Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1883-07-13
TIE NEWS IN BRIEF.
THE CHOLERA IN EGYPT.

--TLorc were IS deaths from cholera a,
Damietta Sunday, & at Mausourah, at Sam
anoud, : at Sherbin and at Alexandria.
The victim at Alexandria was an European.
The abattoirs of that city are filthy and ex.
tremely dangerous to health The supply Of
provisions has run SO short at Damietta that
the populace are suffering terribly for the
necessaries of life. The situation is so des-
perate that determined attempt was made
Sunday by a large number of Europeans to
force the military Gordon. The troops were
obliged to open fire, and many were wounded
and, it is feared, some killed.
On Tuesday there were l0l deaths from
cholera at Mansurah, 40 at Damietta, 1G a
Samanoud and at Tantsh. Wednesday
there were 60 deaths at DamiettR, 80 at Man
surah, 20 at Samanoud, and II at Sherbn
Some Greeks forced the Gordon at Mansurah
Tuesday and escaped. It is said that no pro-
visions are allowed to enter that town and
that the people there are dying from famine
rather than from cholera.
The state workhouse at Bridgewater
Mass, with nearly all the buildings forming
the property, which covered almost an acre
of ground, was burned last Saturday. The
inmates, ljj men and eight women, were all
removed safely The fire was set by James
Gilmore, a negro convict recently escaped
from the workhouse. He was arrested and
. SSAANnoSb eAS u1NhS bhg lLb lhNt Carried
match for year to accomplish it showed
a lot of straw up the ventilator hue and dis
abled the steam pump, and am glad the place
is in ashes and when get out Of this l will
burn the town"
An east-bound passenger train on the
New York x New England road collided Mon.
day evening with gravel train a mile east of
Plainville, CT, on a curve, both running rap.
idly. The engineer and fireman of the gravel
train jumped and escaped. The engineer of
the passenger train remained at his post, re-
versed his engine, and was caught in the wreck
and instantly killed, being terribly mangled
Mono OF the passengers were seriously hurt.
The river at London, Ont, has risen TO
an unprecedented height and carried away
eight houses and many barns. Seventeen
persons are known to have been drowned and
Is feared the number is really much larger as
many persons are missing.
"A tornado struck Soldier City. Kan. a
town of 200 inhabitants Is miles west of Hol-
ton, Tuesday night, demolishing several build
ings and damaging others. Three women and
child were killed and some 10 persons in
jured, several seriously.
Five thousand acres of growing CROPS in
Bon Hommo and Hutchinson counties, Oak,
were destroyed by hail Tuesday
The bodies of 80 victims of the Daphne
launching disaster, near Glasgow, have been
recovered. The builders of the Daphne tes-
tify that she was launched in the usual man
ner, and that no fear of danger was entertain
ed
Mr.. Childers, chancellor of the exchequer.
said in the English House of Commons on
Wednesday that the agreement arrived at be.
tween the government and NJ. de Lesseps,
providing for the construction of another cam
al, had been signed. The now canal would
be completed at the end of the year 1883,
England, he said, would lend the canal COM
pany IS, 100000 at 81 per cent interest the
loan to be redeemable in so years
John Dennison Baldwin, senior editor and
proprietor of the Worcester Spy died sud
denly last Sunday morning of congestion of
the lungs, aged "A.
While two men were clearing boiler in
the North Chicago companys rolling mills al
South Chicago Ill, Friday, valve broke and
let the steam in upon them, scalding them to
death.
John Cone colored, was hanged in Jail
at Houston, Tex, last Friday, in the presence
OF 100 people, for raping white woman nam
ed Scott in january, 1882.
August Ehlers, his wife and child, aged
II months, while out on the river below Al
bany in a cyclone last Saturday, were struck
by falling tree, Mr.. Ehlers and the child be-
ing Killed and the mother dangerously hurt.
--Ex-President Hayes and wife are visiting
Chief Justice Waite at Lyme, ct.
The night Waterman at the Franklin fur
mace, Middletown, N. Y, shot a burglar
through the heart while engaged in robbinR |
the company's store.
Francis b. Webster of Cambridge. Mass
was arrested on Monday, charged with swind. |
ling the Alta gold and silver mining company /
out of $50, 900.
Mrs. ScoVille has brought suit at Chicago
against her divorced husband, to compel him
to contribute to her support and restrain him
from defrauding her of her property.
Forest fires have done 5000, 900 damage
south of Kalama Oregon. Six miles of rail
road and two locomotives have been burned
ut Oak Point logging camp.
The Chicago authorities are cutting all
eleetrie-light wires that are not run under
ground.
Egypt, in addition to the cholera, is af
Hicted with the cattle plague and the cotton
worm.
Returns from 1000 different points of the
West and Northwest, in relation to the crops,
report change for the better.