Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-08-10
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Tho northern part Of Monroe county, n
Y, including tho towns Of Greece, ltOnde.
quot and Penfeld, was swept last week
Thursday night, by terrible wind, hail and
rain storm. Grain especially and fruits we're
badly damaged. The hail killed birds and
fowl and brought blood from horses aud
stock. The belt of the storm was two miles
wide by 10 or Il long.
Daniel Conroy who became insane three
years ago over tho 40" puzzle, and who was
released from the asylum later, had another
attack Of mania while working al the top Of
the cathedral spire, at Erie Pa, day or two
since. Dropping his tools, he seized fellow
workman Gowdon and attempted TO
fling him over. For full FIVE minutes the
men struggled on the top of the tower.
Both were saved from death by laborers who
assembled to the rescue. Had Gowdon been
flung of he would have been dashed TO pieces
on a huge stone block 100 feet below.
While a man named Besey was on the
way to the train in Chicago with his three
children, aged 10, ~ and 1G the horses be-
came frightened and plunged into the river
at the Polk street bridge, the draw being
open. The hackman and Besey escaped, but
the children and the horses were drowned.
The cesspool of a hotel at Passaic, N. j.,
was uncovered last week to allow the gases to
escape so it could be cleaned. After several
hours Dutchman, not detecting any odor,
went down to begin work aud dropped sense
less. Geo w. Conklng, a prominent citizen
who was passing, said he could not stand by
and sec another man die" so he was lowered
and also collapsed Then a third man, Kry.
mer went down and got n rope around the
Dutchman, who was raised. Krymer then
fell One Ockstein went down with a rope
around him, but was soon raised suiIocating.
nd rntun Mil tI.fW
hooks, Conkling and Krymer, both dead
james j. Spilane % years old was
caught in the Crocker Paper Mill machinery
ut Hoyoke Tuesday afternoon and dreadfuly
mangled He died within an hour.
Capt webb's widow says be left her
$500.
An insane patient in the asylum at Nor
ristown, Pa, died Saturday from the effects
Of beating administered 10y an attendant
who has fed. The trustees Of the asylum
offer reward Of $500 for his arrest.
No news has been received of the steam
or Ludwig now three weeks overdue at Mont
real
Two cousins named Johnston had des
perate fight near Kingston, Tenn, Tuesday
in which one was fatally stabbed and the
other badly shot in four places.
The Georgia Legislature passed Il local
option law for the state on Tuesday.
Every officer and sailor on three Norwe-
gian ships has died of yellow fever at Vera
Cruz, Mex. The surgeon general Of the ma
rine hospital service at Washington has been
informed that the steamship Amethyst for
Boston has left four cases of yellow fever at
Havana. The health authorities at Boston
have been notified
The pugilst John l.. Sullivan opened a
saloon in Boston Tuesday night and II, 900
roughs attended, packing tho street in the vi
cinity and requiring the services OF tho rcs erve
force OF the police in the district, with u half
dozen mounted policemen, to preserve order.
Rogero Amero, suspected Of the Diurder
of Mrs. Carlton at Watertown, near Boston,
last spring, has been extradited aud brought
to Boston for trial He made a stout fight
against being returned to this country, and
before he left Digby is said to have broken
down and made partial confession.
A wealthy Long Island farmer named
WyckofT, hung himself in his barn last Fri
day night on account of the low price Of pc
tatoes. He had large area in potatoes, and
the big crop and low prices made him de-
spondent.
Sixty nine persons were poisoned by eat.
ing ice cream at q church festival in Camden
South Carolina last Friday night, and one Of
them, a girl, died on Sunday evening. At
last accounts twelve others were not expected
to recover. The symptoms were those Of ar
senical poisoning
The native cattle of Kansas have caught
the Texas cattle fever from southern droves.
and are dying in great numbers This fever
sometimes kills nine out Of ten cattle in the
herds in Kansas aud Nebraska.
Two persons were injured Wednesday
night by collision on the Sixth Avenue ele-
waited railway in New York
The cutting of passenger rates between
Chicago and ST. Louis has been commenced.
A national lawn tennis tournament will
be held in Pullman, ILL.,, in September.
The Martin Luther festival at Erfurt,
Germany Wednesday, was great success.