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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
FOrty-scVen Men Killed
In Disastrous Boiler Explosion on the
German Cruiser Rrandenbury


terrible boiler explosion occurred last
Friday on the cruiser Brandenburg at
kiel. The Brandenburg had had new
boilers placed in her, and had been ordered
to make trial trip to test them. The YES
sci was on this trip when the explosion oc-
CURED. Forty-one men were instantly
killed and several others were fatally
wounded. Among the dead are three chief
engineers, who were on the vessel to report
on the work of the boilers, and several
other officers. Most of the bodies were
badly scalded.
AS soon as the effects of the explosion
were known to the officer of the deck he
caused signals to be set showing that the
vessel was helpless. Five steamers went
at once to the assistance of the disabled
warship, and, getting lines to her, towed
her back to Kiel. When she reached port
Prince Henry of Prussia, the Emperor 5
brother, Immediately boarded her, and
found that the explosion had caused much
damage to the vessel. The steam tug Pei
lean, which was the first vessel sent to the
Brandenburgs assistance, returned to the
quay with thirty dead bodies. The news
of the accident had spread through the
city and thousands had gathered at the
landing place. Since the accident six of
the wounded have died, making AZ deaths
in all. The officials are reticent, but it has
been learned that the main steampipe of
the starboard engine burst, while the ndi-
Gators were showing that the engines were
developing only 1900 horse power. 1t is
said that a much higher steam pressure
had previously been used.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Business still Waiting for the Tariff.

Bradstreet's weekly review says: Tele-
graphic advices from leading trade centres
make it plain that the volume of general
business since the beginning of the month
shows a decrease as compared with cor
responding portion of January this year,
and it is difficult to determine how much
it is due to natural temporary recession
of the wave of the incoming tide. There
is a disposition to continue disposing of
stock and to buy for immediate wants until
after the tariff question is disposed of.
Commercial travellers for dry goods, cloth
ing, hardware, shoe and other houses in
number of instances are on their way
home or have arrived home, and report
many orders, of those secured, dependent
on the passage or otherwise of the tariff
bill. The greatest activity in commercial
lines is in dry goods, hats, shoes, rubbers,
and South in plantation supplies and ferti-
lizers. Wheat prices have again gone be-
low previous records, with as little certain
ty as previously that they have touched
bottom. Anthracite coal production will
continue restricted, and prices for stove
have been reduced % cents. Very full re-
turns of gross and net railway earnings for
1898 are less disappointing than the month
" reports indicated. Total gross railway
earning amounted to $500, 100000, a de-
crease of 1.6 per cent from 1892, while the
total net was 100000, a decrease of
only 2.7 per cent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Brutal Deed of burglars.

When James Vale, the night operator
at the Thompsonville, Ct, depot, who also
acts as Waterman, entered the Adams eX-
press office in the freight depot at ? o'clock
Sunday morning he surprised three mask
ed men in the act of blowing open the
safe He was shot in the groin, knocked
over the head with a chisel, robbed of his
watch and what money he had in his peck
ct, had his arms tied behind him, and
made TO walk with a revolver pointed at
his head up the railroad track, in the
splashing rain, nearly to Springfield, where
Officer Wilson," Although suffering great
ly from his wounds, Mr.. Vale was able to
trudge back nearly to Thompsonville,
fainting when he reached the outskirts of
the village He will probably recover.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Another Daring Train Robbery.

A gang of train robbers wrecked pas
senger train on the Southern Pacific rail-
road at Roscoe Station, II miles north from
Los Angeles, early last Friday morning
The highwaymen blew open the express
car with dynamite and fired several shots
at the trainmel, who attempted to escape.
The fireman was shot and killed while eX-
Treating himself from the wrecked loco
motive. A tramp, who was stealing ride
on the train, was shot and killed by the
robbers. The engineer was probably fatal
ly injured by falling off his locomotive A
brakeman was cut on the head and badly
bruised. The robbers escaped with several
strong boxes belonging to the Well-Fargo
express company, but the total amount OF
cash is believed to amount to not more
than $1,000.
None of the passengers, so far as known,
with the exception of the tramp, was in
iured. The robbery was the most daring
and cool piece of work done in the West
in years, and it is believed that
"Chris" Evans and Morell, the outlaws fol
whom the California officers have beer
searching for months, planned and eXecut
ed the crime.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Hoist by His Own Petard.
An Anarchist Blown to Pieces by IA
Bomb Intended for Others.

