Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-01-06

Mrs. Martha j. Lamb, editor Ot the
Magazine Of American History and author
of the best history of New York city, died
at New York Monday, aged SO.
Thomas Nelson, mayor of Cape Charles
City, Va, has absconded, after squander-
ing about $4,000 of church and trust
funds placed with him for safe keeping.
Supreme Ruler Somerby, and a. II. Hos
mer and f. w. Rouse, grand officers of
the Iron Hall endowment order, are under
Indictment and arrest for the embezzle-
ment of 100000.
Four persons were killed and three
times that number were injured last week
Thursday by the collision of street car
and locomotive at Forty seventh street
and Stewart avenue, Chicago.
Monday night two masked men forced
an entrance into the house of Francis Dun
bar, wealthy cattle dealer at Westbrook,
Mass, and demanded his money. Mr..
Dunbar did not comply with the demand as
lively as the men desired, and they as
saulted him, fracturng his skull. His re-
covery is doubtful.
The 1900 persons comprising the tribe of
Usage Indians in Oklahoma have nearly
IS, 800, 900 cash to their credit in the Unit
ed States treasury, and in addition own
about l, 10000 acres of land, valued at
least at 81 per acre, which, according to
numbers, makes the OsageS the weallhiest
community of any race in the world.
An injunction and receiver is asked
against the order of the Solid Rock of
Boston. The complainants allege that the
liabilities of the order are S77j, 900 and the
assets but about $4,000. 1t is also claim
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propOrtionate, and it is alleged that 1t cost
! $36,0 900 To c0llect $4,000.
The failure OF Wayland Trask & Co.
was announced in the New York stock ex-
change a few days ago. One of the part
ners, Theodore Baldwin, has been specu-
lating on his own account and with the
firms money. He lost $l50,000. Mr..
Trask has been a member of the stock ex-
change for "a years and arrangements will
be made by him to continue the business.
Dea. Stephen V. White, whose failure
startled Wall street a little over a year ago,
began the new year without owing a cent,
having mailed checks to all his creditors
Friday. His failure was caused by his
connection with big corner in corn. He
made an arrangement with his creditors
and began to build up his fortune. When
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was nearly 81 100000.
Two members of the Harvard "Dickey
club put a candidate for admission
through course of sprouts in Brookline
graveyard few nights ago. After chain
ing him to a tombstone until he was near
ly frozen to death, they forced him to dig
a grave. Then they gave him pieces OF
meat to handle, while he was blindfolded,
and told him he had dug open grave and
cut corpse to pieces.
A box of dynamite exploded near the
shaft sunk for the new East river tunnel,
at Long Island City. Three persons were
killed and sevaral fatally injured. The
explosion set fire to the four-story brick
building adjoining, and shattered every
pane of glass in the buildings for blocks
around. One of the workmen says that
two barrels of dynamite were being thaw-
ed out when the explosion took place
The man who had charge of the work has
fed.
The supreme judicial court has sustained
the will of Samuel +. Sawyer, who died in
Gloucester, Mass, in 1889, leaving nearly
100000, of which over $350,000 wa:
given to literary and charitable institutions
Gloucester received a generous share, in
Guiding $4,000 in trust to the Sawyer
Free public library, $4,000 to the female
charitable society, 100000 as fund fol
the improvement of Ravenswood park be
sides 1t gives various amounts to th'
schools, churches and other institutions OF
that city. Rockport is also remembered
with generous gifts, as well as go religion:
and charitable institutions in Boston.