Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-06-10

week, causing a loss of $4,000. The
works were established in 1885, and gave
employment to 500 hands.
The Hunt levee on the Mississippi river
near Quincy, H., has given way under the
enormous pressure of the flood, and what
was fertile district 20 miles long by four
wide is now a sea of water from six to Is
feet deep.
The new music hall at Middletown,
Conn, one of the finest i'm the state. was
damaged by fire Sunday evening to the ex-
tent of $4,000 The house was built by
the MiddleseX assurance company, who
will doubtless rebuild it.
The famous mining camp of Jimtown,
Colo, near Creole, was totally destroyed
by fire Sunday morning, the flames origin
ating in an explosion of coal oil and sweep
ing the houses for a mile through the
gulch in which the town was situated.
The loss will reach about S1,O0O,OOO.
Capt Josiah w. Lawlor, the Chelsea,
Mass, navigator, left Boston Sunday night
in canvas sail boat some II feet in length,
for voyage to Europe. He will cruise
along the Maine coast and up toward New
foundland till the middle of July Capt.
LawlOr is the only man who has twice
crossed the Atlantic in a small boat.
Emlin Scott, aged -, shot a boy named
Bowler, aged ID, at Chapinville in North
boro, Mass, Monday, with a shotgun,
blowing the latters face off and destroying
both eyes. The shooting was apparently
intentional, although Scott declares he did
not know the gun was loaded. He was ar
rested. Bouvier's chances for recovery are
small.
The house of J. X. Turner, ieweer at
Kensington, near Pittsburg, Pa, was
blown up with dynamite on Saturday
morning. Mr.. Turner and Miss Scheffer
were instantly killed, and Mrs. Turner and
her two children were badly injured. The
explosion damaged other buildings some
distance away. The perpetrators of the
outrage are not known.
The "High Water Mark" monument
was unveiled at Gettysburg on Thursday
of last week. 1t consists of marble pc
destal and is surmounted by an open book
of bronze, the left page of which contains
the names of the commanders under Pick
EFT in his famous charge, and the right that
of the commanders of the Union regiments
that rolled back the gray-clad columns.
A passenger train from Wichita. Kan,
was stopped by masked men near Red
Rock in the Indian Territory on Wednes-
day night of last week. The train was
tagged and the engineer and fireman were
taken prisoners. The robbers then en-
tered the express car, broke open the safe
and secured its contents. The amount OBJ
tanned is said to be $4,000. The passen-
gers were not molested. The money was
intended for Indian payments.
DIR. Thomas II. Burchard, 43 years old,
son of the late Rev. DIR. Burchard
(Blaine's "Rum, ROmanism and Rebellion
jonah, has been arrested in New York
city charged with having struck corpora.
ton councils assistant William A. Sweet
ger several violent blows with his clenched
fist. DIR. Burchard says that SweetzeI
abused him in his Office about an attorneys
fee which Burchard deemed excessive
and that Sweetzer had to be forcibly
| elected.
The estimated loss by the recent flood
along the Mississippi is $4,000, 900, not in,
GLIDING stagnatiOn in business among the
merchants and transportation lines. The
/ figures are given on data collected by the
boards of trade throughout the afflicted
district. The Springfield Republican right
| ly says that, recognizing the danger thai
they may be repeated any season, the con
dition is serious enough to demand tina
something may be done by way of a pre-
ventive. AT the present rate the country
will III four or five years pay for replant
ing the whole upper valley of the two riv
ers with forest trees and making the Mis-
sissppi ship canal to the sea.