Bomb Intended for Others.
A loud explosion was heard, just after
nightfall, by the keepers of Greenwich
park, about six miles from London Bridge.
A search led to the discovery of man,
mutilated and groaning with pain, on the
hilltop near the observatory. AS soon as
he became conscious of the keepers pres
ence he begged them to help him or kill
him. He became insensible within five
minutes, and ten minutes after being car
ried to hospital he died English and
French papers found in the mans pockets
showed that he was Martial Bourdin, a
foreign anarchist. A peculiar powder in a
package, which he had carried with him,
was not recognized by the police, and it
has been sent to government experts for
analysis. He had evidently fallen and eX-
ploded package of the stuff which he had
intended for some other purpose, perhaps
to blow up the observatory.
All the members of the Autonomie club
in London, of which Bourdin was mem
Der, have been arrested. Bourdin's broth
er-in-law says he was one of several brave
and determined men who believed that the
only way to better society was to destroy
the present system and build, up another.
The explosion at Greenwich was only the
beginning of an anarchist campaign which
had been carefully planned, and would be
executed, despite all the precautions of the
police.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

The main building and annex of Knox
vile college at Knoxville, Tenn, were
burned last week, together with a library
of $500 volumes.
Gen Jubal A. Early, the noted Confed-
crate general, now rs years old, fell down
the steps of the Lynchburg, Va, post-office
one evening last week, and was severely
injured about the head, but is now recov-
ering.
Workmen who were tearing down an old
house near Huntington, Ind, discovered,
concealed beneath floor the skeleton of
John McCallister, who disappeared ten
years ago and was probably murdered for
his money.
Property owners near Lake Worth, Fla,
have adopted summary measures to pre-
vent the construction of a railroad through
their lands The route is said to have
been sown with dynamite bonds and warn
ing notices posted.
Two years ago Engineer Allen, running
on the Canadian Pacific railway, gave a
lift and two dollars to an actor named Nor
ris, AMI has now received information that
Morris has left him sol 900 in a will pro-
bated at New Orleans.
At Stanton, Ala. one night last week,
an unknown negro went to the house of
Mrs. Rucker, an aged white woman, who
was alone, and crimlnally assaulted her.
She resisted and screamed for help, when
the negro shot her twice and fled. The
woman died.
The dead body of the Rev. Joshua A.
Biggs was found on Saturday in a snow
drift, near Westerman, Ohio. His throat
had been cut. He had been holding reli-
gious meetings there, and stirred up the
enmity of some of the people. 1t is sup
posed the crime was committed several
days before.
From Oglethorpe, Ga, comes a story of
such horrible murder that Gov. Northen
has doubled the usual reward for the Grim
inal. Bob Collins, respectable negro,
was dragged from home by seven white
men, stripped, beaten with a buggy trace,
scraped and cut with a blunt knife and
left naked nearly seven hours in freezing
atmosphere. He died just after being
found.
A. S. Rosenbaum, probably the wealth
lest Hebrew in America, died suddenly
last Saturday, aged 90. He was member
of the New York chamber of commerce
and a director in numerous business and
financial concerns. He owned the hotels
Albert and St. Stephen, and was large
owner in downtown real estate in New
| York city. He was also the owner of ;
great deal of real estate in San Francisco,
where for many years he carried on the to-
| bacco business as a branch of his New
| York house. His wealth is estimated at
! 10000 900.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Another Delaware Entertainment.

About 300 persons assembled in the Jail
ward Saturday at New Castle to see four
chicken thieves and a horse thief get their
second dose of Delaware justice. In the
crowd we've many strangers, who displayed
the usual curiosity and examined the post,
cat AID pillory with interest. At noon
Morris Gooding, colored, the horse thief,
was released from the pillory, where he
had been shivering in the cold for an hour.
Sheriff Gould gave him 30 lashes with the
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Deadly Fight WIN Moonshiners.

