Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-11-02
IN GENERAL.

As workmen were raising the spire of the
new Trinity church at Waterbury, Conn, last
week, John Nogel was on top of the main
central timber adjusting the rafters. A guy
gave way and Vogel fell 10 feet with the tim
Der under him. The timber changed ends in
its descent, and was buried deep in the earth
close by where Nogel struck. In his fall Vo-
gel struck upon the roof of the building and
fell thence to the ground and struck, among
piles of rock and debris, upon the only soft
spot within 100 feet. His fellow-workmen,
on witnessing the fall, rushed to the place
expecting to find his crushed and mangled
body, but he was able to stand and even to
walk few PAGES. His escape from being
crushed to jelly seemed miraculous.
Last Saturday morning a young man
named Coffey shot dead Alfred Gossett,
black, at New Orleans, as the latter was Oh
his way handcuIed, to an officer to receive a
life.sentence for numbering Coffey's father.
Mr.. Charles Briggs, son of the well
known Boston crockery dealer will recover,
despite two fractures of the skull, four frac-
lures of the iawbone and a broken nose, re-
ceved in late runaway accident.
The express agent at Atlantic, Ia, was
robbed of between $40 900 and $4,000 the
other night by masked burglars.
The wealth of Great Britain has increased
from fl27 per head in 1872 to f2i9 per head
in 1882.
Thirteen persons were more or less in
iured in an accident on the Chicago and AL
ton road at Glendale, Mo, last Saturday night
Three cars we're thrown from the track, but
not much damaged
Lord Lorne and Princess Louise sailed
from Quebec for England last Saturday. A
great crowd witnessed their departure.
A GAINESVILLE TEX special says two road
agents stopped the Bowie mail stage Friday
night and secured several registered pack
ages.
"A lecture audience at Paducsh, KY
shouted and Missed itself black in the face,
reused the police and broke up the entertain
ment the other evening, all because negro
barber came in and sat down.
The last free shooting match was in
Georgia last Sunday, and had the novel charm
of being conducted under the caves of a
church. The trouble arose over the playing
at base ball game on the previous day.
| There were few preliminary words, and
then a man named Rogers shot and killed
! Thomas Sims and MORALLY wounded Frank
his son. Then Duff Sims, another son shot
! Rogers in the face, and Rogers, McNordhil
and John Cox returned the fire, put four bull
let's into Duff's body and the meeting ad
| journed.
e B. Phillips, late of the Toledo, Gin
cinnati and St. Louis road, and formerly an
Eastern railroad man, has been elected presi
dent of the Fitchburg road in place of Presi-
dent Stearns deceased.
Three hundred children have died Of
diphtheria in the vicinity of Greensboro
N. G. The disease is abating.
Last Sunday in Todd county, MINI, a
| man named Steinbach, engaged in a fight
with a neighbor named Saulley. During the
combat the wife of the latter drove the tine o.
pitchfork into Steinbachs brain.
"A passenger train on the Pan Handle
railroad and freight train on the Michigan
Central road oollided at crossing in lllinos
last Saturday. Three men were killed anc
others injured.
There was an explosion of fre-damp il
shaft seven of the Pennsylvania coal compan!
at Pittston, Pa, Monday, while 80 men wer,
in the mine. Two were burned to a cris
and six others were seriously hurt. Tire
inhaled after-damp and will die,
-Pere Hyacinthe arrived in New Yor
Sunday from Liverpool. He will lecture.
-Bedfords tobacco barn and warehous
and James e. Olay's farm house were blow
down in Bourbon county, KY, Sunday, kill
ing family of four negroes
"A cyclone passed over Oatahoula an
Tensas parishes, La, Tuesday morning dom
great damage. Three houses on James Bow
! mans plantation on the Tensas river wer
blown down and four negroes hurt. At
ID. Miller's highland plantation a house wa
carried half a mile into the woods, negr
, church was turned half-round and five PEI
sons were badly hurt. On other plantation
houses and barns were demolished and in on