Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-03
Prince BIsmarek was 81 years oId wednesday

Prince Bismarck was 81 years old Wednesday.
Small. poX is raging in Indian territory and all
towns along the Missouri Pacific railroad from
Coneyville TO Fort Smith, Ark, are quarantined
The Cuban insurgents defeated the government
troops in hardfought battle on the 24th Of
March, inhicting heavy loss in killed and wound
ed
Gen. Harrison came to New York from Indian.
apolis Wednesday in readiness for his marriage
to Mrs Dimmick. which will take place next
Monday
Fire destroyed a tenement house In Brooklyn,
N. Y, early Wednesday morning and ten Of its
occupants were smothered in their beds Their
bodies were burned
Advices received in San Francisco state that the
black plague is again infesting cities in China es-
pecaly the port and river cities There have
been a great many deaths.
The New York banking house of August Bel.
mont & Co. was done out of $4,000 by a clever
swindler few days ago. II was the biggest haul
Of the kind which has been made in Wall street
in ten years.
Nicenah Burke 10, daughter of George Burke
of Virgie n. Y, was frozen TO death in the snow
storm of Thursday night. She went out door to
find runaway COW and lost her way in the bliz.
gard. The body was found Friday morning in a
large snow drift.
The verdict of the jury in the Pond will case,
was set aside by Judge Thayer in the superior
court at Hartford Friday. Two weeks ago the
jury found verdict breaking the will after trial
OF six weeks. Mr.. Pond left land for park and
100000 TO maintain ii, and his brother sought to
break the will.
Carl Hoff of Austin, ILL.,, bought a quantity of
unclaimed freight at Chicago a few days ago.
| The first box that was opened contained a new
| trunk packed in sawdust. In the trunk was a
| zinc case which contained the badly decomposed
| body of man, tightly packed in chloride of lime,
| The police are unable TO solve the mystery.
The Matabele rebellion in South Africa is more
serious than at first reported. The natives are
| raiding farms and killing white settlers in the
| Matapo hills district, and more than so persons
have been slain. In one section the native police
| have Joined the Matabele warriors. The outbreak
| is regarded as an outcome of the Jameson raid
and the defeat inflicted upon the British by the
/ Beers.
| Mrs BoothTucker, the new Salvation Army
| comma der in America, who arrived Saturday.
| was notified Tuesday of the death of her infant
| in England. The child was only few weeks old
and was sick when she left, but her husband re-
NAMED behind o care for it. As the child APP
parently recovered he sailed Wednesday to join
bis wife, and so the little died while the par
| ents were thousands of miles distant. A.
Four persons were killed and two injured ear
Sunday morning in fire at 374 Hudson sire
| New York. The building was a three story br K
house, used for dwelling and store purposes. 1he
| two upper floors sheltered four families. Two
| men and woman were suffocated in their rooms
and Margaret Ryan, who jumped to the sidewalk,
| was instantly killed. Kate Higgins, who also
| jumped, and a fireman who fell from a ladder
| were seriously injured.