Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-03-21
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

1t provcs that los miners were in the
Pocahoutas mine at Central Va, ut the time
OF the explosion on Thursday morning Of
last week, and all of them persisted 10 was
impossible to enter the mine and none Of
the bodies have been recovered The mine
took fire from tho explosion and it was nee.
essary to close it tightly and force n stream
into It to smother the fire. Opinion varies
az to whether fire damp or the opening Of q
gas fssure caused the explosion. In any
case the disaster is one Of the worst Of the
kind which has ever occurred in the country
despatch says: A visit to the mines pre-
sents a spectacle that battles description.
From mountain peak to mountain are seen
prominent evidences Of the frightful havoc
wrought by the explosion, the hillsides in
every direction being strewn with debris
blAckened with coal dust blown with terrific
force from the entrances TO the mines All
of the laborers' shantes in the vicinity were
more or less wrecked, and those in the line
of the mine approaches were completely de
molished. Windows in a house two miles of
were Bhivered A few minutes before the
explosion occurred n train Of coal cars had
been backed into one Of the entrances Of the
mines, and the locomotive had moved TO a safe
distance down tho track Many OF the cars
were hurled down the track and others were
wrecked, the heavy axles being twisted into
all shapes and the wheels cracked and broken.
The Pocahontas mines embrace an area Of %
miles that is to say, person traversing all
the chambers and galleries Of the mines
would have covered that distance. Most OF
the killed were unmarried, the night force
being composed Of the youngest aud most
vigorous men.
"A mob stormed the ticket Office Of Her
Majesty's opera in San Francisco last Friday.
/ They were well dressed, and doubtless con
sidered each other ladies and gentlemen. but
in their eagerness to secure Patti tickets they
quite forgot the fact and behaved like any
other mob. Windows were smashed, plants
trampled under foot dresses and coats torn
from the backs Of their owners boy was
thrown through side.door, and it was ouly
by The Intervention OF the police who made
several arrests that order was finally restored.
At Dayton, Ohio, an aged woman on her
dealhbed last week confessed that she killed
her daughter young woman, the mystery
OF whose murder, IN 1867, completely BAT
fled the authorities. The girl dsobeycd her
mother by staying out too long and the moth.
/ er in her anger struck her with an nx handle
inhcting a fatal wound.
At Neosho Falls Kan. the quarantine
committee have ordered the killing aud burn
ing of several head of cattle supposed to be
infected with the foot and mouth disease
Two prisoners in the jail at Sandwich
/ Ont, while making their escape, killed th9
jailer and seriously injured another official
One Of the fugitives was recaptured
In Brooklyn last Saturday, Dennis Riley
'for fun pointed revolver at Celia Rem
ney, aged seventeen, and pulled the trigger
The girl was instantly killed by q bullet that
struck her in the forehead Riley did not
know 1t was loaded
"A Lone Mountain, Pa. despatch SAYS
While Prof Wilson, Chicago geologst, was
paying a visit to the anthracite coal regions
with view of studying the geological for
nation, he was requested by a farmer named
Samuel Herb, to examine a specimen OF T.
mineral which he had found on his farm
Mr. Wilson found It to be sapphire corun
dun. As there is but one mine IN the state
and very few in the world the fud is partic-
ularly valuable. The tract, containing the
mine, which, before the find was worth $500
has since been sold for $50 600
The Northern Pacific will put on a
through Portland iOr.J train to connect with
the Milwaukee fast mail train. 1t will leave
St. Paul, MINI, at p. NJ, taking the north
western mail delivered from the east at 3.3
o'clock. The time from St Paul TO Port
land will be go hours, and TO Tacoma 100
hours.
A Yale student, named Dyer. fell while
boxing IN the gymnasium a few days ago and
has since died An examination has shown
that he died from Rpople1y and not from the
effects Of blow or the head AS was at first
supposed.
-Four children of g. D. Alsop. living
near Louisville, Ky, were given opium by
their mother in mistake for powdered rhu-
barb, Wednesday, aud two have died The
others are not expected TO recover.
Hillsboro county n. II. grand jury against
Nathan H. Brown of Deering. aged 81, for
murder in the first degree for causing the
death of Edmund Wood III that town last
fall. Brown is in jail at Mancht ster.
"A woman named Yerrell was frightened
to death at Quebec Wednesday by two dogs
who rushed at her barking and tore her
clothes.
A Nicksburg Miss. despatch says: Sa-
tRrtia is three feet under water. Crevasses
are reported at point halfway between
Delta and Biggs and at Milikens bend A
levee 20 miles above Nicksburg on the Louis
isna side is reported to have given away
The breaking Of a levee at Roberts island.
near Stockton, Cal, has destroyed 1900
acres Of wheat valued at $500, 900.
The body of a little boy drowned at
Portland four weeks ago has been found in
the mud face downwards, less than 10 feet
from the spot where he went through the
ice.
The Kansas Legislature Is now in special
session to take action calculated to check the
foot and mouth disease.
A violent earthquake shock visited Trim
ity, Hants harbor, Harbor Grace and Holy
Hood, n. F., Tuesday, an hour after noon
The disturbance lasted about . seconds
A man named Millican has Just been
lynched at Pulaski, La, for numbering an
old couple IN Ouachita parish II years ago
and posse led by W. J. Rogers, a son of the
victims, are pursuing an acoomphce of Mill
can named Clark.
Two little colored children were brutally
murdered and two others MORALLY wounded
on o. E. Usher's place at Mclean, Ga a.,
Tuesday, while their parents were at work in
/ a field
Mrs Maria Shutters is dead at LoyRlhar-
ma Pa, of trichinosis, and her husband and
two other members of the family are dying
from the same disease. They were pork
eaters.
The lS-years-old son OF George Grace of
Cape May Court House, n. j., who was "a
grief to his parents, bought rat poison. put
it in the family coIee-pot, and five people
narrowly escaped death, while a child may
die. Lynching is threatened
The dry-kilns in c. N. Nelson AZ Co. s
undergrad at Knife Falls, Mimi. were
burned by an incendiary Monday night with
the adjoining sheds two Northern Pacific
box cars and 1000, 600 feet of lumber loss
$4,000.
The southern planters and farmers are
late with their spring work on account of the
bad weather, and make rather doleful reports
IN regard to the grain crop. The season is
also backward in the west and late sown
wheat is supposed to have suffered eonsidera-
bly, from the cold winter.
Officer Kendall had a desperate fight
with burglar, James Donovan, in a house
/ on Boylston place, Boston, early Wednesday
morning. Donovan did not resist at first
but on the way TO the station he tripped the
officer grabbed his club and pounded him
brutally on the head. Kendall drew his re.
volver and shot the burglar in the mouth.
! Officer Burnett came TO Kendalls assistance
/ but Donovan died before the station was
reached. The list of casualties was complet
/ ed when Burnett accidentally dropped his
/ pistol, which exploded and put a ball through
the calf of his leg.
DR.. Rauch, secretary of the state board
/ of health, has reported from Xenia, Clay
county, ILL.,, that 20 head of cattle have died
in Wayne county Of the foot and mouth dis
ease. Governor Orittenden of Missouri has