Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-02-22

that shook the mine in every apartment and
threw the men into the utmost CONSERVATION.
IL occurred in an apartment fully 800 feet
from the bottom of the shaft, and about 200
feet from the opening at the surface, yet the
! report was heard outside for considerable
distance, aud the conclusion was so great
| that thotop NJ tho derrick, 100 feet high, was
knocked of. An awful scene among tho ter.
ror-stricken miners followed the explosion.
| All their lamps were blown out and they were
left in darkness and confusion. They had
! not time to recover from tho shock before
they found themselves unable to breathe.
| The explosion, which was caused by fire.
damp, loft the mine filled with after damp.
which contains no oxygen and renders It i'm
possible for life TO be sustained for any time.
| Some of the men kept their heads under wa
ter as long as they could and would change
from water to after-damp, until finally they
succumbed. SO dangerous was the after
damp that IL was fully two hours before any
volunteers could enter the mine. Nearly all
Of the 10 men died Of suGocation.
Charles II. Rugg, the negro who was ar.
rested for nearly beating TO death Farmer Sc
| lab Sprague, in East Meadow, near Hemp
stead, Long Island, on January II, who after
ward was proved to have assaulted the Town.
sends in Oyster Bay, and who is thought to
have murdered the Maybeos, WAS lodged
in the Queens county court house, in Long
Island City, on the night of his capture lie
seemed for several days to DO aarmingy i'll,
| but got better under treatment Sunday
night he had Relapse" got the iailer into
his cell off his guard, attacked him, and es
capped. Finding the door of the jail office
! locked he rushed up stairs into the court
room and plunged headlong through the
! glass, landing in the mud twenty feet below,
| picked himself up without appearing to DO
injured, and, though closely pursued, disap-
peared in the darkness. -Rugg was finally
recaptured Wednesday afternoon. The same
night he escaped he called at a farmers and
asked for n coat and hat. The farmer sus-
pected his identity and made grab ut him,
but the negro ran, tho farmer firing a shot at
him. Evidence was discovered the next day
that some one had been in a church Mt Win.
field. This gave the officers n clue, and
church at Woodside was forced OPEN Rugg
running out by the vestry door lie was
caught in the fields noar by and takon back
to the Jail.
While a young negress of Williamsburg,
N Y, was out walking with her mother last
Saturday evening, she was seized and carried
away. Her mother died almost instantly
from the shock and fright Sunday morning
the girl was rescued from her abductors, and
they were arrested They were Mr.. and Mrs.
Baylis, prominent Methodists of Port JeTer-
son, N. Y. Baylis has been agent of the
Long Island railroad at Port jefferson for
several years and is trustee Of the Metho-
dist church. while Mrs. Baylis has been a
leader of the revival meetings during the
winter. The girl had been brought up in
Port Jefferson, but was on a visit to her
mother at the time Of her abduction.
Three men, drunk, blew out the gas at a
Lexington, Ky, hotel last Saturday, and will
never get drunk again.
All the railroads in southern Minnesota
and Dakota have been bockaded with snow
this week.
"A snow-slde near the Ontario mine at
Park City, Utah, destroyed William Rich'a
house Monday, killing bis three children and
fatally wounding his wife The slide also
struck John Harris's house, killing his wife
and wounding him.
Seven thousand Indians about Poplar
Rapids, OAK, are said to be in immediate
danger of starvation. Their dogs and po-
MES have been killed aud eaten.
The remains of De Long and the other
Arctic explorers on the Inflated Jeanette ar
rived at New York on Wednesday afternoon
| on the Hamburg steamer Frisia.
There is some danger in the comic val
entine business An irate damsel in Bllti.
more on receiving one last week jammed the
head OF another damsel against tho wall
whom she suspected of sending it.
AT the Florida state fair at jacksonville,
last week there was no hint of frost or win
ter. The tables were loaded with oranges,
bananas pawpaws lemons, straw berries,
! pineapples and other fruits and early vegeta-
bles
Owing to heavy rain storm Geographic
communication with southern California has
haa tVnNnN ed -. Q !
| patches received at San Francisco from Los
Angeles via Deming and Ogden state that a
dam on the Los Angeles river broke Sunday
night, producing the most disastrous flood
| ever experienced. The lower part of the city
was completely inundated and 40 buildings
were swept away. Hundreds OF families
were obliged to abandon thor homes and
seek shelter on the hills. For 100 miles hard
| ly mile of the Southern Pacific track re-
mains in place and east to San Gorgonce, 20
miles, the devastation is equally great
Col. Hunt a Michigan millionaire has
willed $4,000 to Caroline Brown, the mother
Of "Artemas Ward, and a similar amour!
each to Eli Perkins aud Josh Billings
-Thos. O'Hara, a Cougar old boy of Cal
| ais, Me, went a-coasting last Saturday ran
into a wagon and fractured his skull. The
same day l0.year- old girl at Whately, Mass,
was run into by some boys while coasting
and her head broken.
David Mccartney, aged lG, son of the
Methodist pastor at Lee, Mass, was drowned
| in 30 feet of winter last Saturday afternoon
while skating on Laurel lake.
"A girl of thirteen charged her lG-year
old brother with killing their father one
man was killed and two were MORALLY wound
ed in a shooting ARRAY in Texas a western
railroad train was fired into by unknown per
sons; the Buffalo, N. Y, police have cap
tured gang Of safe. breakers the wife of a
wealthy farmer, living near Greenville, Tenn,
while sitting at home with her family, was
shot and instantly killed by some person out
side, who fired through the window. This
was last Saturdays criminal record.
The foot and mouth disease has made its
appearance at Deering and Falmouth, Me.
near Portland, and causes great excitement
| among the farmers. 1t was probably intro
duced by cattle imported from Europe
Prof. S. Wells Williams Of Yale, said TO
be the only American who could easily read,
write and speak the Chinese language, is
dead.
The strike at Fall River Mass, is said
to have cost the operatives $50, 600 up to the
beginning of this week. Over 1000 hands
are idle, and ID mills, besides the American
linen mills, are closed.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa, last Saturday. a
Grand Army post, while attending the funer-
al Of one of their brethren, were refused ad-
mission to st. Mary's (Oatholic) cathedral be-
cause they wore their regaliA.
Two boys named Reagan, of woburn,
Mass, who crossed Mystic pond on the ice
last Saturday evening, to do an errand, broke
through when returning and were drowned.
Their bodies were recovered on Sunday.
The Secretary of the Treasury has called
for ten millions more Of 3 per cents.
Novel Libel Case.
from the n. Y. Herald
Tho libel case just tried before Plymouth,
mass. Jury is as novel in principle as IL WAS