Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-01-29

holders.
This is the substance of the report. Mr.
Pierce. the superintendent Of the New
York insurance department, who makes
the report, contents himself with stating
the facts without recommendation. leaving
the correction of the evils he has shown to
the policy holders, in whose hands the
management of the company ultimately
rests.
4 Shocking Disaster Ina an indianapolis
Hospital.
The national surgical institute AT Indian
apolis, Ind, burned last Thursday night.
Pandrmonium rcigncl i'm the halls and up
per rooms. Inmates wrapped in bcdclOthcs
craWlel from one floor to another. Two
women jumped from the windows; two
others threw ont their babies Some 20
invalids persisted, and a score or more were
badly injured. Some were killed by jump
ing, while Others were sutfocatcd ur burned
to death. At one time 246 patients and 80
nurses were in imminent danger of their
lives. When the trrmcn arrived on the
scene helpless cripples were hanging on the
tire escapes and in every window. The
heart-rrnding cries of those shut in the
burning building mingled with the shouts
of the hrcmcn and police. Heroic deeds
OF rescue were performed, and the loss OF
life was much less than was thought prob
able at one time. What started the ire is
not certainly known, but it began about
midnight i'm the Office of the secretary,
spread with amazing rapidity and soon in
yolved both buildings. The institute had
been considered fire trap for several
years.
EN-Gov. John W. Hall OF Delaware.
who died last Saturday, was the largest in
dividual ship owner in the United States.
4 horse and mule market was burned at
Kansas City, Mo-, few days ago, and POO
animals persisted in the flames, and 20 9th
ers were badly injured
Pickett Nelson, who claimed to bee the
tallcst man in the world, died recently at
Baltimore, Md His body measured eight
feet and five inches in length
The people of Colorado are excited over
the rich discovery of gold on Cripple
creek, Is miles from the FL PaSo mine
The ore assays $1,000 a ton and the vein is
very thick.
Three Young men named Doran, Cornell
and Hamilton were walking on the rail
road track near Greenwich, y. Y, last
/ Saturday night when they were struck by
/ a locomotive. The two former were killed
and the latter was thrown from the track
and badly injured.
Mrs. Jane Kingsbury died at Lyme,
! Conn, few days ago and no record OF
/ property belonging to her could be found.
/ The executors searched the house, and in
old trunks, drawers, feather beds, etc,
found $50, 600 in cash, and bank books
representing $4,000.
All but three of the buildings of Erskint
college at DueweSt, S. c., We're burned on
Thursday of last week, with all the con
tents, including the college library and the
library of 20O0 volumes belonging to the
Presbyterian church. This college is one
of the oldest and best in the South.
Thousands of head of cattle are dying OF
starvation in Southern Idaho, and the los,
to stock raisers will be very serious. Tn,
winter is the severest i'm that section since
1870, the snow being from two to five fee
deep. A rigorous season was not antici
pated and the ranchmen delayed bringing
their cattle TO the lowlands.
The saddest stories of the ravages of tn,
grip come from the lumber camps of north
ern New York, where those who are i'll re
ceiye only the toughest kind of care. Ii
one camp of $50 men 10 died within TIVE
weeks, and more than half the others wer
i'll. A number of men have become Graz,
and several suicides are reported.
In court at Louisville, KY, last week
Dennis Mccarthy, on trial for the murde
of his wife, was convicted by the evidence
of his little son seven years old who, OF
being put upon the stand said between hi
sObs that he saw his father shooting at hi
mother. He heard three shots and the
his mother was dead. The jury found Nc
earthly guilty and he was sentenced t
J death.
A romantic case was reported from tn
Brooklyn, n. Y, police courts few day
ago. A young man named O'Toole wa
under arrest for burglary, when youn
woman, who is said to be the daughter of
well-to-do Newfoundland merchant, cam
forward and told the justice that sh
wished to marry the prisoner in order tina
, she might reform him. The justice there
) fore paroled O'Toole on the understandin
! that he should marry the girl and leave tn
city within three days.
A st. Petersburg despatch says tina
thousands of peasants from the famin
/. stricken districts of Russia have started fC
5 Siberia, hoping to better their cOnditio
3 there. At one place in Siberia of 1900
inhabitants $4,000 of the refugees hay
gathered whom the residents are powerles
a to help. They are huddled together
: sheds with no fire, and no warmth excel
that of their own bodies Typhus an
scarlet fever are raging, and there is L
care for the sick and scarcely burial fl