Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-04-25

days, 10 hours and 80 minutes, which be ats
the eastern. bound record by eight hours
"A despatch from Truckeo Cal, on the
Central Pacific railroad says that 800 feet of
snow.shed fell Saturday half mile west of
Summit, covering working train aud a mum.
Der of Chinese laborers. Six Cinnamon were
taken out dead and five others seriously
wounded.
"A man and wife from Fayetteville,
N. Y, blew out the gas on retiring in the
Palmer House at Chicago last Friday night
and were suIocated.
"A Dallas TEX school.house was blown
down Friday, and 10 little black children
were badly hurt.
VIM. b. Austin Of Allen county, Ky, was
struck on the head about a year ago with
rock and has since been crazy. Wednesday
be went home took two Of bis children, al
most babies, and threw them in the fire, and
stood by and saw them cremated The moth
er witnessed the horrible deed, but was pow
erless to rescue the children, only escaping
herself with her sucking babe by snatohug il
from the cradle aud running to ths woods
A north bound Gulf, Colorado aud Santa
Fe train was ditched near Kenny, Tex,
Wednesday aud 20 passengers were more or
less hurt.
-Tilden G.. Abbott, the defaultng cashier
of the Watertown bank, has been arrested at
Pierce City, Mo. where he has been living
for six weeks as j. II. Foster. He had bought
good deal of property, stocked a store with
S15, 600 worth of goods and was living with a
pretended niece. All his property has been
seized, and he is held waiting the arrival of
officers from Watertown, who have started
with requisition for Abbott.
Jimmy Kerwin of Long Island City
/ nOundp1 Con Walsh pf (traapnnint O., 20
| death in prize.fght for 500 a side at Long
Island City Wednesday morning. The mill
! was fought in vacant lot two blocks from
the police station and was witnessed by 400
/ sporting men Kerwin is % years old aud
Walsh is 81. There was an old grudge be-
| tween the men and the fight was said to he
one Of the most desperate that ever took
! place on Long Island.
| Five Edmunds delegates to the Chicago
convention have been elected in Missouri
The Bear the first vessel of the Greedy
relief expedition, sailed from New York
! Thursday. The Thets will start May !, aud
on May 10 the Alert, which only arrived
/ Tuesday from England, will depart. The Bear
will touch at St. Johns, N. F., and at Disco
Island and the three vessels will finally meet
at Upernavik, Greenland Word from the
expedition should reach us some time in Oc-
] AObSls Ahp 4AlIAt biouBuh rum Blhuu bObO
pounds of gun cotton to be used, if necessa.
ry, in breaking passage through the ice.
The biggest washout that has ever been
known on the Lake Champlain division of
the Delaware aud Hudson railroad occurred
Sunday night. For miles, between White
hall and Ticonderoga, the tracks have been
washed out, and lie along the shore Of the
lake. A strong north wind piled up the wa
ter on that side of Lake Champlsin, and caus-
cd the washout. The distance between the
| first and last break is twelve miles.
Wheat is twenty-five inches high in Car.
oiine county, Md.
In the African Methodist Zion conference,
in annual session at Newburgh, N. Y, last
Saturday, Bishop j. j. Moore presiding, Rev
/ T. G.. Harper offered his resignation as a min
lister of the denomination. He gave as a reAr
son that he did not like this country, which
he said was only free in theory. He was call
| ed here from his native country. British GUM
ca, to become professor in the Centenary
college of New Jersey, but owing to his color
his services were dispensed with lie said be
would enter the Protestant Episcopal church,
receive ordination, and return to British GUM
ca. Bishop Moore said that all knew that
many of the charges made were true Mr..
Harpers resignation was accepted.
Foreign.
A SEVERE EARTHQUAKE IN ENGLAND-oHIM-
NEYs AND CHURCH sTEEPLEs SHAKEN DOWN
AND BUILDINGS BADLY DAMAGED.
The eastern counties of England, espe.
cially localities in Essex and Suffolk, were Sc
verely shaken by an earthquake Tuesday
morning. The centre of the disturbance was
Colchester in Essex county, where elO OOC
damage was done, child was killed and a
womans skull fractured. The shock lasted
80 seconds. The first warning was deep,
rumbling sound, portentous and awe-inspir
ing. This was speedily followed by quak-
ing and shaking of all the buildings. The
church bells sounded as though swayed by
unseen hands. The tall chimney stacks OF
the factories crashed in ruins to the earth,
and other lofty structures were destroyed.
The spire of one of the largest churches in
the city, 100 feet high, fell with an awful
crash to the ground. In one part Of the city
fire was caused by the shock. In private
houses the greatest confusion prevailed. Ia
bles were overturned and chairs fell upon the
floor. The people were terror. stricken and
rushed shrieking into the streets. In some
streets traffic has been forbidden because the
shattered buildings are considered dangerous.
The shock was very severe at Ipswich in Suf.
folk county also. There the walls of houses
were perceptibly shaken, windows were rat
ed and the railway station badly damaged.
At Chelmsford, in Essex and only about 30
miles from London, the shock was severe,
and the people were filed with terror. Al
Southend, watering-place near the Thames,
the earth trembled, the windows of many
dwellings were broken, and chimneys were
dashed to the earth. At London the shock
was felt in Cheapside, Fleet street and in the
Strand. A business house was rocked and
the employees rushed into the street. The
parish church at Langenhoe was demolished
and the place looks as If it had been bonn.
barded.-England has had previous earth
quakes-one in 1889, one in 1874, when Glas
tonbury was destroyed, one in 1918, one in
| 1850, and the last previous to this week in
1862.
"A Vienna despatch of the 21st says
While the performance was going on at the
Sidolia circus in Bucharest, this evening" the
roof of the Structure fell in upon the specta
tors. The lights were extinguished by the
crash and terrible panic ensued, which was
increased by an outbreak of fire. Five dead
bodies and 100 wounded persons have beer
carried from the spot. A large number Of
persons are missing.
From Egypt news comes that on the. 5tt
inst. 800 Egyptian troops and 600 non-com
batants, preferring the hazardous attempt "a
reach Berber rather than starve inside oil
Shendy, set out from the latter place. Par
of the number went slowly by steamer dowI
the river while the others marched along the
river bank. When two hours distant from
Shendy they were attacked by Arabs, and at.
ter a short fight all the troops excepting q
few were massacred. The Arabs afterward
captured Shendy, and 1000 men, women and
children were slaughtered. Many of them
were refugees from Khartoum. Shendy is
town on the Nile about halfway between
Khartoum and Berber.
A phenomenal cold wave has just sweep
over Switzerland and adjacent departments
of France, doing enormous damage to agri
culture. One-third of the vintage crop il
destroyed At Macon and vicinity the vinel
were devastated by the frost. The damage
| in the Sauna vallav IL aaIimntad % rnnnu mil