Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-08

ing of MyrOn Richardson were burned at
Derry Depot, y. H., Wednesday night.
The loss on the factory is estimated at S40,-
600, and about 200 hands will be thrown
out of employment.
An obligation for 500, O00, 900 was can
celed at Norrlstown, Pa, Saturday. 1t
was mortgage given by the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad company July /, 1874,
to the Fidelity insurance, trust and safe
deposit company Of Philadelphia.
Samuel Whitaker shot and killed his
wife at North Cambridge, Mass, Thurs
day. A short time after Whitaker cut
his throat with a razor, infictng fatal in
juries. Jealousy is supposed to account
for the deed. Whitaker was a shoemaker
by trade.
Merton f. Burnham and Leroy Kendall,
both employed by Lougee Brothers, skated
into an air hole on Lake Winnesquam, four
miles from Laconia, n H., Saturday night.
Burnham was drowned, while Kendall was
rescued Just as he was going down for the
last time.
George b. wilkins, vice president and
cashier of the Commercial bank of Sell
ma Alabama, which failed for half a mil
lion dollars on Wednesday, committed sui
!
in the Episcopal church at that place
Thursday morning.
One hundred applications for charters
for new railroads have been filed in Japan,
and it is stated that over 40 will be granted.
During the first week in December con-
tracts were made for Is American locomo-
tives. Hitherto English rolling stock has
been used exclusively.
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bank of st. Paul, Mimi, both suspended
| Monday. Subsequently the West Side
bank, which cleared through the Allema-
mia bank, was closed. The failures were
! due in each case to heavy Withdrawals of
deposits. 1t is said that all these institu-
tons are solvent.
A. j. Jernigan, county treasurer at Aus
tin, Texas, shot and fatally wounded him
self Thursday. He had loaned to a color
ed porter about the county courthouse
| $500 of the county funds to put into a
scheme to dig for Mexican gold, supposed
to be buried near the city. The scheme
was exposed as fraud a few days ago.
The body of Richard Cornelius, cashier
of the National Farmers and Planters
bank of Baltimore, of which the late
Enoch Pratt was for long time president,
] was lOunu 1 thursday III pohu OH DIulu
Hill park. He is supposed to have com
mitted suicide. A shortage of 100000 is
said to have been found in his accounts.
The most remarkable wedding in New
Hampshire in many day was that last
Monday in house on the Bean road from
Deerfield to Nottingham. The groom was
Jacob Witham, aged 81 years, and the
bride Mrs. Georgiana Rivers, aged 81 years
10 ba fpJ nd Ia hriI a.
fourth venture upon the matrimonial sea
James Duffy, young pugilst from Bos
ton, collapsed after fighting 10 rounds witt
George Justice of the Broadway Athletic
club at New York Saturday night He
was suffering from a cerebral hemorrhage
a blood vessel in his brain having beer
ruptured by the conclusion of blows upor
his head. He died Monday morning. The
men connected with the boxing mattel
have been arrested. - q
Mrs. Mary Cole, 80, had been missing d
Willmantic, Conn, since Friday night
and on Monday the police entered heI
house and found her unconscious, with 3
deep cash over her left ear. Her skull VA
broken, and her condition is precaridus
In the doorway of her room was the body
of Abraham Ernestus, 40, who boarded
with her. 1t is supposed that Ernestus at
temped to kill the woman and then com
mtted suicide.
The Iowa mortgage company of Hart
ford, Conn.,, has gone into the hands of I
receiver, with aggregate liabilities of $21S,
600. 1t is said to have been one of thu
strongest and most conservatively man
aged of all such companies, but the con
tinued hard times in the western agricult
ural sections and difficulty of collecting in
terest have at last compelled it to sue
cumb. William F.Fuller, director of tn
company, is made receiver by the Unite
States court at New Haven.