Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-07-17

An incendary fire in New York city
early Tuesday morning destroyed two four
story tenement houses. One child is miss
ing and four people received serious inju
ries by jumping from the fire escapes.
Work on the Nicaragua canal is report
ed at a standstill, while labor is discour-
aged and only negroes can be obtained to
do any work. Yellow fever is said to be
raging in Nicaragua.
Louis SincOuvitz, a Springfield Mass,
jew, was almost fatally burned Sunday by
blazing kerosene stove which he was car
rying out of doors.
An attempt was made to shoot President
Carnot of France on the street in Paris
Monday, the man who fired the shot PROV
ing upon arrest a mailman who had just
been released from an asylum. He was at
once captured by the police, who had the
greatest difficulty in protecting their pris
oner from becoming the victim of the pop
uar fury which he had excited.
The explosion of a naphtha steam
launch occurred in New York harbOr Sun
day and three persons were drowned, the
captain of the boat alone escaping.
\ freight train on the Northern Pacific
railroad, near Spokane Falls, Wash, went
through IftSIle INTO Il uetD IbNlue hOu-
day night, two deaths resulting.
\ plot was last week discovered in Chilli
by which the government torpedo cruisers
were to have been captured by the insur-
gents by bribing the crews. The plan was
discovered and the leaders imprisoned.
naval engagement took place off the
CHILEAN coast early in the week between
the insurgent cruiser Magellanes and sever
al VaSsals The
resulted in decisive victory for the insur-
gents and two government vessels were al
most destroyed.
\ cave-in at the old slope of mine near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, due to the giving way of
rotten timbers, has caused great alarm to
the inhabitants of the village built over the
mine. The upward rush of the air lifted
the roof off the fan house, depositing it
within 100 feet of the opening. For hun
dreds of feet in all directions the surface
is covered with large seams and cracks,
some of them foot wide and extending
down into the workings. Men who were
at work in the mine escaped through sec
ond opening.
At Aspen Junction, Col, on the Mid
land road, occurred Saturday night col
lsion between an engine and an excursion
train. The check valve of the engine was
torn away and streams of scalding steam
and water were poured upon the victims in
the wreck, and of 2j passengers, three
alone were uninjured. Eight deaths from
>calding have resulted, and Others are sui
frring from severe burns. The appear
ance of the dead and dying was heartrend-
ing. The flesh hung in shreds to the faces
and hands of many, and ii was some time
before they could be identified by even
their nearest relatives. Shepard, the en-
gineer of the Inflated train, is said to have
been drunk at the time. He has since dis
appeared, and all traces of him have been
lost
Edward Burgess, the celebrated yacht
designer, died from typhoid fever Sunday
afternoon at Boston. He was graduate OF
Harvard, from which college he received in
lNNS the degree of A. NJ, and was for
some years instructor in entomology at
Harvard. Mr. Burgess has been i'll since
The last of May, but his death was uneX-
pected
Indian Agent Bennett and the Chicka-
saw militia recently arrested and put across
the Red river into Texas over 80 white
families, charged with being intruders, and
have given them orders not to return To
lhe Indian Territory under heavy penalties.
Forest fires have been raging in Michi-
gan, and much damage has been done,
though no lives were lost. The rain Sun
Jay put check on the fires.
miner near Indianapolis, Ind, discov-
cred last Friday in a coal vein about 5C
ieet underground, the petrified body OF
man The face, head, body and legs are
III perfect state of preservation.
\ story comes from South America OF
inc horrors of cannbalism in Brazil, one OF
!he three men engaged in it being caught
N lhe very act of eating part of one of his
victims. The three monsters have lived on
human flesh for some time until victims be
came scarce, when two of them killed theiI