Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1886-09-17
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

demanded their release IL denied.
An attempt was made last Saturday night
to blow up with dynamite the signal tower Of
the Lake Shore road at Chicago from which
the operation Of the switches aud the move
ment of the trains il controlled by means OF
electrical and pneumatic apparatus. There
was "A violest explosion thousands of dollars
worth Of damage was done and the night op
orator only escaped with his life. The strik.
ing switchmen, who have been Fighting the
road all summer, are supposed to have done
the deed.
"A diabolical crime was committed at
Wes,field, Mass, Saturday night, whereby
brave young engineer met his death and his
engine was badly wrecked. Some unknown
scoundre broke the lock Of a switch about
mile northeast Of the station on the Wssthrld
a. lIoyoke branch of the New Haven and
Northampton road with an axe and turned
the switch on tho side track where a num-
Der of freight cars were standing. When
New Haven excursion train came over the
road from Holyoke 1t ran on the switch En-
gineer George 4. Baldwin was killed by the
shock, but the other train men and passen-
gers escaped uuhurt. The motive for the
crime is not known.
Only very slight tremors Of earthquake
have been experienced at Charleston the pres
ent week, and general feeling Of confidence
is b,i ing restored. The work Of condemning
damaged houses and removing the wreck
from the streets Ii progressing rapidly. The
relief fund 80 far received aggregates 5000
900. The total number Of deaths from the
earthquake aud its effects since Aug. 81 now
foot up g., of II were white and - colored
persona. Persons from Oak Point Mines
ST. Helena Sound, report that the earthquake
there made rent in the ground fully /, 800
feet long and about three inches wide.
The press dispatches Of the 1871 had an
item announcing that james G.. Blaine, it,.
youngest son of Hon. James G.. Blaine, WAS
married in the rectory Of ST. Leo's Roman
Catholic church in New York city on Monday
afternoon OF last week to Miss Marie Nevins,
daughter of Col. Richard Nevins of Column
bus, Ohio. Miss Nevins' family il one Of the
oldest and most distinguished in Ohio Young
Mr.. Blaine is the favorite son Of his father.
He is about 20 years old and has not yet
completed his collegiate course" According
to p despatch FROM Augusta, Me-, Mr. Baines
home tue marriage was a secret one and the
young mans family we're greatly astonish-
ed" on learning of it. After the wedding
the groom returned to Augusta, leaving his
wife IN New York. He IL only | : years old
and was expected 10 return TO college this
month. The bride i n young lady with AZ
piratious for the stage, whom he met at An
gusta this summer while the family we're nj
Bar Harbor. A later report says the parents
of the young couple will make the best Of the
hasty marriage. The young man will not go
back to college and Mr. Blaine will give hun
SljO9 year to live on.
The Paris Universe publishes a telegram
from the bishop Of Tonquiu saying that 700
Christians have been nassacred and 30 vii.
lagos burned in the province Of Manhoa,
nhinu aud that Christians pariyb
ing of hunger.
The murderer OF eX Mayor Bowman Of
East st. Louis, who was made way with mys-
terously in front of his own house last No
vember, is thought to be in custody at Cow
! ington, Tenn. A man arrested there fort
ming ago for some triiling offence began talk
ing about the matter while in the lock .up,
and the sheriff led him on till he made an al
| legged confession that he WAS the man who
! killed Mr. Bowman. lie says he was hired
for $4,000 to do the deed by man who il
vice president Of railroad and resident Of
| ST. Louis
fourteen persons were killed and 10
were hurt by the collision OF Niagara Falls
excursion train and a local freight train on
the Nickel Plate railroad near Silver Creek,
| N. Y, 20 miles southwest of BufTalo at l |
a. NJ, Tuesday. The trains came together in
cut on n curve. Engineers Lewis Brewer
OF the excursion and William Harris of the
! freight and their hremen saved themselves
| by jumping. The excursion train consisted
| of a baggage car, a smoker and l. coaches
| No passengers were hurt except those in the
smoking car, which was completely teescop-
ed by the baggage car. The smoker was
! filled with men and the result can be imagin-
ed. The people in the other cars crowded
! and iOstled to get away, while the escaping
/ min l,,gftl h.. Of
ed aud dying made a horrible scene. Tue
sides of the smoker were soon laid open with
axes and bars, disclosing bruised and man.
gled bodies lying doubled up in every con-
oeivable shape. With the aid of jack. ws
the baggage car WAS lifted, when the work OF
removing the bodies was begun.
The society sensation of the week in
New York has been the marriage of Jay
Gould's son George with Edith Kingdom OF
Days theatre company, which took place
Tuesday at Lyndhurst, the rich mans coun.
try house at Iryington. Young Mr.. Gould
his bride and her mother, Mrs. Steele sailed
up in the ATLANTA in the early afternoon Jay
Gould met them in the family carriage at the
dock, and the four drove TO the house tOgeth
or. There tho young couple were married
according to the mode of the Presbyterian
church, There is no reason to doubt thai
they will be happy pair. Young Mr.. Gould
has u good reputation and he has by all &C
counts won a prize in his wife.
Cholera has burst the bounds of Italy
and is gaining ground in Austria. II is wors
at Lica, village near Agram. OF the 800 in
habitants of the village 30 have been strick
en-, aud - of them died almost Immediately
The people distrust the doctors and oonoea
the sick ~ long az possible. Doctors are fire.
quently stoned in the streets. In one hOus'
a mother and her daughter were found hal
naked ON the bare floor writhng in agony
and in another room lay the body of thu
father upon viii ii had been thrown tn
corpse Of son. The villagers are too fright
ened to help one another.
A hog cholera panic has struck the farm
Crs about Muncic, Ind, because farme
there died IN horrible pain in a few hour
from disease contracted while treating hi
sick swine. The doctors sny that his diseas
was similar to that of ih beasts, and that
may become epidemic. AZ a result som
farmers have gone away, and other are tryin
TO sell ont and go West. The hog cholera
yiruleut in several counties of Indiana an
Illinois, and in also reported from Indian tel
ritOry.
Severe wind and rain storms prevaile
Thursday afternoon in portions of Illinois
Indiana and Michigan. The town of Mont,
yuma, ILL.,, is reported TO have been partly d,
utrovad and a MN, her NJ livaa Loaf