Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-11-28
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

Conn Friday night, and two men recelV-
ed fatal injuries.
A boiler in a mill at South Bay, New
Brunswick, exploded Tuesday, killing SIX
men and injuring several others so severely
that their recovery is doubtful.
As a result of the new tariff the White
law Bingham company of Scotland, which
has a capital of over 81 ,COO,O OO and en-
ploys 800 men, is to locate at Westport,
Conn.
The United States rolling stock company,
one of the largest builders of railway cars
in the world with shops in Alabama, Illinois
and Ohio, employing 22OO men, has failed,
with large liabilities.
The natural gas supply is giving out in
western Pennsylvania, and it is said that
by the first of January nearly all the large
manufacturing concerns in Pittsburg will
return to the use of coal for fuel.
Louis Cyr. a Montreal athlete, put up a
100 pound dumb bell, from the shoulder to
an arms length above the shoulder, p
times in succession, and also held a l03 -
pound bell out at arms length.
August Belmont, the well-kuown New
York banker a leader in the social life in
the city in his class. and the chairman of
the Democratic national committee from
1860 to 1872, died on Monday. His age
was Il
B. P. Shillaber, one of the most genial
and kindly of American humorist. the
originator Of that delightful literary crea-
ton, Mrs Partington' and her son Ike,
died at his home in Chelsea Mass, ON
Tuesday afternoon aged IS.
A trust known as the American har
vester company, including all the leading
concerns manufacturing harvesting machin-
cry, has been organized with a capital of
$3j, 200. 600. The trust will employ 10000
men, and will make LOG, 900 machines a
year.
Moses S Marks, formerly employed by
the Flour City National bank at Rochester,
" Y, worked the bogus telegram trick on
the National bank of Commerce of New
York city, signing the name of the cashier
of the Rochester bank. He received S25,
900 in bills from the express company and
di, appeared before the trick was discovered.
Richard F. Tobin. fire commissioner of
Boston and senior-vice commander of the
Grand Army, died Saturday night. In 1886
he was the commander of the Massachusetts
department of the G. \. R. During the
war he served in the navy. He had charge
of the arrangements for the recent national
eucampmeut in Boston, and the work and
worry Of the occasion undoubtedly hasten
ed his death
The foot ball game at Springfield, Mass,
last Saturday between the eevens repre-
senting Yale and Harvard colleges was
witnessed by over $1,000 people, and thou
sands more all over the country watched
the bulletins for the result For the first
time since the game was played under its
present rules Harvard won, the score stand
ing u to The friends of the crimson all
over the country are of course elated The
victory was gained by two phenomenal in
dividual plays, in which luck took an i'm
portant part, and the lead thus obtained
could not be overcome by the boys in blue
in the time given them, although they
fought valanty.
Eva Hamilton, the mistress and widow Of
the late Robert Ray Hamilton with whom
bad scandal was connected, has been par
doned out Of the New Jersey state prison,
to which she was sentenced for two years.
The New York Worlds sensation this
week is a long story claiming to show that
the long lost Charlie Ross has been found
and that he is living in a Massachusetts,
city.
About 1000 foreign doctors have already
arrived at Berlin to learn how to use Pro
fessor Koch's new discovery.
There have been destructive gales on the
British coast