Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-02-06
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Three months ago Messrs Garry Broth
ers, dry goods dealers Of 303 Grand street,
New York. discharged foor.walker He
was member Of the Equality SOC ieiy, pro-
tective organization, and the society began TO
urge that the man be taken back. On the
firm refusing to do this, some Of the other
employees went on a strike. A few Of them
afterwards returned, but the majority of the
strikers remained away. The Arm received
many threatening letters, but paid no atten-
ton 10 them. Soon after l o'clock Sunday
morning six or eight men were seen lettering
around the place. The police drove them
away, but At a little after O'Clock tremen-
dous explosion shook the street. Dynamite
had been put under the windows OF Garry
Brothers store and the windows were shat
tered, the castings and woodwork blown away,
and the front Of the place generally disturbed
The shock also broke the windows OF other
stores in the vicinity. There was tremen-
dous excitement in the neighborhood. Four
men we're found by the police in the shadow
Of the RivingtOn street station Of the elevated
road. One Of them was severely cut about
the head and face. and the others we're bind
ing up his wounds. The quartette were seiz-
ed and locked up. The shock of the explo-
sion was felt several hundred feet. A lamp
on shelf in house 800 feet away was thrown
| to the floor and the iron stanchons of the
| elevated road near the store looked az though
they had ,received violent blows. The police
| are satisfied that the explosion is the outcome
of the strike by Garry Brothers employees.
A sleigh containing a party Of nine, while
crossing the track Of the Lake Shore railroad
between Oak Harbor aud Port Clinton, o., al
O'Clock last Sunday morning. was struck by
an express train. Two Of the party were in
stantly killed, one has since died, and three
others were very seriously injured. They
we're on their way homo from a brilliant re-
ception and ball.
"A railroad disaster, the consequences OF
| which might have been much more serious
than they were occurred last Monday morn.
ing within few miles Of Jersey City, N. j.,
to a Philadelphia & Reading express train
consisting OF four cars, with 10 passengers
on board. The smoking-car left the track
| about quarter OF mile from Greenville, N.
! j., where this train does not stop. II Is sup
! posed that this was due to the breaking Of an
axle. The other cars apparently kept on the
track, aud the train, drawn by a heavy loco
motive, kept on it's way, running at the rate
Of so miles an hour. A hundred yards be-
/ yond Greenville train OF GO coal cars, heav.
| lily laden, was standing on a side-track. The
derailed car struck the first Of the coal cars,
/ completely demolishing II, and the passenger
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| the coal cars, and general wreck was made
of ALL None of the passengers were killed,
| but more than 20 we're injured, though none
of them very seriously.
Fifty pounds Of dynamite at Brady tun.
/ mel, near Washing ton, Pa. stored ia q l2-foot
square house to thaw out by a stove, eIplod-
ed last Saturday morning on account of the
roofs catching fire from the stove-pipe. The
! explosion made kindling wood of the build
| ing Houses in town were damaged The
shock was felt three miles away aud the re-
port was heard eight miles.
The San Francisco newspapers are rails
| ing an alarm about an Ubiquitous practice,
which they claim TO have discovered, Of moth
ers giving aud selling their illegitimate babies
to the keepers of Chinese dens OF prostitu.
ton. 1t is alleged that a Systematic traffic in
them has been going on for a long time,
mainly through the agency Of lying-n hospi-
! tails. Several cases of white infants ia the
| possession Of female proprietors of Chinese
brothels have already been discovered, and
| there is ground for believing that there are
| hundreds of others, which the Chinese, fear
/ ing discovery, have hidden. It is asserted
that these female children are bought by Chi
nese spectators and sent 10 China, where
they are kept till ~ years old when they are
sold TO rich Cinnamon for large sums TO be
put in harems.
"A terrible explosion OF gas, Monday, in
a coal mine near Savanna, l. T., killed three
men outright, seriously burned 80, and slight
ly burned and otherwise injured ~ more
Savanna is a small village on the Missouri
Kansas Il Texas railroad. in the very heart oil
the Indian nation, about % miles south Of Nc
Alister and 80 miles north OF Atoka.
The Pittsburg (Pa Chronicle Telegraph
N.aa Il.
fishing long article asserting that there ex
ists in that city an organization of dynamilers
armed and waiting for pretext for an out
break. II said that for several months Rus
sian and two English spies have been at worl
in Pittsburg, trying TO discover sympathizen
with the Irish dynamiters, who for a long tins
have secured large revenue from the city, es
pecially from men in mills and mines who be
lieve in the doctrine OF humiliation
them two or three millonAires. These mel
have gathered kindred spirits from all owe
the country, who have been drifting into III,
city singy aud in pairs for a month or more
Within the past three weeks 1000 to 1900 gun
and revolvers have been received and put int
the bands Of those whose character is know
and who can be relied upon. large quaint
~ of dynamite hiss also been obtained by tn,
revolutionists. The men complain that the,
cannot find work, that they are suffering frou
hunger, and claim that they are justified il
anything. The movement is against mill own
ers and other capitalists.
Two serious fires visited New York cit,
Wednesday night, one of them the most dis
astrous for years. The first one occurred
in the early evening" burning several manu-
featuring concerns in a large building oil
the corner Of Barclay street and College place
involving loss of S275, 900. The seconC
broke out about midnight in the wine vault
Of Steinhardt Brothers on Wooster street, AM
spread very rapidly, destroying, it is estims
ted, million and half dollars worth o
property.
John A. Smyth, Joel j. Wilson and Cice
70 B. Jefferson, who murdered Hiram Jeller
son in April, 1884, were taken from Jail a
Audubon, Ia, Wednesday morning at 4 o'clocl
and lynched by q mob of 500 or COO men
Two of the men we're shot dead in the figh
which they made against the mob.
During a severe wind storm Wednesda,
afternoon train for Denver, Col, on tn
Colorado Central railroad was blown from tn
track about mile below Georgetown place
The entire train lies upon its side in the ditch
OF the 20 passengers on board, Is we're more
or less injured.
Foreign.
DISASTROUS RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN AUSTRALIA
The express train between Sydney, N.
W., and Wagga Wagga while running rapid
ly last Monday afternoon, was wrecked by
collision. Forty passengers we're killed anC
many injured