Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-08-15
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


two o'clock Sunday afternoon. It was not q
severe shock, but a gentle rocking OF the
earth in quick wayelets for about ten seconds.
No serious damage was anywhere done, but
the force was sufficient TO swing everything
vibratory or pendant, to move furniture and
light articles, to ring bells, and to give many
people some queer sensations for few mo-
ments. The direction of the earth's move
ment seemed to DO northwest by southeast
The shock was widespread, being noticed as
far north as Portland Me-. and Burlington
in this state and as far south as Wilmington
N. O. The shaking is said to have been
slightly but plainly felt as far west as Cleve-
land, Ohio. In the vicinity Of Boston six
distinct shocks are said to have been felt, but
New England as a whole got only the leav-
ings Of the shock, the centre Of disturbance
being in eastern New York, New Jersey and
Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia solid granite
buildings shook omnously and onthe Schuyl-
kill at that city vessels broke their hawsers
and steamersdrove against their wharves In
New York every house in the city trembled,
chna-ware setting edgewise on shelves slip
ped out of place, chandeliers and pictures
shook, bells were rung, glass pendants were
tangled, people started from chairs where
they were seated and ran excitedly into the
street and in several instances walls and cell
ings were cracked. In the tenement-house
districts the utmost excitement prevailed and
the inmates blocked the stairways in their
mad rush for the street Windows wore
broken. crockcry smashed and policemen were
called to preserve order At the county jail
at Hartford, Conn, tho force of the shock
was very noticeable. Tho building trembled
for several seconds and afterward il was
found that one of the tiers of cells had been
cracked from top to bottom. The prisoners
were greatly excited, and one Of them, man
who was already near his end, died when the
shock came. In all of the Connecticut valley
towns the shock was distinctly felt, and in
the towns near the Connecticut line the be-
lief YVES at first that there had been an ex.
plosion at the lIazardvie powder works. In
many cases people, oven strong men, had a
sensation OF nausea and fantnoss, like that
in sea sickness Scientific mon say that the
great range or area of the earthquake indi-
Gates that the centre Of disturbance was very
deep. II it had been near the surface, the
shock would have been perceptible only in
limited area
A staging on new brick building in
process of erection on fremont street. Bos-
ton, gave way last Friday, prccipilating two
masons to the cellar, n distance Of 100 feet,
killing one instantly and fatally injuring the
other.
Funerals over the dead of tho Greedy ex-
petition were held on Sunday. The relics Of
the expedition were landed at Governors
Island Gen. IIancock's headquarters in New
York harbor, on Saturday.
Tho first mortgage boudholdcrs of tho
Iron railroad company have brought Sl2j,-
900 libel suit against the Boston Herald.
A party of Montana COW boys attacked
a rendezvous of horse thieves last week,
killed . out of II of them and then burned
their cabin.
The federal troops have broken up"
Oklahoma Payne and his boomers once more
and driven them out Of the Indian territory.
Baylor, Ohio, is in state of frenzed
excitement over the discovery that six graves
have been robbed in one cemetery there and
one in another. Other graves are being
opened to see that their contents are safe.
Cen Logan passed through Albany, N.
Y, Monday on his way to Herki NOR and was
greeted with a salute of guns and the cheers
of 1000 people. IIo made a short speech to
the crowd.
The steamer Amsterdam, from Amster-
dam Cor New York, was wrecked on Sable
island, of the Nova Scotia coast, last week.
Her passengers were saved in the boats. Her
cargo is being taken out, and her owners
hope to save the ship.
Three children, all under ten years of
age, living on a farm near South Perry, O.,
were burned to death Monday in n barn
whore they had been smoking.
A colored woman named Ashley died ut
Washington, Monday, who is said to have
been llG years old. She was born in l7GS
at Dumiries, Va, aud she lived a slave until
1851, when she purchased her freedom. She
vas the mother of seven children, and two
sons, aged - aud 7l,survive her.
M. W .t.,ot I.,.I. o4.,.
closed its doors Monday morning and posted
the following notice "Oging to irregulari-
ties on the part of the cashier, this bank will
remain closed until matters can be inveeti-
gated" The capital Of the bank, amounting
to $500, 600, will probably all be swept away.
Tho cashier, whose name is Dickinson, is
missing
The sd Massachusetts, regiment will
hold it's eth annual reunion at Crystal Lake
Gardner, sept. . Gen w. r. Banks will
give the address. The Fitchburg railroad
will run its cars directly to tho lake and will
sell round-trip tickets from all stations be-
tween Greenfield and Ftohburg at reduced
rates.
An effective duel between William Dough-
erty and Xachariah Gray, young men, was
fought on Sunday night in Kaufman county,
Tex. Both men were fatally wounded. In
Indiana last week two lawyers settled polt-
ica feud by fighting a duel in which / shots
were fred but nobody was hurt. Both men
were arrested.
Tho new Morning Star" missionary
ship built by Sunday school subscriptions
was launched at Bath, Me, last week Sho
is 30 feet long 100 tons burden, cost SD
600 has both steam and sails, and is fitted up
to cruise among tho missionary islands.
George Rankin, 10, shot his younger
brother fatally at Swift City, Ind, recently
while showing him how to use d. revolver, and
then shot himself dead.
-Rey. II. NJ. Collision, pastor of the Full
orton Avenue Presbyterian church, shot his
wife and himself dead at Lake View, sub
urb of Chicago on Tuesday.
"A largo building on Beach st., Boston,
was partially burned early Wednesday morn
ing. When the fire was at the hottest wall
on which two fromen were standing toppled
over into the roaring flames land they were
carried over with it, perishing in the fiery
mass.
"A party of masked men attacked Nor
mon meeting in remote district in Lewis
county, Tenn, Sunday. Two elders we're
killed, and third was taken into the woods
and shot The attack grew out of the in
tense feeling which has developed against
the Mormons in that section.
Edmond o. Reed, job printer and prom
mont Young Mems Christian Association
worker, was drowned in the Connecticut riv-
err at Springfield, Mass, Wednesday, by the
capsizing of his boat.
Tho Iowa roughs do not take kindly to
the now prohibitory law in that state In a
county township near Iowa City, on Wednes-
day. during the trial of two brewers before a
Justice, q mob of 200 attacked a prosecuting
lawyer stripped of his clothing, and tarred
him. His life was barely saved by a deputy
sheriff. The mob then tried to find the prin
cipal witness in order to hang him. A con-
stable was badly cut with knives Iu the
evening the mob ran riot for nm hour through
the streets of Iowa City.
EOreign.
-Exetement over the cholera outbreak in
France is slowly dying out and the infection
is not spreading as widely as was feared. 1t
is, however, making its way slowly into Italy.
"A terrible storm ragged at Pesth and
throughout upper Hungary last Sunday. The
rain fell in torrents and the streams were
raised to floods. Villages were swept away
and many persons we're drowned.
-Yucatan and southern Mexico arc over
run with grasshoppers and the crops are de-
stroyed.
The 5eG. on Monday in London sent the
mercury up to 93o. 1t was the most intense
that has been experienced in 20 years. Sew
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