Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-06-05

Iuc securing OF the Injunction means an
income of S2,000,0O0 year until the ex-
piration of the patent.
An injunction has been issued restrain
ing John H. Wallace, individually and as
president of the Wallace Trotting Register
company from transferring the property of
that company to the American Trotting
Register company of Illinois. The plant
i'll is Charles ID. Sidley of New York. who
claims that his right as stakeholder has
been disregarded. Wallace owned $50 of
the 1000 shares of the Wallace company
stock.
a trestle on the Norfolk and Western
road near Lauray, Va, gave way Sunday
precipitating two freight trains to the ra-
VINE, 10 feet, killing one man and fatally
mjuring another.
heavy hail and rain storm passed to
the north and west of Kansas City on Sun
day, doing great damage to the growing
grain. The hail beat down the standing
wheat. Thousands of dollars worth of
damage has been done. A rain storm which
almost amounted to a water-spout follow
ed, washing out many bridges.
The boiler in J. l.. Jordan's saw-mil at
Milford, Va, exploded Monday, killing two
white and two colored men instantly, and
fatally wounding another colored man.
John Donnely, river driver, rushed
into the butcher shop of Lefebres Il King
at Berlin Falls, n. H., i'm state of frenzy
last Friday morning, and Selling a large
butcher knife fourishcd it about, threaten
ing all within his reach. a policeman at
tempted his arrest and Donnelly cut him
badly. William NJ. Wilson interfered, when
Donnelly inflicted mortal wound i'm his
bowels and he lived but few moments
DOnnelly was soon after arrested and is
now in custody. There is deep feeling in
the community, for Wilson was one of Ber-
Inns best-known citizens.
Mrs. Deborah Powers, head of the bank
ing firm of ID. Powers IL Sons, and of the
great oil cloth manufacturing firm of the
same name, died at her home in Lansing
burg, y. Y. last week Thursday Her es-
tate is valued at over -, 600, 600.
\ party of brigands in Turkey deraled
an express train on Monday, robbed the
passengers and held several German and
English tourists for a ransom of $4,000.
One of the captives was Berlin banker,
and his friends are to pay the ransom.
The house of Henry Phillips, near Tay-
lorstown, Pa, was burned Saturday morn
ing, and Phillips, his wife, one child and a
boarder were burned to death.
4 large arc electric light has been sus-
pended over a cut leading to the quarres
near Brighton Corners, y. Y, and on Sun
day night when a locomotive attempted to
make its way through the cut the track was
found to be covered for 90 feet on either
side with strange insects of large proper
tiOns. The swarm was so great that the
engine became stalled, the rails having be-
come so slippery from the crushed insects,
Examination of the new insect shows a re-
semblance to what is known as the electric
light bug, though the newcomer is much
larger. The outer shell of the back is
about the size and shape of half an egg
shell, which when crushed by the engine
wheels gave out a cracking sound like the
explosion of a toy torpedo. The shell is
black, of a slaty structure and very brittle.
1t is supposed to be a species of lithodome
"a k-boring mollusk-crossed with some
kind of predatory insect. TO secure the
shipment of the freight it was necessary to
let the loaded train from above in the quarry
come down the grade of the cut Gather
ing momentum all the time, its impetus
when it came to the obstruction carried it
| by the bugs
There was an increase of 100000 in the
public debt during May, owing to the fact
/ that the disbursements during the month
were unusually large.
Two smash-ups occurred on the Illinois
| Central railway on Thursday night of last
week. At Champaign, ILL.,, the engine, eX'
press and mail car of fast train were de
rallied, and a number of persons injured
Train wreckers misplaced the rails neal
| Centralia, ILL.,, and terrible wreck result
ed, the engineer being killed, the fireman
scalded so that he will die, and severa
other persons badly hurt.
All the oatmeal companies of the coun
try have been brought under one manage
ment, with a capital stock of $500, 600
and headquarters at Akron, Ohio.
Los Angeles, Cal, suffered the severes
fire in its history on Sunday, the loss bein!
100000.
One of the soldiers at Walla Walla
Wash, implicated in the attack on the iai
at that place, in which gambler who ha,
shot soldier in a drunken brawl was takel
out and murdered has turned states evi
dence, and an attack on the Jail is feared
1t is being doubly guarded.
A crowd of toughs attempted to force al
entrance into the Wallace circus tents a
Mahoney City, Pa, one night last week anC
the canvasmen beat them back a genera
fight, in which revolvers and tent pins wer
the weapons then took place, and severa
of the toughs were badly wounded. Tn
canvasmen were finally compelled to ru
for the cars, and in the fight through tn
streets many citizens were hit with stone
and clubs.
The Yale college students pelted the an
imals in the Barnum d Bailey circus parad
at New Haven, Conn, on Monday with tor
pedoes. The siX-hOrse teams became IN
manageable, and one of the large elephant
charged upon the crowd. In the frigh
several women and children were badl
damned.
Two long strides forward were taken a
New York on Sunday when the Metropo
tan Museum of Art was open to the peopl
for the first time on a Sunday, and toll fo
foot passengers was forever abolished owe
the Brooklyn bridge.
A granite sarcophagus, weighing abol
five tons and designed to receive the bod
of p. T. Barnum, is nearly completed
West Concord, y. ii.
There was a million dollar fire at Wi
liamsburg, n. Y, Tuesday, the immens
cooperage works being burnt
A cyclone swept over the country in I'll
vicinity of WATERFOWL, 5. OAK, on Tue
day. At Hazel three persons were killed.
Harvard has won the championship
the intercollegiate association of amatel
athletes of America, and Amherst I'll