Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-22

ShiraS is about 60 years old. He graduated
from Yale in 1858 and has devoted himself
continuously since that time to the practice
of his profession His home is in Pitts
burg and he is said to have the most valu-
able legal practice in western Pennsylva-
mia. He is attorney for the wealthy
Economic society, near Beaver, and repre-
sents many large corporations. His income
is at least $4,000 a year. He has never
taken an active part in politics, and al
though frequently asked to run for office
has always refused.
Thomas Cook, the head of the we'll
known firm of excursion managers, is dead.
Christopher c. Bells four oldest boys
were drowned Saturday while swimming in
the river near his farm at Princess Anne,
Maryland.
The trustees of Tufts college, at Medford,
Mass, have decided to admit women to all
departments of the college on an equal
footing with men.
Elm tree worms have attacked the fine
old trees at Norwalk, Conn. Thousands
of trees have been stripped of their foliage,
scores are dying and many are dead.
Chill has paid SO, 900 to the United
States for the families of the seamen who
were murdered in the riot which came
near causing international complications.
A steamer colided with a natural gas
main in the Ohio river at East Liverpool,
Ohio, on Saturday, causing an explosion
which killed the engineer and deck hand.
The House of Representatives voted on
Tuesday not to concur in the Senate's
gift of So, 900, 900 for the worlds fair, and
also voted against opening the fair on Sun
days.
The Clendenning iron works and the
paint factory of Ramsey & Son at Montreal
were burned on Monday. The loss exceeds
$150000 and 400 men are thrown out of
employment.
The artesian well of the Winchester re-
peating arms company at New Haven,
Conn, is now the deepest in the United
States, having attained a depth of 1900
feet. Boring is still going on.
j. G. Kelso, president of the bank of
Magnolia, Ark, and of the Gate City ma
tional bank of TeXarkana, and vice-presi-
dent of the Ouchita valley bank, is a de-
faulter to the extent of S70,0 600 and is miss
ing.
Albert Mitchell, driver of the United
States express company at Havre de Grace,
Md, who was entrusted Saturday morning
with a package containing 5000, disap
peared, and the company has offered a
liberal reward for his capture.
There is no doubt that hundreds of people
are in danger of starvation in Sumter and
Marengo counties, Alabama, owing to the
overflow of the Tombigbee river. Thou
sands of people have lost all they possess
and hundreds are without food.
A valuable package in care of the Adams
express company was lost while in transit
between New York and New Haven. The
officials of the company are reticent in re-
gard to the loss, but the value of the pack
age is estimated as high as 100000.
Gen. James A. Cunningham, the super
intendent of the soldiers home at Chelsea,
Mass, died on Saturday from paralysis.
He served during the rebellion and was
adiutant general of Massachusetts from
1866 to 1877. He was appointed supern-
tendent of the soldiers home when it was
opened in 1882.
Wilson NJ. Tyler of Vincennes, Ind,
whose sensational suicide on the grave of
his daughter several days ago was attributed
to grief, had good cause to die. The Vim
cennes national bank, of which he was
president is a wreck as a result of his ras-
cality. 1t is estimated that through his
crookedness a quarter of a million dollars
has been lost.
Italian laborers were digging sewer at
WestpOrt Conn, when one of them lighted
his pipe and threw the match upon a small
building in which was a l2-barrel tank of
naptha. The building was soon in flames
and while the men were fighting the fire an
explosion took place. Four of the men
were thrown high into the air, and so badly
injured that they will not recover.
Confidence is fully restored and no furth-
er trouble is expected in C9ur d. Alene
mining district in Idaho for the union men
are mostly under arrest. The coroners
inquest has been postponed until the 23d.
About 100 union miners and citizens were
taken to Wallace Saturday from Burke
under a strong guard and marched through
the streets to military headquarters.
The coroner's jury in the case of Josiah
WATSON at Hampton, n. H., whose body
was found on the river bank, and who was
believed to have been murdered, has rem
dered a verdict that WATSON came to his
death in some manner unknown. The cir
cumstantial evidence against Josiah Gar
land, the elderly eX-preacher, was not con-
sidered sufficient to warrant his arrest.
A passenger train on the Missouri, Kan
sas q Pacific railroad was held up by the
notorious Dalton gang at Adair, Indian
Territory, last week Thursday night. The
Pacific express safe was blown open and
the contents, said to amount to between
$4,000 and 1000, were taken. A de-
tective and two Indian policemen who
were protecting the property of the com
pany were wounded.
DR.. Terry was fencing with Prof Cas-
taldi in the Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium at Fall
River, Mass, Monday, when the button OF
the professors foil came off, and the steel
pierced DR.. Terry's mask and entered his
right eye. He became unconscious, and
remained so until his death an hour later,
Prof. Castaldi is an instructor in the United
States naval training school at Newport
DIR. Terry was 50 years old, a graduate OF
Harvard medical school and had been prac-
ticing in Fall River 30 years, being known
as one of the best surgeons in New Eng
land He was a prominent Mason, ODD
Fellow and Knight of Pythias. DIR. Terry
was especially devoted to athletics, being
himself a fine specimen of physical man