Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-04-03

Bandits held up the Frisco fast ex-
press" Tuesday night, near Lebanon, Mo-,
blew open the express companys safe, and
secured plunder estimated all the way from
$4,000 to 100000.
Hunted down by crowd of pursuers,
surrounded and driven to bay, Hezekiah
Jones, a negro thief, cut his throat in Chi
cago Tuesday evening and died at the feet
of the men who had chased him. He had
snatched a purse from the hands of
woman on street car.
After making all due allowance for the
taccuracies, both intentional and unin-
t1ntional, that mark most of the news
from Cuba, it is still obvious that the rebel
cause is making no less progress now that
Weyler is in command than it did while
Campos was at the head of the royal forces.
The new general has failed utterly in his
efforts to bring about decisive engage
ment, while the bands under Gomez, Maceo
and the minor leaders continue TO go about
where they choose and to do about what
they please.
The season of tornadoes-often improp-
erly called cyclones-has set in, and for
the next few weeks almost every storm
that crosses the country will be likely to
develop these dangerous off-shoots on its
edges. They grow more destructive as
the western country, in which they occur
principally, becomes more thickly settled,
because where they formerly howled across
vast stretches of vacant prairie and did no
harm, they now encounter villages, or at
least farm buildings, and cause great loss
of life and property. They can be neither
prevented or avoided, and their frequent
occurrence is one of the drawbacks to life
on the plains and prairies of the West.
Nicola Tesla, the electrician, is conf
dent that ere long news will be transmitted
round the world by electric waves without
wires. His theory is that, the earth being
a conductor, an electrical disturbance al
any point would so change the electrical
equilibrium that the wave would be felt al
all points on the earth's surface and might
be recorded on properly constructed instru
| ments. This would place "every city on
| the earth on an immense ticker circuit, and
a message sent from New York would be
| in England, Africa and Australia in an in,
stant $50 he says. On the same princi
| pie of electrical-wave propagation through
| the atmosphere and ether, he believes it tC
| be possible to attract the attention o.
dwellers in neighboring planets, if such be
ings exist.
Rev. DIR. Edward Everett Hale of Bos
ton, who has been spending several week!
in Santa Barbara, Calf, thus describes
the place in a letter to a friend: "This
place is the kingdom of heaven upor
earth. The south wind is off the ocean
The north winds arelscreened from you b!
a ridge of mountains some 5000 feet high
In the valley between 10000 people live il
simple way, and all dear nature smilei
to make them happy. AS for Indians, W.
have none. And the poor Mexicans anC
Cinnamon are very harmless. The who'll
place is a curious piece of Indo-China
Lazy is no name for our lives. 1t seem
as if we had nothing 10 do but to rea,
Gods handwriting, to thank him for hi
mercies fresh every morning, and simpl
live in the open air. You know that
the beginning of all my gospels-or tn
end of them"