Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-20
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
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The worst storm Of the season.
Last Monday nights storm was the worst
which has been known in the eastern section
of the country for years. In northern New
England and New York the storm began with
a wet heavy snow, changing little later,
with the falling mercury, to light dry
snow which piled up In huge drifts before
the fierce wind which spranR up during the
evening. hundred miles south the storm
was a heavy rain. In western Massachusetts,
the snow fall was heavy and both the high.
ways and railroads were blockaded. At
North Adams terrible gale prevailed. A
cyclone was reported from Stamford and
Hartwellvle Two men and a cutter we're
taken together with the horse and carried
over a fence into an adjoining lot. In North
Adams numerous bay windows we're blown
away. Railroad trains were blockaded and
teams we're sent out to bring In the passen-
gers.
The steady down-pour Of rain aided by
strong northeasterly wind, caused q higher
tide in New York harbor than was ever before
known. The damage to goods stored in cell
lars along the river front was very great. At
Fulton ferry the bridges we're raised to such
an angle that IL was necessary to remove the
glass frames around the gas lamps at the out
er end of the floats The water was almost
level with the plank floors in the ferry houses.
In one case guests at breakfast in a hotel near
the river we're driven out by the tide rushing
in over the floor. Some Of the Sound steam
ers had to omit their trips on account of the
ice.
The storm extended through New York
state No trains arrived at Rochester, N. Y,
Tuesday morning, nor at Saratoga during the
day.
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| ley, on the Rutland road, Monday afternoon,
that it was feared that the down passenger
train would be blown from the rails. Psssen-
gers report that the train was run very slow
| ly for some miles and that the wind frequent
| ly threw the coaches over on one side so ~
to tighten the safety chains between the cars
and the trucks.
LAKE MICHIGAN FROZEN OVER.
The weather at Chicago and through the
Northwest generally was intensely cold. A
despatch on Wednesday said For the first
time in many years Lake Michigan is frozen
solid from shore to shore, q distance OF 80
miles at the narrowest point in an air line
from Milwaukee to Grand Haven. In other
directions the body of the lake for hundreds
of miles is covered with continuous fields of ice.
Where dams have occurred the accumulated
ice resrs up in the air to height of 90 or 90
feet. The ice is from l to 80 feet thick on
the east shore. There are layers of ice 80
feet thick extending scores Of miles. Three
large propellers are locked in the ice fields,
and it is feared that one of them has gone to
the bottom.
John and Peter Hoover, brothers, and a
son of the former, ~ years old, going home
from work at Cleveland, o., last Saturday
evening, attempted to cross q railroad bridge
on which there is no footpath. They were
overtaken by a train, and, stepping to the
opposite track to escape we're run down by q
switch engine. John Hoover's body was cut
to pieces Peter Hoover's legs were both cut
off, and one Of the boys arms was crushed
Peter Hoover died at the hospital and the
boys arm was amputated.
An avalanche in Alta, Utah, last Friday
night buried alive 16 people and caused $45,
600 loss. The snow, which had been falling
a week and was ~ feet deep on a level, sweep
over the town about o'clock, crushing about
three. fourths of it. The Vallejo mine, with
works and tramways, was ruined loss $50,
900. boarding house and hotel were de
stroyed and butcher shop and drug store
we're the only buildings that escaped uninjur
ed. The men from City Rocks and Ever
green mines dug out ~ Of the 20 persons bur
led, and saved them.
The lower part OF a mans Leg including
the knee was found on the Lake Shore track
near Chicago, ILL.,, Friday night, and after
search the dead body of NJ. F. Bell was fouuC
on the track three miles away, manged badly
and minus leg. 1t is thought that the mar
was run over, and chung to the running gea
of the car until exhausted.
"A Republican newspaper office at Bots,
City, Idaho was Quilted and sacked last Fri
day night, and an attempt was made to fir,
the npmnaratin M u on1aa ha
BILE is the result of bitter political fight, anC
there is great excitement over it,
Joe Brannon, Texas desperate, VIII
was wanted for bank and stage robberies, wa
shot dead at his mothers house near Spring
field, Mo-, last Saturday, while resisting ar
rest.
During trial at Forsyth, fancy county
No.. last Friday afternoon, personalities be
tween the opposing attorneys caused a fgh
in which one of them shot the other fatally.
will Adams, 26, and his sweetheart, TIM
Wimouth, pretty girl of IS, were fount
dead early Sunday morning on the railroad
mile west of Shelbyville, Ky. Adams's pisto
lay between his legs Both we're shot in tn,
head-she in the ear, he in the eye. The enc
of lovers quarrel, probably.
An east bound train on the Pennsylvania
railroad was thrown from the track by brok
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day night Sixteen cars we're demolished, /.
of them filled with stock, and 200 sheep, 81
hogs and several horses we're killed.
DR. Henry Helmbold, whose name be
came widely known in connection with a pat
ent medicine which he manufactured, was re
leased last week from the Norristown, N. J..
insane asylum, where he had been confined
since June 81, 1881. His release was effected
by the persistent efforts Of his wife.
Capt. Phelan, who was murderously as
saulted in O'Donovan Rosss's Office by Dicl
Short, left New York on Sunday with his wifi
for his home in Kansas City. He said he wa
tired of waiting for justice in New York
The great Hooking valley coal miners
strike, which began in April, is ended. An
nouncements were made Sunday that tn,
commissary had given out, that aid was NJ
longer coming in, and advising the men Il
get work. Many of the men went in las
week in anticipation of a climax.
-Yseult Dudley was before the court il
New York, Tuesday, on charge of attempting
to kill O'Donovan Rosa. Her bail was fxeC
at $4,000, in default of which she was re
manded.
"A mob of about 5000 unemployed work
men made demonstration in London Mon
day, demanding work from the govornmen
and assuming a threatening attitude Tn
police finally scattered the crowd.
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