Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-29

been out OF employment nan tne tllne. ltS
restriction of coal product is said to be a
sure fOrerunner of coming advance of
coal prices, which increases the price of
manufactures for the whole country. There
is probability that the combination will
be broken by the Pennsylvania railroad
company, which is expected to secure lines
which will give it facilities for taking coal
direct from the mines.
Peter Emo, the Lawrence, Mass, wife
murderer. committed suicide by hanging
in his cell on Sunday.
Joseph Grey, an en- gneeron a Cortlandt
street ferry boat at New York, fell upon
the propeller shaft Tuesday and was ground
to pieces.
Thieves stole small pouch containing
$4,000 in checks, drafts and other papers
from mail wagon at st. Cloud, Mimi, a
few days ago.
North River ferry boats transport So,
100000 people and l30,000,0OO tons of
freight every year from the shores of New
Jersey to New York city.
Jewelry to the value of 5000 was stolen
at the Adams House, Boston, from the
room of Mrs. f. G. Dow of Philadelphia,
while she was at supper.
Charles Reed, lawyer for Guiteau, the
assassin of President Garfield, died of par
alysis at Baltimore Saturday. He had
twice attempted to commit suicide.
Hallowcll, the cashier of the defunct
West Superior, Wis, national bank, who
is accused of apprOpriating $50, 600 of the
funds, has been arrested at Philadelphia.
The oldest Mason in the country UNI
doubtedly lives at Southbridge, Mass. His
name is Stephen Irwin. He was born %
years ago and joined the lodge at Pawtuck-
ct, II. l., in 1926.
The malodorous Rev. w. w. Downs is
again before the courts at Boston seeking
to get $4,000 for injury to his reputation
and for being ousted from the pulpit of
the Bowdoin Square church.
Detroit capitalists have concluded nego-
tiations for the purchase of ex-senator
Thomas w. Planners log cabin farm of
700 acres, six miles from the Detroit city
hall. The price is $1,000, 600. The log
cabin and 100 acres are res erved.
William Astor died in Paris last Monday
night. He was the father of Mrs. j. Cole
man Drayton. Next to his nephew, Will
! liam Waldorf Aston, he was probably the
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ing estimated at S60,000,O 600 He was the
brother of the late John Jacob Aston.
The Partisan anarchists have avenged
| themselves upon NJ. Very, who in March
| delivered Ravachol over to the police NJ.
! Very's restaurant was completely wrecked
| by a bomb explosion Monday night and
the proprietor, who was found in the ruins,
was horribly injured, and he died soon
after.
Insurance Commissioner Merrill of Mas
sachusetts reported to the legislature of
that state last week that II endowment
orders went into the hands of receivers
last year, and seven more have gone in the
same direction this year. These orders
took Just 81 200, 900 out of their member
ship for "eXpenses," which really means
the enrichment of their promoters. This
robbery was greater than any bank rob
berry ever heard of in this country.
Last week the house of William Radloff,
a wealthy butcher near Seattle, Wash, was
burned, and in the ruins was found corpse
supposed to be that of RadlOff RadlOif car
ried 500, O00life insurance in his wife favor
in the New York Life, New York Mutual
and Equitable companies. 1t now appears
that RadlOff robbed grave, took a corpse
to his house and placed it in the ruins to
lead the insurance companies to believe he
persisted in the fire. He has escaped, but
detectives expect to arrest him.
The land-hngry crowds that have sud
denly inundated Oklahoma do not want
farms to cultivate, but town lots with
which to speculate Within a week after
the opening of the reserved lands to set
Element at least hundred towns were sci
up, and one of these, Okarche, established
where on Tuesday morning there was NOT
single living human being, was by Tues
day evening divided into $500 lots, and hat
obtained a population of nearly 2O00
There are 20 well-built towns in Kansa,
without single inhabitant to waken the
echoes of their deserted streets. Saratoga
has a $4,000 opera house, large brick
hotel, a $50, 600 schOOlhouse and a number
of fine business houses, yet there is no
body even to claim a place to sleep. A
Fargo a $4,000 schOOlhouse stands OF
the hill, monument to the bond-vOting
craze. A herder and his family constitute
the sole population of what was once al
incorporated city.
Thomas O'Brien, the famous bunco mar
recently sentenced to Clinton state prison
for 20 years, was taken to Utica, n. Y.
for a hearing on habeas corpus befOr
Judge Coke. He was in charge of pris
on official named Buck, who in some wa,
let him slip through his hands, and O'Bri
en- made good his escape. lie is probabl
the most famous bunco man in the world
O'Brien has operated in almost every stat
in the country and has fleeced people on
of 5000, 600. He was concerned in opera
tions near Rutland and at Shelburne, Mass
This story comes from the mountain re
gons of Kentucky, Syl Harvell, a fey
= days ago made the discovery that his wifi
was intimate with one Brady, and abuse
her for her intidelity. Monday night Mrs
HaWell saturated with kerosene the be-
on which her husband and infant wer
sleeping, threw a tirebrand thereon an
dashed out of doors. The building wa
soon wrapped in flames. Among those al
tracted to the scene of the fire was Brady
He and Mrs. Harvell started away togethe
across the field and were attacked by say
age bull and fatally gored. Mrs. Harve
lived few hours and acknowledged tn
facts as related