Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-07-21

Six persons were killed by the heat in
Chicago Friday.
Sheriff Warner of Chittenden county,
Ark. was shot twice by an unknown man
Saturday night and robbed of $4,000.
-Four persons were killed and seven in
jured by an explosion of fireworks at Fifty
ninth street and Ashland avenue in Chica-
20 Sunday evening.
Thirty business houses in the district
bounded by Leadenhall street and Bevs
Marks and Cammomile streets, in Lon
don were burned Monday night. Loss,
S7,50O,OOO.
A severe wind and thunder storm swept
over the Wisconsin National Guard camp
Friday evening and lightning struck in the
camp, killing two of the soldiers and
woundirg several of the others.
J. W. Zimmerman of the Press Cycle club
of Buffalo made 1888 miles in ) hours, As
minutes and 81 seconds Saturday, in a race
near New York. He lowered the bicycle
road record in competition more than an
hour.
Dr. Lewis, health officer of Northamp-
ton county, \. c., reports the existence
there of disease resembling cholera. Per
oOilo oNlathtu ult Ill SlA VI seven 5.
There have been II deaths. The disease
is being officially investigated
The cholera has redppeared in Moscow
and in northeastern Hungary. In Moscow
there were 81 cases and IL deaths in one
prison last week Eighty-five cases are re-
ported in the hospitals at Alexandria
Egypt 40 of which proved fatal.
Fifteen hundred men at Grand Forks.
Y. Oak, sought to lynch William Baum
berger, the murderer of the six members of
the Krieder family at Cando, but the mob
was without a leader and Sheriff Faddon
by a show of force was able to protect his
prisoner.
a train on the New Haven railroad
Friday struck and instantly killed two men
on the track near Pelhamville, y. Y. The
men were fighting and were seen to strike
each other. The engineer blew the whis-
tie repeatedly but neither of them needed
the warning. Both bodies were fearfully
mangled.
The Glen House in the White Mount
aims was burned Saturday night. 1t would
accommodate 800 guests and cost at least
100000. 1t was owned by Charles r..
Miliken. The Glen House was the latest
built summer house in the White Mount
aims, having been erected in 1887
Willie Allen and Willie Boyce, aged s
and respectively, fell into the river at
Mount Vernon, Ind, Saturday. Mrs.
Allen sprang in after them, but found her
self helpless in the rushing current. Her
l6-years-old daughter Anna went to res
cue her mother and all four were drowned.
A passenger train on the Grand Trunk
road ran down a crowded street car at Chi
cago Monday night, killing four people
and injuring a number of others. The
collision took place at the Forty-ninth street
crossing, which is a network of tracks,
and has always been regarded as danger
Gus.
A sad case of poisoning is reported at
Nashua, n. II. The family of Theophile
Deschamps consisted of father, mother
and six children. One daughter died Sat
urday morning, another Sunday morning,
and the mother and a third daughter are
now i'll and not expected to recover. How
they were poisoned is not known.
Mrs. John Sonwell, the snake charmer,
known as Dot" who was bitten by rat
tier at New York July l, and had just re-
covered from the effects of the wound,
was bitten again in a museum on Four
lC'htH oliVCI ouhudls anu Is now III Of.
Nincents hospital. Mrs. SOnwell is about
20 years old and has three children. She
is not expected to recover.
A disease over which the doctors are in
dispute, has ragged with considerable VIC
lence in the town of Anaconda, Mont, for
the last 10 weeks. 1t is alternately called
black measles and black smallpox. The
first case appeared about May l, and at
present there are about 80 patients in the
various pest-houses, and the yellow flag is
flying over Is buildings.
Assistant Attorney-General Travis of
Massachusetts is to exercise the preroga-
tive given by recent act of the legisla-
ture, and wind up the few remaining en-
dowment orders which have not yet passed
into the hands of receivers. The surviv-
ors of the endowment wreck are the Amer
lean Friendly society, Abraham Lincoln
Benefit association, American Mutual Re-
lief association, Order of Franklin, Nation
al Fraternal and Beneficial Union, and the
United Order of Equity.