Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-30

Thomas Sicily, laborer. Skelly had in
Cured the displeasure of the all-night
Italian laborers, who fell upon him and
beat him until he fell unconscious in the
sewer. Dwyer attempted TO rescue Sicily,
and the Italians also beat him down. Six
arrests have been made.
Swindled EDgIishmeni. Out of $1,000
900.
A despatch from Yankton, S. D., SAYS
the English capitalists who have been deal
ing in South Dakota paper find they have
been swindled through b. L. Prince, an
Englshman, out of about $1,000, 900 dur
ing the last five years, through forged pa
pers, bonds, tax deeds and mythical town
bonds. Prince is believed to have fled to
Mexico. 1t is reported that farmers to
whom Pierce, Wright e Co. had made
loans in South Dakota will suffer large
losses. The money paid to release mort
cages was receipted for, but the mortgages
have not been released. The borrowers
will probably be obliged to pay again.
Natural Gas Melted Stoves and Burned
Buildings.
A despatch from Shelbyville, Ind, says
that by mistake Thursday the natural gas
was given high pressure in the low pres
sure mains, and at midnight it was discov-
cred that over 500 stoves and heaters in
all parts of the city were melting under
the intense heat and many buildings were
igniting. Bells were rung. whistles sound
ed and the citizens aroused to discover
themselves in the midst of a general fire.
The flow of gas was arrested and only
three houses burned.
The Paper Circulation Reached Its High
est Point I'm May.
The treasurer of the United States in
his annual report says the paper circula-
tion reached its highest point in May last,
when it stood at 81, 175, 100000. Since
then there has been slight contraction,
caused chiefly by the gradual redemption
and retirement of gold certificates, the issue
of which was suspended, as the law re-
qures, when the gold reserve of the treas
ury fell below S100,000,OOO.
G Thirty-one houses and every store but
one at Marion, y. c., were burned Sunday
Thirteen out of 20 prisoners in the Jail
at Georgetown, Del, escaped Friday night
by knocking down the turnkey and secur-
ing the keys.
A fire at Sinner, Texas, was started last
week Thursday by gang of outlaws, in
an effort to blow open safe. When the
people responded to the alarm they were
forced back at the muzzles of revolvers
and rifles. Nine buildings were burned,
and the loss was 100000
DIR. Francis j. Whittemore and George
H. BARLEY were killed by a Sixth avenue
train at Cortland street, in New York city,
Saturday evening. Whittemore fell be-
tween the cars and the platform while try
! ing to prevent BARLEY from jumping on
the track in front of the train BARLEY was
insane.
The Canadian authorities have decided
to test all cattle imported into the Do
minion with the Koch tuberculine lymph.
| II any animal is found to be affected with
tuberculosis, the owner will have the alter
native of taking it back to the place
whence it came, or having it slaughtered
without compensation.
One hundred and twenty pounds of full
inmate of mercury exploded Tuesday in a
powder house of the Waterbury, Conn.
Brass company, and John Kelly, work
man, was blown to pieces. The building
was within short distance of the centre
of the city, and the explosion destroyed
several thousand dollars worth of glass.
The coroner's jury at Syracuse, n. Y,
in the case of Cornelius Riordan, who was
killed in a sparring bout with Robert Fitz-
simmons, has returned verdict declaring
that the killing was accidental, and exon
Grating Fitzsimmons from all blame
Strong testimony against Fitzsimmons wa
given by DR.. D. NJ. Totman, who ATTENDED
Riordan. He testified that the blow de
livered by Fitzsimmons alone caused death