Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-04-04
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

MORE DEADLY CYCLONES AT THE SOUTH AND
wEsT-Two OR THREE TOWNS IN RUINS AND
MANY PERSONS KILLED AND WOUNDED.
Storms prevailed Tuesday night and
Wednesday throughout the country east of
the Mississippi and in Canada. Muncie
(Ind. despatch says "a destructive cy-
clone struck this county Tuesday afternoon,
wiping Oakville, seven miles south of here,
entirely out Of existence. At about O'Clock
q heavy black cloud came driving from the
west and another from the north. The two
met st house two miles west of Oakville
lifted it from its foundations and tearing it
into kindling wood dropped it two miles and
half away. minute later it struck Oak
vile, carrying death and destruction in its
track. or 30 houses in the place all but three
we're torn down. Several persons were killed
outright and others wounded.
The storm passed over Reynoldsburg, two
miles east of Columbus, o., in a southeaster-
ly direction Tuesday night. Several houses,
barns and bridges were blown down and
still greater number unroofed. At Dublin,
Franklin county, o., the Christian church
was unroofcd, several barns and outhouses
were removed from their foundations and
some were carried great distance. con.
siderable amount of stock was killed by fall.
ing barns. Near Joysville O., II barns were
sons badly hurt. Tho storm, accompanied by
thunder, lightning and hail, passed over
Pittsburg Pa, doing considerable damage TO
property and injuring number of persons.
oliver Il Roberts's wire mill blown
down, aud two workmen were seriously in.
jured. At Homestead, Pa, eight miles from
Pittsburg a frame house being built was do
molished and six men who were at work on
the building were hurt, one of them, Robert
Irwin, very seriously.
A fearful hurricane prevailed Wednesday
at Columbia, S. c., all day. Trees were up
rooted miles of fencing leveled, gardens de
| stroyed, windows demolished and out-housCs
blown down throughout the city. 1t is rc-
ported that a village in Lexington county, S.
| C., has been completely destroyed.
A cyclone 100 yards wide passed 80 miles
south of Chattanooga, Tenn, Tuesday night,
going in a northeastorly direction. Two
members of Col. Tatum's family were killed
and five other deaths are reported. Trees
were torn up by the roots and several were
blown across the track of the Alabama and
Great Southern railway, wrecking the night
express
A destructive cyclone passed through the
southeast portion of Madison county, Ala,
Tuesday night greatly damaging timber and
fencing. The house of family named White
was blown away and Mrs. White and her
mother-n-law were killed. A baby was car
ried several miles and deposited in the woods,
where it was found alive Wednesday morn
ing
The breakup Of winter in the upper
| Mississippi valley has been so gradual that
/ there is hardly so much as a freshet in the
whole region. The snow came early and lay
undisturbed by thaws all the season.
During high wind last week Thursday,
a terrible prairie fire broke out at Castleton
township, Kan, which burned over territory
10 miles in length, destroying everything in
its path, including houses, barns, stock, grain,
etc, one man loosing a large quantity Of
grain and 200 head of sheep. The loss will
exceed $25, 200.
The Repanno chemical works, employed
in the manufacture Of dynamite at Thomp-
sons Point, N. j., just across the Delaware
river from Chester, Pa, exploded last Satur-
day, killing six men. 1t is supposed that the
explosion was caused by too much heat being
generated by the nitric acid. The bones OF
the victims were broken and twisted and their
heads crushed frightfully. A workman
standing on a trestle work 100 feet from the
building was thrown several feet into field.
The works were the largest in the country.
Nothing remains of the building, which was
q two.story frame structure. An excavation
sufficient to bury a good-sized house was
maze IN inc BIOuuNlt anu houbob AOE AhAA'
mile around were badly shattered.
Dun, Wiman & Co., of New York report
1926 failures in the United States with $40,-
OOO, 600 liabilities for the last quarter against
2sOG with $37, 900, 900 liabilities for the first
quarter of 1888, 2127 with $3.50, 900, 900 liabil
tiles for the first quarter of 1882, and 17Gl
with 1924, 900, 600 liabilities for the first quar-
ter of 1881. As compared with 1881 the fail
ures for the first quarter of the year have
nearly doubled and the liabilities have in
creased 66 per cent.
Thomas Samon was arraigned at Laconit
N. H., Monday for the murder of the Rudy
family and Mrs. Ford last fall. His lawyer
announced that the prisoner was determined
to plead guilty to murder in the first degree
that Samon had declared that it would not b.
Just for him to escape the scRffold, and tina
his counsel could find no evidence of insanit!
on the prisoners part He, therefore, advis
ed the court to receive Samon's plea of guilty
The court ordered a medical examination a
to Samon's sanity, after which the trial viii
proceed.
Gov Crosby of Montana reports tina
many of the Indians in that territory are Of
the verge of starvation.
Tho first through train from the city o
Mexico to Chicago, which arrived at the lat
ter city last Friday, made the run in hv
days. This included however, some lon
stops and receptions en- route.
Edmund H. Yates, the editor of the LoI
don World, has been condemned to tou
months in prison for libeling the Earl
Lonsdale The judgment has been respite
} pending an appeal upon point of law.
= -Barnums sacred white elephant,
"Toung Taloung," arrived in New York lal
: Friday accompanied by his two native Blu.
) dhist priest" attendants The animal is cal
ed sacred white elephant because he is NJ
sacred and ia not white. Mr.. Barnum say
| | il is glory enough for one CIRCUS year 70 hay