Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-07-11
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
STORM AND rhooD-Ioss or LIFE AND pRorr

STORM AND FhooD-Loss OF LIFE AND PROPER
TY.
"A destructive wind storm visited Rich
I'M, Mo-, early last Friday morning. demul
lsnlng the Presbyterian church, liftiuu the
Methodist church from It's foundations, and
unroohng or destroying a number of small
dwellings. On Friday evening tornado
swept through the southern part Of Sioux
CITY, la, doing much damage. funnel.
shaped cloud moving with great rapidity and
giving out roaring sound was one Of the
distinguishing phenomena. The Catholic
bell tower was blown down and the walls of
the church were so badly shaken rs to be un
safe. The pillow factory, n large brick build.
ing, was destroyed. The plate-plas fronts
OF several stores we're destroyed. The busi-
ness portion OF the town sheltered by bluffs
was saved.
terrible tornado passed near Belmont
N. w. Friday noon, tearing down houses and
barns and uprooting trees. A farmer named
Elisha Sortor was buried under the ruins of
his barn and lived but two hours after being
taken out.
In Macon county, Illinois, Friday night,
cyclone wrecked 80 farm-houses and ruined
thousands OF acres OF growing crops, infiiot-
ing damage amounting to at least 5000 600
Two children of John Kraft, living near De.
oatur, were fatally injured in the wreck of
their house
During Saturday night great storm did
widespread damage in Pennsylvania. In
some sections Of Lancaster county il assumed
the nature of tornado, leveling whole or.
ehards uprooting groves Of shade trees and
blowing down barns, tobacco sheds and other
out-buildings. heavy fall Of hail did SO.
we're injury to growing tobacco. In Berks,
Lebanon and Montgomery counties a cloud
several miles wide burst with terrific force.
and more damage was done than by any storm
of 80 short duration for the last so years.
Roads were submerged, many bridges were
washed away or damaged, barns aud houses
were unroofed and many acres Of land were
washed out az completely as If crops had new
er been planted in them.
A cyclone swept the country eight miles
north of Deadwood, Oak, Saturday, destroy
ing many houses and much grain. Many
! people were hurt and many horses and cattle
were killed or manned.
A water-spout burst near the head of
Drako's creek near Fayetteville, Ark, Sun
day, sweeping everything in its path. Three
women and three children were drowned in
Richland creek. Great destruction of prop
erty is reported.
The New York health officers report an
epidemic of measles in the east-side tene.
| ments. The number of deaths last week was
1856 and many new cases arc reported this
week. Two orphan asylums have been in
vaded by the disease.
President McGin of the Cincinnati a.
Eastern road was sitting on a stool by the
side door OF baggage car the other day, the
door being open, when he rose, apparently
dizzy, and seemed to lose his balance calling
out, Catch me, boys, am going, and fell
out over trestle, ~ feet down. He was
dead when they reached him. He had been
much affected by the stock depression, and
had complained Of his head.
Ten cars of Missouri Pacific freight
went through burning bridge near Chicota
Tex, Sunday, and a brakeman was killed.
-S22 900 in cash and notes stolen recent
ly from Pikoville Tenn. store, was found
in the house of druggist named Hall, one
of the most prominent and respected citizens
of the place. Hall fed to the woods and
posse is searching for him.
Sixty masked men from Todd county,
Ky, took Dick Henderson, colored, charged
with cutting the throat of young white boy,
from Jail at Russellville, Ky, Sunday night
and lynched him.
"A scheme of employees to swindle the
New York elevated railroad companies on
big scale, by means of counterfeit tickets,
was discovered and broken up aud the prin-
cipals arrested last week.
Captain John Trainor, Maine man, has
started to row across the Atlantic in a lG foot
dory and expects to do it in 100 days.
Philip Hamilton, the youngest sou OF
Gen Alexander Hamilton, died at POUCH.
keepsie Wednesday. He was so years old.
"A fire supposed to have been started by
spark from passing tug burned over ~
acres of the Toledo, O., lumber. yard district,
Wednesday, and destroyed 10000, 600 feet OF
lumber
William Jowan, log driver, employed
by the Connecticut River lumber company
while placing charge of dynamite in log
which the men were blasting out OF Jam at
Turner'S Falls on Wednesday, was instantly
killed by the premature explosion of the blast.
The man held the canister in his hand, with
the fuse on fire, trying to find the hole in tho
log which was to receive the charge, when
his companions, noticing his delay called to
him to drop the charge and run The warn
ing came too late, and the charge txplol d
in his hand.
Tuesday afternoon Henry Summers and
and May Whitney, young people who have
been keeping company, were found lying on
the sidewalk in Austin, ILL.,, with bullet holes
in their heads. Tho girl was unconscious and
| will die. Summers says.the girl shot him and
then herself. The pistol with which the
shooting was done is Summers and there are
suspicious that he committed the deed, which
is supposed to have been the result of low
ers' quarrel. Summers may recover.
"A boy who created sensation in Phila-
delphia last week by representing himself to
be the long-lost son of Christian X Ross.
but who was Afterward discovered to be
runaway from the st. Louis house of refuge,
has been committed to the Philadelphia house
of refuge.
w. L. Lamb, one of the proprietors OF
the Buckeye tobacco works at Toledo, O.,
was shot by burglar about o'clock Tues-
day morning, and will probably die. Mr..
Lamb had seized the burglar in the hall and
was trying to overpower him when he fired,
the ball entering tho left breast, lust miss
ing the heart.
"A oolored porter in a Fifth avenue New
York; dressmaking establishment throw a cat
with tin pitcher on its head into Mr.. Henry
Bergh's back yard on Wednesday. Nh. Bergh
cut off the pitcher with the assistance of his
butler and then had the porter arrested.
AT the South Boston iron works, Wednes
day, a 100 ton gun which was being made for
the government exploded in its mould 40 feet
under ground, threw the iron into tho air in
a molten shower, and set the building on fire.
The explosion was a terrific one, shaking the
building to its foundations. The gun, which
was q total loss, would have been worth $l2,
900 when completed.
Foreign.
Tho cholera outbreak continues ut Mar
settles, the panic is increasing and all those
who can are leaving the city. Eighteen hun
bred persons left the city Monday. Ninety
per cent of the cholera victims are women.
II is feared that the wholesale exodus from
Marseies and Toulon will result in spread
ing the soourge. The migration from Paris
to the seashore is unexampled DIR. Koch,
the head of the Berlin cholera commission,
says tho cholera in France is the genuine
Asiatic and predicts that it will spread to
| Germany and elsewhere.
| MaraaillaR daanRich of tho OH RnYa. Tha