Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-09-04

belong to her.
Mrs C. r. Langsdale of Creston. Ia,
and her niece, Mrs. Lizzie Ludwick of Free
port, ILL.,, while crossing the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quincy railroad at Creston last
Sunday were run down and killed by mail
train. The bodies were terribly mangled
before the eyes of a thousand people.
Two freight trains going at full speed
collided near Brush Creek, Mo-, on the st.
Louis and San Francisco railroad, last Sun
day morning, killing the engineer and fire
man of both trains and demolishing both
trains. Two brakemen were also injured.
The men killed were all residents of
Springfield, Mo-, and leave families.
A brutal murder, committed in a wood
10 miles southwest of LockpOrt, y, Y, re-
Gently. was discovered last Saturday. Two
girls while out berrying ran across the bad
ly decompOsed body of handsome, dark
haired girl, plainly, but well dressed. The
body was afterward identified as that of an
Italian girl who had been seen in company
with a man, also an Italian. They were
peddlers and were heard quarreling as they
went down the road. The man evidently
decoyed the girl into the woods and killed
her. There were two bullet holes in her
blows from a heavy stick which lay near
by After killing the girl the murderer
dragged the body by the legs into the bush
es. There was nothing on the body to
show the girls name or that of her COM
panion.
A singular accident befell the steamship
Etruria on her voyage westward last week
on her second day out from Liverpool.
fhrnnUh moderately
smooth sea, tremendous wave suddenly
swept over the bows and hurled nine of the
crew so violently against the deck and its
membranes that one died few hours aft
erward, and several of the others were bad
ly MANNED The accident occurred early
in the morning, when the light was too dim
for the seamen to mark the waves APP
proach and the first intimation they had
of its proximity was the sudden headlong
plunge of the vessel as the bows sank into
the abyss which precedes waves of tidal orr
gin Before the astOnished seamen could
glance at the wall of water towering above
them, it broke like Niagara upon the
decks The men were caught in the swirl
and dashed violently against the rails and
Sanctions. The wonder is that the entire
number were not washed overheard
\ swarm of bees got inside the skirts of
Miss Bertha Ilgus at a church picnic at
Liitz Springs, y. Y, the other day. 1t
took all the women around and all their
pluck to fight the swarm Off No more
picnics this summer for Miss Ilgus.
\ Paris despatch from Vienna says the
empress of Austria shows symptoms of in
sanity She is very eccentric, desiring BIZ
zalre costumes in which to appear in pub
lie and to indulge in other oddities. The
emperor has called in medical experts, who
have pronounced the case a grave one, be-
ing associated with hereditary malady.
The duchess D'AlencOn, a sister of the EN-
press, is in an insane asylum at Gratz, and
the mad king of Bavaria is cousin of the
empress.
Miss Francis f. Willard at the special
request of her mother, who has for so many
years warmly seconded all her plans and
engagements, but who is increasingly fee
Die in health, has cancelled all her autumn
engagements in Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and
Iowa. She was to have attended the annu-
al conventions in all those states.
All the northwestern part of Faulk cOun-
", ). d., was burned over last Friday
night by fire % miles wide and extend
ing from Faulton so miles northwest. AS
i"l as lhe eye could reach the SKY was hShl-
eu with burning stacks of hay and grain,
HE farmers are ruined. For space of Il
miles not foot of grass is left for the
stock that escaped the flames. A heavy
gale famed the flames.
Ihiry-one years ago last week the first
strike of petroleum was made, at Titus
NIe Pa. Since that time the petroleum
industry has become one of the greatest in
our country. Besides the enormous guam
Jules used here, we now export to othel
countries about eight hundred million gal
IONS year, worth about S6O,OOOOOO.