Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-04

N'lV hlVu' literally ptIlOlallllg the baggage
and express cars, without iniuring any one
when an unexpected mode of procedure
was adopted, that of exploding a dynamite
cartridge against a small window in the ex-
press car. The effect of this was to tear
the window out and otherwise damage the
car. The express messenger was stunned,
but he recovered in few moments only to
be overpowered by the robbers and made to
give up his safe key. The train was delay
ed several hours The robbers took their
time in doing the job and worked with the
utmost GOODNESS. Horses were i'm readiness
for them, and on the completion of their
work the bandits rode rapidly away and
are now in Mexico beyond the reach of the
authorities. They secured over $4,000.
Dispatches from Shanghai state that a
gang of 500 armed pirates are creating hav-
oc in the province of Wen Chou. Their
progress through the country has been
marked by the most cruel and cold-blooded
crimes. Villages have been burned right
and left by them when refused hospitality,
and the inhabitants, men, women and chill
dren, slaughtered. The object of the pi-
rates seems to he the capture of influential
people and to hold them for ransom.
Mrs VI. II. Hotchkiss of Lakevillp,
Conn. has presented to representatives of
the board of trustees of the New Yale pre-
paratory school of which she is the found
err, the muniticent sum of S21j, 900 in cash.
The great futurity stake for 2-year-olds,
worth SG7, 0Ol to the winner was run at
Sheepshead Bay near New York last Satur-
day. 1t was the most sensational futurity
that has ever been run, because Ed Corr-
gan, owner of the colt Huron, refused to
abide by the decision of the executive com
mittee of the club that his horse was not
eligible to start, and invoked the aid of the
courts, and because the colt that finally
won carried the crushing impost of 1870
pounds.
The record for speed by a railroad train
was broken a few days ago on the Bound
Brook railroad. between Neshaminy Falls
and LanghOrne, Penn Engine No. 2O6.
drawing two ordinary coaches and heavy
private car of one of the officers, succeed
ed in running a mile i'm 80 40 seconds, five
miles in , minutes 26 b seconds, and 10
miles in : minutes T. seconds.
cyclone of unprecedented violence
passed over the lower part of Newark, y.
j., Friday, demolishing a number of build
ingS and slightly injuring few persons.
1t is announced that the census returns
for Canada show total population that
borders closely on G.O00.0O0. The increase
is not evenly spread over the Dominion,
however. Prince Edward island. the PROV
ince of Quebec and New Brunswick will.
ii is said, show an actual decrease. Onta-
rio, Nova Scotia, Manitoba, British Column
bia and the territories of the Northwest are
the sections that have increased in popula-
ton. As in the United States. the cities
have increased largely at the expense of
the country.
After the Connecticut state militia had
broken camp over three carloads of empty
beer bottles were collected on the field.
\ hurricane swept through the towns of
Mount Washington and Egremont, Mass,
last Friday, cutting swath $50 feet wide
and leveling everything before it. Fortu-
nately no buildings We're in its track.
Over 20 cases of typhoid fever were re-
ported in Newark, y. j., last week and
several deaths occurred.
The boomers who have been prevented
from occupying the Cherokee strip near
Caldwell, Kan, in revenge have set fire to
all the grass in that section.
A balloon ascension which was the at
traction at the exposition grounds at De
troit on Saturday. ended in a tragedy.
/ The aerOnaut performed on a trapeZe
while the balloon assembled, but 1000 feet
from the ground he lost his grip on the bar
and fell. Every bone in his body was
/ broken.
People in a tenement house at 10Gth
/ street, New York city, heard pistol shots i'm
| the rooms occupied by a Baxter family on
| Thursday night of last week. but no inves-
| tigation was made until morning, when the
door was broken open and Baxter and his
wife and two children were found dead,
with bullet holes in their heads. 1t is sup
| posed that Baxter killed his wife and chill
| dren and then shot himself, but the motive
| is not known. He was a painter, about 30
| years old.
A dreadful railway accident occurred at
! Boston's Bridge, near Statesville, \. c., on
the West North Carolina railroad, on the
! 27th inst. a passenger train in crossing
the bridge was precipitated % feet into a
creek below. The disaster was caused by
| the spreading of the rails. Twenty per
sons were killed and 20 were more or less
seriously injured.
DR.. A. A. Miner, the veteran minister OF
| the Columbus Avenue Universalst church,
| Boston, has consented to remain as senior
pastor of the church, with an assistant to
take the burden of the pastoral work.
Charles Ross, butcher employed in a
New York city meat market, was on a lad
der there Monday trying to hang up a side
of beef on a hook, when he slipped and
fell and was impaled on a lower hook. Be
fore his fellow workmen could release him
he bled to death.
A fire at Natrona, Pa, last Sunday de
strOyed a bicarbonate of soda plant, caus-
ing loss of S1,OOO,0 900 and throwing 300
men out of employment.
Bloomfield was the scene of one of the
most fendish murders ever committed in
Connecticut last Sunday. Henry Bushen'
hagen, an aged citizen, and his wife, were
killed by tramp whom they had sheltered
The bodies were frightfully mutilated anC
thrown into a well. The crime has caused
intense excitement in Connecticut, but {
search has failed to reveal the murderer.
Blight has struck the potato crop over {
large area of the New England and Contra
states, and rot has become more prevalent
The Homestead reduces its estimate of the
1891 crop for the whole country from 2O4,
600, 600 bushels to 190,0O0,000, with pos
sibility of still further reduction if mugg.
weather continues to favor rot.
The New England fair is being held a
Worcester this week and the exhibits ar
finer than ever before.
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