Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-02-27

found huddled together in various positions
in their efforts to keep warm Only one
was conscious and he alone had strength
enough to he moved. All that the men
had to eat for ~ days was the contents Of
their dinner pals, and the only water that
they could get was Of dark, sulpherous
kind It is expected that with careful
nursing they will all recover.
The United States supreme court has de
MED the appeal for a writ Of habeas corpus
in the case of Jugro. the New York mur-
derer sentenced to death by deterioration
Columbus, Ohio, had disgraceful street
fight on Monday in which two men were
killed and several injured. Col W. j. FL
liot, editor Of the Sunday Capital, and Al
bert Osborne. city editor Of the Sunday
World, through the columns Of their papers
had been charging each other with all the
crimes Of the calendar. Elliot and his
brother Patrick met Osborne on the street
The Elliots opened fire on Osborne, who re
turned the compliment aud running bat
tie ensued Osborne was shot in the head
aud instantly killed, and bullets took eject
in Patrick Elliot's back, arm and head
w l.. Hughes a prominent citizen, was
struck over the left eye by wild shot and
fell dead Several other persons who
were on the streets were also hit by the
bullets.
The Baldwin locomotive works of Phila-
dephia have just completed four locomotive
which are the largest ever built in the
world. In working order they will weigh
l0j 600 pounds. aud will he able to draw
80 loaded freight cars up grade Of l0l
feet ~ the mile They are to be used on
the GO0O foot tunnel under the st. Clair
river, connecting the lines Of the Grand
Trunk railway in Canada with those in
Michigan.
Harry T. Spnulling, the cashier of tho
Aver, Mass national bank, who cmhezzlrd
so, OOO and He'd ~ Canada, has returned
aud given himself up to the authorities
He says that he might have escaped with
thousands of dollars but he had no desire
TO do so. lie entered into speculation
to reimburse the bank, hut his speculations
we're unsuccessful, and when he found that
the examiners were coming he fled He
has been held in $90, OOO bail
The children Of Dr. James Madgan Of
Woburn, Mass, we're playing with gun
which one of the older boys of the family
had been using, when it was discharged, the
contents striking the two-year old baby,
killing him instantly.
The body Of T. Whiting Bancroft, Of the
faculty Of Brown university at Providence,
r. l.. who mysteriousy disappeared on
the Sth Of December last, was found on
Monday in one Of the Sprague ponds at
Cranston. All the indications point to a
case of suicide.
This years ice crop on the Hudson river
amounts to 3, go, 900 tons
1t is estimated that the loss by the great
floods Of the last ten days on the Ohio river
is at least s. ,OOO, 900 The lower portion
Of many cities aud towns have been com
pletely submerged, buildings have been
washed away, and great damage effected TO
the railroads Three thousand people along
the Ohio and Kanawah rivers are homeless
At Kansas City Mo the house of fish
ermau on the bank Of the river was under
mined, aud fell into the water, and the
whole family of five persons were drowned
The national league and the American
association, the two strongest base ball or
ganizatitns in the country, are at logger
heads. and unless a move toward peace is
made at once the sport in the large cities
will again suffer seriously.
Great damage has been done in West
Virginia by the heavy floods. At Wheel
ing the resideI Is of some of the houses in
the submerged section took very vigorous
measures to protect themselves against
damage from the swash Of the water caused
by the steamboats, which plowed about the
section. The waves from these vessels
often overturned submerged houses or
swept them from their foundation. Pro
test by word of mouth proving Of no avail,
the occupants Of the houses, who had been
driven to the upper floors, peppered away
at the captains and pilots with rifles, max
ing the business so unpleasant that the
steamboats, were hauled off or confined their
trips to the ordinary channels.
A tremendous explosion took place last
Saturday at the Spring Hill coal mine in
the Cumberland, Nova Scotia, coal fields,
and more than 100 miners lost their lives.
The superintendent of the census has
prepared a bulletin which shows the centre
OF population Of the United States to be a
point in southern Indiana little west of
south of Greensburg, the county seat of
Decatur county, and 20 miles east of Co
lumbus