Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-03
Massacre Of ChrI-,I"ns In China.

-Advices from Ching Too Foo, the chief
city of the Province of Sechuen, state that
the natives OF the eastern part Of that PROV.
incs and those of northern Cochin China
have risen against the CHRISTIANS aud are mas
sacrng them and destroying their property.
This active persecution is attributed TO the
imprudence of the English and American
missionaries In Cochin China alone 30
Christians have been killed, their houses
burned and their farms destroyed. Iu Sc
chuen general massacre OF Christians ia re.
ported to be in progress, and they are killed
wherever found. 1t is said that whole vii.
lagos occupied by Christians have been de-
stroyed, and that all lands occupied by the
professors Of that faith are being devastated
Five armed men boarded messenger
train at East st. Louis Monday night and
rescued Jimmy" Carroll, the notorious bank
robber, from the sheriff who was taking him
to Galesburg, Ill.
The excelsior geyser in the Yellowstone
park, the most powerful in the world, sud
denly broke out Friday after being quiet over
four years, and spouted furiously for "a
hours.
The steamboat Daniel ID ew OF the Alba
ny line, one of the largest and fastest. passen
ger boats on the Hudson river, was burned to
the waters edge at her mornings at King
ston Point, N. Y, Sunday afternoon
IN. T. Robertson, a bicyclist, rode across
the coping of Cabin John bridge near Wash.
ington, d. c., last Sunday on 5l.inch Star
bicycle. The coping is 300 feet long and .
inches wide. 1t is about three feet higher
than the roadway of the bridge and l25 above
the rocky gorge below. friend steadied
the machine while he got into place and then
he rode slowly across, nearly losing his bal
ance once. On approaching the further end
he tipped his little wheel up rode a short
distance on one wheel and dismounled back
ward, having crossed In three minutes.
oliver Wendell Holmes landed in New
York on his return from England last Sunday.
1t was his nth birthday.
"A terrible fire damp explosion occurred
in the Fairhaven colliery at Scranton, Pa.
Monday morning, killing five men and iniur-
ing two others seriously.
The drouth in western Texas is so serious
that the mayor and the president of the Mer-
chants exchange in St. Louis have called
for subscription in aid of the famine.
stricken people"
Last weeks strike on the Broadway and
Belt surface roads in New York resulted in a
compromise, the men going back under an
agreement to give the new system fair trial
Three we'll known Chicago anarchists
Louis Juhl, tailor, Henry B4tzel, stone
mason, and William Kloth, a cooper, were
arrested Sunday charged with conspiring to
do an unlawful act. They had long been no
ticed holding late meetings in the cooper
shop, taking in and out mysterious packages
and sneaking about in generally mysterious
manner They finally became so bold dur
ing the recent excitement that on one occa-
sion seven men were seen to leave the place
about II O'Clock at night, each armed with a
rifle or pistols A raid on the place followed
resulting in the discovery of two full stands
OF Australian pieces, swords and heavy re-
Volvers slowed away in an ingeniously devised
compartment in the ceiling The men we're
asked to account for the presence of this
embryo arsenal in the eooper-shop and as
they could give no plausible explanation, they
were locked up. Kloth openly avowed that
he was an anarchist, aud admitted that he
had to fly from Berlin, and for that reason
lie further volunteered the information that
he was stanch sympathizer of the convict
cd anarchists. The police claim that he was
Implicated in tho Haymarket riot.
Gen. Geo. Gordon, one of the bravest,
best sehOoled and most flicient of the officers
sent by Massachusetts, to the war for the I'm
ion, died at his home in birmingham. Mon
day night, of rheumatism OF the heart.
Three "know-nothing" lodges of the old
style have been discovered about Englewood,
ILL.,, and the fact creates great stir among
politicians who are trying to expose the lead
eTs.