Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-01-26
A SINKING PENNSYLVANIA town.

uhy CHOSEN LOT general funeral ana burial OF
the bodies, the services being held in the c1-
position building
SINKING PENNSYLVANIA town.
The experience Of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
Wednesday is not easy to parallel. There was
shock and roar, like violent earthquake, a lit
tie after 3 o'clock in the morning, and then
came the swapping and crashing in houses as
timbers and other wood work gave way. The
widest panic followed men, women and
children ran into the streets screaming, and
for long time there was the utmost confu-
sion, for it was impossible to tell what had
happened. 1t finally appeared, however,
that about 40 acres of ground had sunk irreg
ularly, in some places foot or more, and
that the disturbance had caused innumerable
cracks to open, in many cases to a width Of
six inches. The trouble was caused by the
caving in of an old mine $50 feet below the
surface, and this is thought to be due to "pil
lar-robbing taking away the pillars of coal
left to sustain the roof There WAS nobody
hurt, but more trouble is feared
The largest gasometer in Glasgow, Scot
land, exploded on Saturday night. Eight
persons were injured. Fenians are supposed
to have originated the explosions.
Three terrific explosions of gunpowder
in the town of Muiden, Holland, on Friday,
unroofed nearly all the houses there and
damaged neighboring towns and villages
About a score of lives were lost.
A great part of the city of Kherson, in
South Russia was burned on Jan. 10.
A great landslide occurred last week
Thursday in the valley of Faverges, Switzer-
land, destroying the village of Marais. The
inhabitants we're able to escape.
There have been numerous destructive
earthquake shocks in Murcia, Spain recently
Rev. Francis Hornbrooke of Newton
Mass, has been called to succeed the late Rev
DR.. Bellows as pastor of All Souls church.
New York
A despatch from Tehauntepec, Mex, says
a fight recently took place near there between
the Tehauntspec Indians and the eth battalion
of national troops, in which 80 soldiers, in
GLIDING lieutenant colonel and so Indians
were killed, and many more wounded. The
Mexicans won the day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas. Lynch, bridegroom
and bride, were arrested at Bowling Green,
Va, recently, as they we're about to board a
train, on charge of stealing $1,000 from the
brides uncle. The pair stoutly denied the
charge and that they had any money on their
persons. but search revealed $l25 hid in the
brides back hair, and the rest of the money
was also found. The bride was only -, and
both parties were from the best families in
the place
-Gustsve Dore, the celebrated French art
ist, is dead at the age of 80.
DIR. Geo. NJ. Beard of New York the
well-known physician and author, is dead,
aged A.
j. A. Spaulding's four-story brick block,
covering one square on Main street, Nashua,
N. H., was burned at midnight Tuesday to-
tai loss, $50, 600.
"A Milwaukee laborer's wife killed her
five children, the oldest seven years and the
youngest 5 months old literally cutting them
in pieces, and then tried to hang herself. She
said 1.-THE good book" told her to sacrifice her
children.
Cow boys robbed two stores in Gold
Mountain, New, recently, killing the proprie-
tor and two clerks of one and the proprietor
aud one clerk of the other. Two of the burg
lars were shot in the row.
The inquest on the bodies of the victims
of the Newhall House fire began at Milwaukee
Tuesday. Landlord Antsdel thinks the fire
was incendiary, and that somebody turned on
the gas, causing an explosion which scattered
the fire through the house.
The accumulation of ice in the gorge at
Niagara Falls is the greatest ever known, and
is already doing much damage to property
along the river.
"A New York man is trying to prove, on
wager of $3.50, that it is possible to eat two
quais day for 30 successive days. Bets
amounting to $40 900 are pending on the re-
suit of his trial.
Chicago had fall of two feet of snow on
a level last week, and on Sunday and Monday
mornings the mercury marked 2Oo to 240 be-
low zero. Last Friday was said to be the cold
est day ever experienced in Omaha. From
various points in Minnesota, Dakota, Nebras-
ka, Iowa, Kansas Colorado and Wyoming,
temperatures of 10s to 8s9 below zero have
been rsported-and still another cold wave is
said to be coming.
One Thomas Hilsen, Polish Jew and
man of unusual culture, speaking l 3 different
languages, committed suicide by eaping over
Niagara Falls on Wednesday.
In the Parliament of Germany at Berlin
on Monday the President announced that -, %
600 marks had been received from Detroit
and 100, 600 marks from New York in aid of
the sufferers by the floods. The announce
ment was received with applause. In phila-
soribed. A mark is about 30 cents.
The constitutlonslty of the Virginia law
forbidding the intermarrsge Of whites and
blacks, is to be tested by tae United States
supreme court, on a writ of error. Tinsley,
a colored man, married white woman at
Washington, and went to Virginia to live, and
was indicted by the Henroo county court and
fined 800. Attorney General Blair of Vir-
ginia will defend the state law.