Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-07-10

dead about mile from town. Both had
been shot through the heart and only one
chamber in each revolver had been dis
charged. Harmon was the only man the
town of Adairville had had for years who
could keep order.
Daniel D. Youmans, the New York hat
ter, and his wife were drowned in lake
near Bergen, Norway, Saturday. They
were probably thrown into the water
while driving
y A riot occurred at a Fourth of July eel
ebration at Lochraven, II miles from Bal
timore, Saturday. Six negroes were
wounded by pistol shots, and number of
others had their heads broken. Nine were
arrested.
Dell De Forrest, who, with her husband,
constitutes the variety team known as 1.-THE
De FORESTS, whirlwind dancers" has been
sent to an insane asylum at New York.
Her insanity is ascribed to the excessive
use of cigarettes.
The roof area of the latest midair pal
ace in New York has the capacity to en-
terrain $1,000 people. 1t cost 100000 to
fit it up. One walks among its trees,
plants, vines, shrubbery and fountains as
if he were really on solid earth, though
many feet above it. d.
:. The ''long and short men" successfully
| accomplished their 10th robbery in Chi
cago on Tuesday evening. They entered
brightly-lighted pharmacy, and, covering
the only clerk in the store and customer
with revolvers, rifed the cash drawer and
| took from the customer valuable watch
and small amount of cash.
A fire at Galveston, Texas, Friday after
noon, destroyed four blocks of the wharf
front of the Mallory Steamship line,
rs railroad cars, 5000 bales of jute, besides
large quantity of baggng and ties. The
loss will probably amount to from 100000
to 100000. The cause of the fire was the
spontaneous combustion of wool.
Advices received by the steamer Brae-
mer, which arrived at Victoria, British
Columbia, from Yokohama, Wednesday,
say that 81, 156 people were killed in the
two prefectures of Mujas Gi and lrvate,
Japan, by the recent tidal wave. A de-
spatch from Morika, dated June 20, says
that over 10000 persons were either killed
or injured
A cloudburst in the vicinity of Bellaire,
Ohio, and Wheeling, W. Va, Monday,
caused disastrous floods. Baltimore and
Ohio railroad bridges and other property
were washed away, horses and cattle were
drowned and other damage done. The to-
tai loss is estimated at 100000. At
Moundsville, w. Va, two persons were
drowned.
VIM. johnson of Chicago shot and killed
himself in New York Wednesday while he
was being pursued by the police for shoot
ing William Fl. Sutton and Greek ped
dler named Don Carlos. johnson had
al Oft taI m wifi
toms injuries are serious. Jealousy of SUIT
toms wife is supposed to have been the
cause of the shooting.
Fourteen prisoners overpowered the
guards in the United States Jail at Guthrie,
Oklahoma, Sunday night and then escaped
from the building. Bill Dolln and "Dy-
Mantle Dick" the principal actors, are the
last survivors of the Dalton gang They
were awaiting trial for the murders COM
mitted in the ingalls, fight, when four dep
uties were killed.
The mutilated bodies of Mrs. II. r.
Richardson and her daughter, Ethel, were
found at their home in Monticello, near
Santa Barbara, California, on Monday.
The women had been killed with a club.
While resisting arrest on suspicion of hav-
ing been the murderer, Cyrus Bernard, a
former gardener of the Richardson's, was
shot and killed by deputy sheriff.
Chicago is being terrorized by pair of
robbers who travel together and who are
popularity distinguished as the long and
short man. They enter stores in broad
daylight and when full of customers, cover
the cashiers with pistols and rifle the cash
boxes, escaping in the general confusion.
| These men have just robbed their 14th
| store since the police were set upon the
| track.
All hope of finding the entombed miners
at Pittston, Pa, alive has been abandoned.
There was a report Saturday that rappings
had been heard, indicating that the men
were alive behind the great barrier. An
| investigation showed that the rappings
were made by John Owens, who said that
his object was to encourage the miners
who were at work.
The biggest gas we'll in the world has
been struck near Williamstown, West Vir-
| ginia. The noise of the escaping gas can
| be heard for miles. The well was so
strong that although it took fire it blew
| itself out. Efforts will be made az once to
control the immense pressure and put it
to commercial use. The pressure is so
| great that stones are thrown from the
mouth of the we'll 200 feet into the air.
DR.. Benyon, tourist from New Orleans,
shot Norman Mckenzie and John Nc
Kane in the Waverly hotel at New Castle,
n. Y, early Monday morning. The
shooting was done in self defence. Nc
Kennels recovery is doubtful, but McKane
was only slightly wounded. These two,
with a traveller named Hall, were intoxi-
Gated, and broke into Benyon's room and
beat him numerically because he protested
against their singing, and said it prevented
him from sleeping.
Mr. and Mrs. Frank o. Murdoch of Mar
ion, n. Y, were found Monday forenoon
stretched out upon a bed with their
Threats cut. Life was not extinct,
but they were both unconscious.
Their daughter was found in bed
unconscious from some drug, supposed TO
be chloroform. There had been nothing
stolen from the house, apparently, so the
robber and murder theory does not seem
plausible. If Mr. Murdoch returns to con-
sciousness, the mystery may be solved.
The funeral of William Rettger, killed
in the Brown Hosting Works strike al
Cleveland, was the largest and most i'm
posing funeral pageant there since the OBJ
sequies of Garfield. By actual count TO-
800 men were in the funeral cortege. A
conservative estimate places the number
of spectators about the church and along
the long line of march to the cemetery al
100000. Mgr. Thorpe delivered the ser
mon. He told the strikers that the scenes
of the past week ought not TO have oc