Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-28

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the party therefore landed and allowed fine
| Kite to return.
The American Wheel companv
largest concern i'm the world manufacturing
wheels and vehicles, and having plants i'm
Indiana, Ohio, Michigan. PENNSYLVANIA.
New ork and Massachusetts,, is financial
ly embarrassed.
Kate and Mary Walton. sisters aged ro-
! spectively 80 and %, living i'm Dorchester
were drowned in South Boston bay Friday
morning. They were returning from a
moonlight yacht cruise and were thrown
into the water by the capsizing of a small
boat used to ferry the passengers from the
yacht to the wharf.
r. G.. Dunn Il Co. in their annual week-
ly review of trade say that the general
business of the country does well. with
gradual improvement in nearly all branch
es, based on actual increase of demand
from farming states.
Herbert Mapes the famous Columbia
college athlete was drowned before his
mothers eyes while bathing at Fire island
last Sunday. He was in bathing with his
brother and others when he swan out
quite distance. All at once it was noticed
that he was struggling as if he had been
taken with cramps. Half a dozen swim
mers started to his assistance, but before
they could reach him he sank for the last
tlme. The drowning of young Mapes re-
calls three similar accidents that have oc-
Cured this season, the victim in each case
being well known college athlete. Henry
I. Lamar, Princeton's famous halfback.
who won the football championship for his
college from Yale, was drowned in Georgia.
Adelbert Shaw, a Harvard football PLAYER
and oarsman, was drowned by the capsiz-
ing of his shell. Frederick Brokaw of
Princeton, lost his life in the waves at FL
boron, \. j., while trying to rescue a serv-
ant girl. In each case the drowning was
due to the confidence of the victim i'm his
own powers as swimmer.
Eight men We're killed in the Black Bear
mine at Burke, Idaho, last Friday nv the
explosion of 200 pounds of giant powder
The latest dispatches received from St
Pierre, the capital of the island of Martin
ique, the French West Indian possession
which was visited by the terrible hurricane
last week Tuesday, show that the number
of lives lost in the coast towns alone will
reach over POO.
In average yield per acre of corn the
New England states lead the country. with
the single exception of Nebraska. The fig
ures are: Nebraska, 32.S; New Hampshire.
32.7; Vermont, 32.j; Maine, 32.2: Massa-
chusetts, 3l.6.
The house of James German. a bachel-
or, who lived with his sister, near Middle
ton, Wis, was entered last Saturday bv an
unknown man who knocked Miss German
down and robbed the couple of the savings
of lifetime, nearly $4,000, which were
wrapped up i'll cloth package eight inches
square.
The wharves and piers at Baltimore,
Md, were piled up 80 feet high with boxes
of peaches last Saturday and whole schoon-
er loads of inferior fruit were sent back TO
the peninsula or dumped into the bay.
There has not been such a glut in the fruit
market in that section for II years. The
railroads run special fruit trains daily but
are not able to take all the fruit The mar
ket for watermelons, cantelopes and toma-
toes is also OverstOcked.
The steamer Startled Fawn. a pleasure
boat on the Merrimac river, was turning TO
make her mOOrings at the wharf at Law
renee, Mass, a short distance above the
falls, when the tiller handle broke, leaving
the boat manageable. With rare pres
ence of mind, Capt. Spates got wrenches,
and when the boat was in the swift cur
rent, succeeded in turning her bow toward
the head of the canal, where she struck
against the boOm-pOst and there rested.
Intense excitement prevailed, women faint
ed, children cried for help, and but for the
cOoler-headed ones lives would have been
needlessly lost. The steamer Henrietta
and rowboats came to the rescue of the
passengers. Five minutes after the last
one had left the boat il went to the bottom.
I IS DoI
just broken the record as a snake DESTROYER
by killing 63 cOpperheads practically at
once. He found an enormous female cop
perhead lying coiled up under a tree in his
apple orchard, and upon killing it discover
ed that it contained 81 young ones, each
fully formed, alive, and squirming.
The property of the Harper Bros circus
company was entirely demolished by a mob
at Thompsonvile Conn, last Saturday.
Two thousand people had gathered to see
the performance. The players had struck
for several weeks back pay. The funds
were not forthcoming and they refused to
appear The people therefore demanded
that their money be returned to them, but
it was found that the treasurer had de-
camped with the entire receipts. The spec
tatOrs then became mob and the tent was |
set on fire, the horses turned loose, and
everything which could be reached smashed. |
Before the officers could interfere the en-
tire circus property had been demolished.
The most remarkable storm in sudden !
ness and severity which ever visited the |
Schuylkill valley in Pennsylvania was that |
of last Monday. An inch is a heavy rain |
fall for "a hours, but at this time four
inches fell in one hour and in six hours /
the river rose II feet. A passenger train !
was engufed, and the passengers had !
frightfu experience, all through the night, |
but were rescued at daybreak. Small rivers |
ran through the streets at Reading. and |
travel was suspended for hours. The dam |
age to crops will be heavy
A party of children were playing iail'' |
at Ironton, Ohio, last Friday, when one of |
the older boys locked three of the children |
in a chest. He was called to supper and |
neglected to let them out, and when the |
chest was opened the children had died |
from suffocation.
William Hanley, 2S, while at work at !
the Ridgewood water-wOrks in Brooklyn, |
n. Y, Tuesday, on a chimney III feet |
high, was knocked from the top scaffold |
by the slipping of a coping stone. He fell |
to the ground but received only slight |
bruises, and in a short time returned to his |
work.
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