Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-04-01

Inc bursting OF pressure pipe IN a
steel mill at Pittsburg, Pa, let out a stream
of molten metal upon the wOrkmen, nine
of whom were frightfully burned.
A bold burglary occurred in Brooklyn,
n. Y, Friday morning, between and 7
O clock, when two thieves entered house,
bound and gagged a woman who was alone
there and made off with $1,000.
Crofut d Whites hat factory at Dan
bury, Conn, one of the best known in the
country, was burned Monday morning.
Loss $50, 1000, insured. Three hundred
people were employee, in the factory.
Mary Haywood, who for six years has
been living like a wild animal in the woods
near San Antonio, Tex, was recently cap
tured and has been sent to an asylum
Nothing is known of her early history
Chas. G. Wilson, who was recently ar
rested for the murder by arsenic of his
father at Aver, Mass, has been discharged,
no poison being found upon examination
of the bodies of his father and mother.
A fire involving the loss of nearly half a
million dollars occurred at Philadelphia
Saturday night, when the great Bromley
mills and II dwelling houses adjoining
were destroyed. On Sunday the chocolate
plant of O. H. Wilbur ~ Sons was burned.
the loss reaching 100000.
The Messiah craze has again made its APP
pearance among the Pawnee and Oteo In
dams of Oklahoma, and two men, a Paw
nee and an OteO, have been arrested on
the charge of melting an instruction.
There was some difficulty in making the
arrests and hostilities may follow.
Tie bodies of 230 of the miners who
met their doom by the explosion in the
Hill Farm mine at Dunbar, Pa, June 16,
1890, have been found and brought to the
surface for burial. Five bodies are still in
the mine and cannot be recovered until all
the water is pumped out. All the men had
been suffocated.
While pail bearers were carrying the re-
mains of the late David c. Austin of Wa
terford, Conn, from the hearse to the
grave, the bottom of the coffin dropped
out and the body fell to the ground. Sew
eral women tainted and little girl went
into commissions. The coffin was quickly
nailed up, the body replaced, and the bur
ial service performed.
The official organ of the government at
Berlin announces that Chancellor Won
Caprivi has been relieved of the functions
of the presidency of the Prussian minis
try, but he will retain the position of Prus-
sian minister of foreign affairs. Count
Won Eulenburg, grand marshal of the
court, will succeed Gen. Won Caprivi as
president of the ministry.
The Prussian government has prohibit
ed the Russian Jews from crossing the
frontier between the two countries, because
of typhus fever among the emigrants, and
the small towns along the border are filled
with starving fever-stricken Hebrews.
Medical assistance is at best poor in these
villages, and many of the physicians re-
fuse to attend the refugees.
jeremiah Cotto was executed at Sing
Sing. n. Y, Monday morning by electrici-
ty. Five contacts were given, ten seconds
intervening between each two contacts.
The crime for which Cotto paid the death
penalty was the murder of Louis FRANKIE
losa July 26 of last year. He was aided
and abetted by Prankelosa's wife, who is
imprisoned in Brooklyn, awaiting trial.
A nephew of Senator Quay was recently
married to the young woman to whom he
was engaged while she lay upon her death,
bed at Pomona, Cal, where she had gone
ing pulmonary consumption. When hel
case was pronounced hopeless her lover
persuaded her to have the ceremony per
formed, and she died only six hours later
Mrs. Homer r. Baldwin of New York.
who was so badly injured in a railroad
wreck on the New York Central road neal
Hastings at Christmas, has brought a sui
for $3.50, 600 damages against that company
in the supreme court. As a result of tn,
accident Mrs Baldwin lost both hands
both ears, both eyes, and all the hair OF
her head, was burned very severely abOu
the face and internally, and received sever,
injury to her skull.
A tornado swept over Platt county, ILL.,.
Saturday, leveling buildings and destroying
many thousand dollars worth of property
1t came from the south and was accom-
panied by severe hail storm. The cy
clone was 200 feet wide and swept every
thing in its path. Many other sections o
the West were visited by severe storms
and high winds, which did much damage
Omaha was completely cut off from tn,
rest of the world, all wires being down.
A terrific explosion of dynamite in Par
is at the house of the public prosecutor oc
Cured Sunday, houses on every side for al
eighth of an mile rocking as if in an earth
quake and buildings in the near vicinit,
being injured The house of the prosecu
tor was wrecked. 1t is supposed that tn
anarchists have begun war of extermin
alton on all persons in office who have an
tagonized them, so as to brighten magis
trates out of convicting their comrades ap
pretended in crime.
Ever since Almy was tried, convicted
and sentenced to be hung, an effort ha
| been made at Concord, n. II. to raise tn
/ question whether he was legally sentenced
/ he not being present in court at the time
but on his way back to the Mancheste
| Jail. A Boston journal representative ha
recently had an interview with Mr.. Bur
leigh, one of Amy's counsel, who state
that Almy was not present in court whel
Chief Justice Doe sentenced him by Al
my's own express wish and consent. Aim
fully expected to be found guilty of nun
der i'm the second degree, and he feare
that the public indignation would be sucl
that he would be mObbed and lynched, an
he was therefore glad to be out of Plymout
when he was sentened. Mr.. Burleigh stat
ed that so far as Almy's counsel were cor
cerned the agreement with the court wOul
be fully recognized, and that no effol
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