Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-10-25

Simeon Corbett, an elderly man, was
! driving across the railroad track near the
| Soldiers Home At Bennington Monday,
when he was struck by the locomotive and
! badly injured.
Destructive prairie fires have ravaged
eastern Colorado and western Kansas. In
| Finney county, Kan, four miles of terri
tory have been devastated, and in Greeley
county many acres have been burned over
| The violent storms which prevailed along
the coast of Italy and interior have resulted
in the death of 80 persons and injury to
hundreds of others, while the damage to
property is almost incalcuable.
The drying room of the Fiberloid works
at Newburyport, Mass, was demolished
Wednesday by an explosion. OF five men
in the room, Charles McManus was killed,
and j. X. Reed and James Mclaughlin
MORALLY injured. The others will recover.
Rear Admiral Kirkland commanding
the European naval station of the United
States, was yesterday detached from duty.
Several complaints by various parties have
been made of the admirars conduct, and
the navy department has long been dis
pleased with some of his acts. Commodore
Thomas o. Selfridge, jr., has been detailed
to succeed him.
Henry A. Dawley, Mount Holly boy,
who went to Colorado Is years ago, re-
Gently arrived at his old home, having
made the entire journey from Fort Collins,
Col, on his wheel. Mr.. DaWley will spend
the winter in Vermont visiting his brothers
in Rutland; his parents, Mr.. and Mrs Al
vinso Dawley of Westminster, and other
tipa nd H.
The residents of Juneau, Alaska, are
wrought up over what they think is an at
tempt of England TO run the boundary lines
on the north in such a way as 10 give to
the possessions of that country certain
rich gold-bearing mines. Late dispatches,
however, say that Gen. Duffield, the head
of the United States coast and geodetic sur
vey, tells the people that they may pos
sess their souls so far as any danger of
that kind is concerned. Gen. Dufield
further says that practically all the gold in
the district lies in American territory.
The estimated $4,000 bonus which the
Cramps will receive from the government
on account of the extra speed of their
latest battleship brings their bonus receipts
up TO about Sl,300,000. The Baltimore,
for horse power bonus, earned them $780,
for horse power, $36,S57 and $50, S25, re-
spectiVely; the Philadelphia a round $780,
600 for excess of speed the New York, by
making an extra knot, 5000, 600; the Co
lumbia, with l.S0 knots, $3.50, 900, and the
Minneapolis $414, 600. The premium rate
is now only half what it was at first, but it
is still large enough TO afford good deal
of encouragement for first-class workman
ship.
The young king of Spain saw his first
bull fight the other day. His mother, who
has horror of the brutal sport, postponed
the event as long as possible; but even she
was unable to override the ancient court
precedent that prescribes attendance on
bull lights as part of the education of
Christian monarch. The little chan |
viewed the sport without betraying any en- |
thusiasm, and departed without rewarding |
the successful matador, in accordance with |
custom. And some Spaniards, therefore, |
fear that he may bring discredit on his or |
der and race by taking a stand against the |
national sport when he grows to mans es- |
tate.
AT the meeting of the British Medical |
association last month, statistics were pre-
scented from the hospitals of England, Scot !
land, Munich, Berlin and New York, show |
ing the reduction of mortality from dphthe-
ria under the use of anti. toxin. Prof DR. Won |
Ranke of the University of Munich stated |
that the annual mortality from primary /
diphtheria between 1887 and 1894 had been
ASS per cent-the lowest, 42.2 per cent, in
1887; and the highest 81 per cent, in 1894.
Since beginning the serum treatment, Sept.
%, 1894, the mortality has been reduced to
III per cent. The reports from Vienna,
London and Paris were equally favorable
In the German empire the total number of
cases of diphtheria reported from Oct. l,
1894, to April l, 1895, was 1882. OF
these 1888 were treated with anti-toxin Sc
rum and 4479 without. The proportion
of deaths in the former group was 90 per
cent, while in the latter it was lat per
cent. In New York the proportion of
deaths to reported cases has been reduced
to 10 per cent.