Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-05-14
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
HURRICANES AT THE WEST.


A fearful storm OF wind and rain swept over Kan
sas City, NO., Tuesday forenoon The courthouse
was demolished, aud Deputy Sheriff Dougherty was
caught by the falling tmbers and killed. The Lathrop
school building partly wrecked the tower which
surmounted 1t, containing large bell, being blown
and crashing through the intervening floors to
the basement. Many children were buried In the
ruins ~ being killed and others badly injured. An
overall factory, spice mill and the old water works
buildings were blown down, and Ave persons were
killed and several injured All the buildings wrecked
considered unsafe the school house having been
condemned within two weeks. One span Of the rail-
road bridge across the Missouri was blown into the
river, blocking several railroads The latest despatch
says that the number Of victims Of the hurricane is
now known TO be 20, Of whom l6 met death in the
wrecked school-house. 1t seems that repairs were
made upon this building after 1t had been condemned
the second time, and 1t was considered safe by the
board of education. Other places in Missouri suffered
severely from the storm. The greater part Of the
town Of Yichy Springs, IL miles north Of Rollo was
destroyed, and in numerous places buildings were
wrecked or washed away.
cyclone struck Odeil, H., Wednesday evening and
unroofed stores and hotel, burylng two chill
dren In the ruins. Streator and Rockford, ILL.,,
also visited by terrible wind and hail storm, which
Peru, Ind houses unroofed trees uprooted, and
large amount OF stock killed by lightning. Reports
from Pittsburg and other points indicate terrible
storms in the neighborhood Of Cincinnati.
The daily reports by cable show that cholera has
appeared in several cities on the Adratic. Five new
and two deaths have appeared at Brndis Italy,
this week. 13 new cases and eight deaths at Venice
and 20 new cases and 10 deaths at Bari.
Mrs. Carrie Durham Kilgore has been admitted
10 practice IN the supreme court OF pennsylvania.
Mrs. Kigore is the only woman In Pennsylvania who
practices in the supreme court Of that state. This
certificate takes her into all the courts Of the state in
GLIDING those In Philadelphia to which she has been
Intellectually seeking admission for years.
A large tent at a camp-meeting in Johnson Kan,
was blown down during gale Sunday. OF the $50
persons who were in the tent at the time three
| killed.
Gov. Hill of New York has signed the bill for wind.
ing up the affairs Of the Broadway surface railroad
| corporation whose charter has been annulled.
The papers have II that whole family near Little
Rock, Ark, are i'll with hydrophobia through using
| dog, and two children are at the point Of death.
! Herr Most, the New York anarchist and agtator
was found Tuesday night under bed in a house on
spector Byrnes. He was handcuffed and taken to po-
lice headquarters, In the house was found Wnches
ter rifle and bayonet and books upon dynamite bombI
! and kindred topics. Most had been in hiding from
the police ever since the Chicago riot.
Gov. Hill has signed the New York Arcade Gun
derground) railroad bill The bill passed the legisa
ture by nearly unanimous vote. In his fol
approving the measure the governor says that the de
mAnd for increased rapid transit facilities in New
York city cannot be ignored as neither the surface
nor elevated railroads afford the necessary
transportation, and, the conviction being genera
among the citizens Of New York that an underground
! be tried.
REV" E. d. winslow, the Boston forger and e1
Methodist minister hnds the way of the transgresso
may be hard even in the Argentine Republic the lant
| Of his somewhat hasty adoption. He has been pub
fishing an English daily paper at Buenos Ayres ant
ventures and gaining considerable sympathy through
claims that his troubles IN Boston the result o.
| msfortunes rather than rascality. Recently he hal
been specializing in real estate OF his former fail
ings, and when he got into tight place he fell from
grace much as he did at Boston. He Is in jail now
his property lie attached aud Canadian bOrderlant
offers him a refuge from justice.
OF the Chicago rioters who sacked a drug stor
eight are dead aud four others dying from the ef
fects OF drinking cochicum, which they supposed
sherry wine.
The Baltimore steamer Acadia, with 10 persons OF
board Is given up for lost She sailed from Jamaio
on the 10th Of April, and has not been heard from
since.
The trunk murder case 10 revived at st. Louis thl
week by the trial Of II. NJ Brooks, or II. Lenox Max
well for the murder OF @. Arthur Preler which begaI
Monday. The case made a sensation last year, wheI
the body was found cut up In trunk at a room in
southern hotel, and Maxwell arrested 10 New
Zealand.
A terrible affair occurred at Dartmouth near New
Bedford Mass, early Tuesday morning Charles slo
cum, 70 years Of age farmer who ject to ep
leptc hs went to his barn to feed his horse prepare
tory to going to town to carry milk. He is suppose,
to have had At, fallen, broke petroleum lantern
and set the barn on hre When discovered, the hr,
had gained such headway that nothing could be saved
and slocum, three horses cows we're burnes
TO death.