Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-25

Forty students and half dozen professors and
instructors of Harvard college are i'll with the
measles
The United States consul at Erzeroum reports
to the state department that the number OF Ar
menian children under ~ years of age made or
phans by the massacTes Of 1895 is estimated by
the missionaries at 5O,OOO
boiler in the Kent wooden mill in Centrevle,
R. l., exploded on Saturday morning. Three per-
sons were killed and one fatally injured. One of
the victims was the wife of one of the hremen.
She had gone to the mill with her husbands
breakfast.
P. Aelo and his wife and grandchild, Firms,
were burned to death in their home, at Sheffield
Ohio, Saturday The man and his wife had escaped
in safety but returned to secure the child, when
the floor gave way and the three were precipitat-
ed into the cellar
A safe in S. W. Bassett & Co.'S jewelry shop at
Providence, Il. l.. was blown open early Saturday
morning and the thieves secured gold stock val
ned at $1,000. second safe was charged with
dynamite and blown open but it contained two
DOORS the interior one not being shattered. In
this safe was $4,000 in gold
James Sheehan and Patrick Begley attempted to
steal goose in Chicago on Thursday night, but
the owner gave an ALARM and in an attempt TO es-
cane the crowd which was attracted Seehan shot
and fatally wounded Barnett Cooper, and was
himself felled 10 the ground with a Ratchet.
Sheehan and Begley were both arrested.
John l. Thornton, assistant editor of the Clay
County Advance, of Ashland, Ga, was assassina-
ted at his home few days ago, an unknown per-
son firing load of bucRshot through the window
into the room where thornton was seated with
his family. Articles in the Advance denouncing
certain law less gangs are thought to have been
the cause of the murder.
About 80 per cent of the orange trees blighted
nv the killing freeze of two years ago In Florida
have grown again from the roots and some of
them are bearing this season. The last crop be-
fore the frost, the largest Florida ever raised,
was 500, 900 boxes and 1t is estimated that three
wears from now the revived groves will yield at
least four-fifths of that enormous output.
Four large business blocks in Uxbridge Mass
were burned Sunday, causing loss of $4,000;
Insurance 500 900. The largest block in town, the
Methodist church and the Windsor hotel would
have been destroyed hut for the timely arrival OF
an engine and hose company from the worcester Ter
feet of hose TO the river and soon had the flames
under control
Joseph. the three-year.old son of Joseph and
Frances Novak, died at Syracuse, N. Y, Friday
From the result of poison in coffee drunk on Tues
day. Two sisters OF the little fellow died from
the same cause on Tuesday. The parents are out
Of danger and one other of the children who
were poisoned is on the road to recovery. A
charge of murder may be preferred against q
woman implicated in the case.
The chiefs of construction, engineering AND
ordnance and Commodores HichboTn, Melville
| and Sampson were summoned to the navy de
partment at Washington Friday and ordered &c
tase what steps were necessary 10 expedte tnt
| repairs on all ships now in commission at the Al
laitic coast navy yards. II Is explained that thli
action is taken that all available ships may b
ready to rendezvous for drill purposes with Ad
| than January l.
A fast express on the Baltimore and OhiC
| Southwestern railway was entering Hamden, o.
| Friday at the rate of As miles an hour, when thu
| engine struck COW. She was thrown against l
switch with such force as TO throw 1t open. The
| engine ran upon the switch track and was over
| turned The coaches struck the engine anC
| Jumped TO another siding against a car of shelet
corn. One postal clerk was buried under tn
corn and smothered TO death Two other Posta
clerks were seriously injured and the conducto
badly bruised.
| John Dean. rs, was murdered near Maynard
| Mass, Thursday evening. He was alone his tW,
| daughters, who live at home, being at their bus
ness 10 the town. It is evident that Deans hous'
was entered by a robber while Dean wa
| milking in the barn, and that on his retur
70 the house he was attacked Deans skull wa
| crushed and his head mRngled A short, thick
| set man was seen running away from the hous
| NV a neiRhbor and Lorenzo Barnes, 30, a wood
| chopper is under arrest, charged with The or me
Barnes has been out Of work OF late, but consid
cradle money was found on his person.