Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-29

uSl VI bcu' NeTl, Jne leaueT OF Jne revolt, |
and the resignation of the governor.
Forty-four arrests of election officers
charged with frauds were made in New
York city Saturday.
Wheeling, ". Va, has set aside $50 600
for public works, to give employment to the
needy and unemployed.
Burglars blew open the safe at Jewett
City, Conn, Friday night, and secured
$1,000 in money and stamps.
Col. VIM. Clark Young, who died in
New York city Friday, aged % years, was
the oldest living West Point cadet.
The Sultan of Morocco has guaranteed
indemnity to Spain for the encroachment
of the Riffs at Melila, by conceding part
of her customs duties.
A race war is reported on the sheep
ranges west of Cercillos, New Mexico
Five whites and ~ Mexicans are reported TO
have been killed, and further trouble is an
| ticipated
L. II. Marstalaer, retired millionaire
dry goods merchant of New York. commit
ted suicide by shooting because of loneli-
ness, His wife died last Christmas, and
his only brother since then
\ thief broke into the room of Richard
| McGovern in a hotel in Tacoma Wash
| ington, Saturday night and stole $1,000 in
| gold, which McGovern had placed in
! trunk, and two or three diamond rings.
During a raid on a gambling den at
! Pratt Mines, Ala, Saturday night, three of
the gamblers were killed or MORALLY
wounded and several of the Others were
wounded. One of the officers was also
| shot.
! Edward Payson Weston, the veteran pc
! destrian, who undertook to walk from New
York to Albany in y consecutive hours,
made the distance in a trle over 80 hours,
and went several miles out of the way be-
| sides.
The will of the late Lucy Spaulding of
Nashua, n. H., gives $4,000 each to the
New Hampshire society of Concord, New
Hampshire Orphans home, the American
Board of Foreign Missions and Dartmouth
college.
\ sleigh was struck by train at Hollis
Station, \. H., on Thursday night of last
week, and Marcus Lund, Miss Alma Lund
and Mrs. Charles II. Lund, all of Nashua
were killed. A Miss Stevens, who was in
the sleigh, escaped.
a fight between Austrians and Magyars,
at wedding at Derringer, Penn, Christ
of at least three men. Others who were
injured were not found. About 100 men
participated in the riot.
Officers went to the Greenfield Hills, y.
Y. few days ago and arrested Daniel
Shaw and captured about $4,000 worth of
dry goods, which Shaw, while shipping
clerk for Arnold ~ Constable of New
York, had stolen from that firm.
Rum caused a murder at North Ando-
yer, Mass, Sunday John Wilton, for
mer sea captain, pounding his wife to
death. He was arrested. On the same
day Timothy Cronin fatally stabbed Alfred
Turner, during a drunken row at Ports
mouth, y. H.
Henry b. Shields of Niles, Ohio, was ar
rested in Chicago Saturday, charged with
Kidnapping l.. NJ Byers, a wealthy iron
manufacturer of Pittsburg. The COM
plant was made by Mrs. Byers, who claims
that her husband has been prisoner sew
eral months. Shields gave $4,000 bail.
Late dispatches state that 100 distinct
shocks were counted at the time the city
of Kushan, Persia, was destroyed by earth
auakes a month ago. According to the
official reports, the total population was
20 600, and of this number three-tifths
were killed, while 1000 animals persisted
Four barns and workshop situated six
miles from Meriden, Conn, on the road
near Kensington were destroyed by fire Sat
urday night. Three horses and u cows
were roasted alive, and so tons of hay and
tools and other goods burned. Tramps are
supposed to have set the fire while smok-
ing.
The case of Commodore O. f. Stanton,
who was detached from command of the
United States squadron at Rio Janeiro for
saluting the insurgent Admiral Mello, has
been disposed of by Secretary Herbert by
an order restoring Commodore Stanton to
duty, although strongly disappearing of his
action.
Counsel has been retained in Youngs-
, town, Ohio, by employees who were pois-
oned at Homestead during the labor trou-
/, bles, to begin suit for damages aggregating
= s., 600 600, against the Carnegie company,
! claiming that by the injuries received they
have been unable to engage in manual
q labor.
e The South African war has resulted in
T. the complete rout of the Matebele. When
Capt. Wilson and his men made an attack
King Lobengula hastily abandoned hi:
wagon and fed on horseback. The king
|
: followers and cattle to the company''
force, and surrendered his arms.
: The Chinese and Mexican Commercial
|. company an organization composed o
I wealthy Chinese, is reported to have pur
: chased tract of 800, 900 acres in the stat,
: of Sinaloa, Mexico, on which it is proposed
4 to settle 800 of their countrymen. IL
A each colonist will be allotted "a acres o
land, for which he must ultimately pay.
The owners of the six mills of Olney
vile, Rhode Island, which have been clos
e ed for the past 10 weeks on account of tn
It strike, which was declared off Wednesday
l. have subscribed over $4,000, which will b
:. turned over to the overseers of the poor
:, for the relief of the operatives, many o
Ir whom have suffered from extreme poyert
e during the labor troubles.
u George Clancy, young ger brother o
Congressman John Clancy of Brooklyn
was murdered in a Brooklyn liquor stor
Monday by Timothy MsDermott, who Gu
r, Clancy across the legs with razor, sever
n ing the arteries. Clancy died in fey
e hours from loss of blood. The murdere