Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1879-10-17
NEWS ITEMS.

There was smart earthquake shock at
San Francisco on the I'd inst 1t was the
sharpest felt for five years.
A collision between two Baltimore and
Ohio express trains occurred Saturday night
at Bolton, W. Va, about 30 miles cast
of Wheeling. The engineer and the fire
man of the oast-bound train and two tramps
were killed., while the fireman of the west
bound train was seriously and the postal clerk
badly hurt. Several passengers were consid-
erably Jared, but not much injured. Both
engines and several cars wers wrecked.
Illinois has $50 Masonic lodges, with
membership of 3G, 600. At the convocation
this week in Chicago, GOO lodges were repre-
sented and over one thousand officers were
present.
The yellow fever has made its appear
ance at Forest City Arkansas 30 miles west
of Memphis 1t is also epidemic at Frank
lin, La, and in the surrounding country.
Herbert b. Waterman, for eighteen
years confidential clerk of the Chicago Board
of Trade, has absconded with 100000 and
perhaps more, belonging to his employers.
A naval inventor, named j. r. McClin-
took, OF New Orleans, and his assistant met a
terrible death while experimenting with sub
marine torpedoes in Boston harbor Monday
afternoon. A premature explosion took place,
DlOWluR men anu DOul 10 ulOulS.
DR.. julius Lemoyne, one Of the leading
advocates of cremation in the United States,
and the designer and builder of the crema-
ton furnace at Washington Pa, died there
on Tuesday. aged 81 years.
A fatalaccident occurred Tuesday evening
ina Baltimore variety theatre In the last act of
the play Rowing Jack, there is discharge
of musketry, and when the guns went off a
young man named John Nelson, a medical
student at the university of Maryland, who sat
in the aut euce, was fatally shot through the
head, one of the muskets being loaded with
ball instead of blank cartridge.
Nothing has been head from Prof Wise
and his companion who made n balloon as
censon from st. Louis Sept. %, and there is
little room for doubt that the men are dead
Chester Goodale, the venerable victim of
the South Egremont Mass. assault is i'm
proving and the physicians have hopes of
his recove. !. The as .ault seems to him like
a dream, and while he converses intelligently
on various matters he says nothing when
Questioned about the affair The town Off
GERS have clews which may yet bring Mr..
Goodale's assailant to justice.
Tho parties to whose negligence is at
trbuted the falling Of the grand stand at the
Adrian, Mich. fair grounds recently, and the
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-Crtat excitement prevails IN the vicinity
OF Fort Mckinney wy, on account OF recent
rlch discoveries oi goId,hearlng quartz IN the
Big Horn mountains about 3" mlits north
west past the head OF the Tongue river.
Monroe W. Anderson Of Elgin, H., and
w. Il. Sautzer of Chicago, passengers on the
| Chicago and Northwestern railway, were
killed in collision of trains on Monday, and
several others were more or less injured.
A strange and bloody afTrav occurred
near Augusta. Me, last Thursday, between
two brothers. Augustus and Charles Thomas,
who live down the KenneLec river. a mile
from the CITY, the home of one being on the
east and the other on the west bank. Angus
tus crossed the stream to where his brother
was chopping wood Thursday MOI hing. and
getting into dispute. one of them slapped
the other in the face. The apgrieyed broth