A few days ago Ham Collins of POGO
hontas county, w. Va, with three COM
panions, named Jones, Francis and Muir
daugh, opened an Illicit distllery in cave
near the Pendleton county line. Deputy
Marshal Rollingwood, with two special
deputies, raided the place two days ago.
In the fight that ensued, Jones and Fran
els and the two special deputies were killed
and Ham Collins was so badly wounded
that he was tracked five miles through the
snow bY the blood from his wounds.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

Nicetown, Pa, gives the reason for this
sad condition of many working girls.
Sometimes their back and sides will
ache terribly, They are faint and izzy
with pain and weight in the lower p.rt of
their stomach. They watch the lock,
and wish that the day would end, q they
feel so i'll and tired.
Standingall day, week in and week out
they have slowly Mfted into woman's
great enemy, displacement of the womb,
That, or some other arrangement Of the
organ. causes iregularty or suspension
of the monthly periods bloating, flood
ing, or nervous prostration
"Take warning in time," she says;
Lydia e. Pnkhdm's Vegetable Com
pound is the surest and safest remedy in
| the world for YOU"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Russian school children Killed.

A hurricane that passed over northern
Germany few days ago wrecked a school
house at Fuckers, little village in Pomer-
ana. The school was in session at the
time and a large number of scholars were
buried in the ruins. Seven of the little
ones were killed and 20 others more or less
severely injured
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
More storms and Suffering in the Far
West.

A Tacoma despatch of Tuesday reported
the worst wind and snow storm raging in
western Washington which had been expe-
rienced in 20 years. In the Cascade mount
aims snow has fallen to the depth of four
feet in "a hours.
On the reservations and cattle ranges in
Oklahoma the extreme cold and heavy
SHOWS have told terribly on the cattle, al
ready weakened by short pasturage. In
Kansas a blizzard and snow storm swept
the state and range cattle are dying by the
hundred.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

Prof Garner, the monkey-language man,
bepins a series of lectures in London this
week, exhibiting the cage in which he lived
in the Gaboon forest.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

Matthew Ashton, a convicted murderer,
held in Jail at Madison, Wis, pending ap-
peal to the supreme court, died OF smallpox
Monday morning. He was worth S3oo,-
OOO
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

Did you notice
how many of them
had pale checks,
dull eyes, and
heavy steps ? and
did you wonder
why they were not
ruddy and bright ?
The story which
is told by Miss
Sallie Palmer. of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

An obedience to the simple laws of hygiene and
the use of Ayers Sarsaparilla will enable the
most delicate man or Sickly woman to pass in
ease and safety from the icy atmosphere of Feb
ruary t the warm, moist days of April Ii is the
best of spring medicines
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

We have all modern facilities for the
rapid production of Good Printing, and
can therefore do it at a reasonable price.
Printing coming from the Phoenix Job
Printing Office has the appearance of being
up with the times Isn't that the way it
should look? Won't a stranger get a better
impression of you and your business if yours
looks that way? If you think so, remember
us when you are ready to place your next
order. 1t will cost no more, perhaps less.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
THE WORKING GIRL.
Miss Sallie Palmer Gives Some Sugges.
tiOnS to Girls About Backache,
FaintmesS, and Dizziness.

LsrEcAL To ORR LADY RrAprRs.l
Did you ever notice working girls on
their way home from stores or factories?
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

cat. The four negro chicken thieves, an
ex-local preacher among them, then took
their dose of Is lashes.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Clothing Sales Agent Wanted

LNOR Brattleboro and vicinity. Liberal COM
IL missions paid, and we furnish the best and
most complete outfit every provided by any
house. Write at once for terms. Send two or
three references. WANAMAKER & BROWN,
Philadelphia, Pa. cit
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

A Cape Town despatch confirms the re-
port that Lo Bengula, King of the Mata-
beles, had died in the bush, presumably
from the effects of the govt and the eX-
posture to which he was subjected while
fleeing from the British forces Another
despatch says he died of smallpox.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

Rheumatism racks the system like a thumb
screw. 1t retreats before the power of Hood 5
Sa rsaparilla, which purifies the blood.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

Pain from indigestion, dyspepsia, and too
hearty eating is relieved at once by taking one of
Carter's Little Liver Pills Immediately after
dinner Don't forget this
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23

Never held up-Brides' trains.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
Dana'S After la Grippe.

rmarkablc statement made
.. .. Imu u. French Of Milford.
\H .U.h has been thoroughly invcs-
.l Mrs. James Lewis. for 7
.... state superintendent Of the LOYAL
I. .Hu.r Legion, and found correct.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-02-23
4 Stay Granted.

