Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-08-14

THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Launching - VermOnters Namesake.
A Bookport, Me-, despatch of the ] tn
inst. says: The monster ship Frederick Bill
lings the largest craft with one exception ever
built In America, was launched here to-day.
She IL great four master, and her masts will
tower seventy feet above the brooklyn bridge.
Her tonnage ia 2,G2S. Her length IL 29l feet,
and from the deck TO the main truck IL is 1871
feet. The main sticks of the masts are 40
feet long, and are Of Oregon pine. The length
Of the fore and main yards IN 30 feet each,
and she will spread 200 yards Of canvass.
The oak frame of the ship came from Virgin.
ia, and her hard pine planks from South Car
olina. EARLY this morning people from all
parts Of the state poured into town to witness
the launching The harbor was filled with
vessels gayly decorated with bunting. At Ia
% o'clock the tide was at it's ebb, and the q
nal order WAS given. As the workmen drove
home the wedges the monster quivered slight
ly, and, with very slight breaking, started
The silence was broken by cheers from IL, 900
throats Gayly dressed with flags aud load
cd with people, she slowly glided down the
ways, while at tho bow stood the crew ready
when the bow struck the water TO drop two
immense anchors TO check the Roadway.
With hardly disturbance Of the waters the
stern settled into the deep and the bow, with
an almost imperceptble dip, followed, and
beautiful craft, and sits on the water like a
duck.
AT Manchester, N. H., last Friday night
a fve-stOry building, 100 feet square, was
burned, which proved to be n veritable death
trap. The first floor was occupied by stores
while the upper parts we're divided into a
boarding and tenement house, and the num-
Der OF inmates was about 500. The flames
spread no rapidly AZ to cut of many ways Of
A 3 tnaa ..t,Ni in,
their night clothes by ladders placed against
the wall. Among those taken out nearly dead
was a mother aud her infant aud the baby
died soon after, and the following day the
mother also died After the fire was ont, a
hasty examination of the ruins failed to dis.
cover any bodies. Two hours later, in remov-
ing closet door which had fallen inward,
the head Of woman WAS revealed, and, by
tearing away the debris, six bodies were ex-
humed, which with the dead mother and
child make eight deaths. The six victims
found in bunch seem to have shut them
selves up in the clothes press M a last resort.
Albert r. Herrick, New York liquor
merchant, whose family were away from
home, was fatally shot at his home on Pearl
street in Brooklyn Monday afternoon, pre-
sumably by burglar. He staggered from
his house about d:30 p. NJ, within five min
utes after entering it, crying in faint tones,
'buTRlhth! ponce itli III rum VI
a drug store opposite and died. The indica-
tons were that he had heard some one in the
basement aud gone down to investigate.
| Thomas Armstrong, son Of Mrs. Herrick by
| a former husband, has been arrested on sus-
picion. When brought into court on We'd
nesday Armstrong confessed that he shot
HerIick, bnt said that he did ii in sef-de-
fence Herrick having abused him and chased
him into the cellar He said he was writing
/ La. AZ na.. uNa -gaNh
came in and began to upbraid him.
A party of five persons started across the
Columbia river at Cascade locks near Port
land, Or, in a small boat, Saturday night
the wind died out and the boat was carried
over the rapids aud all the occupants were
dashed against the rocks and drowned.
The Montezuma hotel at Las Vegas hot
| springs, N. NJ, was burned Saturday night.
The hotel was owned by the Atchison, Tope-
ka and Santa Fe railroad company. Il WAS
opened in April. The guests all escaped with
most Of their Effects. The companys hotel
on the same site was burned is months ago.
Edward J. Abrahams, who WAS arrested
and Jailed for bringing out the Gilbert and
Sullivan opera, THE Mikado" after Judge
Wheeler had forbidden its production, has
been released after paying r fine of $3.50.
Resenfeld, the principal in the business, is
still in Jail.
The collapse of balloon at a height OF
| 1900 feet and the consequent plummet-like
I fall of the car and the aerOnaut, Tolbert, was
an unexp ected feature of balloon race in
South Chicago recently. Tolbert's wife had
committed suicide while insane in st. Louis
three weeks before over her husbands accep-
lance of the engagement contrary to her
wishes.
While painting tho dial of clock on
church tower at Grand Rapids, Mich, Mon
day morning, two painters fell 20 feet TO the
ground by the scaffold giving away. One was
killed outright, aud the other died at noon.
Gen. Butler, ex Secretary Robeson and
Oliver V. Barrett OF Washington have organ
lied a company to go into the stock raising
business on a big scale in New Mexico and
Colorado, where the company owns iO0, 900
acres Of land. The paid-up capital of the
company is $4,000
A Pittsburg clergyman puts in claim
for the ownership of Riverside Park where
Gen. Grant is buried.
james W. Marshall, the dscoverer Of
gold in California, died on Monday at his
home in Kelsey, Cal. lie Was - years old,
and died a poverty stricken, disappointed
man.
There were 35l0 new cases of cholera
and l343 deaths Monday throughout Spain.
Relatives OF cholera patients in many of the
Spanish provinces assault the doctors in the
belief shat they poison their patients. The
archbishop OF Seville died OF cholera Monday.
The we'll known steamer Block Island,
when en- route from the Island to New Lon
don on Tuesday afternoon, struck rock near
the west end of Fishers island. The steamer
kept on her COURSE landed the passengers at
Lyle's Beach, and was then beached TO pre-
vent sinking. The passengers were taken to
New London by small steamers
Mrs. Helen Hunt Jackson, the we'll
known authoress died Wednesday evening
at San Francisco Of cancer Of the stomach.
Gen. Henry X. Oliver AN honored resi-
dent OF Salem Mass, and man OF promi-
hence in the state, IN dead at the age OF So.
He WAS an accomplished musician and the
author of Federal Street" and other we'll
known hymn tuner.
A cyclone in Norwood, st. Lawrence
county, N. Y. Wednesday afternoon destroy
, ed several houses and buildings and the Og-
densburg and Lake Champlain railroad bridge.
Eight people are reported killed and several
fatally injured. All the Norwood church stee-
Piles were blown down. Hail stones as large
as a mans fist destroyed the growing crops.
"A heavy storm OF rain followed by hail
prevailed in eastern Dakota several hours,
Monday night, devastating at least 300 square
miles OF territory, including part OF Wilken
county, MINI. Fully 800 farms are affected.
A water-spout struck Lone Tree creek, near
Chadron, OAK, last week Thursday, flooding
the valley, drowning four men, two children
and number OF horses, besides washing away
several hundred yards in length of newly fin
ished railroad grade,
Six reputable men from Boston, New
York and Fitohburg, cruising in Boston har
Dor last week on Capt Jeffries's pilot boat,
positively state that they saw a sea serpent
200 feet away. The head was like that Of a
seal but bigger. The body was some 40 feet
long, of the diameter OF nail-keg, and al
, one time they distinctly saw four of its con.
volutions above the surface. Capt. JeHrief