Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-25

feat.
The overflow of the Gala river has caus-
ed serious damage in Scotland.
The city of Hamilton, Ohio, celebrated
its Tooth anniversary last Friday.
The West End railway company's sta
bes i'm East Boston were burned on Friday
night, causing loss of $4,000.
Twenty-Five square miles of the best
cranberry marsh in Wisconsin was con-
sumed by fire last week.
The Michigan Methodist conference at
Detroit, by a vote of $40 to %, decided in
favor of admitting women as lay delegates.
Allerton went another mile in 2:094 at
Independence, Ia, Monday, thus putting
an end to all disputes as to the stallion
championship.
Zimmerman of the New York Athletic
club, rode five miles OH his bicycle at Peo-
ria, ILL.,, on Monday in II minutes, j3t sec
Onds, breaking the record.
The province of Quebec is in the midst
of the most important political crisis that
has taken place in many years, as result
of the recent political scandals
Ten thousand people at Grand Rapids,
Mich, last Friday saw Nelson, the Maine
stallion, trot mile in 2:10, as given out
by the official timers. although dozen
watches made the time 300 and a fraction.
Twenty-nne miners were killed by an
explosion in Belgian colliery near Char
ieroi last Saturday, and by an explosion of
gas in Brussels on the same day four houses
were wrecked and a number of people in
jured.
A fire broke out in a tenement house on
Sedgwick street at Chicago last Saturday.
and one family of six persons were sutfo-
Gated. Many others in the building had
narrow escapes from death.
Representative William L. Scott of
Erie, Pa, died at Newport, Il. l., last Sat
urday. He began life as a page in the
House of Representatives. He became
millionaire through his interests in rail
roads. He was Democrat.
Nearly all crops in Connecticut this year
are unprecedented, and in the woods the
chestnut. oak, hickory and butternut trees
are loaded down with the greatest load of
nuts ever seen.
The Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, schooner
Morris Wilson, was found on her beams
end by another vessel last week and it is
supposed that her entire crew of II per-
sons were drowned.
A heavy wind storm passed over Bethel
Maine, last Friday. Many trees were
twisted off and the steeple of the Metho-
dist church fell crushing into and entirely
wrecking the building.
The steamship Mondego, from Montreal
for Dundee, is a total wreck on the coast
of Newfoundland. Her cargo consisted of
S2,5S4 bushels of rye and j54 head of cat
tie. The crew of 30 men and the ten cat
tlemen on board escaped.
The annual session of the sovereign
grand lodge of Odd Fellows is being held
in st. Louis this week and it is estimated
that $4,000 members of the organization
and their families are in that city.
A six-day international bicycle race will
begin at Madison Square Garden, New
York, October Is. Representatives OF
America, England, Scotland, Ireland, Aus
tralia, Canada, France and Germany will
enter the race.
An insane woman at Sioux Falls, South
Dakota, was seen to throw her S-years-old
boy and 1S-months-old baby into the river
and then plunge in herself. Boats reached
the scene and dragged the three ashore
but too late to save the mother and babe
Several earthquake shocks have been
felt near Tacoma, Washington, within q
few days and it is thought that immense
subterranean fires are raging under the
country in that section.
Three Boston drummers filled an ole
man with liquor at Pittstield, Mass, OF
Friday, until he fell to the floor insensible
He died on Monday and the officers ar,
now investigating the case.
An Infatuated mob at Darlington, Wis
on Monday took Anton Sieboldt, who bru
tally murdered James Meighan, a neigh
Dor, last Wednesday from the county iai
and hanged him to tree inthe cOurt-hous
yard. Sieboldt was a desperate character
A row-boat containing Andrew Potos
nok, wife and babe, Slays, and two Polisl
friends, brick-yard employees, was upse
near Low Point, y. T., on the Hudson
river Monday and all five were drowned
Beginning on the 20th inst. the New
England association of trotting horse breed
ers will hold three-days' meeting at Mysti,
park Many special features will be intro
duced in addition to the numerous stake
which are to be trotted for.
During the annual target practice of tw
companies of the Connecticut militia a
Willimantic one day last week, John Pc
terson pointed at one of his companion
an "unloaded' rife, which went off, tn
bullet passing through two men, Instant
killing one and MORALLY wounding the sec
Ond
The mystery surrounding the fate of tn
schooner Pannonia, so long overdue at Sal
Francisco from the Marshall islands, is a
last cleared up The schooner was wreck
ed on reef to the northwest of tn
Hawaiian islands, and every soul on boar
was drowned, including the crew and tn
captains wife and three children and sey
eral missionaries.
A large emery wheel in the shop of tn
q. f. Warner manufacturing company a
New Haven, Conn, burst a few days age
instantly killing William Walsh, aged Is
and slightly injuring half dozen othe
workmen. The pieces of the wheel fey
all over the room, and there We're man
narrow escapes from death. Washs skul
was crushed and three ribs broken.
-Four children, the oldest only eight year