Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-01-27

| burned. Since Saturday ten who were
burned have died from their injuries, max
ing 20 fatalities.
Fire on an Historic Estate.
A granary containing 20 tons OF hay and
hundreds of bushels of grain, on the dairy
farm of Seller Brothers at Liberty Cor
ners \. j., was DESTROYED by fire last Fri
day, with nine cows and two horses. For
! ty cows and seven horses were rescued
from an adjoining barn and stable which
was also destroyed. The buildings dated
from l74j The historic farmhouse,
which out-dates the burned buildings was
saved. The property was originally owned
! by William Amman, son Of Lord Amman
dale of Scotland. 1t comprised 1000 acres.
When Lord Sterling marched through Jer-
sey during the Revolutionary war, he sent
! to his kinsman, Amman, to buy 100 head of
cattle. Amman refused TO send the cattle.
and the same night had his cattle, horses
| and other live stock driven to the patriot
army at a place now called Washington
/ Rock. and gave them to Gen Washington.
Eighty-hve cases Of cholera and 80 deaths
/ at Hall, Prussia, were reported last week.
| The burning OF grain elevator at ST.
/ Louis Sunday caused loss Of 81 $1,000
\ steamer effected a landing at Nan
| tucket Saturday, after the island had been
| ice bound for - days.
Julius Eichberg, director OF the Boston
conservatory of music. which he founded
| in 1867, died one day last week. He was
one one of the greatest violin teachers
in the country.
The necessary capital has been subscrib-
ed and work is now in active progress on
an electric railway between Chicago and
st. Louis, whose cars will cover the 24S
miles of space in less than three hours.
Mrs. Catharine Sharp, widow of John
G.. sharp, soldier of the war Of 1872.
died at Philadelphia Sunday. Mrs. Sharp
was Il years old. and the oldest pension
er on the government rolls.
John + Miller, the defaulting clerk OF
the Columbia, Pa, bank, has returned and
surrendered himself after trip around
the world. He spent all of the money
with the exception of $1,000, which was
stolen from him in China.
The Capital national bank OF Lincoln,
Neb., was closed by the national bank eX-
aminer Sunday. The state has S2j0.OO0
on deposit l. is stated that the failure is
bad one, but the exact situation cannot
be ascertained at present. The deposits
amount to about 1928, 900 and the capital
stock of $685. 900 is all paid up.
The great steamship La Champagne.
which sailed for Hayre from New York
Saturday, carried the largest shipment of
gold that has ever left this port by one
steamship. There We're $50 little wooden
kegs each Is inches in length, and each
held $4,000 in gold eagles, destined for
the use Of the French bankers.
The suffering from the Russian famine
is not yet over Andrew d. White. the
American minister at ST. Petersburg.
describes the present situation i'm Finland
and the southern provinces as most dis
tresSing. Although the danger of famine
is not so widespread as year ago, there
is still pressing need of supplies to meet
present and imminent want.
George c. II. Below, who acted as deputy
supreme president of the defunct Order of
Hgis of Boston, and later in the same ca
pacity in the reorganized order, which has
headquarters in Baltimore, has mysterious
ly disappeared from Wheat Ridge, a sub
urb of Denver, Colo, where he has been
for some time. 1t is charged that Below
had hand in questionable transactions
and it is known that he had in his pos
session thousands of dollars collected from
the new lodges which he formed in Colo
RADIO.
The inlet of Union lake, near Norwich,
Pa, is frozen three feet thick TO the bottom,
something never known before, and peo-
pie are filling their ice houses with this
ice. In the bottom of block taken out
the other day was found large frog, a
bullhead and two cells, which had been
caught by the congealing water There
was three inches of ice below them. They
were cut out of the cake and placed in a
butt of water, where in the course of a
quarter of an hour they were all swim
ming about as lively as they were at the
height of last summers season. =
One of the greatest, and, in some as
poets, most appalling dangers that threat
en- miners and mining camps in the
mountains of the West and Northwest at
this season, and on into the spring, is from
the tremendous avalanches of snow that
sweep down the mountain sides, carving
away and burying everything in their path.
The edge of a terrible snowslide near
Kaslo, Wash, recently swept over the en-
trance to a mine, carried away all the
buildings, blacksmith shop, sheds, store
houses and 400 to 500 tons of ore, and
two miners who ran out from the mine
opening TO see what was the cause of the
great rearing sounds. The men are buried
under 100 feet of snow, and their bodies
will not be recovered until late in tho