Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-03-25


raided Henry Withcrs's ranch near Tomb
stone, Ariz., and Withers started after
them, succeeding in shooting down three
The bandits turned upon him, captured
him, and sentenced him to DEATH He was
taken out on the hot sand beds and left to
lie naked for six hours fully exposed to the
suns rays. He was then carried, still
nude, to a bed of cactus bushes, where he
was laid on the sharp points, and after
ward was bound tightly to a stake and
then a large ant hill which was near was
pred open with sticks and he was literally
eaten up by the ants, not vestige of flesh
remaining on his bones.
A house in course of erection at st.
Petersburg, Russia, collapsed last week
Thursday, killing - workmen.
Bradford academy at Bradford, Mass,
was closed last week because of the dis
covery of typhoid fever among the 200
students there.
Marie Juneau, a French woman living in
the outskirts of Guayaquil, South Ameri-
ca, cable advices say, has given birth to
seven children in one day.
The celebration of the 2j0th anniversary
of the Reformed Protestant Dutch church
United States, began on Sunday.
The explosion of new boiler at the
Lacledc fire brick works at st. Louis Mon
day resulted in the death of four men.
Three others were injured.
Lincoln university of Oxford, Chester
county. Pa, has received a bequest of $500
GOO for the purpose of educating colored
young men for the ministry.
The large window-glass factory at Spice
land, Ind, has been compelled to close on
account of the failure of the natural gas
supply and 800 men are out of work.
A British vessel was wrecked off the New
Brunswick coast in a gale Saturday and
five men were drowned, others being res
cued in a laccrated and half frozen state.
Cambridge, Mass, had a destructive fire
Monday night. an extensive carriage reposi-
tory. store houses and dwellings being
burned. The loss will probably reach
100000.
Rev. W. II. Childs. Methodist minister
at North Tiverton, Mass, has left his fam
ilv and with the proceeds of a recent church
fair has gone to Europe. He is an Eng
lishman.
The explosion of a boiler in a lumber
mill at East Jordan, Mich, Monday. killed
six men and fatally or seriously wounded
20 others. The mill was wrecked, the loss
being $4,000.
Two young men, cashier and accountant,
for the commission firm of Lamson Bros,
at Chicago, H., have gone into hiding after
swindling their employers out of 100000
through gambling in wheat.
Spontaneous combustion is responsible
for a fire in tobacco factory in st. Louis
last Friday, which occasioned loss of
| 100000. \ panic occurred among the
800 employees, but no lives were lost.
Dr. David Hayes Agnew of Philadelphia,
/ one of Americas greatest surgeons, whose
name was brought into prominence by his
attendance upon President Garfield, died at
his home on Tuesday at the age of %.
1t is believed that the outbreak of typhus
fever in New York city, caused by an in
fected cmigrant ship, has been stayed.
! There have been l5l cases of the fever in
( the city in all, and 20 of those attacked
died
Mr. Leahy's house took fire at Spring
field, Mimi, Sunday night and five of his
children persisted in the flames The old
est was about -. The father was proba-
bly, fatally scorched One inmate of the
house escaped,
The dropping of a kerosene lamp Satur
day,evening by Mrs. Carterin Lynn, Mass,
resulted i'm the more or less serious burn
ing of eight members of the family who
came to her assistance and had a fierce
fight with the flames.
A fire occurred in the capitol at Wash
ington, in the folding room of the House OF
-, a. a,
public documents, mostly agricultural re-
ports and memorial addresses. The loss is
estimated at $1,000
4 young German named Heigel com
mitted suicide in a strange way at Philadel
pha recently, placing his head beneath 9
drop hammer in the iewelry factory whcr,
he was employed, and then letting the
iron mass fall upon him.
Reports from St. Johns, n. b., say thai
of the POO sealers driven out to sea few
weeks since from Trinity Bay, y. F., anC
supposed to have persisted, all have beer
accounted for but %. OF those rescued &
number have been badly frozen.
The percussion cap factory of NJ. Back
us IL Sons at Wallngford, Conn, was
burned Friday last, with $4,000 worth O
stock ready for shipment. The loss viii
probably reach $4,000, with no insurance
as companies refused to take the risk,
Edward Emmons of Port Jefferson, L. l..
who was completely ossifed, died recently
at his home, which he had not left for II
years. His body was rigid as if made o
one solid bone, and he could not open hi
mouth, having to be fed through a rubbe
tube.
A party of Yale men disgraced them
selves by breaking up an entertainment il
the grand opera house at New Haven Sat
urday night, throwing snow balls at TIN
actors and creating a great deal of excite
ment. Four of the disturbers were ar
rested.
The great Standard Oil trust is a thin!
of the past. At a meeting of the stock
holders held Monday it was decided by
two-thirds vote to terminate the trust, ant
that all property held by the trust, eXcep
stocks of corporations, be sold by the trus
tees at private sale
A fire started in the American Nett
mine at Ouray, Col, and before it could b.
eNtnguished the flames entirely consumes
10 boxes of gmpowder, but no explosion
took place. There were 100 men i'm tn
mine at the time, and if the powder hat
exploded a great loss of life would hav
been the result
A despatch from Buenos Ayres says tina
the government is neglecting to take tn
proper sanitary precautions to prevent a.
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