Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1898-02-04

\ shipment Of tobacco amounting to 2l5
bales and valued at S27 900 was entered
at St. Adams port on Thursday
a l4-vear-old BOY named Forth was
struck on the head by large icicle which
fell from a building on Allen street at Bur
hngton "A few DAYS ago His injuries are
serious and NAV result fatally.
Thomas NJ Thompson's general mer-
chandise store at Shelburne Falls was
burned Friday morning The house and
store occupied nv Mr. Thompson were
owned by Moses Degree of burlington and
there WAS an insurance on the house of
about $500 The stock of Thompson was
valued at about 500 and was partially
covered by insurance.
Fire broke out at Bradford Sunday in
the building owned by the estate of J W
Bliss and occupied by W 4 Perkins. har-
ness-mAker After hard struggle of two
hours, with the thermometer registering
eight degrees below zero. the blaze was ex-
tinguished. The loss will not exceed $1,000
1t started from a defective chimney
The second annual musical convention
Of the Randolph musical association will
be held Feb % "a and % The following
artists have been engaged Beedes' or
chestra of keene, Prof Henri G. Blas Of
Concord conductor; DR. George K Clark
of Boston, basso: Miss Cora W. Barnabee
Of Portsmouth, soprano: Miss katherine
Gilbert of Boston, contrslto; Prof Charles
:. Conant Of Concord. tenor Miss Ethelvnd
Gould reader: Miss NJ Josephine Page of
Laconla, pianist.
The Barre Times which was established
several months ago, mas proved n success
ful venture, and the two Montpelier daihes
whose advent was chronicled last fall
seem 10 be prosperous Barre will soon
have another daily, the Morning Enter
prise which will toe issued from the office
of the Weekly Enterprise. W. W La
Point, young lawyer and newspaper cor.
respondent and Henry Whitaker former
~ on the staff of the Barre Times. will
have charge of the news department of
the paper
a remarkable cat owned by Mrs Henry
Hastings, who lives in Poultney near Lake
ST Catherine, mas caught during the SIX
years of its life 175 rabbits They have
been brought home and eaten by the fam
lily. The smaller animals the cat can east
ly carry, but the larger ones 1t hides until
It can return home for help. The cat has
also captured a mink, woodcock, pa 'tridges
and squirrels, and Mrs Hastings now has
red squirrel that the cat brought in alive
The cat Is coal black, and has never been
seen TO eat any of its game.
Ephraim Eaton Hitchcock, a New York
millionaire, who died, recently, was the
financial hacker of the Truth Seeker" a
journal of free thought, although he was A
regular attendant of the PRESBYTERIAN
church and all his life passed as strictly
orthodox IN his religious belief Mr.. Hitch
cock was born in We tfeld, Vt. in 1892
In his youth he was bound out and re-
celved 500 as his stipend when he was 81
years old. For some years he was in bust
ness in Vermont and Canada, but in 1860
he came TO New York and engaged in the
manufacture of hatters' fur The firm of
Hitchcock, Dermody & Co. became one
OF the largest in the country.
Mrs, Daniel r Hanna of Cleveland
Ohio, who has sued her husband, the only
son of Senator Hanna for divorce, was
formerly Shelburne girl, a niece of Ben
lamin Harrington Of that town and daugh-
ter of the late c H Harrington of Cleve-
land. Many Burlington and Shelburne
people will remember her as a remarkably
handsome woman. Mr. Hanna is about
80 years old, and was married 10 wears
ago. The couple have three bows Prior
to the filing of the papers in the suit for
divorce the couple had agreed to a mutual
separation. Young Hanna agreed to al
low his wife $1,000 year and the Euclid
avenue home, and she was TO retain DOS
session of the children, with the under
standing that they he permitted TO visit
their father occasionally.