Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-17

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engineer was injured. The engine and
six cars left the rails.
News from Guatemala is to the effect
that the mountains are full of disconnected
men who are organizing for war. Revolu-
tOnary proclamatiOns are plentiful. The
outbreaks so far are unimportant, as the
rebels are not united but union will be eff
fected. President Barrillas insists that no
revolution exists.
AT Chicago Saturday a chest was seized
by officers on the lookout for Struggled
opium, and 5000 worth of the drug cap
tured. The officers think as the chest
came from the West, that the receiver is
acting in conjunction with gang on the
Pacific slope, and has been doing a large
business in the city.
Mrs Josie Armstrong, colored woman
who is said to have been the nurse of
Abraham Lincoln's wife. died Friday in
Chicago at the age of 10 years.
A call has been issued for a general con-
ventiOn of the Farmers alliance and all
industrial organizations in the state of
Kansas at Topeka. August 20, for the pur-
pose of organizing a cooperative associa-
ton for the control of all farm products
and exchange of supplies.
Two Massachusetts clergymen found
themselves in a somewhat peculiar posi-
ton last Sunday. Rev. c. $. Scott of
Somerville was to preach in the Baptist
church in Woburn and went to that city
for that purpose BY some mistake he
went to the Unitarian church, entered the
pulpit and was all ready to begin the ser
vices, when Rev. II. c. Parker, the pastor,
entered, and was naturally much surprised
tn efr In /, Init
tions followed and Mr. Parker escorted the
gentleman to his proper church.
A Melbourne, Australia, despatch says:
The heavy and incessant rains which have
been prevailing here for some time past
have caused a serious overflow of the Var
ra Yarra river. The streets of this city
have been inundated by the overflow, and
thousands of people are homeless.
A vast army of young grasshoppers has
been discovered in eastern Colorado and
western Kansas which threaten to swoop
down upon the swaying fields of grain in
the central part of the SuntlOwer state.
They are hopping East at the rate of two
miles day and in about a week and a
half they will have matured sufficiently to
fly.
4 despatch from St Georges Bay, y. F..
v
ton, closing the British lobster factories
along the coast of Newfoundland, is prac-
tically an edict of starvation to hundreds,
and unless the people of Halifax and other
parts of Canada organize a relief fund,
great destitution. if not actual starvation,
must ensue The scattered people of the
west coast are absolutely dependent upon
the fisheries The factories are closed
down by the British warships at the de
mand of French naval officers without any
regard to their Interference or otherwise
with French factories or fisheries. The
question is whether the British government
compensate the people thus affected
George Francis Train has Just made a
tour of the world in ~ days, beating his
former record.
News has been received from the Arctic
steamer Kite, bearing the Peary expedition
on its way to Greenland. The steamer
reached the Straits of Belle Isle, y. F.,
June 10, to find the straits blocked by a
mass of pack ice, in some places from II
to 20 feet thick. Repeated assaults upon
the pack with the prov failed to make any
impression on it, and the brave little Kite
was compelled TO retreat for the time being
and take up vantage point in the open
sea to wait the breaking up of the pack
The ''poachers'' are doing pretty well in
Boring sea this year, considering that II
is a close season and that the sea is full of
war ships to drive them out. The steamer
Danube brought 1000 skins into Nicto-
ria, b. c., the other day, all from pOaching
| fishermen, and did not get all the fleet had
either, for she reports some thousand more
| skins on board ship and stored for later
transportation to Victoria.
William Hanlon, one of the famous
! HanlOn brothers, acrObats, was instantly
| killed at Lyons, Ia, Monday afternoon by
| the breaking of trapeze-bar in Fore
paugh's circus He was thrown 30 feet to
| the ground and his neck was broken.
| Hanlon was 81 years old, English and
! leaves a wife i'll in New York. The re-
markabe fact is that he once before fell so
! feet in the Academy of Music, New York,
! but then escaped death miracuously. 1t
was at the Academy of Music in 1861,
that HanlOn performed for the first time in
| America a great act called ''Zampillaerosta'
ton" pronounced the most surprising and
! graceful acrobatic feat ever shown in this
country up to that time 1t was the jump
! i'm mid air which has now become so com
mon.
A great conhagratiOn broke out at Mon
treal about midnight Monday night III the
exterme east end of the city. 1t started in
the sash factory and lumber yards of Charles
Brouilette a. Co. and spread with such ex-
traordinary rapidity that an entire block
was destroyed. A score or more of stores
dwelling houses, restaurants and boarding
houses were also burned. Several hun
bred thousands of dollars worth of proper
ty has been destroyed.
The Chippewa Indians at the White
Earth reservation, Mimi, are in revolt, be
ing dissatisfied with the hardness of the
Chippewa commission in the matter Of
allotment of land and the nOn-payment by
the government of several hundred thou
sand dollars damage occasioned by big
oyerfows in the construction of the Upper
Mississippi reservoirs, and the intlmatlor
that the payment is to be stock and nipple
ments instead of cash. 1t is feared troops
will have to be sent to the reservation
The Navajo Indians in California have
been in a defiant state of late, and have tax
en- possession of stock on some OF the
ranches, driving out the herders.
Chapter I. Weak, tired, no appetite.