Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-06-17


The International Tin Plate and Refining
company has been organized in Chicago.
Within 90 days four mills will be running,
with a weekly output of 2400 boxes of
plates, and within the next six months this
will be increased to eight mills with a
product of 1900 boxes.
There has been serious danger of race
war in Oklahoma. The negroes thought
that the white men intended to lynch one
of their countrymen who was i'm Jail
charged with criminally assaultng a white
woman. A crowd of negroes gathered
around the jail and for time serious
bloodshed was feared.
Many icebergs have of late been seen in
the Atlantic ocean. The Cunard steamer
Gallia which arrived in New York last
Friday, passed no less than six of the
white monsters on the 9Th. One of the
bergs was of massive size, two pinnacles
towering into the air to a height of over
2G0 feet. The base of the berg was 1000
feet in length.
BY vigorous use of bucket and water,
a tramp saved an office building in Titus
vile Pa, during the oil fire, and by saw
ing this building prevented the destruction
of "fully 81 100000 in property" besides,
probably, several lives. The big oil re-
finers whose property was thus saved, sat
isfied their consciences and paid their debt
to the tramp with check for 500.
The strangest marriage ever performed
in Baltimore took place Tuesday in Green
Mountain cemetery over the graves of the
parents of the bride. The groom was. Col.
1endrick Won Stamp, eX-minister of Den
mark to the United States, Knight of the
Order of Dannebrog, and the bride was
Miss Mildred Hammond of Baltimore,
daughter of the late Gen. Hammond.
1t is probable that the well-known Pratt
IL Whitney Machine company at Hartford,
Conn, will be sold to an English syndicate.
The stock is offered at overS20O a share. The
capital is 5000, 900 and there is large sur
plus. The company paid II per cent last
year and probably earned much more. The
concern was organized in 1861 and does an
immense business in machinery and fine
| tools.
\ destructive tornado passed through
| Knox county, H., Monday night Its
| greatest force was felt at Galva, where a
! church in which a large congregation had
assembled was blown down. Nearly ey-
| cry building on the main street was un-
rooted. one or two persons We're killed
and several injured. At Hammond, Ind,
Joliet, Galesburg, Rockford and Altoona
! buildings were wrecked.
Herbert Saunders, Walter Albrecht and
John Dillon of New Britain, who GRIMM
ally assaulted two old women at Kensing-
ton. Conn. June /, were bound over at
Berlin in $4,000 each to the September
term of the superior court. All have been
fully identified. Five deputy sheriffs,
armed. accompanied the men from New
Britain to Hartford on Monday, as attempt
at lynching was feared
Thunder storms prevailed i'm various
parts of Spain on Monday, and heavy loss
of life and injury by lightning are re-
ported. At Melias lightning struck a
church in which many worshipers were
gathered. When order was restored it
was found that ten persons had been killed
and 30 injured. \ similar scene occurred
in Mucentes, where five persons Were
killed and ten injured in church.
William X. Nanderbilt's big steam yacht
Alva ran down roWboat Sunday in the
Hudson river at the foot of Thirty-tirst
street. New NOak The boat was cut in
two, and its occupants, a Seventh avenue
liquor dealer and his housckecper, who
had hired the boat for an hours run, were
drowned. The Alva did not put back to
learn if the victims of the run down had
been saved or lost. 1t is supposed to have
proceeded to Newport with Vanderbilt on
board.
Chicago was visited on Monday 10y a
cyconic wind, which tore to tatters the
great canvass canopy over the wigwam in
which the National Democratic convention
will be held next week. The contractor,
have determined to put up timber roof
but it is feared that this arrangement vii
impair the acoustics of the amphitheatre
The later reports show that the storm was
more destructive than at first reported
Eight persons are known to have beer
killed in Chicago and vicinity and Il wer,
injured.
\ Beaver Falls, Pa, man has invente,
and patented a process for gas maxim!
which he claims will revolutlonize old ways
A company has been formed, building
will be erected, and machinery placed il
them 1t will be thoroughly tested. ThOs
interested are perfectly satisfied that tn
process will produce gas that rivals elec
trio light in brilliancy and natural gas il
heat. The process is very simple. 1t con
SstS of forcing a column of air through
mixture of certain chemicals, and vii
produce gas at two cents per thousand feet
The efforts of the Italian authorities t
suppress the Mala Vita have resulted il
another monster trial at Bari. The pris
oners are charged with every crime. iron
assassination and highway robbery To peck
, ct picking and Matchmaking. Many @
them are women, girls and boys. Tn
event of the trial will doubtless be tn
} conviction of about POO persons, as tn
magistrates and all men in authority in tn
district have been informed that the GOV
: eminent will stop at nothing to eXtermiI
: ate the murder and robbery societies i
, southern Italy.
e David NJ. Holway in the Arena for Jun
/ says that American life companies have a
e ready paid Sl25, 100000 in matured en-
/ dowments to over 10000 persons, VIII
a have thus found themselves enriched an
made more independent as unproductiv
years came into view The question ma
: fairly be raised, How many of these reciI
= tents would have had this money if con
pulsory prudence had not induced them {
: methodically put the money into the hand
of these corporations? The voluntary aC
, missions of these policy holders would il
dictate that it would have been an exceed
: ingly small per cent.
= The foreign dispatches record an al
palling disaster which took place on Tue,
day outside of the harbOr of Blaye on tn
D river Gironde, "a miles northeast of Bo
{ deauX. There was a sudden flash and
u tremendous explosion on the British steam
er Petrola. The deck and deck house
= were thrown to a great height. The ga
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