Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1885-05-15
T PHOENIX, RECORD FARMER, MAY To- 1885
THE NE US IN BRIEF.

IRON locomotive set nre IN the heart OF Ont
cago's great pine lumber-ya yard district which
lies along both sides OF the south branch Of
the Chicago river and near the southwestern
city limits. A Heree wind was blowing from
the west aud the flames spread with great ra.
pidity. The entire ERE department was call
ed out, but the 20 or 80 streams Of water
thrown upon the flames had little effect.
Great brands we're carried forward by the
wind setting fire to new piles, and several
steamers and the men running them had mar
row escapes from destruction. A canal. boat
moored at the dock caught fire and foated
across the river which Is 1870 feet wide al this
point, and set fire to the lumber on the east
bank, which covered about an equal area,
and this, with one or two planning mills, was
consumed. Brands were carried eastward
and set FIRE TO several small frame houses oc-
cupied by employee in the lumber district.
The fight continued throughout the after.
noon and 1t was nearly O'Clock before the
conhagration was brought under control,
having practically burned itself out 10 the
limits Of the immediate district In which II
began. A heavy rain during most Of the af-
ternoon was OF material assistance The ag-
gregate of lumber destroyed was as, 900, 900
feet, valued at 800, 900.
Last Saturday the Mormon president,
Angus Cannon, aud two others we're each
sentenced TO pay a fine Of $500 and serve six
months imprisonment for unlawful cohabita-
ton. In an Idaho town, last week, the Nor.
mons rallied to the defence of eight of their
number, for whose arrest United States war
rants had been issued. An armed guard cor
raled the eight brethren in the meeting house,
while the mob marched the deputy marshals
who held the warrants out OF town.
All the striking quarrymen at Lemont,
has h., 4 - n. a.
is believed to be ended. The last OF the
troops went home yesterday.
Gen. Aizpuru, the rebel leader, left Pan.
anna Tuesday for Bogota by way Of Buena-
ventura, a prisoner The United States
steamers Tennessee aud Galena left Monday
for Carthagena carrying Gen. Reyes and pro-
visions for the besieged. All is quiet at Pan.
anna.
There was riot in London Wednesday
night over the proposal of the government to
increase the duty on spirits and beer. Speak
ers and resolution readers who tried 10 ad.
dress the crowd in Trafalgar Square from the
Nelson monumtnt were finally com PEELED TO
give up and retire, leaving the roysterers,
who seem to have been entirely good natnred,
in possession Of the field and singing Rule
Brttania' at the top OF their lungs.
Three Italians under arrest in Chicago
have confessed to the murder OF the lemon
peddler Caruso, whose body was found ct
Pittsburg in q trunk. Their motive was to
secure three or four hundred dollars.
While Gen. Sheridan and his wife were
out driving at Los Angeles, Cal, Monday,
their horses ran away. Their carriage was
upset and both we're thrown out, but, al.
though considerably shaken up, they we're
not seriously injured.
A
town, Ky, last Saturday night at festival
held by colored people. Two officers at
tempted to arrest two boys who we're dsor-
derby, when they we're knocked down with
stones by the friends Of the offenders. The
officers fred into the crowd aud killed the
father Of the boys. The officers received
such severe treatment that they we're not ex
pected to live.
The strange suicide OF an unknown man
came to light in the woods near Dedham
Mass. last Sunday. He had evidently load.
ed piece of brass tubing with powder and
ball, one end of which be secured to the
root OF tree, with the other end slightly el-
evated. After tying his legs together he laid
down with his head few inches from the
nozzle of his improvised gun. He then
lighted piece Of paper, laid 1t over the vent
hole and awaited the discharge His head
was blown to atoms.
The steamer Helvetia Of the White
Cross line, owned by a Canadian company
was sunk in st. Lawrence bay last Saturday
She had been knocking about in the ice for
several days trying to make port, aud got
holes stove in her bows 80 that she finally
sank from the weight of water which poured
into her. This Is the fourth steamer which
the White Cross line has lost within as many
years Two Of these we're never heard from
after leaving port. Only 10 months ago the
Daniel Steinmann crashed on the rocks at
Sambro Island aud % lives we're lost Il is
singular fact that Capt. Schoonhoveu. who
commanded the Steinmann, was also in com.
mand OF the Helvetia. and this was his irst
passage across the Atlantic since that i'll fated
voyage.
-Ageneral white frost prevailed all through
South Carolina, Georgia and middle Alaba
ma, last Monday morning, doing much dam-
age in low lands In many places corn was
seriously injured, cotton was wilted and
young fruit nipped
The mystery attending the death of Capt.
j. NJ. Colvocoreses of Ltchfield, CT, who
was found dying in the street at Bridgeport
in the fall Of 1873, has been solved. He was
shot through the heart, and his satchel con.
tanning valuable bonds and fine seal ring
from his finger, were gone. His life was in
sured for $275, 900 and the insurance COM
panies tried to prove that he committed sui
eide. Failing in this one company paid in
full and the others compromised at 80 cents
on the dollar. Capt. Donaldson, Just arrived
at Bridgeport from San Francisco. brings
the ring and the story Of the death bed con.
fession of Baldwin Jansen, a Danish sailor,
who died of Honolulu last January. Jansen
said that he and other sailors knew that Col.
vocoreses had money, and on the night OF
the murder he lay in wait for him, meaning
only to rob him, but the captain resisted and
beat him so that he fired and the shot was ia.
tai Jansen became frightened and threw
the satchel of bonds into the water and they
were not recovered He hid the ring on
ship. board. Nothing had prospered with
him since and with a sailors superstition he
"could not die" till he had confessed
-Vesuvius is again in active eruption.
The lava is said to be pouring down the side
OF the volcano in great streams while the in
habitants of the villages at the foot of the
mountain are fleeing from their homes in
terror.
"A number of people in Valencia, Spain,
are being inoculated with cholera virus 10
prevent the scourge in its normal form. The
results Of these operations are being closely
watched by doctors and scientists The virus
produces q tumor on the patient,
who becomes severely Frustrated from the
effects in about "a hours, but generally re-
covers entirely within 4S hours after the op-
Grafton. All the provinces OF Spain have
sent doctors to Valencia TO study this system.
1t is generally believed that the experiments
already made have established the success Of
the system of cholera inoculation