Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-09

peasants have had every discouragement !
heaped upon them. The rye crop, upon
which they depended has proved almost
failure. Early frosts have devastated en-
tire regions. A plague has now come upon
the cattle and they are dying by the thou
sands. The people are on the verge of
starvation, and such suffering has lot been
seen before in Europe for long time
Bread made of bran and straw and a CON
coction of pounded leaves is eagerly de-
voured. The government is doing little to
relieve the suffering.
The drouth in Maine continues and it is
said that the water in the Kennebec river
has hot been so low for IS years.
The schooner Perew of Bay City, Mich,
has gone to the bottom of Lake superior
with nine men on board.
-Four persons were burned to death in a
fire in a New York city tenement house
early Monday morning. Ez1 -
Five fremen were buried under falling
walls at indianapolis Tuesday. Three
were fatally injured and two badly bruised,
A terrific wind-storm partially destroyed
between 100000 and lO0,0OO,O 900 feet of
lumber in and around Itasca county, Mimi,
last week.
The British barkentine, Minnie $. FL
kin, has capsized off the Nova Scotia coast
and it is supposed that her crew of 20 men
were lost.
An explosion of POO pounds of dynamite
in the Butte, Mont, copper mine last Sat
urday, caused by fire, shattered 80 houses
and injured many people
An event of interest to horsemen was
| the sale of the Elmendorf stud at LeXing
ton last week. The first day 90 animals
Were sold for nearly 100000
According to X. G.. Dun q Co.'S report
for last week business conditions were gem
orally good, although there had been a
slight reaction in Western railroad stocks.
There was a disastrous fire at Machias,
Me-, on Thursday of last week, four million
feet of lumber and two tenements being
destroyed. The loss was about $4,000.
Lucy Mcclure, the dashing woman
moonshiner, who has eluded the officers
for two years, has been captured in West
| Virginia. She had amassed a fortune at
the business.
The Brazilian government has ordered
the purchase of 100000 cuttings of grape
vines in the United States and Europe for
use in starting experimental vineyards in
that republic.
There is another high-life scandal in
England, caused by the suicide of a young
theatre chorus girl with whom it is alleged
that the eldest son of the Prince of Wales
had been unduly intimate.
John l.. Sullivan is not appreciated as
an actor in Australia, TO which country he
went with a theatrical company. The
tour was failure and its members are
waiting for money from this country to get
home with
Three masOns were at work on the armO-
nv foundation at Malone, y. Y, one day
last week when they were buried by the
caving in of the bank. Two of them
were dead when taken out, and the other
was badly injured.
The Ohio river between Cincinnati and
Point Pleasant, w. Va, is so low that
navigation is impossible and many steam
boats loaded with freight and passengers
are grounded. 1t is estimated that low
water is causing loss of $1,000, 900 daily.
The most destructive fire which Halifax,
n. S., has experienced in many years broke
out on Thursday night of last week and
ragged for some time, destroying large
amount of wharf property, the value OF
which was over quarter of million OF
dollars.
Fire damaged the east divinity hall OF
Yale university to the extent of SlO,OOC
Tuesday night. Sixty theological students
suffer losses of from 500 to $3.50, and
several professors sustained heavy losses
through the damage TO their libraries.
News has been received that the Amer
lean sealing schoonerJ. Hamilton Lewis
has been seized by Russians for poaching
on Copper islands, and Captain Mclean
and his crew of 25 Americans have been
carried to Vladivostock for trial.
The trial of Frank c. Almy for the muir
der of Christie Warden has been set TO be-
gin on Tuesday, Nov. II, which is the date
of the regular term for the eastern district
of Grafton county. 1t is probable thai
Chief Justice Doe will sit with Judge Aller
during the trial.
Frank Goss and Emanuel Rink wert
driving heavy threshing machine over Z
bridge a few miles from Lima, o., wher
the structure gave way. The men and ma
chine fell into the stream, 80 feet below
The men were killed and badly mangleC
by the machine falling on them.
Elevator A of the Baltimore d Ohio
railroad company's system at Locust Point
Md, was burned last Sunday morning witt
all the machinery and 10000 bushels o
! wheat. Inc elevator, WHICH was Ih0 Univ
largest on the Atlantic coast, was built il
1871, at a cost of $780, 900.
DR.. Mary Walker was finally released b,
the Hanover authorities last Friday on he
; promise to Immediately leave the state
= She was to have gone by the evening train
but was detained over night by the failur
of the Chinese laundryman to have he
masculine linen ready.
/ News comes of an Indian outbreak il
the Mexican mining districts, resulting il
the death of 200 whites. 1t was the out
growth of a dispute between several colo
mics of Spaniards and Germans and tn
Indians, the new settlers attempting :
settle on the lands of the natives, and tn
Indians resisting the efforts to evict them
Fifteen hundred hogs were burned
death Monday night in fire in the grea
pork packing establishment of John I
Squire g. Co., which is familiar sigh
near Boston to travellers by the Fitchbur
railroad The section of the great con
cern which borders on that railroad too
fire and was destroyed. The total los
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