Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1881-07-15

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
STORMS AND FLOODS IN IOWA.

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
STORMS AND FLOODS IN IOWA.
Destructive transforms visited portions
Of Iowa last Saturday and Sunday causing
great destruction Of property and some loss
Of life. The storm about Des Moines on Sat
urday evening seems to have been a veritable
waterspout, washing away roads and bridges.
At Marsholltown, Iowa, great injury was done
to many large manufacturing concerns On
the bottom lands on the Iowa river farmers
put out signals of distress from the roofs of
their houses, and rescuing parties were sent
out in boats. The Iowa, river was higher
than ever before known. The loss in crops,
improvements and stocks about Marshall
town will exceed 5000, 900. The storm at
Boone was the most disastrous known for
years. The vast volume of the rainfall
washed out many bridges on the Chicago and
Northwestern railroad, as we'll as on the high
ways throughout the county. An engine
with four men when passing on a bridge
spanning small stream, broke through and
sank into water 20 feet deep. Two men were
drowned, and two escaped by climbing trees.
West of Moingona, while the roadmaster was
examining the track upon a bridge spanning
a small stream, the bridge went down and he
was drowned. Through the centre of the
city of Boone a small creek, ordinarily not
more than four or five feet across, became
the size of a river in six hours, sweeping
away houses, barns and all except one bridge
that spans it, in its course through the town.
1t is estimated that 10 inches Of water fell in
the six hours. The greatest food ever known
there descended upon McGregor Saturday
night, 4.G6 inches of rain falling in one hour.
A heavy storm visited Dubuque accompanied
with rain thunder and lightning. number
of streets were washed out, trees blown down
and other damage done.
The floods in Iowa are rapidly subsiding.
Miles of telegraph wire are down, and no es.
innate can be made Of the total damage.
FLOODS IN MINNESOTA
A heavy hail-storm at Winona, MINI,
Monday, accompanied by tornado, did
$4,000 worth of damage to houses, upset a
skiff and drowned John Flick, and did $1O,-
600 worth of damage to crops One thous-
and miles of the main track of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific railroad were more or
less affected There were GOO feet of track
washed out near Oxford at Badora the track
was blocked for a considerable distance by a
landslide the track was under water for the
distance of half mile two miles west of KEEL
logg aud five miles east of Fairfax 1900 feet
of embankment were washed away. There
are numberless reports from the country Of
loss of stock, fences and buildings on low
lands. The rainfall by actual measurement
was q inches.
HOT SUNDAY.
Not only in New England but through
| out the middle and western states, last Sun
day was the hottest and most uncomfortable
day of the season. St Louis reports it the
hottest day on record. The Ohio valley suf-
fered terribly. The Thermometer stood at
1927 at Pittsburg, the highest the signal
service has ever recorded there and there were
| fatal sun-strokes. Dayton, o., sweltered un-
| der LOG and there were seven deaths from
sun strokes The mercury stood at 1889 at
Wheeling, W. Va. Al Cincinnati there were
three fatal sun-strokes. At several places in
Vermont and New Hampshire q temperature
OF 100 was reported.
THE HEAT ON TUESDAY.
The mercury stood ut % on Tuesday at
| Pittsburg aud there were four fatal sun
strokes There were 20 sun.strOkes at Co
lumbus, two fatal. At Cincinnati the Their
mometer reached 1922 and there were %
| deaths in the streets from sun stroke and the
city morgue contained 30 dead bodies waiting
identification. Throughout Illinois the mer-
curry registered from 1907 to l07' and there
were many deaths.
There were 90 burias at Cincinnati, We'd
nesday, more than half of them victims of the
heat. Through Ontario and Quebec the mer-
| curry ranged from so to 1907 on Wednesday,
at Richmond it reached 1866 aud at Nash
vile, Tenn, the heat was intense.
A DIsGRAoEFUL AFFAIR.
-Four young men broke into the house of
Johanna Sullivan, n middle-aged woman, at
Sandsfeld, Berkshire county, Mass, last Sat
urday night, and taking her from her bed in
| to the open air. brutally tarred and feathered
her. The assault is thought to have been
provoked by the woman's habit Of getting her
self and neighbors into the local courts by
petty suits She recognized three of the
| young men, and two of them have been ar
rested aud bound over The other two men
have fed the town.
A FIENDIsH CRIME AND TERRIBLE REVENGE.
A man named Mitchell, of Newman, Ga,
a small hamlet, recently found the body of
his three months bride, beautiful girl, by
| the roadside between his house and neigh
| boris. Her throat was cut, and she had been
| outraged. She was bitten in several places,
| the impress of the teeth showing that one
was gone. Suspicion pointed to one Wal
drop, who was minus that tooth and had been
seen near the scene of the murder. Blood
hounds tracked him down, and he was taken
| to Franklin. His clothes were bloody and he
| owned the murder but denied the outrage.
The next night 100 unmarked men took Wal
drop from the jail, carried him to the scene
of the murder, tied him TO n stake, surrounded
| him with brush and burned him to death.
Waldrop was only 20 years old but leaves five
widows.
Extensive bush fires prevail in the vicn-
| ity of Quebec, and the city is filed with
smoke from them.
| Judge Clifford of the United States su-
preme court has undergone the amputation
of foot for gangrene, and is as comfortable
as could be expected, though the chances for
his recovering are exceedingly small.
BY proclamation of the Governor yester-
day was observed in Kentucky as a day of
public fasting and prayer for the recovery of
the President.
| Ida NJ. Drayton, four years old, died of
hydrophobia in Jersey City, Sunday. She
was bitten May %.
"A Shelbyville, Ind, man had an African
milk snake, some eight feet in length and las
large round as a lamp-post," which recently
escaped, and now all Shelby county is stand
| ing on chairs, holding up its skirts and
screaming.
| A Chicago police justice last week gave
founding the name of Charles Guiteau, TO the
great indignation of the people,
The official list of those who lost their
lives by the accident to the steamer Victoria,
at London Canada, on the Queens birthday,
places the number at 1sl. 1t is thought to
be incomplete.
John H. Coleman, proprietor of Knick-
erbocker cottage, Ooney Island, was drowned
Monday while trying to save two women
bathers from drowning.
"A great laud-slip near Sgriswell in the
canton of Berne, Switzerland, which began
last month, is steadily moving toward Lake
Thun at the rate of three meters a day. 1t is
three miles long, one mile broad and of I'M
known depth. The houses in its path have
been deserted.
The New York sugar refners, for the