Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-08-14

Moses Levy, formerly of Levy Brothers
~ Co. of New York, who failed for mil
lion dollars last May, is in prison charged
with swindling his creditors.
The volcano of Colima. Mexico, is i'm
state of eruption. The city of Colima is
covered with ashes, and loss of life is an
ticipated.
Six men were fatally burned and seven
others badly injured by an explosion of
fredamp in York coliery at Pottsville, Pa,
last Saturday.
The receipts of live cattle at New York
haav been steadily growing larger every
week for months and now average about
$1,000 head a week.
Nine insane convicts, confined in the
state asylum at Auburn n. Y, made a
daring escape last week Thursday by over
powering the attendants and scaling the
low walls of the asylum.
-Four young people, children of promi-
nent Milwaukee business man, were
drowned Sunday. They were out in sail
boat with three other young people. A
squall struck the boat and it capsized and
| sank.
A dastardly attempt to burn big tene-
ment house was made at Hoboken, n. j.,
early Monday morning. Ten families were
compelled to flee for their lives and there
were some miraculous escapes.
On Sunday five Frenchmen and woman
drank bottle of liniment which they had
stolen from barn in Lowell, Mass, be-
lieving it to be liquor. One has since died
and the others are in a serious condition.
The steamship Majestic, of the White
Star line, which arrived at New York last
Friday made the voyage from Queenstown
to that port in five days, Is hours and eight
minutes, thus beating the record by 81
minutes. A five-day trip across the Allan
tic does not seem so problematic, after all.
The Cooper House, summer hotel at
COOperstown, y. Y, was burned early last
Saturday morning No lives were lost and
nobody was injured, although there were
300 guests in the house. One guest lost
! $1,000 in cash.
The youngest man to sit in the next
Congress will be a Texan named Bailey.
He is under 30. When he took the stump
in Texas last year the farmers used to go
from town to town in their covered wagons
and camp out so that they might hear Bal
ley speak again and again.
Another short term endowment order
with lodges at Fitchburg, Waltham and
elsewhere, is in trouble, and its members
have caused the arrest of the president, DR.
Chas A. Fox of Aver, Mass, until they
can find out why their overdue certificates,
amounting to 5000, on which they have
paid more than their face value, are not
cashed.
The New York Yacht club race last Fri
day off Newport was successful affair.
The weather and wind were all that could
be desired. The Herreshoff sloop, the
Gloriana, sustained her previous records,
and easily beat her rivals. The Volunteer
led all her competitors in the schooner
class, but may be set back for having acct
IDENTIFY foulel the Oracle.
Some portions of Connecticut are suffer
ing severely from drouth. The rivers,
ponds and mill streams are lower than for
years. Ashland, Jewett City, Clayville,
Elmville, Central Village and other places
have been compelled to stop their mills for
want of water. All through the valley of
the Yantic, Quinnebaugh and Shetucket
rivers mills are idle Pachaug lake, that
covers II, 900 acres, is nearly dry, and UNI
less rain soon comes the loss to crops and
in wages will be great.
The lake in the Colorado desert, about
which so much has been said, is now re-
ported to be rapidly drying up. Owing to
the great heat of the sun the rate of evap-
Grafton is something over II inches pei
month, and at this rate in from two and a
half to three months all the water in the
: basin will have evaporated.
A tornado swept over the country in the
vicinity of Ashland, Wis, last Saturday
doing great damage. At Ashland 80 build
ings were blown down, and the shipping
interests suffered severely. The coast fol
miles is strewn with wrecks. At Wash
burne 100 buildings We're demolished The
tent of Williams circus was blown down
, and three persons were killed and 30 in
jured.
Miss Mary German of New Haven, Conn.
who is stopping at the Highland House il
e Bethlehem, n. H., swallowed a silver plat,
I with seven false teeth last Saturday. Tn,
. teeth lodged about half way from tn,
mouth to the stomach, and were finally re
moved by bending a Pinch Sound int
the shape of hook, so that it caught OF
the plate.
/ The steamer Alamedas from Auckland
. which has arrived at San Francisco, bring
r reports of an immense tidal wave whicl
4 appeared at Melbourne July II. Water
p in the harbOr rose above the level of tn
!. surrounding towns and several small YES
I sells were wrecked. The floods were tn
= most severe since 1862, and the course o
). the Yarra river presented scene of desc
V lation for miles. Factories along the rive
. side were submerged, as were also a grea
. number of houses on the south side of tn
# river i'm TOorak. In South Richmond, an
n other suburb of Melbourne, whole street
q were submerged, and 2OO0 people were ren
dered homeless. Business is almost sus
pended in the city, and efforts are ben
, made to relieve the wants of the sufferers
1t is estimated that the total loss will reac
e500,000. The loss of life was small bu
/ much sickness has resulted on account G
$ exposure and the deposits left by the flood
, Samuel Sands, one of the oldest citizen
. of Baltimore, died in that city recently /
= his ODD year. For long period he ha
- probably been the oldest living printer i
this country, having been in uninterrupte
:, service as printer, editor or publisher sine
y his apprenticeship began in 1911. Whe
y an apprentice boy in 1914 in the office {
:, the Baltimore American, he put into type
>, >, fresh from the authors hands, the song G
Il the 'Star Spangled Banner Left alon
in the Office on account of his youth whe
the other hands went into the trenches o
the attack by the British on the city, i
e put the stirring poem into print in I'll
If shape of a broadside which, in his patriot
n ardor, he distributed throughout the cit.
fe ~LL w. nsn