Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-02-27

Capt f. l.. Norton, who sailed from New
York on the oath of last November for
Havre, France, in lSfoot miniature steam
ship, mas been given up for lost, and all
with him His wife and niece accountant
ed him. and he had crew of seven men
Capt. Norton was the president Of the Nor
ton naval and ship building company. and
undertook this trip to prove the value of
certain patented features in steamboat
construction of his own invention.
For the dozenth or twentieth time it is
announced that the lake front site for the
Chicago worlds fair has been abandoned.
and now il is said that all the buildings
will be erected in jackson park \ lot of
Italian laborers, who had been employed by
the fair committee, were forcibly driven
off last week by "a mob of Chicago laborers
who held the fort" victoriously.
Three weeks ago lot of fishermen were
carried out into Saginaw hay 10y the break
ing up Of the ice. One of them, who had
been given up for lost, returned after two
weeks having been carried out into lake
Huron. After drifting about for several
days, and suffering terribly from the cold.
the ice drifted in toward the shore and he
made his way To land and walked home.
The Boston barkeepers all say that more
liquor has heen drunk than ever before in
III the past year under the law forbidding
standing drinks to he sold aud compelling
all liquor sellers to provide tables at which
their customers must sit
The funeral train hearing Glen. Sher-
mans body to st. Louis narrowly escaped
II disasternus wreck at Mansfield, Pa on
account of an open switch.
News comes by way Of Afaiita, Egvpt,
Of II terrible battle fought at Tokar Feb
~, between the Egyptian troops aud the
Arabs under Osman Dgna. The Arabs
were disastrously defeated and suffered II
loss of 1000 killed.
George Brown, Philadelphia culored
man, keeps some animals which are in
training for the stage, in the basement of
his house. Last Saturday a four years old
elephant weighing Il ton became uneasy
about her dinner and walked out of her
stall and up the stairs to the kitchen ON the
second floor of the house, where she clean
out things generally, aud held the fort un-
I'll Monday, when scaiIolding was erected
and she was taken out througha window, it
being impossible to get her down the stairs
without breaking her neck
\ nine-years, old 10y. at play with other
boys, fell into coke oven at Mcdonald ;
Station, Pennsylvania, last Saturday. and
his body was burned to cinder before it
could be removed.
tenemeI t-house fire in Brooklyn, n. Y.
ON Tuesday of last week, in which a mother
and four children lost their lives, was fol
lowed 10y another disaster of the same kind
ON Saturday evening \ fire broke out in
II four story, double flat house. and before
/ it was extinguished six of the inmates had
/ lost their lives. One was an old man of -
I two we're adults and three we're children
/ The only child of Rider Haggard, the
novelist, died at the City of Mexico on Sun
day, where the Young writer had gone to
obtain material for his novels
Heavy rain storms swept over Arizona
last week In Salt river valley the stream,
became torrents, and the river was fal
above Hood level, About 100 adobe house,
were destroyed, and the territorial insan,
asylum had a narrow escape. Five Indi
aus and one white man and his family
were drowned.
The ship Elizabeth from New York wa
wrecked Saturday night at the entranc,
to the port of San Francisco. She was III
days from New York, and loaded with
cargo of general merchandise The cap
tain and most of his crew were drowned
John W Young of Utah, sou of Brig
ham Young, has consummated big railroad
deal and development scheme in Mexico
which is a part of a proposed Mormon col
Onization scheme in that country II,
takes pains to say, however, that the emf
grafton of MOrmons to Mexico is not fo
the purpose Of practicing polygamy, but t,
build themselves a new home.
Five Of the seventeen miners who wer,
entombed in the flooded mine at Jeansville
Pa, Feb, I, were rescued late Monda,
night. The searchers heard faint rappinl
on the walls during the evening and re