Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1888-03-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
Terrible Tornado n, IN. SAND.

The states NJ Tennessee and Georgia were visit
GET Wy terrible electric Storm Tuesday night and
great devastation was wrought through a broad
slltlch ut country Much Of the territory visited
Is remote from railroads and telegraphs and the
details are meagre, but the loss Of life and proper
" must have been fearful The storm is known
10 nave swept over AN area 100 miles long In about
Nv minutes Another storm was reported no miles
Farther sQuthc st In rplfair county. Ga The Tor.
nndo ia places cleared the ground completely Of
grass aud forest vt timhrr was mown as with a
great scythe.
gas explosion In theatre at Oporto. Portu.
Ehl' wednesday, destroyed the theatre and about
luD people lost their lives
\ frghful disaster took place last Saturday
morning on the Savannah, Florida and Western
rnilruad, section Of the fast mail train from
New York for Jacksonville going through tres
Tie near Waycruss, Ga, village - miles south Of
savannah, killing - people and mjuring about 81
others The private ear Of President Wilbur Of
the Lohigh Valley road, With MIR, Wilbur and
Gcurge Gould, son Of Jay Gould and wife and
others iu IL. was In the wreck President Wilbur
was seriously injured aud one OF his sons was
Killed, hut the Goulds were unhurt. The accident
was caused 10y q broken rail. The scene at the
moment after the wreck was heart -rrnding. The
lower coaches were smashed wrll-nigh 10 pieces,
ana as nearly every one was oiled hardly a pas
seuger escaped without some injury. Part Of the
bridge which supported the wreck gave way sun
day night, killing three Of the wrccking crew and
wnunding five others.
sylvester s. Hall. a builder. who disappeared
over two years ago from Minneapolis. Mimi, was
released recently from the Rochester insane nsy.
lllu, where he had been confined since August,
lSN1, by mistake as Henry Jones, an escaped lu-
nnttc Han had just been married. aud was at st
Paul to take contract for building when ar
rested Ihrre men swure that he was Henry
Jones, and notwithstanding his protests he was
taken OFT To the asylum and kept there till March
T. when he was examined 10y experts and pro
uouncrd sane. He will bring action for damages
against the ST. Paul authorities
A disease is prevailing among cattle In south.
ern llliu.iS which Is called actiuomykoss. OF
lumpy jaw II is fatal aud infections. Men take
II " ahrdltd surfaces COME IN contact with any.
thing from the diseased parts
China papers confirm the report of Il dsastrou,
earthquake. Several cities were destroyed and
about 1000 lives lost Latest reports from the
scene Of yellow river nuuds place the number Of
lives lost at between l5uO.Wn aud 2.OnO,O0O
l.ittit Josef dufrmauu is >uuu Co have this cuun
tN, aud M all probability Will upvprappenr ngnir
before an American audience rs a Youthful prod
tgN. His father Mr. CaeiuiI Hoffman,, will l,av,
Tor Europe with his wife aud SON ON the steamer
| Shalr, which will sail March ~ from New York
Mrs. William Dalton. wife Of rag picker wa,
burned to death with hur fpur. yoHrsolI daughter
M tenement holisr fire uu South CLARK street al
Chicago sunday morning.
\ large tenement huust. known rs the ElIerur
Fh's. uu Eighty S'>th ~t-'tt and Madison avenue
NrW YORK, was huw'i Monday. Ouc uf the in
uat'N was KILLED 10y "JIing from window, ant
TIERS were injured
Tue United States supreme court has decided
that the Western luipu Telegraph company i,
not exempt from taxation iu Massachusetts not
WithstanlIus many miles uf It's lines in that stat,
pass over post roads The tnN must hr paid.
President Cleveland Was 81 years old on sun
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