Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-06-29
TINE NEWS IN BRIEF.

"A terrible explosion occurred in a blast
furnace Of the North Chicago Rolling mills on
Friday by which thirty-five tons Of molten
metal were scattered and seventeen persons
severely injured
Receiver Bensley of the broken Chicago
firm of MoGeooh Everinghem 4 Co., esti-
mates their liabilities at SO, 900, 600, and SAYS
the assets will not exceed $50 600
According to a Littleton, N. H., dispatch
the famous bowlder Of granite in the 'hume"
in the White Mountains has fallen. The huge
mass was suspended between rocks at a dis
lance many feet from the base, and so nicely
was 1t adjusted that touch appeared sufIi-
cient to hurl it from place. The recent tre-
mendous freshet probably undermined its sup
port.
The savings bank at Woodbury.. Ct. was
robbed Sunday night of over $4,000, of which
the depostors lose $4,000, the town of Wood
bury $1,000 and the bank $50. The safe was
old and funds were not allowed to accumu-
late.
Sparks from Bengal light used to rep
resent fire at puppet show in hall over
tavern at Dervio, Italy, on the shore of Lake
Como, set fire to a quantity of straw and fire.
wood stored in an adjacent room while the
show was in progress Sunday evening" and AZ
persons out OF 30 present were burned to
death and II others we're hurt. The show
man and his wife were among the victims
"A London despatch says the condition Of
the Queen is greatly improved Her Majesty
was able to walk from the t-ain to her car
riage on her late arrival at Windsor from Bal
moral.
Tho railroad exposition which closed at
Chicago last Saturday night was a success as
display, but generally failure otherwise.
The collection of railroad machinery and APP
pliances was very large and perfect, but the
management was bad and the attendance bare
ly tolerable Crookedness and favoritism are
charged against the management, and some Of
the exhibitors have begun suits for damages
Perry p. Long, II years old, was shot
dead in hay.loft, near Durham, N H., by a
companion named James Glidden, 10 years
old, early Sunday morning. The young men
had been to Newmarket and crawled into the
loft to sleep on their return Gliddon's story
is that he found gun in the loft, and while
fooling with it, it was accidentally discharged,
killing Long.
C. L. Haywood, for many years superin.
tendent of the Fitchburg railroad was acct.
dentaly killed on the railroad track at Wal
than last Saturday. He saw man on the
railroad track in front of an approaching pas
senger train, and while shouting to him and
waving his hands, Mr. Haywood was himself
struck by freight train which came in around
the curve in his rear. He was badly man.
gled, and only lived to reach the Massachu-
sets general hospital in Boston.
The revolving account of DR.. Hathaway's
practice as an abortonist at Philadelphia is
confirmed by his wife, who has made o full
statement of her knowledge of her husbands
nefarious operations. Hathaway has been
convicted of performing a criminal operation
on n servant girl in 1881, and has received
the full penalty of the law-$5OO fine and
seven years in prison.
There have been disastrous rains in Penn
sylvania, and dispatches from Lancaster, Eas
ton, Harrisburg, Heading, Ashland, Allen.
town and elsewhere report heavy damages by
floods. In the outskirts of Wilkesbarrea dam
burst on Wednesday, flooding several mines
and causing one cRve-in which carried house
down - feet.
The June floods, caused by the spring
rains and melting snow at the Missouri head
waters, have come in the Mississippi valley,
and great damage to property results A St.
Louis despatch says After four days heroic
battling with the flood, the army of volunteers
who were defending their homes, their farms,
and their fortunes were beaten back, and the
dawn revealed break in the Madison levee
at Madison 100 feet wide and momentariy
increasing With the swiftuess of a noun.
tain torrent the flood swept in upon the farms,
smiling with waving corn and wheat, that had
just begun to suggest the harvest. The work
of years was swept away in the twinkling Of
an eye, and turgid sea covers the fields,
while muddy waters wash the doors of
homesteads. Ten thousand acres of land ly-
ing between the levee and the Chicago and
Alton railroad are under water. 1t is esti-
mated that the loss by flood in seven town
ships of Illinois will aggregate half a million.
The high water continues in the vicinity of
St Louis, where it is 80 feet above the aver
age pitch at this season.