Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1882-11-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

TERRIBLE SCENES AT THE BURNING OF NOVA
SCOTIA PooRHoUsE OF THIRTY
LIVES LOST.
On Monday night at midnight fire broke
out in the bake house in the basement of the
immense poor asylum at Halifax, N. s. At
first there was thought to be no danger for
the inmates, but the smoke steadily worked
its way up through the several stories, and when
an outer door was finally knocked in out pour
ed procession OF women, nursing infants,
gray headed grandmas and feeble old men,
all screaming and calling for this one and that
one. Then it became known that those in the
upper wards OF that wing were almost help
less, and soon the wing was cleared. In the
meantime the flames shot up tic air shaft
aud in a few seconds the. heaviest part of the
conhagration was in the top of the main build
ing. The story just under the caves in this
building was used as a hospital, and in it were
10 patients, most of them perfectly helpless
An attempt TO raise ladders to the windows
was made, but the ladders we're too short, and
after a fireman was knocked down by the fall
ing bricks and it was seen that the ladders
even would be swept away in few minutes,
the attempt was stopped. The fire burst
through the roof and the scene was one never
to be forgotten. Far above the roar of the
flames were heard the cries of the wretched
patients in the hospital who were roasting TO
death. Most of them were helpless and could
not leave their beds, and perhaps were stifled
by the smoke before the flames reached them;
but others were seen to dash themselves
against the windows and cling to the sashes
till their strength was exhausted or their hands
burned of, and they fell back into the flames.
So far IS asoertained 81 persons were burned
to death.
The San Francisco mails reached New
York last Saturday night in five days, the fast
est time on record.
"A boy named Robinson had his head cut
of by Chicago street-car last Saturday.
Nineteen cows of a heard of go, belong
ing to Seacauous, N. j., dairy, have recently
died of peuro-p pneumonia. Two of five
horses have also died and the others are sick.
Mary Booth, colored girl of IA, has been
sentenced to be hung in Virginia for murder.
She poisoned her mistress with strychnine
and the woman's husband committed suicide
from grief. Her execution is liked for the
18th.
An explosion in the Metallic cap compa-
ny's works at Suffield, Conn, resulted in fatal
injury of one man and the serious wounding
of seven others. The works are situated
about q mile from the Connecticut river and
opposite ThompsonVille. The workmen were
using a new machine, when in some way the
illuminate exploded, completely destroying
one building and seriously damaging another.
"A house, two barns and shed belonging
to the j. b, Wheeler estate at Florida, Mass,
were burned by an incendiary early last Sat-
urday morning, with a large quantity of hay,
grain and two COWS. The premises were 90
oupied by M. A, Burdiok, who loses every
thing. The loss is $4,000 insurance 5000.
Three hundred and ninety-f five Mormon
proselytes arrived at New York from Europe,
last week. The majority of them are English,
but 115 are Soandinavians. They include
members of all branches of trade, and most of
them have friends and relatives in Utah.