Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-23
Killed in a Boxing Bout.
h''Asimmons struck Ills Sparring PART
"er Deadly BIow---ueld for Man.
SInmrhAnr

e"uiy bIOW---Held for Nam
Slaughter.
Con Riordan, an Australian puqilist.
was Killed by Fitzsimmons. the middle,
weight champion, in sparring exhibition
AZ syracuse, N. Y, Friday night. Both
were members of travelling variety com
Pany' Riordan had been drinking heavily
anu gave evidence of his condition as he
walked upon the stage. but was allowed TO
ehter the bout. After a few exchanges
ftzsimmons struck Riordan heavily on the
Jaw Rlordan fell to the floor and never
recovered consciousness, dying in a few
hours. Fitzsimmons was held in $4,000
on the charge of manslaughter in the first
uegree. In the court room he said he
would not have killed Riordan for $780,
OOO, and then broke down in tears. Two
years ago another fatal accident of this
KIND occurred in Syracuse. An autopsy
showed that Riordan was in perfect health
ana died from the effects of the blow.
The Burial of the Gar.
The body of Car Alexander III.
was placed in the tomb of his fathers. be-
heath the fortress cathedral of st. Peter
and st. Paul. at st. Petersburg. last Mon
uay' The funeral services were the most
ever taken place in Russia, and the last
rites were performed in the presence of an
assemblage of royalty and representatives
OF royalty such as has seldom or never con-
gregated in similar circumstances under the
roof of saced building. The ceremonies
We're conducted with all the pomp of which
the ritual of the Greek church is capable,
and with all the display that the Russian
court could command.
Chicago Claims 2,230,OOO.
A banquet of the Two Million club was
held in Chicago few nights ago to cele-
brate the arrival of Chicago at the two
million mark in population. The club
was formed several months since to
boom the population toward the desired
mark. 1t now declares the work finished
as 1t estimates the number of people resid-
ing in Chicago at 2,236,000
BlackIisting Leads to starvation.
After a careful canvass a committee has
reported that 215 families of American
hallway Union men are on the verge of
starvation, and 400 unmarried men desti-
tute at Denver, Colo, in consequence of
the blacklist enforced by the railways
against the men who struck last summer.
Montreal is planning for worlds fair,
to last from May to November, in 1896.
Denver has Jack the Stranger"
He has killed three woman in disorderly
houses within a short time.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union, in session in Cleveland, Ohio, re-
elected Miss Francis f. Willard president.
An oil well which was opened last week
at Gibonsburg, % miles from Toledo,
Ohio, is the greatest ''gusher' on record.
1t started off at the rate of 300 barrels an
an hour.
John S. johnson made the following BIZ
cycle records from standing start with
pace makers at Louisville, Ky, Saturday:
One mile, 2:05 20; two miles, 1901; three
miles, 600; four miles, SID 80; five
miles, 1922.
The white laborers employed at Williams
lumber camp, in Escambia county, Ala
bama, objected to the presence of so ne
groes, and fired into a party of them, kill
ing three. The remainder of the negroes
fled from the camp.
Thomas Portercheck of Welsville, Mo-,
became insane Sunday night, and killed his
mother, brother and sister with an axe.
After setting fire to the house he cut his
own throat with a butcher knife. One sis
ter escaped by jumping from window.
VIM. \. Jones, a wealthy farmer of Chill
l:cothe, Ohio, was "buncoed out of $1,000
by two strangers who worked the tin-box
game on him." Tuesday. The box con-
tanned a letter to Mr.. Jones advising him
to be a little shrewder when next he bet.
A library building costing 800, 600 was
erected in Ansona, Conn, by Caroline
Phelps Stokes of New York in memory of
Arson G. Phelps. Miss Stokes also fur
nished t with 10000 volumes. The library
has now been closed because of a lack of
appreciation on the part of those for whom
it was intended.
A machine to do web drawing, the only
branch in cotton mills that is performed
by hand, has been invented by S. p. Sher-
man of Biddeford, Me-, after working in
secret IA years. He has had financial back
ing and the complete machine represents
an expenditure of So, 900. 1t is however,
worth a great fortune, as it is expected to
be pattern for machines for every cotton
mill in the world.