Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-07-08

stamps, $3.50 in post-oiiice fun1s and $50 of
the postmastcr's money taken. The rail
road station was also entered, the safe
cracked and over So secured. The burg
lars then stole a hand car, rode distance
OF eight miles and escaped, probably on
Boston train
Twenty-Five foreign miners gathered in
the public square at Bower Hill. Pa. on
the Fourth, and raised red flag, the en-
blem of anarchy. They then cheered the
flag and sang songs insulting to Ameri-
cans. The American miners at once armed
themselves, and marched to the square
The anarchists fled. The Americans tore
down the red flag, raised the stars and
stripes, and appointed a guard.
The blue triumphed above the crimson
in the great Nale-Harvard boat race at
New London, Conn, on Saturday. The
race was a procession after the first half
mile at the finish the Yale boat was rs
lengths ahead. The time for the four miles
was 20 minutes and IS seconds, which is
within 20 seconds of the college record
made by Yale i'm 1883. On the same day
the Yale. Columbia and Harvard f 'eshmen
rowed, finishing in the order named.
There were a third more people killed
in railroad accidents during the month of
May than in the three preceding months
taken together; and the Railroad Gazette
notes that butting collisions seem to be
usurping the place of honor in the fatality
column heretofore accorded by general
consent to that embracing the rear-end
collisions, as the most fatal and disgrace
full feature of American railroading."
Thomas Cochrane, young man aged 10,
ven, Conn, Saturday night with several
companions when they met a party of
drunken Italians. Words between the two
parties followed, and one of the Italians
drew a stiletto and rushed upon Cochrane,
Stabbing him in the bowels. After being
stabbed Cochrane made no cutlery until he
reached the crosswalk where he fell cry
ing "'ve been stabbed" He died before
reaching the office of neighboring sur
geon. His assailant is not known, but
several Italians have been held on suspi-
con.
The south bound passenger train which
left Chicago Tuesday night was sidetracked
! south of Chicago to allow the east bound
freight known as Armour's fast meat train
to pass. There was a lay-over of about l.
minutes and the engineer and fireman
]
! the switch and main track. They braced
/ their feet against the switch on which theil
/ engine stood and lay their heads on top OF
/ the south rail on the main track Both
/ men fell asleep, aud the Armour train com
ingalong struck them both. Finlan's head
was crushed in, and Richardson's skull wa,
stove in and his shoulder-blade broken.
Five men were killed in railroad acct
dent at Kellers station, 30 miles west OF
] Fort Wayne, Ind, Sunday morning, There
was terrific storm in that vicinity and &
cloudburst caused such a volume of water
that the embankment was washed out
leaving tue rails of the Wabash RAILROAD
suspended in the air with no support.
freight train plunged into the wash out
and an engine and nine cars went down
All of the five trainmen who were burieC
beneath the wreck had families. At Cha
pin, ILL.,, there was disastrous cyclon,
which blew freight train from the Wa
bash road, killing one person and fatal!
injuring three others. The business houses
and residences in that section were badl,
damaged.