Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-04-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
TERRIBLE CYCLONE IN MISSOURI.


"A terrific cyclone swept over Brownsville Mo- at
$3.50 O'Clock Monday afternoon, demolishing the entire
business portion of the town, killing seven persons
aud badly injuring 20 or 30 more. The storm came
from the southwest and suddenly that the first in
tlnsuoh people had was sudden roaring sound, i'm
mediatey followed by large, black, funnel-shaped
cloud coming at the rate OF 100 miles an hour When
1t reached the western part Of the it dropped
almost TO the ground, and seemed to draw everything
within radius Of several hundred yards up into The
mouth of the funnel Two-story brick business hous-
es we're picked up like stTaws aud whirled and twist
ed into shApeless ruins, while frame dwellings were
carried some distance aud dropped, smashing them
into kindling-woOd.
JENNIE cRANER's ALLEGED MURDERERs ON TRIAL
The trial of James aud Walter Malley and Annie
Kearns, alias Blanche Douglass, began at New Haven
on Tuesday. On the first day only three jurymen
were secured out Of panel OF 75 The dead body Of
Jennie Cramer, comedy young girl of good repute IN
that city, was found upon the shore the morning
of August last. The cause OF her death has since
been mystery though suspicion was soon fixed upon
the Maey boys, in whose company she had been seen
at various times preceding the finding 81 her hoJv
ana later upon Blanche Douglass accomplice Ia
the crime. The theory of tue prosecution is that the
victim was poisoned with arsenic, traces Of which
were found in her stomach, that had been admin
ed by the MAeys after running the girl The defence
is an a6 The theory of suicide will also be advanced
on the allegation that the deceased in the habit Of
eating arsenic to whiten her complexion The trial
VIII doubtless be protracted and deeply interesting.
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY HOGS SLAUGHTERED AT
oHARLEsTOwH, n. H.
"A mix d train was derailed at So Charlestowp on
tuesday evening Nine cars thrown from the
track and badly damaged and $50 hogs were killed or
MANNED The wreck was cleared by A. N. Wednes-
day, trains having been delayed nine hours.
a heavy rainstorm prevailed throughout Alabama
Tuesday night, and at Evergreen, 100 miles south Of
Montgomery, u church was blown down, a brick depot
unroofed and one side blown in, trees leyeled and
empty freight cars hurled from the track.
-Twenty-four loads of cast-off furniture from the
White House were sold by auction at Washington last
Friday being the FIRST sale Of the kind since the DAYS
Of Buchanan. crowd Of 5000 people were in atten.
dance, and the sale amounted to 5000.
On the coast Of Labrador the people are suffering
intensely for the want of food and have already
died of starvation.
a storm near Mount Vernon, Pa, Wednesday,
blew down nve houses, damaged others, killed one
woman and injured six other persons.
Mclean, the fellow who shot Queen Victoria was
put on trial Wednesday and found not guilty on the
ground Of insanity.
-rwenty-one years ago Wednesday the old Massa-
chusetts Sixth marched through Baltimore. The sur
vivors held reunion at Stoneham.
Charles Francis Adams has given control Of his
affairs to his son, John Quincy.