Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1884-05-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

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Ont, Monday the grand stand collapsed and
$50 people got broken arms. legs or ribs, and
some we're injured internally.
The east-bound express train on the
Fitchburg road, due in Athol Mass, at G:3O
Monday morning, oollided with a west bound
freight train a short distance west of Erving
depot Both engines were thrown from the
track and three cars were derailed. Fireman
Price of the freight train was buried beneath
the wreck, and badly hurt in the head None
Of the passengers were seriously hurt
A bleacher exploded in Moore a Wilson'S
strRwboard mill at Waterford, n. Y, Monday
night, totally demolishing the building. and
killing five employees Two Of the victims
were blown to the top Of q four-story build.
ing.
"A stallion turned on his trainer, who had
whipped him severely, at Lexington Ky
Monday, tramped upon him, breaking his
wrist and leg and tore the flesh from the
mans breast and shoulder with his teeth
At STAFFORD, Conn, last Saturday, an H.
years-old girl who went to a school house to
get bouquet which her teacher had given
her, found the door locked and tried to climb
in by the window. The sash came down up.
on her and she was found hanging by the
neck, dead
The Fall River Mass, strike has termi-
mated. The operatives have been idle for six
teen weeks, spent from twenty to thirty thou
sand dollars and have received no benefit
whatever, as they are obliged to resume work
on the terms Of the mill owners. Many of
them find their places filled by new hands.
The loss in wages is estimated at $500, 600,
which falls largely upon the merchants of that
city.
Moody and Sankey began q three weeks
farewell mission in London Tuesday
Or" Franklin Pierce. quack doctor
who killed woman by swathing her from
head to foot with kerosene bandages. was
convicted Of granddaughter at Worcester
Mass, on Wednesday
The St. Louis express was run into while
| going at full speed at Brighton station on the
| New York Central near Rochester. n Y.
last week Thursday night, by freight train
on the Auburn branch seven sleepers we're
deraied and between 20 and - persons were
hurt, including Prince Yamashima of Japan.
who is travelling through this country and II
members Of his suite.
Thomas F. Grinnell, son Of the late
! Judge George Grnnell of Greenfield, shot
himself dead at his home, III West Thirty.
fourth street, New York, Friday midnight.
| No cause is given for his deed.
1t was discovered last Friday that Charles
A. Hinckley, the paying teller of the West
side national bank, New York, had embez-
zled 500, 600 of the banks funds and run
away. run on the bank followed on Sat
urday and the directors closed its doors as a
measure of precaution.
The French brig Senorine went ashore
in fog on the Grand Banks of Newfound-
land last week Thursday afternoon and be-
| n tOfal WraqE in rnfp
three passengers and nine Of the crew were
lost.
Two of the three boilers in Carr, RYDER
| a Wheeler's sash and door factory exploded
at Dubuque, Ia, Saturday, killing and injur-
| ing several people. A solid division wall be-
| tween the boiler house and the mill saved the
| lives of 200 workmen.
At Bowling Green, Ohio. last Sunday,
| Mrs. Geo. Anderson, aged Co. beat out the
| brains of her husband with hickory cane.
She was insane. On the same day Mrs. Alex
ander Edmont of st. Louis, while insane,
forced open her husbands desk, took a razor
from it, cut the throats of her three little
children and then cut her own
Rev. William Gibbons, pastor of a negro
Baptist church in Washington, baptized lis
converts in the Potomac the other day, and
| $50 more are waiting-all the fruit of a sew
en-weeks' revival in that one church. A
crowd of $4,000 curious people witnessed the
ceremony.
An oil tank belonging to the Atlantic oil
works at Point Breeze, Philadelphia, was
struck by lightning last Friday night and the
result was a great oil fire which burned until
Sunday night and destroyed a large amount
OF property. The lightning bolt first struck
a tank containing 80, 600 barrels of crude pc.
| trOleum From this mint IL skinnad and
struck another tank in which was stored 10,
900 barrels of distillate oil. Cannon were
used to make holes in the tanks and let out
the oil. In this way a lake of burning oil
was formed which lighted up the country for
miles around.
james D. Fisk, late president of the
broken Marine bank OF New York, has beer
arrested on q warrant issued upon affidavit OF
the national bank examiner, who testified that.
after careful examination of the books OF
the bank, he found that Fisk had misappro
| priated 81, l4l, 900 of its funds. This wal
done between March and May G, 1884.
Edwin G. Burt, the noted maker of Burt
shoes died last Friday at his home in North
Orange, n. j. He was born in Massachu.
| sets in 1919
Ella Casey, the six years-old daughter OF
| Thomas Casey of Grown Point, N. Y, wa
found dead in her fathers COW stnble with
her head through the "fall door" of the cat
tie mRnger the other day. It is probable
that with the intention of crawling through
TO the other side, she put her head under the
door, which fell upon her neck and held hei
fast.
The immediate damage to railways il
Texas by the recent food is placed at two
millions Of dollars