Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-01-19
National Republican Committee.
Joseph II. MRnley of Maine, the New
Executive Chairman.

| as chairman of the executive committee,
but retained his craftsmanship of the ma
tional committee. Joseph H. Manley of
Maine was elected as Mr.. Carriers success
or Mr.. Manley has proclaimed himself
in favor of Thomas b. Reed of Maine, as
the Republican candidate for president.
! The following day the executive committee
had a conference with members of the
congressional committee, at which plans
for concerted action during the coming
campaign were discussed. Resolutions
were adopted favoring the admission into
the Union of Utah, Arizona, New Mexico
and Oklahoma. The question of the selec-
ton of permanent headquarters was post
poned until the next meeting.
Killed by Hair.
Mrs. and Mrs Geo. w. Harvey were eel
ebrating their golden wedding anniversary
at Iona, Y. j., and while surrounded by
his children and grandchildren, Mr. Harvey
kissed one of the latter on the head. In
doing so hair lodged in his mouth and
was drawn into his throat. A violent fit
of coughing ensued. This continued I'M
! Til blood vessel was broken, and Mr..
Harvey died within few minutes in the
presence of his relatives. The shock to
his wife was so great that she became I'M
/
a Battle with Anarchists.
A despatch from Rome says that the dis
covery was made Saturday of the plot of
anarchists to loot and burn the city of
| Carara, but extra military and police forces
were put on guard. A squad of cavalry
| patrolling near the city met a band of 500
anarchists. A battle ensued which ended
with the flight of the anarchists after sew
! nrn1 Of 1,atr ,Io. Ia, L
90 Fell Into the Water and Eight Were
Drowned.
An improvised bridge over Newtown
creek, Long Island City, Long Island, col
lapsed Friday night, precipitating go men
into nine feet of water. The greater num-
| Der were rescued or succeeded in reaching
the shore through their own efforts, some
in an injured condition. Eight persons
were drowned, the bodies being recovered.
object TO Plat as Receiver OF the New
England Railroad.
Independent stockholders of the New
York and New England Railroad company,
| representing $4,000 shares, have organized
to secure the removal of Thomas c. Plat
as receiver, and the appointment in his
place of Charles Parsons, formerly presi-
dent of the road
Dying Like sheep.
Advices from Pine Ridge Indian agency
in Nebraska show the weather there is in
tensely cold and there is great deal of suf-
fering. The grip is playing havoc on the
reservation and the Indians, who believe
more in their medicine men than in doc
tors prescriptions, are dying like sheep.
Stole SIO3, OOO---Semtenced for Six
Years.
Louis Redwne, the assistant cashier of
the Gate City national bank of Atlanta,
Ga, who confessed to the enlightenment of
SOB, 900, has been sentenced to six years
Imprisonment.
Six Drowned ut Baltimore.
BY the swapping of boat by the gale
in the harbor at Baltimore early Friday
morning five sailors belonging TO the Brit
ish steamer Mareca and one ferryman were
drowned. Three men were rescued.
VIM Tinkhams big wooden mill at Har-
risonvile X. l., was burned Saturday
night: loss about S4S0,000.
The Empire state express from Albany
to Syracuse made a long distance record
Tuesday, covering the l4S miles in ljl min
utes.
Three buildings in the business centre
of Ipswich, Mass, were destroyed by fire
early Saturday morning. The loss is esti-
mated at $4,000
Reuben Kendall, postmaster at West
moreland, died last week Wednesday of
pneumonia, at the age of IS years. He
left a wife but no children.
S. Sanford d Sons carpet mills, at Am.
sterdam, y. Y, which employ 5000 hands
and which have been closed since July
last, resumed operations Monday.
Insurance Agent Osgood's house a
Claremont was badly damaged by fire Sat
urday. Members of the family escaped
but saved nothing. Loss, $500.
One hundred and fifty persons died il
, Keene in 1898, and the remains of 20 wer,
, brought there for burial. OF these 80 wer,
, over 70 years of age and three over 90.
J. G. Burton, VIM. Gay and the latter
f son, John Gay, were lynched by a mol
! Sunday at Russell, Kansas. They wer
r charged with the murder of Fred Dinnin:
last July.
Mrs. Nancy Sherman celebrated her sou
birthday last week Thursday at the hom
of her daughter in keene. Mrs, Sherman
has seven sons and one daughter. Five o
the sons live in Keene,
Advices brought by the steamer City o
= Picking, at San Francisco from Shanghai
say that on December l3 nearly 300 Chi
! nese women and children were burned L
death in a theatre at Ningpo.
! Miss Sarah Holden died of starvation
q recently at Harrison, Me-, but the publ
q administrator has found 5000 in gold in
box nailed against the wall in her hous
. and 5000 in bills sewed into an old skirt.
4 1t has been decided to demolish the bi
e tower at aboard of trade building in CHI
n cago, as it has sunk eight inches and
threatening the rest of the structure. TIL
tower is 325 feet high and one of the sight
of Chicago.
d A despatch from st. Joseph, Mo-, say
+ that the express messenger on the Ham
/ bal and St Joseph train, which was hel
e up on Wednesday evening, succeeded i
It concealing a package containing $4,000
: and that the robbers got only S47.S0.
T. In the stock raising country betwee
u Uvalde and the Pros river, in Texas, theI
has been no rain since last June. Tn
grass on the range is as'dry as finder an
q many large springs that had always bee