Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-29
THE NEWS IN brief.


BURNED.
tornado swept over Rensselaer, county,
N. Y, north and east of Troy, Monday, ex-
tending into Vermont and Massachusetts
train on the Boston, Hoosac Tunnel and
Western railroad was thrown from the track
at Hoosick Falls N. Y, by a landslide.
Barns and farm buildings were burned by
lightning ut West Granville, East Greenbush,
Victory Mills, Schuylerville and Saratoga, N.
Y, and at Peru, Arlington and SALISBURY,
Vt, and several horses and cows were burned
with them. At Elizabethtown, N Y, two
men were killed by lightning who had taken
shelter under n tree in a meadow. John
Layden and Griffith Hughes were seriously
injured by falling rocks in slate quarry at
West Pawlet, VT Trees were uprooted and
buildings were blown do Sn in the path of the
hurricane, and crops were seriously damaged
by the heavy rainfall.
AT Pittsheld, Mass, the thunder storm was
one of the severest in years, and the light
ming did considerable damage At North
Adams the high wind damaged trees and
crops near Blackington. The thunder. storm
about midnight was terrific. George Robbins.
employed in the Troy and Greenfield yard,
in attempting TO throw over a switch was
thrown across the track, and one-half of his
body paralyzed. A woman caught in the
storm was so badly frightened il is thought
she cannot live. A severe hail-storm swept
over portion of franklin county, Mass.
badly cutting up the crops. The storm ex-
tended from Shelburne south of the centre of
Leyden, across Bernardston through the
north part of Gill and touching West North
fields At Leyden a shed belonging to Mr.
Allen was blown down, damaging several car
riages. NJ Nocombs house at the Centre was
struck by lightning three times and partially
burned. At Greenfield a house in the north
part of the town was struck, the inmates be-
ing badly scared, and brakeman near the
depot was stunned.
AT Deering Henniker, Acworth Little
ton, Weare, Hopkinton and Peterboro, N
H., barns were struck by lightning and
burned. The summer residence of r. A.
Sweetser of Milford, N. H., was burned and
e. r. Farley of GofIstown lost a full SGT of
farm buildings with live stock At several
places in Maine buildings were struck and
burned. The steeple of the Universalist
church at West Swanzey, n. H., was struck
by lightning and badly shattered A horse
behind which two men were driving near the
same place was struck by lightning and killed
The men were stunned and when they came
to their senses they found themselves sitting
in the wagon with the horse dead, in violent
shower
Nelson Collins of Guildhall this state, and
Dana Grant of Tunbridge, had barns struck
and burned with their contents.
Mrs Chaplin, widow of Rev. DR.. f. H.
Chaplin, died suddenly, from apoplexy, at Pi-
geon Cove, Mass, last Friday evening
II. H. Tibbles, the Ponca Indian agent,
has married Bright Eyes, the chiefs daughter
AT Muir, Mich, on Monday small
house occupied by Alonzo Derrick, his wife
and six children, took fire in an upper cham
Der where three boys, one deaf mute Of II
and the others aged and s. were sleeping,
and they were suffocated and burned. The
unrecognizable mass of remains was gathered
up and buried in one coffin.
Fares from Boston to Chicago are down
to 81, and by the Central Vermont line to
Collector Robertson of New York took
the oath of Office Monday
A white girl was outraged and murdered
by negro blacksmith near Satartia, Miss,
| Sunday. Thinking he had killed her by chok-
ing, he threw the body into well aud went
| to HIS shop. Returning soon after, he found
| the girl standing in the water two and Il half
| feet deep, and going down on the rope he
drowned her. Being unable to get out, he
was found there with the dead body of his
| victim. The citizens assembled and voted to
hang him, but decided to hold him till after
| the inquest.
"A uhll SlOTln huu nuTrlchlle NJ thullue,
| Ct, last week Thursday smashed window
glass, rddled the tobacco crop, cut down corn,
wrenched of large apples, stripped trees of
foliage, and killed many birds.
The shade trees at West Point, n Y,
have been attacked and stripped of their
leaves by millions of greenish, striped worms.
Eight thousand people assembled Friday
| morning at Leesburg, Mo, to witness the eX-
ecution of John w. Patterson, who murdered
james g. Clark in 1868.
A tramp attempted to forcibly enter the
| dollhouse at Greenwood, o., kept by Mrs.
Hunt, widow. She gave him all the money
she had through a window, but he broke down
the door and persisted in entering, when she
shot him dead
Eighteen thousand people witnessed the
unwilling of the statue of Gen. j. b. Nc
| Pherson at Clyde, o., last Friday. The statue
is the gift of the society of the Army OF the
Tennessee, which reared the equestrian statue
of Mcpherson at Washington. Ex-President
Hayes was president of the day, and made a
brief address, recalling the circumstances OF
| Gen. McPherson's death, and giving a short
| history of the movement to erect this statue.
Gen. McPherson's mother and sister and 9TH
err members of his family were present. The
| procession was nearly a mile long. Some
weeks ago President Garfield promised to be
| present, mo unforeseen event preventing"
During last weeks storm in Wisconsin,
the house of a Norwegian settler in Coon val
| ley was surrounded by torrent, and bis wife
| and six children, ranging in age from six
months to 10 years. were engulfed and swept
along lifeless with the waters.
A severe drouth prevails in the eastern
part of New York. The highways are cover
ed with several inches of fine, penetrating
dust, and wells, cisterns and streams are dry.
In Monmouth county, N. j., land and cattle
are suffering from the long drouth, and the
army worms are eating the parched clover.
Last Friday was the hottest day in the
| history of Charleston, S. c., the mercury
reaching lO40 in the shade.
Telephone communication was had on
Monday between Rochester, n Y, and Pat
erson, n. j., distance of $50 miles.
Underground telegraph wires in every
city are now mere question of time. The
New York legislature has passed an act re-
| quiring telegraph companies to put all their
| wires underground in New York city below
| 42d street, before Jan. l, 1888. Philadelphia
and Washington are moving in the same direc-
| ton.
The desperadoes who robbed the Chicago
4 Rock Island railroad train near Winston,
Mo, recently realized only 5000. The gov
ernor of Missouri will offer reward of $780,
| 600 for the arrest of the robbers, 500, 600 of
this sum to be given for the capture of the
two James boys, and $4,000 each for the 9TH
er five men of the party.
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