Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
5000 Massacred.

one of the most APPALLING obou....
lnhuman massacre and PacIo ,Ji a Oh
mas been added to the revoltng bistp OviS III
the Turkish rule in the East Siv ~ vi
sand Christian Armenians in Asio MI MI
Oh both sexes were slaughtered and 55 t,ii
lages destroyed recently. The massooro i.
OF equal Importance with the RnIgorio :, =,
Dutcheries which led to the
war. uIklSn
The trouble began with the refrsol os
the Armenans to pay taxes on the grorr VI
that the Kurdish raids had so imnoyerioi,
eu them as to render it impossible Troons
were sent to enforce the payments H.
We're beaten off. The governor of RitiiS
Cnen arrived with an imposing force of roo
uiars' The people, seeing that the strnS-
gle was hopeless, yielded, but the governor
resolved to make an example of them or
uered the soldiers to fire upon the neorIo
NO compassion was shown to ACE or GOV
In one place 300 or 400 women. after how,
ing been forced repeatedly to submit to tbe
soldlery, were hacked to pieces with swords
ana oayonets. In another place POO won.
en- begged at the commanders feet for
mercy. The commander, after ordering
mat they be outraged, had them despatch
ed with the sword. Similar scenes were
enacted in other places.
Armenians in New York city accept
without question the reports of the massa-
Gre They believe that the slaughter was
done by order of the sultan, and that it is
the deliberately planned policy to settle the
VeXed Armenian question by blotting the
race from the face of the earth. A mass
meeting OF the ArInenians of New York
was held Saturday to send protests to
PRESIDENT Cleveland and the heads of all
european powers against the Turkish
atrocities.
A Complicated Insurance SwindIe.
A man known as H. II. Holmes was ar
rested in Boston Saturday, under the name
of Fl. II. Howard on the charge of con-
spring to defraud the Fidelity Mutual Life
Insurance Association of PHILADELPHIA out
OF $4,000. In a confession he said he
substituted dead body for that of b. F.
Pitezel, alias B. f. Perry, who carried a
policy in the company for $4,000, and
whose dead body was thought to have been
found in a room in Philadelphia last Sep
TENDER. Holmes says Pitezel is alive, but
there is theory that the body was really
PitezePs, and that he was murdered. J.B.
Howe, lawyer, was arrested in st. Louis
and Mrs. Pitezel in Burlington, this state
for completely in tie crime.
Water SpOuts at Jacksonville, Fla.
Two water spouts in the st. Johns river
were seen by hundreds of people at Jack
sonville, Fla, Saturday. The first entered
the river from McGirt's creek and was fol-
lowed by another at distance of quarter
of mile. Both started from the river in
big round coils and gradually decreased up
to the centre of the spout, when they
again began to widen, until they reached
the clouds and gained the same size as at
the base. The spouts ploughed through
the river at the rate of % miles an hour,
making the water boil and foam and
throwing spray high in the air.
Triple Tragedy at EImira, n. Y.
NJ. V. Straight, a well-known business
man of Elmira, n. Y, shot and fatally
wounded his wife and her sister, Mrs. Ma
ry Whitford, and then shot and fatally
wounded himself Straight and his wife
had not lived together for several weeks,
and he was angered because Mrs. Straight
made no reply to letter which he sent to
her asking for forgiveness. He followed
the two women on the street until they were
near their home, and then shot them from
behind
Italian sVnIages Wrecked by Earth
quaISes.
An earthquake which was most severe
in the province of Reggie d CalabIia, but
which was felt in other parts of Italy, oc-
CURED Friday night. Procopio, a village
of 1900 inhabitants, was Obliterated, and
over 60 people were killed. Houses were
destroyed and people killed in other towns.
Safe Blowers Secured over 100000.
Burglars entered the office of the Thea
tire ROYAL at Montreal early Saturday morn
ing, and blowing open the safe secured
$4,000 worth of United States bonds,
lot of railroad stock and several hundred
dollars in currency.
What is believed to have been a series of
incendiary fires occurred in Winnipeg,
Manitoba, one night last week, destroying
property valued at 100000
The house of A. d. Coffin, the wealthy
manufacturer, at Windsor Locks, Conn.,,
was entered by burglars Sunday night and
iewelry to the value of $500 stolen.
The stockholders of the Bell Telephone
company have decided to accept the act
passed by the general court of Massachu-
sets, authorizing The company to increase
the capital stock from $2O,OOO,OOO to S23,-
600, 000
John Washburn, jr., a boy at Sing Sing,
N. Y, fired shotgun into a keg OF pow
der in Abraham Jones's sporting goods
store. The powder exploded, Washburn
was killed and the building was destroyed
by the fire which followed
Twelve of the Cook gang rode into M us
kogee, Indian Territory, Thursday OF last
week, paraded the main street, laid IN a
supply of cigars and then rode leisurely
out of town. mot one deputy marshal
could be found on the street and the citl-
zens we're not looking for fight"
Gov. Sheakley, of Alaska, in his annual
report, says that during the year the hsh-
cries have been successful, the mines nave
Welded profitable returns, the population
has been largely augmented by immlgra-
ton, and the people have enjoyed season
of unusual progress and prosperity .,
The commissioners of the Niagara Falls
state reservation have appealed to Secre-
tarv Gresham to enter into an agreement
with Canada looking to the protection OF
the falls from the six companies whlch are
now tapping the Niagara river IL is CAIN
ed that the operations of the power COM
panies are likely to ruin the great cataract
Jacob Hartman and Henry Lawrence:
were shot and killed in the main street OF
Lula, Miss, Friday, by John W. boyu