Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-05-29
Eleven Miners Killed by Gas ExpIo-
sion.

Eleven Miners Killed by n Gas ENplO-
sion.
An explosion of gas in the Pratt mines
at Birmingham, Ala, last Friday, killed
10 negro COnvictS and one free miner named
Moore 1t is believed that the men had in
some way knocked off plank from door
which stood across an old chamber and on
which the word "gas' was written. The
gas rushed out and caught fire from the
lamp. Officers of the company went to
the rescue and worked to save the men but
were themselves suffocated and narrowly
escaped, being dragged out unconscious.
More attempts to burn large tenement
houses in New York have been made. In
the Harlem section the extraordinary num-
Der Of suspicious fires has caused some
thing like panic, and the heads of fami-
lies have armed themselves and take turns
in watching through the night, while many
additional private watchmen have been en-
gagged.
The treasury officials estimate that there
is 100000 in dimes hidden in the pocket
dime savings banks. The extent to which
the craze for saving dimes is being carried
is causing serious embarrassment.
Six suicides have occurred at Monte Car
10, the Europeon gambling hell, since the
first of May.
\ pathetic death in New York on Sun
day was that of a little girl who leaned
over a cstern to wash her doll, fell head
foremost into the water and was drowned.
\ new disease among sheep has broken
out at Kortright, y. y, and one flock of
POO We're killed and the bodies burned
The animals died from worms which prey
ed on the liver and other organs. The
worms are traced back to parasites which
lay eggs on the grass eaten by the sheep.
EX-Cashier Percival of the Shoe and
Leather national bank at Auburn, Me-,
whose accounts are S1S0,000 short, has
been held for trial in the sum of $4,000.
Fred F. Aver of New York has given
5000 for a public library at Aver, Mass,
and has also bought site for the building.
\ transaction of interest i'm railroad cir
cles was the contract made whereby Coke
Bros. Il Co.. the Pennsylvania coal mag
mates, are to ship at least 100000 tons of
coal per year over the Philadelphia and
Reading railroad company's lines for 80
years. The railroad company has recently
made a similar contract with the Pennsyl-
vania Anthracite coal company.
Three train robbers have been sentenced
to Is, rs and II years respectively in the
penitentiary at Doylestown, Pa.
The difficulty between the New York
lumber dealers association and the lumber
handlers has been settled, and the yards in
that city will be opened at once.
BY proclamation of President Harrison,
the great reserve of l,600,0 900 acres of land
in North Dakota has at last been opened to
settlement under the provisions of the
homestead law. For months past thou
sands of pioneers have been encamped near
the reserve, awaiting this opening, and
ready to take possession of every acre of
the timbered land.
A woman who weighed $50 pounds was
buried in New York city Monday. The
coffin was a plain cloth covered box, 81
inches wide, 26 inches high, and it required
Il strong men to carry it out of the house.
1t is told as fact that caterpillars were
so numerous on the track of the Alilwau-
kcc railroad near MankatO, Mimi, one day
recently, that all trains were delayed. Sand
boxes were soon exhausted and two en-
gincs were hardly sufficient to move train.
A freight train was an hour and ten min
utcS in going two miles.
Dr. T. Il. Graves, indicted at Denver,
Colo, for the murder of Mrs. Barnaby, has
been released on $50, 900 bail, which was
furnished Monday afternoon.
Some Chicago scientists who took sc
cents apiece from 5000 people at Omaha
last Sunday to see an air-ship start from
Omaha for st. Louis, turned the key ON
their victims when they had all been gath
cred in, and skipped out with the proceeds
The Jackson-Corbett prize fight at San
Francisco last Thursday night was declared
''no contest at the close of the 6lst round,
after the men had been in the ring oyel
four hours Both men were too exhaust
ed to strike an effective blow, and Jackson
the colored fighter, had two ribs broken
The spectators considered the battle vie
tory for Corbett.
Andover, Mass, citizens have pledged
$1,000 for a new dormitory for Phillips
academy.
Commander in chief Veazey of the
Grand Army has issued official general or
ders calling upon all Grand Army comrades
in all parts of the United States to con
tribute to the $500, 600 fund required tC
erect the national g. A. r. Memorial hal
at Decatur, ILL.,, the birthplace of the or
ganiZatiOn.
\ new ocean greyhound has been adde'
~ lhe keHllel OF iaSl-SOers' Inc II usI do
marck made the trip from Liverpool u
New York in six days, IA hours and Il
minutes, beating the record clearly TO
maiden trips.
The losses by fire in the Jersey pine for
est this spring are estimated at $500, 900
and the average annual loss by forest fire
in the state is put at 81, 100000. This los
Is much more than the mere value of tn
wood. The soil is impoverished by thes
periodical burnings, which so deprive it o
vegetable matter that its capacity for pro
ducing timber is much diminished. Al
effort is to be made to prevent this enor
nous waste, and paper will be circulate'
asking what can be done to prevent tn
spread of forest fires.