Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-08-07

Two street cars were held up by masked
men near Mainstee, Mich, one night last
week. and the conductors and motormen
were forced to surrender their cash.
Under the agreement of the Kentucky
dstillers, which went into effect Aug. l,
whiskey making in that state will be al
most totally suspended for a period of is
months.
A powder magazine at Funfkirchen, in
Hungary, exploded last Friday. More than
100persons were injured, many fatally, and
the town hall and a number of other build
ings were demolished.
The Waterbury Comm Watch COM
pany, which employs several hundred
hands, has closed down all departments of
its plant until September. The shutdown
is the result of dull business.
The President issued, last Friday, a sec
ond proclamation warning citizens of the
United States against filibustering or 9TH
erwise violating neutrality laws in connec-
ton with the Cuban revolution.
Ten deaths resulted from the terrible
heat of last Thursday and Friday at st.
Louis. Over so victims were treated at
the city dispensary. Five fatal prostrations
were also reported from Cincinnati.
A despatch from Rome says the Italian
coast defence vessel Roma was set on fire by
lightning. The magazine being in immi-
nent danger the ship was abandoned, and
then sunk by means of torpedo, which
was exploded close to her hull.
The rowboat Fox, containing the two
Swedish sailors, Frank Harbo and George
Samueson, who started from New York on
June 6 last with the intention of rowing to
Havre, France, arrived at the Scilly Islands
Saturday. Both the occupants of the small
craft were in good health.
Advices from Alexandria, Egypt, show
that the cholera outbreak there has got be-
yond the control of the sanitary authori-
| ties. The latest report shows that during
one week in July there were 1900 deaths
and in the following six days 100 deaths.
| So far 5000 deaths have occurred from the
present outbreak and it is feared that these
| figures will be largely increased before the
disease runs its course.
DIR. William II. Park of New York city
has fallen a victim to his zeal in the cause
| of science. Dr. Park is seriously i'll of ty-
phoid fever at the Presbyterian hospital.
He contracted the disease while expert
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at the health department laboratory, of
which he has been in charge for about
three years. The crisis of the fever is
past, and his recovery is hoped for.
A convict known as Frederick Whitney
committed suicide at the Maryland peni-
Tertiary Saturday. Before committing the
act Whitney told the warden that his name
was Hildebrand and that he killed Henry
Boaneke, miser, in Altoona, Pa, in 1895
for which murder a man named Wilson /:
under sentence of death. Another prison
er corroborates Whitney's statement and
tells where $11 900, which was taken from
Boaneke, is hidden.
Six men among party of 10 young EN-
igrants who had engaged passage by the
Herman from Libau for Hull, Eng, per
ished recently. They met their deaths from
suffocation in one of the alright compart
ments of the steamer in which they haC
been directed to conceal themselves by thu
officers of the vessel to evade the vigilance
of Russian inspectors. They were Informed
that the Russian officials would not taxi
more than 20 minutes to inspect the ship
whereas three hours elapsed before the yes
sci sailed, When sailor of the vessel wen
to release the men they were all uncon
scious and past resuscitation.