Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-06-16
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
GREAT FOREST FIRE IN WISCONSIN.

GREAT FOREST FIRE IN WISCONSIN.
"A Milwaukee despatch of the 14th says
forest fire is now destroying the best pine in
Clark county, and the indications are that the
destruction will be greater than in the Pesh-
tigo fire. which ragged the same year that Chi
oago was burned The fire is rushing north
west with fearful rapidity and havoc, and will
soon reach the Eau Claire river. There are
no farms in the present path of the FIRE. Sew
eral lives arc reported lost, and many cattle
are known to have been burned. People are
out in all directions fighting the flames.
The steamship Peru, from Montreal for
Great Britain, recently foundered off Cape
Race and ten persons are missing.
Heavy wind and transforms prevailed
throughout southern Indiana and Ohio Tues
day night and Wednesday. At Hamilton, O.,
houses were unroofed and trees uprooted. At
indianapolis certain sections of the city were
completely flooded. Wednesday barge gave
way on which many people were standing and
they were thrown into the torrent and ten or
more were drowned.
William Milliken of Boston was killed by
two bears while hunting at Lake Pizeo in the
Adirondacks, Saturday, and his guide was IA
tally hurt. The bears were killed and their
cubs captured.
enwortb, Kan, of a demand on a barber to
discharge workman because he had signed
the total abstinence pledge. The Boycotters
were the proprietors and employees Of the no.
tel in which the shop was and they did not
like to see the business of the bar room in
jured
Reports from all over the South indicate
that the cotton, which was badly stunted by
the cold snap, is coming out all right.
Six men entered the bank of Brookfield,
at Kansas City, one evening last week Just at
closing time, intimidated the clerks with their
revolvers and took over So, 600 from the safe
and drawers getting safely away with their
booty. They were pursued and captured and
the greater part of the money recovered.
On Saturday night at Montmorency
Falls, P. O., farmer named Labergo was
driving home with his daughter, a married
woman, when the horse became unmanage.
ablo near a bridge on the road which crosses
the river about 300 feet above the falls. The
vehicle struck the bridge throwing Laberge
upon the bridge and pitching the woman,
horse and cart into the boiling torrent, which
Immediately swept them over the terrible
abyss, a fall of nearly 800 feet The body OF
the woman was subsequently found at the
foot of the falls. She leaves seven children.
"A heavy rain storm, accompanied by wa
ter spouts, swept over Denver Sunday night
doing thousands OF dollars worth of damage
in that city and the surrounding country
Cellars and easements were filled with water
and several houses near Platte river SWEEP
away. Two men and three children were
drowned. The storm reached over severa
miles of thickly settled country. At Colder
| several houses wero washed away. The
| CambriGu fire brick works were struck by
| lightning and completely destroyed.
"A party of drunken excursionists from
| New York city engaged in a riot at DobbI
Ferry, Sunday, women as well as men partic
ipRting Several rioters were injured. JohI
Francis, an innocent resident, who was stand
ing in the door of his house, was fatally sho
by rough. Six arrests were made and tn,
balance of the rioters left on the train.
The peach crop in the Maryland anC
Delaware peninsula is in very promising
condition. 1t will be the largest for severa
years.
Peter vineyard, George Robinson and Tx
King, three pegroes, were taken from the jai
at Lawr, nee, Kan, Saturday morning at
O'Clock by crowd of vigilants and hanged
from the bridge. Sheriff Asher offered al
the resistance in his power but was compel
ed to submit Robinson pleaded hard TO
his life, and fell on his knees three time
while being taken from the jail to the bridge
The lynching of the three negroes was be
cause, from their own confessions and tn
testimony given at the examination, it wa
conclusively shown that they were the mur
derers of David Bausmau, whose dead bod
was found in the Knulas river ten days age
Bausman had Just arrived from Brookville
Ohio and intended to settle near Lawrence
where he had two brothers living. He ha
considerable money, which fact the negroe
discovered, and, with the aid of a negro girl
a daughter of Vineyard, enticed him to til
river bank, where they crushed his skull wit
hammer and threw his body into tho rivoi
A destructive fire ragged in Victoria square
Montreal, Tuesday night, destroying $50
900 worth of property.