Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1889-05-10
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

The new Johns Hopkins hospital at Balti-
more was formally opened on Tuesday 1t
is one of the finest and most complete in
stitutions in the world embracing Il build
ings. which cover four acres, surrounded
by 10 acres more of beautiful grounds Its
construction was begun more than 10 years
ago, and the total cost has been over g.,
OOO, 900.
A family of five persons were burned TO
death in their house at Westminster, n. Y,
Monday night.
a test of a safety appliance on passen-
ger elevator at Providence, X. l., was
made Tuesday with fatal results The plan
was to allow the elevator to fall five stories,
50 feet in all, to brick vault, which was
to act as an air cushion, in order to test its
safety. A basket Of eggs and cup Of wa
ter were to 90 down TO illustrate the insig-
nifcance of such a shock, and three men
went down with it. The elevator was re-
leased, the safety apparatus failed to work,
and the car crashed on the bricks below
| The occupants were found insensible and
terribly injured, and one of them died with
a broken back.
Boards of regulator armed with Win
chester rifles appeared at the municipal
election held at l.afay cite, Ind. on Mon
day, and proclaimed that no negroes would
be allowed to vote When the sheriff and
a posse attempted to escort some negroes
TO the polls they were driven back with
threats Of instant death and the authorities
stopped the elections. The governor was
notified and later in the day ten of the
leaders of the movement were arrested and
locked up. The dispatches say that the
larger portion of the regulators" were
h. tL.t - e.,
of them lived in the parish where the out
rage occurred.
Terrible forest fires have ragged this week
in Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin
Duluth has been covered with a dense
cloud Of smoke from fires which swept over
the country round about with irresistible
fury. Many farm-houses have been burn
ed and lives have doubtless been lost. PEG
pie coming in from the country describe
the fires as sweeping like a sea of flame
driven before a high wind. Telegraph
poles were burned down and in some cases
even railroad ties were consumed, making
1t dangerous TO move trains.
Robert T. Lincoln, the newly appointed
American minister to England, was given
a farewell banquet at the Union League
club at Chicago Tuesday night
Ex President Clevelands horses, car
riages, harness, etc, were sold by auction
at Washington ON Monday, bringing a lit
tie over $1,000, or about 30 per cent on the
original investment.
The Frederick Billings a square rig
ged four masted schooner-the only craft
| of the kind ahoat-saed from New York
for San Francisco few days ago.
1t is estimated that $3.50, 900 was spent
for drinks at the New York bars each day
during the celebration,
The state Of New York has bought three
dynamos for the electrical execution of
criminals-one each for the prisons at Sing
Sing, Auburn and Clinton.
The new suspension bridge at Niagara
Falls, TO replace the one carried away in "a
high wind last winter, was opened for trav-
el Tuesday. The bridge is 1850 feet long
and 1877 feet above the water
New Hampshire savings banks show a
gain of over 81, 900, 900 in the aggregate
savings for the past year.
A shocking accident occurred at Kala-
mazoo Mich, Wednesday, through crimi-
nal carelessness. A street car was run into
10y a rapidly moving switching engine, kill
ing six people and badly wounding three
others
Forest fires are burning in the mountains
along the Hudson below Newburg, n. Y.
Seventy families were burned out We'd
nesday in the village Of Moreland, H., a
suburb of Chicago
Fires are sweeping over northern Michi-
gan, and have destroyed two small villages.
cyclone swept over a sparsely settled
part Of Stafford county, Tex. Monday, de
molshing farm houses and causing the loss
of several lives