Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-10-12

A tornado at Biwabic in the Mesaba iron
range of Minnesota, on Saturday, killed 10
persons and destroyed property estimated
at from $500, 900 to 100000.
American marines captured 1870, 900 in
Tien Tsin building, which they promptly
turned over to the proper authorities, and
Secretary Long now has drafts for the
amount.
The steamship City of Seattle has arriv-
ed at Seattle from Skagway with 81 ,5OO,-
600 in Klondike treasure and 317 passen-
gers. There is another outbreak of small
pox at Cape Nome,
The Adams Mine powder house, at Eve
leth, Mimi, blew up Sunday evening,
breaking every glass window in the city.
No fatalities are reported. The shock was
distinctly felt 10 miles from the scene of
the accident
Mexico has a Galveston horror of its
own, though on a smaller scale, in the
floods which have filed two important riv-
er valleys, sweeping away the abode houses
of the people and drowning an unknown
number of people.
Bodies of those killed in the great storm
are still being recovered at the rate of 10
to 90 a day at Galveston, Texas. 1t is now
certain that the dead in the city will ex-
coed 5000, beyond the city limits 1900 and
on the mainland more than 1000. CONNER
cial conditions are improving rapidly.
A shocking insurance crime has been I'M
earthed at Chicago. The warrants are out
for three men, who will be arrested and ac-
cused of the murder of a young girl,
whose life was insured for $12, 900 in three
companies. She was in the plot but sup
posed body would be substituted for hers.
Richard W. Sprague of West Springfield,
Mass, committed suicide Sunday by jump
ing overheard from the steamer Governor
Dingley in Boston harbor. He left home
Saturday morning, saying he was coming
to Springfield. Dependency caused by
worry over financial troubles is supposed to
be the cause.
The war department has made public a
statement showing the revenues in the
Philippine Islands for the first seven
months, of 1900, to have been $4,7S2, $50,
an increase over the corresponding period
of 1899 of $2,095,385. The customs re-
ceipts for the period named in 1900 were
1892 ,245, and the internal revenue re-
ceipts $686,101
The failure of the Peary exploring steam
er Wjndward to return from the North
leads observers at st. Johns, N. F., to be-
ieve that the explorer will not attempt to
get back this autumn. Probably the sea-
son just past was an open one in the far
north. Should that have been the case,
Lieut.. Peary is likely to have taken the
Windward into some high latitude, hoping
to use her in a further expedition next
season. This would mean that he has
made no special record during the present
year.
Albert Thompson, farmer of York, Ne.
reported to the police of Portsmouth, N.
H., Monday that he had been held up and
robbed of $500 in cash while driving from
York village to his home on Cape Neddick.
A stranger stepped behind the wagon and
climbed inside. Before Mr. Thompson had
time to defend himself he was struck ON
the head with club and lost consciousness.
The highwayman then went through his
clothes, after which he bound and gagged
his victim, placing him inside the vehicle.
The horse found its way home alone, where
the farmers sad plight was discovered by
his family
A mystery is involved in the death of
Miss Jessie Cobb of East Poland, Me-, whose
body was found floating in the Androscog-
gin river at the head of the canal in Lewis
ton on Sept. 20. The body was badly de-
composed when found, and it was at first
thought to be a plain case of suicide, though
her parents did not believe it, but the au-
topsy indicated clearly that the girls death
was not due to drowning, and that she was
dead before she was placed in the river.
Death was due to strangulation. How,
when, or by whom she was strangled are
questions that as yet are unanswered.