Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-18

I Nll'll NllNo uIiutl Nibullus
The fastest time ever made i'm railroad
ing was by Philadelphia IL Reading loco
motive with four passenger cars, which on
Saturday made a mile i'm 304 seconds, equal
to a rate Of Oh miles an hour.
Masked men visited the house of Frank
Menlduer of Pittsburg, Pa, one night last
week, and stripped and beat him with
whips until he became unconscious as a
punishment for i'll treating his family.
1t is said that advices have been received
! from Rome that Archbishop Ireland of
! Minnesota who is now i'm Italy, is to be
made cardinal, the second in the United
States, the ceremony of comforting the red
hat to occur in Rome this month
A legacy of 100000 which has been
fought for through all the courts of Min
nesota by st. Barnabas's Hospital of Min
neapolis and St. Luke's Hospital of New
York, has been awarded to the Mnneapo-
lis institution by the supreme court of the
state.
A colored girl of 10, who poisoned a
| family of nine persons by putting rat poi
son into the coffee i'm order to kill color
ed man employed in the family, was taken
by masked men from the party which was
carrying her to the Jail at Rayvlle, La,
Friday, and hung.
A freight elevator, weighing 1900 pounds
and loaded with ton of iron, fell dis
lance of 20 feet at the Rohan Brothers
boiler works, st. Louis, Mo-, Monday
morning. Three men stood on the spot
where the elevator fell, and they were
crushed like so many egg shells.
A Lynn, Mass, machinist, named Eli
! iah ID. Howard, was found dead in his
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the room revealed 1920 in cash and bank
books, mortgages and securities aggregat-
! ing in value nearly 100000. His estate
reverts to his son, a telegraph operator in
| Boston.
| In and after the next academical year
| the postgraduate courses at Yale, carry
/ ing the degree of doctor Of philosophy,
will be open to women. The University
of st. Andrews, the oldest in Scotland, has
/ decided to open to women the departments
of theology, arts and sciences.
/ On Tuesday Walter A. Snyder, a conf
/ dental clerk in hardware store at Tinn,
/ Ohio. shot two of his employers, a fellow
/ clerk, and then killed himself. Insanity
! caused by disappointment at being left out
/ when two of his victims were admitted re-
Gently to the firm is said to have been the
cause.
( \ peculiar accident occurred at Hunting
/ don, Pa, recently, when a railroad tie.
sliding from its position on car was
/ caught 10y passing train and thrown
among gang Of railroad builders, killing
one man and seriously injuring several
/ others. The victim back was broken and
| every rib dislocated.
/ Two Percheron stations. each worth
/ 5000. belonging to David Pulliam of Leav-
! enworth, Kan, killed each other in a ter
| rible combat Saturday. They got together
! in an exercising yard and the attendants
were unable to separate them. They
! fought for half an hour, when one was
dead and the other died in few hours.
The Mormon church circles of Salt Lake
| City are much excited over the arrest by
! United States marShals of j. i. Freese,
high official of the church, for unlawful
! cohabitatiOn. He was held TO await the
grand jury's action in the sum of $1,000.
Jane Stoner, his plural wife and CORE
! spondent, was held in bond of 500.
Guitano Mastefano, a Boston barber.
was found with several knife wounds in
! his right side, on the track of the Saugus
! branch of the Boston q Maine railroad
= Monday night, and died on the way to the
! police station Another Italian has been
arrested upon suspicion, the opinion being
that the two men quarreed and a duel fol
lowed.
William \. Losey, for / years the con-
tidential bookkeeper for WalliSon Brothers
Il Co. 5 paper warehouse in New York, has
been charged with embezzlement His
peculations have extended over two wears
and he took in all 81 ,702. This sum he
invested in policy shops. In playing poll
cy he won S32,3U3, which he spent again,
making his total loss S64.O05
Another fool-hardy aspirant for notorie-
ty, William j. Davis, haling from Sydney,
New South Wales, has sailed from Eng
( land for New York, resolved to swim the
rapids of Niagara river, where Captain
! Webb was drowned in 1888. He is de-
/ scribed as powerfully built man, unmar-
/ red and "a years old. He will make the
attempt from the Canadian side of the riv-
er clad in ordinary swimming trunks.
a daring robbery took place last week at
Newport, II. l., the house occupied by the
Misses Newton being entered. Two ne
/ groes rang the bell, and upon the servants
opening the door forced themselves by her,
/ and while one kept her quiet at the point
! of revolver the other searched the house
and secured about 500 in money. The
/ girl, who was left bound, finally made her
way to neighbours and gave the alarm.
One suspect has been arrested
Less than year ago Lawyer futile of
Bridgeport, Conn, drew will for Elan
Nichols, disposing of property worth
| S1,5OO,OOO The will was contested. The
principal beneficiary, George Nichols,
son, dropped dead after the controversy.
The next beneficiary was the testator S
housekeeper. The latter was found dead
in bed, and now the man who drew the
will has died a sudden death, and the prop
erty reverts to the brother of Elan Nichols,
who fought the will in court