Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-01-04

A number of Poles employed by coke
company at Everson, Pa, were preparing
blasting powder for their work Sunday
evening, when two kegs exploded, wreck
ing four houses and horribly mangling six
miners. three of whom will die.
John and Wiley Matthews, condemned
! Bald Knobbers together with five train
robbers escaped from the jail at Ozark,
| Mo-. Saturday. They were assisted by
| friends on the outside Dave Walker the
/ Bald Knohber leader, and his son William,
| also under sentence Of death, refused to
| leave the Jail.
One hundred and fifty cases of measles
| were reported one day last week in the
| small town of Newton, y. H.
Seven people were drowned at Ripley,
Ohio, Monday, by the capsizing Of row
boat.
George f. Pray, a special policeman Of
/ Dover y. H., was shot and killed Sunday
/ night 10y an insane man whom he was try
| ing to arrest.
Robbers secured S25O0 worth of diamonds
/ from private residence at New Haven,
Conn. last week Friday.
The railway mileage of the country has
hneu increased the past year by 1l2O miles
of main track
The inspectors report shows that only
II lives were lost hy the burning Of the
steamer Kate Adams, at Commerce, Miss,
last week
DR. Carver, the noted riAeman, recently
broke go 600 glass balls in less than six days
at Minneapolis
Charles j Parsons Of Northampton.
Mass, who imprisoned and cruelty treated
n young Russian Pole in his employ, was
tried in the superior court at Springfield
last week, found guilty, and fined $500.
The town Of Auburn, Dakota was al
most totally destroyed by fire a few days
ago
Hoosac tunnel is now lighted by electric
ity.
4 high license law went into effect in
Missouri six years ago. and its operation
has reduced the saloons in the state from
5000 to 1000. while the local option clause
has entirely abolished the liquor business in
90 counties and cities. Twenty six other
counties have only from one to three saloons
each
Gen. Harrisons wife is in receipt Of
nearly fifty letters day from Office seekers.
In fact her correspondence has become So
great that she has been obliged to obtain
the services Of a private secretary Miss
Florence Miller, daughter of President elect
Harrison's law partner, has assumed this
position
Miss Anna + Dickinson has gone to Pitts
ton. Pa, to spend the winter with her aged
mother and only sister. She has improved
in health, but is still under the doctor's
care. She has lost the larger part of her
hard earned fortune, and as soon as she is
well again she will take up some money
making pursuit.
According to official figures the farming
lands OF Illinois are worth 5000, OOO, 900
more than city and town lots, yet the lots
in Chicago are mortgaged for $50 600 600
more than all the farm lands in the state.
John Hanson, prisoner at the Eastern
peuitentiary at Philadelphia, burned him
self to death in his cell Saturday night. In
some way he obtained possession Of match,
which he secreted about him. Late AT
night. after all the lights had been extin
guished and everything was quiet the man
deliberately set fire to his clothing and
stretched himself on the floor of his cell 10
await his doom. He tried hard to suppress
his cries Of pain. but he was unable to do
so and half a dozen keepers responded to
his shouts Before they could open the
door of his cell he was terribly burned,
and when they dashed in and smothered
the flames with two big blankets he was
dying He only lived few moments
j. + Pike, tax collector Of Middleton, y.
H. was stopped on the road two miles from
home Saturday night by an unknown man
who grabbed his horses bride. The horse
took fright and escaped. While putting
out his horse later he was knocked down.
became unconscious and was robbed of S14S
in taxes he had collected that day. His
friends found him lying insensible on the
hay.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford railroad pays a tax into the state treas
ury Of Connecticut Of more than $1,000 per
dav. which is one fifth Of the states annual
expenses.
\ steamer which has been surveying the
route of the proposed cable between Van
couyer's island and Australia across the Pa
cilic ocean is reported TO have found, near
the Friendly islands, water nearly five miles
deep.
Gold has been found in large quantities
in the Hanguu Hula mountains in Arizona
One mining party of five men took out S3G,
600 in seven days. The place is go miles
from Sentinel Station, on the Southern Pa
ciic railroad.
gon, there is a spring which emits gas so
poisonous AS TO kill whatever may breathe
it, and it is said that there is almost con
stantly "A ring of birds, snakes, lizards and
small deer lying dead about it,
The extraction Of oil from wood is becom
ing an important industry in Sweden. Even
the stumps and roots of trees are utilized
and subjected to methods Of treatment by
which not only wood oil but also turpentine,
creosote, acid of vinegar. charcoal and tar
are produced.
st, Louis suffered to the amount of 81,
600, 600 by fire Tuesday.
Heavy SHOWS in the south of Russia have
engulfed several trains and stopped all
kinds Of traffic Fourteen persons were
frozen TO death on one blockaded train
Gov, Swneford of Alaska is ridiculed
because he believes that specimens of the
mammoth are still in existence in the inte-
riOr of TINT vast unayplora1 cnuntr,-