Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-11-06

Howard Warren, teamster, had leg broken
in a runaway accident at Westfed, Mass, Tues
day. The leg was amputated, but he survived
the operation only few hours.
workmen employed by the city left their tool
box open at Pawtucket, r. l., last Friday and a
nine-year-old boy obtained a stick of dynamite
from it, The dynamite exploded while several
boys were playing with it and one was so badly
injured that he Will die.
Eight men with drawn revolvers held up the
saloon of Joseph Hamm in Chicago, on Thursday
night. The robbers went into the saloon, locked
the front door, and after knocking the bartender
senseless, went through two customers and the
cash till, and walked away with about $500 in
cash and three watches
Grace Maynard and Louise Scribner, two young
women of Lancaster, Mass were struck by To-
connective of the Fitchburg railroad at a crossing
in Shirley Sunday. Miss Scribner was killed in
stantly and Miss Maynard, who was severely in.
iured internally, was taken to the hospital at
Fitchburg. The horse was killed and the carriage
crushed.
Jimmy Dunlap, who was pardoned out of
Massachusetts penitenary in 1891, was arrested
have in Dunlap and Peoria" Ryan the men who
have conducted number of recent successful
afebreaking enterprises In Chicago. Dunlap
was one of the men convicted OF the Northampton
bank robbery of 1876.
alag day" was very generally observed
throughout the country on Saturday. The cele-
bration was made the occasion for great sound
money demonstrations in NeT York, Buffalo,
Boston, Hartford, Worcester, New Bedford, St
Iouis Cincinnati and other cities. In New York
| city 100 600 men were in line
Miss Mathde Nelson, young Swedish woman,
IL suing the estate of the late Austin Corbin for
| $500 600 due, she claims, according to the rail-
road magnates promise to invest that amount
| FOR her IL Is claimed that she was on very
| friendly terms with Mr.. Corbin. who had de-
| frayed the expenses Of recent trip TO her ma
| tive land
| Cincinnati Hamilton and Dayton coal train
| ran into a switching train in which were three
| loaded oil tank cars at Manhattan Ohio on Thurs
dav night The oil tanks caught fire and a violent
explosion followed, setting fire TO several OF the
| coal cars Engineer A. l.. Jacobs was killed and
| Timothy Reagan who was beating his way on the
train, was probably fatally injured.
President Cleveland has pardoned Emil @.
| KnanDe convicted of embeZzng $4,000 of the
| funds of the Chicopee National bank of Spring
| field Mass and sentenced in 1894 TO five years
| Imprisonment. Knappe made full confession
| and Is the only support Of aged parents and two
| sisters. Knappe was for several years one OF the
| most noted canoeists Ia America and captured
| several national championships. The money
| which he embezzled was lost in stock specula
| ton.
The mining town of Duryea, near Wilkesbarre
Pa, was the scene Of two tragedies Saturday
| night, growing out of political disputes. Franz
| Bromskin a Polish Republican, quarreled witt
| some of his countrymen, and In the morning his
| body was found in ditch with the skull crushed
His assailants had evidently used heavy club
| John Luby and Andrew Drotsd, Slavs fought n
a barroon. Luby drew big knife and stabbed
Drotski. He died In a few hours Luby drew the
knife across his own throat infictinR injuries thai
may prove fatal.