Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1873-07-11
NEWS ITEMS.

"A fearful tornado visited Neosho coun-
ty, Kansas, on the I'd ofJuly. Several per-
sons were killed and mnch property de-
stroyed.
Leaves Of the rhubarb plant eaten as
greens, killed woman in Maine recently.
DIR. Charles #. Jackson of Boston, tho
eminent chemist, has become an inmate of
an insane asylum. ..r
Twenty persons were drowned at Green
Lake, Wisconsin, on the Fourth, by tho
upsetting of boats during a gale.
A boy eight years old murdered little
playmate only three years Of age, at South
Acton, Mass, the 1st inst.
Rev. w. III. II. Murray has accepted
cultural Society 10 deliver the address at
the next annual fair
Jack sonville, ILL.,, and vicinity were
visited on Mondey with the heaviest rain
storm ever known in that region. Twelve
and one quarter inches OF rain fell during
the storm. All the streams rose 10 an I'M
precedented height, bridges were swept
away, and great damage was done TO the
crops. Damaging rains are also reported
in Ohio and other parts of the West. -
"A family at Winchester, Va, quarreled
at the breakfast table, Saturday, when two
sons, named Oscar and Lycurgus, began
firing pistols at the four other sons and
the mother. Oscar was wounded, captured
and sent TO Jail. The son named Clinton
received q wound from which he died Sat
urday evening, and the mother was also
fatally wounded.
"A man named Harrington shot and
MORALLY wounded i've men named Lynch,
O'Neal, Shoemaker, Frank and Sulli-
van, in the street at Phoebe, New, Sunday,
the alteration originating from Harrlng-
toms throwing across the street dog which
belon ged TO Schoenmaker. The presence
of officers in strong force alone prevented
the lyncbing of Harrington, who was ar
rested after desperate resistance.
~ magazine of the Cambria coal conf
| pany, near Catesville, Pa, containing 700
pounds of nitro-glycerine, exploded, Fri
day, breaking every window within a
radius of two miles, fearing the earth for
500 yards with chasms from 60 TO 20 feet
deep, and hurting trees nearly half mile.
1t is thought that the mischief was caused
by three men, who had been seen near the
place, and were attempting TO steal some
powder for the Fourth.
Another ocean steamer has just run
ashore not far from the scene of the terrible
Atlantic disaster, but fortunately without
any such frightful results as attended that
long-to aforementioned wreck. The I'M
fortunate vessel, this time, is the City of
Washington, of the Inman line, which left
Liverpool, June a. for New York, and
struck on Gull-rock bar. some 20 miles east
of Halifax, at 2 O'Clock, Saturday afternoon,
during dense fog. The passengers, crew,
and baggage were, however, all landed safe
ly, though the vessel is expected to become
a total wreck
A terrible catastrophe occurred at Nj
agara Falls, on the 4th inst. young man
and young woman, engaged to be mar
ried, accompanied by a boy, brother to the
| girl, went out in a boat from the Canada
side, at Chippewa, for a little pleasure
cruise on the Niagara river, and nothing
more has been seen or heard from them
since. Pieces of their boat have been
picked up, and it is probable that their
bodies will rise TO the surface in the eddy
just below the falls, in the course of few
days. The names of the parties were John
Elliott, aged 20, and Margaret Rollinston,
aged IL, and both belonged in Cincinnati