Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-04-30
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Ciarksvlile, Mo-, Monday, Geo. T.. Weber Of
smithville N j., won b0-mile bicycle ROAD race IN
hours minutes and 42S seconds lowering tue
worlds record by nearly a half hour. He RODE suar
"A frame building at Alton Pa, erected on post.
and used az sleeping quarters for laborers, TOPPED
over In the dead Of saturday night aud caught hre
from a stove, The building contained So Italians 10
the employ Of the Erie railroad, siH we're ourned TO
death and three others were badly Injured.
She total number Of deaths which have resulted
from the conhagration which recently devastated
stry, Austria, Ia 1873. The greater number were
caused directly by the hsmea, but many Of the un-
fortunate people died from exposure, while some
died Of fright and few committed suicide. Ihe
Burqomaster estimates that It will cost 81, 200 OOl to
rebuild the burned houses The loss on private prop
THE conyicts in the penitentiary at st. Vincent
de Paul Quebec got hold Of some rifles and revolyers
last Saturday afternoon and revoted. When the
warden demanded their surrender they seized him
and put him between themselves aud the guards, but
with bravery which deserves all commentator he
ordered the guards TO Are on the cOnycts aud quel
the revolt regardless Of danger to him. He was very
seriously wounded receiving bullet In the jaw aud
another In his wrist while another entered the aldo
men. One of the guard wounded In the leg,
while several others received wounds more or less Sc
rous. one prisoner was shot dead and hve others
were wounded. None Of the cOnvicts escaped.
A serious ieck on the Missouri Pacific occurred
early Monday morning near Kansas city. Spikes had
been drawn from the rails on curve, and when
train came along the locomotive aud several freight
cars were thrown down an embankment. The IRE
man and brakeman were killed. The wreckets es-
capped They are presumed to have been some OF the
late striking employees OF the road
Deputy Marshall Purdon Of Manchester, Tenn,
recently made raid upon the Illicit dstilleries Of
Truudy county and destroyed several stills. Last
Monday morning IS armed moonahiners surrounded
bis house and attempted to take his life. fierce hight
followed in which Purdon killed, but not until he
had shot and fatally wounded four Of his assailants
An extraordinary hail storm visited Calaveras and
Moore's Hollow, Texas, on Tuesday, covering belt
! two miles wide aud many miles in extent. The hail
fell in such quantities that every vesge Of vegoa
| ton demolished. In acme places the ground was
covered to the depth Of eight inches
| News comes Of terrible desttution among The
coal mines in the West virginia mountains. For
| year past nothing has been done in the mneH, and
hundreds Of families without the commonest nee
| essaries OF life The women despairing aud hall
starved and the children crying from hunger. The
| case Of the Irish peasantry is not worse.
| The case OF Mrs. Emma Moloy, once powerful
| and noted temperance advocate, now held az acces
sorry to a murder In Missouri has taken q new turn
Graham, the wife murderer, whose crime Mrs. Mol
10y charged with concealing, was taken from thu
Jail and hanged by mob on Tuesday. There is n
question but that Graham was craven, BASTARD.
wretch, guilty Of bigamy, murder, and Of whoeFal
aud desperate lying, and the against Mrs Mollo
was mostly based on Of his confessions, so tina
the chances Of her conviction are very slight Sh
was conducting temperance revival In Kansas whe
Mrs. Graham was murdered aud had been doing sim
liar work through Missouri.