McKane's counsel will exhaust every re-
source of the law to keep him from going
to Sing Sing, and as the first move have sue
ceeded in getting from Justice Cullen a
stay of proceedings until today, Friday,
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14
THE KING OF BEASTS.
A Few Interesting Facts Concerning the
 Strength of the Lion.

A Few Interesting Facts Concerning the
 Strength of the Lion.
 It is the opinion of tanners that the tiger is more to be feared than the lion. One will kill man with as much ease as the other; but the lion gives fair warning of his murderous intenI tion by rushing at his victim with q roar, whereas the tiger, true repre- sentative of the cat tribe, comes sneak ing up with the sem blance of an affec- tionate purr, only to set his fangs, with sudden spring, into the very life i of his victim The lion has somewhat greater muscular power than the tiger, but the latter has greater quickness. In intelligence they are about equal; and in general it may be said that a full-grown Nubian lion and full grown royal Bengal tiger teach say, four years old) are fair match. 1t would be an even guess which would kill the other,
 4 lion can drag carcass weighing one thousand pounds with his fangs i The strength of the muscles of i the back is wonderful If lion and strong horse were to pull in opposite directions the horse would pull the lion backwards with eompar- ative ease; but if the lion were hitehed l behind the horse and facing in the same direction and were allowed to exert his strength in backing he could easily pull the horse down upon his launches, so much greater ] is his strength when exetted backward from the hind legs than in forward pulling A lion springing through the air from a distance of six feet would knock down 8 horse or bullock with single blow of his fore arm, backed by the momentum of his three hundred pounds weight. full grown lion in the iungles will jump twenty-five or thirty feet on the level from running start. In captivity the ] same lion would clear distance ot about half as great. lion can jump over fence eight Or ten feet high, but not at q bound. He catches first with his fore legs and drags his body after him.
 Tigers will jump trihe higher than this. But of all wild animals the leopards are tile greatest jumpers be- ing able to huri their 1.-the and beauti- fui bodies. curled up almost into ball, extraordinary heights. They bound with ease, for instance, from the floor of the cage so as to touch a ceiling twelve feet high
 For a short distance a lion or tiger can outrun man and can equal the speed of fast horse but they lose their wind at the end of half mile at most. They have little endurance and are re markedly weak in lung power. Their strength is of the kind which Is capa- ble of terrific effort for short time. It would take six men to hold & lion down, even after his legs were tied SC that he could not nse his paws.-Chi cago News
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14
Feminine ..strong aIen.n

The strong woman performer is by no means latter-day invention. In the time of Louis KY. there was an actress engaged at the theater Fran cais-Mlle. Gauthier who could break coin between the fingers of one hand and roll silver plate into the form of a cup of conical shape. No one could bear the pressure of her hand. and only Maurice de Sake, one of the strongest men of his time, was able to open her closed fingers. In the same century there lived in England woman. Miss bettae Thompson, who could break chains with her hand
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14
Continued Settlements.

Settlements continued at the April term, lsA of the Jefferson county Probate court for confirmation at the October term 1891:
 Emanuel Mason, guardian Mary Masen, minor.
 NJ. l.. oford, guardian Frank Ingram. minor.
 .. Il. Triplett. guardian May and Georgia Triplett. minors.
 l. NJ Lueey. guardian Ella Grady, minor.
 !. M. Lucey. guardian kate Grady minor
 F, Achard, administrator E. NJ. Harris de. ceased. W. B. Alexander, administrator Sol Jackson, deceased. II Moore, administrator L. Moore. de- ceased. Jno, F; sennett, administrator Jno. Moore deceased.
 Maggie Meeord Hill, administrator T. A Hili, deceased. All persons interested in the settlement oi anyo Of said accounts will come forward and ] hle their exception. if any they have. ou Ol before the second day of the next term of the l Probate Court of said county or they win he forever barred from excepting Co such ac. | counts or any item thereof l GORDON K. GREENFIELD. | By FRANK B. FLANDERS. n. c. Clerk June IS, 1894.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14

