Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-10-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.


Most readers will recall the circum.
stances Of the horrible Druse murder perpe.
rated at Warren. New York, last Deoembey
Mrs Druse deliberately killing her hus.
band weak inofensive man, with an Az
and then compelling other members of the
family TO aid In cutting the body in pieces
and burning IL up Mrs. Druse's trial took
place last week. She was convicted of muir
der In the first degree and sentenced 10 be
hung Nov. 25th.
A magnificent elm In Northampton.
planted by Jonathan Edwards, and which
had grown 10 a circumference Of 20 feet, was
uprooted by a tornado on Sunday.
-Olason Graham, New York stock bro
ker, stole $26, 900 and started of Friday
night. He was captured at Springfield, Mass
restored the money and was permitted to de.
part
The stables Of O. L. johnson, an extern.
sive dairyman at Atlanta, Ca, were burned
Sunday and l2S head Of cattle persisted In
the flames, most Of them fine bred COWS.
"A disastrous tornado visited westwood.
little New Jersey town 20 miles from New
York. Sunday afternoon and DESTROYED The
church, the school house and a distillerv
and blew several houses from their foupda.
tons.
Sixty convicts made a desperate break
for liberty Sunday near Lufkin, Tex, where
they were being worked on the railroad. The
prisoners had just finished their supper al q
?. NJ, when with deafening yels they start
ed up in q body and rushed for the neigh.
boring woods The guards opened FIRE on
Them and 25 are said 10 have been killed or
wounded.
Government surveyors sent out last
spring to investigate the discovery Of the
great lake in the northern part of Quebec,
klown as Lake Misstassini, have Just return
ei to Ottawa, Ont. They report that In
place of great inland Sea- dwarfnp in area
Like Superior, they found sheet Of water
not over 1876 miles long and 20 miles broad.
A terrible accident happened ON the Fer
gis Falls branch Of the Northern Pacific
rdroad, seven miles west Of st. Paul. last
Sunday morning, by which Eve men lost their
lives and 80 or 40 moro we're injured. John
Robinson's show left Wahpeton, OAK, for st.
Paul in two sections. When within seven
miles of Fergus Falls, the head or baggage
section broke in two while going up heavy
grade and 10 or ~ cars went flying back at a
terrific rate. On the rear Of the train we're
three sleeping cars occupied by over 200
workmen. The cars which had broken loose
increased their speed as they approached the
second or cage section and probably had run
mile before they struck it with tremendous
force, throwing the three sleepers from the
track and smashing them beyond recogni-
ton. More than hundred men were buried
In the debris. Tue scene can hardly be de.
scrlbed. The night was fearfully dark and
the groans of tho men were appalling. The
people in the rear section at once began the
work of removing the men, Ave of whom
were found dead and many others wounded
and bleeding.
A battery of boilers at the Solar iron
works OF Clarke & Co. at Pittsburg, Pa, ex-
ploded last Friday soon after 3 NJ. Seven
teen people, majority Of them boys, were
scalded frightfully or injured in other ways
and two of them have died. The night turn
had Just been relieved by the day force when
the explosion took place. Frenzied wives,
mothers and children rushed to the spot
seeking to identify their loved Ones or in.
quiIing if they had escaped. The cries and
groans of the parboiled men would occasion.
ally rise above the women's voices. 1t was
an awful scene, and the physicians we're al.
most unnerved at the sight The injured
were found lying in all positions. Some of
them were so far away from the battery that
it seemed impossible that they could have
been injured by the explosion. The explo-
sion, it is thought, was caused by the mud
eating through the mud drums coating. The
boilers, six in number, form q battery in the
extreme southwest corner of the mills. The
mud-drum runs lengthwise under all six boil
ers. The end of this blew out with such
fearful force as to scatter destruction on all
sides.
The Charter. house buildings, row Of 10
eightstory warehouses on Aldergate, in Lon
don, were burned TO the ground yesterday
morning Estimated loss, $15, 900, 900.
The present intention Is to explode the
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