Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-01-31
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Two San Antonio. Texas, lads, Tony
Wilson. aged ~, aud Robert Miles, aged 4,
/ quarrelled Sunday night and went IN a
/ neighboring square to fight it out Miles
/ produced a jnck knife and gave it TO vii
| son. daring him to use il Wilson at once
/ drove the blade Of the knife into Mles's
heart. Miles fell dead
A Bloomington, III physician who vas
called to Colfax, in that state, Monday,
found deporable condition Of things One
doctor had just died Of influenza and an
other was Frustrated with the disease The
only other doctor of the place was called
away bv sickness Of relatives, half the
! population Of the town was sick With la
| grippe, aud hundreds we're needing medical
attention, both in the town and about it,
The grip has dealt hardly with Chicago,
and the city's death rate has been very high
for a week past. Monday 100 deaths we're
recorded over half of these were due to
throat and lung diseases. Ten Of them
were due directly TO the grip, and many
others from complications resulting from it.
A Boston drummer had narrow escape
from death while being shaved at Manches-
ter, n. II. The barber dropped the razor
on his wrist, severing the cords and blood
vessels and the fortunate presence of
physician alone saveG his lie.
Nellie Bly,, the New York World CORES
pondent, arrived in New York last Satur-
day, having made the trip around the world
in ~ days, hours and II seconds
Her record surpasses that of Jules Nerne's
imaginary hero. When Miss BY arrived
at the World Office TO-, 900 people thronged
Park Row, stopping the immense traffic on
that thoroughfare. The record shows what
I ~ taft ia
enjoyed in all parts Of the world Miss
Bisland the Cosmopolitan magazine round
the-wOrld traveller, who started west the
same day that Miss BLY, started east missed
the fast steamer at Havre, and, although
she tried to catch two other steamers, was
obliged to 70 TO Queenstown and take pas
sage on the slow going BDthina, so that she
was badly beaten. If she had made con
uections as planned she would have I'M
doubtedly come in ahead Both trips were
made simply as advertisements for the
World and Cosmopolitan.
A bad railroad wreck occurred Monday
morning about 10 miles north Of lndianap-
oils, Ind, "a passenger train Of four coaches
being thrown from treste over creek.
One of the coaches Immediately took fire
and was soon consumed Some Of the pas
sengers were burned to death and others
were crushed six lives were lost and many
persons received very serious injuries
Another train soon arrived and its passen-
gers worked bravely to get the dead and
injured from the burning wreck but we're
driven off by the flames. The accident
was caused 10y the spreading Of the rails on
a curve 100 feet from the bridge, the road
bed being faulty; the tender Of the engine
jumped the track, and the application of
IA al oil f.. Ia. . ,... Is,F
the train in season to prevent the accident
At the High school at Lexington, ILL.,. on
Tuesday, as the professor, surrounded by
teachers and pupils, was conducting an ex
pertinent in chemistry in which an iron re
tort and iron pipe connections were being
used. terrific explosion occurred. the re-
tort being blown to pieces. The persons in
the room were thrown in all directions aud
20 Of them were more or less manged
can of gasoline. struck by piece Of hot
iron, was set on fire aud II was only 10y he
ruic lighting on the part of the students
that the building and the wounded victims
we're saved from the flames.
The situation on the Central Pacific road
has not changed for the better, and dis
patches say that it is still impossible to
start any of the delayed west bound trains
On each side Of the mountains the snow is
piled up from three to four feet higher than
the cabs Of the locomotives on each side of
the track and push plows and Hangers are
of no service whatever. In places on the
line Of the Central Pacific the snow is from
$50 to POO feet deep on the tops of the
snowsheds and it is feared thai they will
not withstand the strain. In Nevada and
Utah trains have been derAiled by the wind
and number of trainmen killed Heavy
land and snow slides have occurred in some
localities. The storm is reported to be the
severest that has occurred since the road
was built, and 25 900 extra men have been
employed in the attempt TO raise the block
ade.