No self-respeeting Democrat can afford to eontravene the wishes and sentiment of the white people of lief ferson county by accepting place on the Republican compromise ticket in opposition to the straight Democratic ticket. Such a course will consign its author to the eternal reproach and contempt of the entire county. Above the.door leading to the compromise council chamber there should be written like Dante saw above the gates of of hell
 He who enters here
 Leaves all hope behind
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14

W. T. HENRY, a defunct and dis contented candidate lately defeated for the Legislature, announces through the columns of yesterday s Comaaeqoiol that the Democrats of Whiteville township will hold a meeting to protest against the re suit of the late Democratic primaries. In the primaries aforesaid this same Henry received 476 votes out of q total number of l, 934 votes cast Is Mr Henry advertising himself for a place on the Republican compromise ticket2
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14

SOME one of our exchanges says that the GRAPHIC is disgruntled over the Democratic State platform.
 No, no: bless your dear soul, the GRAPHIC is never disgruntled. It is true that had we ha 7e had the making of the platform it would have read some differently, but the GRAPHIC is a Democratic newspaper and always abides by the will of the party. No true aud loyal Demo-
 crat is ever disgruntled.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14
THE DEFEAT or
 C R- RREGK{NRLDGE

L., fA. DJl L ' 6 4A n f fIIT Ilt
 [The Baltimore News, Thursday June 2s.l
 It is no exaggeration 10 say that the country suffers Q loss in the fail ure of Arkansas to return Clifton
 R. Breckinridge to Congress. In character, lovable, honorable, ,eour- ageoas man, Mir Breckinridge be- longs to a type too seldom nowadays found in public life. In attainments he is emiuently fitted to be useful representative; for he has a
 thorough mastery of the principles of finance, obtained by investiga-
 ton and by long practical experi- encein Congress- His Democracy, the result of both inherited eonyic- tious and long study, is Of the sort
 that does not wayer with every wind that blows; and his sturdy, unfalter- ling advocacy of the peoples cause was the outcome; as his refusal to abandon his convictions at the de- mand of Populists in bis district shows, of stern sense of right.
 The man who stands up for what he believes is right, even though he lose his seat in Congress, is too val uable public servant to be given up and Mir. Breckinridge will find thad the people of Arkansas, though temporarily led away by free silve
 fanatics, will come back to him for counsel and leadership.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14

TIE esteemed Commercial apolo- gizes to the Republicans for saving that there is split in that party, notwithstanding there is a straight Republican and a compromise Re, publican ticket in the field.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14

The Iron Mountain Route now has on sale Summer Tourist tickets at greatly reduced rates. For full par. ticulars apply to l. l.. Reinach, Ticket Agent, Pine Bluff, Ark. or to H. c. Townsend, G. r. X T. A., St Louis, Mo. sept 30
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14

WITH whom do the Republican fusionists propose to compromise the Democratic party or few de feated individuals? The Demo cratic party by an oyerwhe' ming majority has said that there shall be no comnr0mise
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14

WILL our esteemed local eontem- DO, aries please advise us in their next issues if they will stand by the party and support the ticket2
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14
Toronto. Canada. and Return

On July 16 and IT the Cotton Belt Route will sell tickets to Toronto, Canada, and return at $2s30, good returning until July 31 Arrange. ments ean he made to have tickets extended until September l5.
 B. H. Wilson. < gent.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1894-07-14
WANTED Disgruntled Democrat

I'M ID 17ISg uHtItu DVIuUCTdts Who care for neither principle, party or honor, and who are wiling to forfeit the respect and esteem of theirfellow citizens for the faint hope of an office. No questions as to fit ness, ability, moral habits or in- e1rlfy asked. For further par
 m epply to Thotxpson. Jones