local train the overland express
dashed around a curve. The bridegroom
and an intimate lady friend of the bride
were struck by the locomotive and instant
ly killed, and little boy dangerously
wounded.
Three boys while searching for eggs in a
barn at Corning, n. Y, few days ago
found an old satchel. 1t was full of papers
and was taken to a lawyer, who found that
the total value of the securities in the
satchel amounted to $4,000. The secu-
rites came from bank in Addison, which
was entered a few nights before by bur
glars, who also secured $500 in cash.
The dispatches from Russia continue to
tell an awful story of suffering. The
weather has been very cold during the past
few days and many people have frozen to
death. 1t is impossible to distribute the
grain, owing to the fact that so many
horses have been killed for food. Three
districts in Bombay, India, are stricken
with famine, and it is saiu that l ,1OO,OOO
| people in that section are starving.
| A steamer entered the bay at Sandusky,
/ Ohio, the other day and began to break her
way to the city through the ice which was
| 10 inches thick. The vessel detached a
large field of ice, upon which 10 people
were skating. The ice began to drift out
| to sea. The skaters were in Imminent
danger and a large crowd watched them
| from the docks. Skiffs were put off from
the landings and after brisk struggle all
the skaters were rescued.
Meredith Stanley, the bridge jumper,
made fatal leap Saturday at Cincinnati
Ohio, from the Cincinnati and Covington
bridge, distance of over 100 feet, into
the Ohio river. Only few weeks age
! Stanley and his wife made successful
double leap from the chesapeake and ono
railway bridge, Since then they have been
on exhibition at dime museum IN TINS
city. On Saturday as he jumped he saw
piece of wood floating in the water, lie
turned his body avoid 1t ana struck upon
his side.
John Kelly, negro who murdered j. T.
/ McAdams on the streets at Pine Bluff
l. L., 81