Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-18

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The coroner's jury which has been in
vestigating the Park Place disaster i'm New
York city finds that the timberrs of the
building were of fairly good material and
construction, but the iron columns were
not as the specifications called for and
that the fall of the building resulted from
the breaking of one of these columns. but
the fracture was due to some sudden shock.
The latest estimate of the wheat def
cheney in Europe this year is 1858, 100000
bushels This means an expectation of
100000 bushels a day for the next nine
months
Gold continues to move rapidly back to
this country, Sl,246,000 being received
Monday at the sub-treasury, most of it i'm
the same bags in which it had been sent
abroad.
The special flyer from New York over
the Central railroad to Buffalo few days
ago made the fastest long trip on record.
The distance, 1864 miles, was covered in
44O minutes, including three stops, which
consumed II minutes.
a woman in Barlow county, Kansas,
locked her four children into the house
and went away. During her absence the
house took fire and all of the children per-
| ished.
Italy will not be represented officially at
the world 5 fair at Chicago, the governme5
having long ago adopted a principle not to
be represented at any international EXPOSE
| ton.
The Guion steamer Arizona, which ar
rived at New York Saturday, was in a bat
tered condition. On Sept 8, in fog, the
Arizona crashed into large sailing vessel.
Thirty feet of rails and life boat on the
| Arizona were smashed, the deck damaged
and several plates bent. 1t was thought
for a time that the damage was much
worse and great excitement prevailed
among the passengers. 1t is supposed that
the sailing vessel foundered with all on
| board.
John McAndrews, an itnerant umbrella
member, fell down stairs in the Bacon
House at New London, Ct, Sunday morn
ing. He carried a lighted lamp, which
| broke, setting the house afire. Mean
drews was burned to death. Quick work
saved the house from destruction.
While rounding sharp curve at Beaver
brook, Colo, on Sunday passenger train
| jumped the track and went down a 15-foot
embankment. Twenty-three passengers
were injured, five of whom will probably
die.
On the day of the Park Place disaster
in New York Sherman Cummn, a printer,
disappeared. He was patron of the res
taurant in the Taylor building, and it was
supposed that he was one of the victims.
| His wife searched the ruins for days and
at length identified a body as that of her
husband. The body was taken to her
! III 4
$1,000 from the mayors relief fund. On
Monday Mrs. Cummin received a telegram
from Halifax, n. s., stating that her hus-
band was there and would come home as
fast as steam could carry him. On the
day of the disaster he started for the res
taurant in the Taylor building, but went
into a saloon, drank too much, and when
he came to himself was on board sailing
vessel bound for Halifax. As soon as he
arrived at Halifax he sent the telegram to
his wife.
Yale college will have total of nearly
1900 students the coming year
The Park Place disaster relief commit
tee of New York has finished its work
having raised over $4,000.
The officials of the Manchester Jail.
where Almy, or Abbott, is confined, are
said to be suspicious that a plan is on foot
for Almy's escape. A forger, named Pre-
bic, who is now in that Jail, and refuses to
get bail, though he could easily do so, is
suspected of having some scheme in hand
to secure Almy's escape, as he has sent tel
egrams to men in several places saying,
"TrOuble; come at once" 4 special SEES
sion of the Grafton county grand jury, con-
vened at Woodville in Almy's case, brought
in an Indictment against him for murder
on Wednesday morning.
John DAILY, the king of New York gam
blers, is said to have been robbed of $50
600 last Friday night by William S. Hol-
lingswOrth his business manager The
money was taken from the safe, and it is
said Hollingsworth used it to cover losses
on Wall street. He did not leave the city,
and when DAILY went to him and demand
ed the money HOllingsworth coolly told
him that he had only taken what belonged
to him and dared him to prosecute. DAILY
has, as yet, taken no steps in that direC-
ton, because it is said such action would
involve persons of prominence in New
York.
The latest dispatches from Spain say
that 5000 people have persisted from the
floods in single district, that one town Is
a heap of ruins, and the whole valley of the
river Andaray has been converted into a
vast lake.
Heartrending stories continue to be told
of the suffering from famine in the Volga
provinces in Russia. Women and children
shrek for food in the market places, and
in the country districts the %Tetched in
habitants are driven to subsist on herbs and
roots.
Late dispatches say that II 900 pilgrims
to Mecca have died from cholera, and that
the contagion is raging violently at several
places in Asia Minor.
The four new ocean racers which the
Cunard company is building will be almost
as long as the Great Eastern, though not
nearly so wide. They will have quite as
much engine power as that unfortunate
steamship had, but it will be so compact
and economical that it will not occupy one
third as much space nor be one-quarter the
weight of the old paddle and screw EN-
gines. Two of the new ships will sail tC
Boston and two to New York.
The expedition having for its object the
settlement of the question whether Lake
Itasca, or Glazier lake, is the source of the
Mississippi river has completed its labors
and the official report decides in favor o.
Glazier lake. The two lakes are only IL,
900 feet apart, however, and are so closet!
connected that the decision will not neces
state any map revision.
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