Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-08
hospital will receive 100000 and the col
lege $4,000

y urdnch OF the Kelley cure for drunk
ards is to be established at West Haven.
Conn.
The British ship Tyne. with crew Of
$50 and 400 soldiers on board. which left
Halifax for Plymouth, Eng, is several DAYS
overdue, and fears are entertained that
she has fOundered.
James f. Cooper, the circus man. who
had been a partner Of Barnum. Bailey.
Cole, Hutchinson. O'lIrien and others who
are widely known. died in Philadelphia last
week Friday. He left 4 fortune Of 81. SOO.-
600.
ChaS. Heft, a prominent citizen of Free
mansburgh. Pa. died New Years morning
of aggravated hiccoughng. which had con-
tinued for IL days. The case was an eN-
traoriinary one and attracted much atten-
ton among medical men.
Senator Gibson Of Louisiana estimates
the profits of the Louisiana lottery at from
$4,000 to 100000 per annum net.
which would mean from $3.50. Cox. 600 to
$500, 100000 for the - years franchise
asked for by the company.
The New England Insurance exchange,
which includes representatives of every
company writing policies in New England
outside Of Boston, is expected to follow the
lead of the Boston hoard ami to come ont
with an increase of rates after Feb. l.
Miss Sadie Dickson was overiaken by a
snowSlile while snow-shoeing on the noun
tain near Silyerton, Colo. last Saturday
and was carried 800 feet down the noun
tain side and killed A rescuing party
discovered her body 10y her snow-shoes pro
truding through the snow.
The commercial agencies report that
there were 12.273 failures in the United
States last year, a larger number than in
any previous year since 1857. In amount
of liabilities. however, the figures are the
same as those of the year previous amount
ing to Slsg, 100000
The influenza is still prevalent through
out Great Britain, and the number of
cases daily grows larger. Ii is believed
that the dense fog which hung over Lon
don nearly the whole of Christmas week is
largely responsible for the number of deaths
resulting from influenza and lung diseases
Albert Herrick. the brakeman who is
charged with manslaughter for causing the
recent accident on the New York Central
railroad at Hastings. Y. Y. which resulted
in the loss of II lives. walked into the cor
oners office at Gonkers last Saturday and
gave himself up, and has since been releas-
ed on bail. He tells a story which relieves
him OF responsibility for the accident.
The United States revenue steamer Gal
latin was wrecked on a sunken ledge off
Manchester. Mass. Wednesday morning.
when on her way from Kittery. Me-. to
ProvincetUwn. The weather was thick
and the pilot lost his reckoning. The yes
sci went TO pieces at once. All on board
were saved except the ship carpenter. who
was crushed by the falling of the smoke
stack.
Two young men, in love with the same
girl, fought duel with knives in front of
the church at Cordoba. Texas one day last
week. One Of them was killed on the spot
and the other terribly cut. dying in agony
day or two after. While the fight was
going on feast day service vas in pro-
gress in the church, with 1000 people at
tending Outside 20OO people watched the
fight.
There was a collision of two passenger
trains on the Wabash road near Aladdin
ILL.,, Monday night, causing a disastrous
wreck. The collision occurred at a station
where one train was waiting for another
to come up and pass, dense fog prevail
ing at the time. Both engineers We're kill
ed and several passengers were hurt. The
smoking and baggage cars of both trains
took fire and were burned.
The question at Great Falls, y. H.,
is whether Isaac Sawtells body has or
has not been buried. Permission for its
burial either in Boston or Great Falls
having been refused by the cemetery man
ayers, his body was held by his counsel for
several days, but is reported TO have been
taken secretly TO a retired spot in Maine
last Saturday, where it was finally buried.
The director of the mint on Monday re-
ceived $50 worth of the new silver coins.
halt-dollars, quarters and dimes. and was
besieged by applicants for sample sets.
One set he sent TO the President. and sew
eral others were distributed among friends.
The others were disposed of at their mar
ket value. These new coins are being
made out OF the silver contained in the un-
current coins stored in the treasury.
Capt. Ralph II. Warren of the Princeton
college foot ball team has become insane.
During the Thanksgiving day game with
Yale he received severe twist of the neck
and heavy blow on the head. In training
for the foot ball contests he had fallen be-
hind in his studies, and while suffering
from his injuries and the modification of
defeat, he made an energetic attempt to
regain his standing in his class, and the
result is his loss of mind. He wandered
OFF to Washington last week, and his where
abouts were unknown until he appeared at
his home in New York
Martin Hennenberg, who is now in the
hospital of the Michigan college of medi-
cine, bids fair to become as famous as
Alexis st. Martin, who in 1922 had large
hole shot in his side and stomach. When
Mr.. Hennenberg entered the hospital two
months ago he was starving because of
growth in his gsophagus, preventing him
from swallowing solid or liquid food. The
physicians cut a hole in his stomach and
for six weeks have fed him soups, fine cut
meats, oysters and milk, by means of
rubber tube. The physicians declare that
the case is great stroke of luck in a
scientific way and are experimenting to
test the strength of the gastric Juice upon
different articles of food
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