Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-06-24

a brilliant social event at Vienna, on
Tuesday, was the marriage of Count Her
bert Bismarck, son of the great eX-chan-
cellor, to the daughter of Count George
Hayes.
Twenty-Five persons are dangerously i'll
at Somerville, n. j., as the result of eating
canned beef, which is supposed to have
contained poison. The beef was put up by
a local butcher in muslin bags, and an an
alysis of it will be made.
Mrs. Arthur Beverly, wife of one of
Walthams most prominent citizens, last
Saturday saturated her garments with kerr
osene, crawled into a furnace and set her
clothing on fire. She was dead when found.
She was insane from the effects of a relapse
of the grip.
John A. Nelson, foreman over a gang of
Italians employed by Smith Bros, railroad
contractors, was murdered by four Italians
on the line of the Monte Cristo railroad
near Sedro, Wash, Wednesday. A gang of
80 men lynched the four murderers in the
presence of $50 of their countrymen.
The necessary money for placing the
proposed powerful electric search-lght on
the top of Mount Washington has been
subscribed. The light will be the highest
and strongest in the world, and will be
seen from Maine, Massachusetts,, New
Hampshire, Vermont, New York and Can
ada.
The Post-Recorder relay bicycle ride from
New York to Boston last week Thursday
was completed in IA hours, u minutes, or
2 hours, 80 minutes ahead of the scheduled
time. The whole distance covered was
2544 miles, and barring one or two falls
nothing occurred to occasion any delay on
the route.
Gertrude Bliss, daughter of Mrs. :. II.
Bliss of Worcester, Mass, has fallen heir
to So, 900, 900 by the will of her intended
husband, Mr.. IIertwel of Hartford, an
elderly man of large wealth, who recently
died. Miss Bliss is only rs years of age,
! but looks % or "a, and is already engaged
in looking up the titles to her estates.
The action of Federal Judge Nelson in
| quashing the indictments against Potter,
| French and Dana, the Maverick bank de-
! PENDANTS Of Boston, was not altogether I'M
expected by the legal fraternity because,
as Judge Nelson puts it, the fatal error was
! committed of not alleging with precision
! that the entries were false when made and
that the defendants knew they were false.
Three persons were killed, two seriously
| injured and the Grant monument was
slightly damaged in a brief but fierce thun-
der storm at Chicago a few days ago.
There We're many people in Lincoln park,
in which the monument stands, and 80
persons sought shelter in the corridors of
the monument. When the storm was at
its height lightning struck the monument,
taking its course directly among the people.
Edward W. Gould, a well known and
popular stockbrOker of New York, was
instantly killed 10y being thrown from the
roof of the Deadwood coach as it was rat
Ting round the track of the Staten Island
Athletic club grounds at Livingston, 5. L.,
pursued by young men dressed as Indians,
Saturday, in the course of a performance
called an Amateur Wild West show, given
by members of the club.
Judge Bright Morgan of fernando, Miss,
a delegate to the Democratic national con
vention, was shot dead Saturday on the
Illinois Central train on his way to Chi
cage, by Lawyer Henry Foster. Morgan
and Foster had luarrelled over law suit
in which they were opposing lawyers
Two weeks ago Foster had a difficulty Will
Morgan's son, hearing of which Morgan
gave Foster a sound Gaming. Foster board
ed the train at Alden and without uttering
a word shot Morgan twice. He was ar
rested