Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-08-29
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

terrific explosion occurred at car
tridSe factory near Chicago last week
Thursday. Ten lives were lost.
The report that Mount Bogoslov, Alaska.
is in state of eruption is confirmed by
passengers on a steamer recently passing
that place.
An insane rancher near Livingston.
Mont, killed his wife and five children with
a broad ak Saturday He was killed in an
attempt to capture him.
Killing frosts are reported in parts of
Minnesota, North Dakota and Manitoba,
where the temperature reached 2S. IL is
probable that all immature crops will be
killed.
During heavy storm at Philadelphia
last week Thursday the wall of a stable and
car sheds fell in killing four persons and
fatally injuring three others Several cars
were crushed aud 20 horses were killed.
james Gordon Bennett has leased for 80
years the property bounded by. Broadway,
9th avenue and Both and Both streets in
New York, at a rental of $50, 900 per year,
and viii erect on it a new building for the
New York Herald.
Several cases of leprosy have been dis
covered at Englishtown, Victoria county.
c. h. The victims have been constantly as.
sociating with their neighbors, and il is
feared the disease has been communicated
TO a great many people.
A fire last week Thursday morning de.
stroyed the large summer hotel at Thous-
and Island park, st. Lawrence river, with
a number Of adjoining cottages, stores and
other buildings, the loss reaching 1925, 600.
All the 100 guests in the hotel escaped. but
two servants we're injured
1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland has adopted
a course Of systematic training to reduce
his weight He has eschewed all meats
and confines his diet to vegetables and
fruits, principally berries, which he is very
fond of. He never takes over two meals
and sometimes only one, daily.
William Waldorf Astor has been elected
an honorary citizen Of the town of Waldorf,
near Heidelberg, because he has given
DO, 900 marks for the building of memo.
rial to his grandfather, John Jacob Astor,
who was born there.
The familiar story of how the young Ill.
nois lawyer, Abraham Lincoln, saved a
young man from the gallows by introduc-
ing the testimony of an almanac as TO the
shining of the moon, in opposition to the
evidence of a certain important witness for
the state, is recalled by the death last week
of that young mans mother in Iowa
A car containing lS passengers ran away
on gravity railroad on Mount Pennsylva-
mia above the city of Reading, Pa, Friday
of last week, dashing down the steep incline
of about eight miles at the rate of more
than mile minute and jumping the track
rolled down a 5Ofoot emhankment at the
foot. Four persons lost their lives, and all
the passengers were badly injured.
1t may surprise many of the members of
the Women's Christian Temperance union
to learn that Miss Willard the president of
the organization, yearns for combination
with the Salvation army. In a speech the
other evening in Chicago she is reported
as saying that at the next national conven-
tion she hoped that the sisters of the army
would be represented by delegates.
The present pope is in many ways far
more in touch with the age than is gener
ally supposed. Among recent innovations
introduced by him is the opening of the
Borgia galleries. hitherto known to Europe
by reputation only. Among the eleven
thousand rooms of which the Vatican can
boast, this suite has been almost entirely
forgotten, and yet in olden days it was the
favorite abode of the popes.
The deadly plague of black cholera is rag
ing III NhBdsbhli III tne southern part OF
Japan, the number of cases daily approach
ing 100, with an average of nearly so deaths
The whole country is in an impoverished
condition, and an unusually wet season
leads to the fear that the epidemic will
reach the utmost limit The burial of the
bodies Of some seamen who died in the
richest fishing grounds off the coast has
caused great suffering among the fishermen
of Toxic, whose business is ruined
The body of Capt. John Ericsson, the
great inventor, was removed Saturday
from Marble cemetery at New York, where
it has lain for more than year, and with
public demonstration, escorted by delega-
tions from many societies aud orders, taken
TO the United States steel cruiser Baltimore,
to he borne to Sweden for burial The ma
Wy was represented by Secretary Tracy,
the army by Gen o. o. Howard and the
mayor of the city represented the civic
community ofwhich Capt. Ericsson was a
member for years.
The potatoes are all gone in the blighted
districts of Ireland, and the pigs are dying
from eating the diseased tubers. Along
the coast, between Kinsale and Skibbereen,
over half the people will be without food