Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1890-09-12
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.

j. f. Welch, who was arrested last week
in connection with the t0l Colony disaster,
failed TO appear Tuesday, when his case
was defaulted. lie was arrested a week
ago, aud was placed under $1,000 bonds to
appear Tuesday In the mean time the
grand Jury has indicted WEIGH for the same
offence and his case goes direct to the
superior court, December term, for trial
Several members Of the engineering staff
Of the Nicaragua Canal Construction com
pany have arrived at Washington on = short
leave of absence. They report comn'snda
BILE progress made The Nicaragua com
pany has recently bought the plant " the
American Dredging company 0hich has
been doing the work on the abandoned
Panama canal, and the dredges are now
being delivered at Greytown Already the
pier or breakwater extending out into the
gulf is complete the actual dredging for
the canal on the gulf side has begun. the
telegraph connection from Greytown 10 the
Pacific coast is complete and the railroad
along the line well under way. At present
1900 men end a corps Of 80 officers or en-
gneers are at the ground and at work.
The first work, preliminary 10 work on the
canal proper, was the building ni the great
pier at Greytowp extending 1900 feet out
toward the deep water This is necessary
TO protect the entrance h the canal, and
work on il was begun early last January,
several hundred feet having now been com.
pleted This pier has proved lucky enter
prise When work was begun on IT, the
entrance TO the harbor was obstructed by a
sand bar The 700 feet Of pier already
built has so changed the currents that this
obstruction has been almost entirely worn
away by the action Of the water.
The completion of the railroad tunnel un-
der the st. Clair river between Saveria,
Ont, and Port Huron, Mich, is looked up
on as the greatest international event that
has taken place in years Elaborate prepa-
rations are being made to celebrate the for
NAL opening of this subterranean link
between Canada and the United States
One of the Ogdensburg & Lake Cham
plain railroad grain elevators at Ogdensburg,
n Y, with 1870, 900 bushels Of grain, was
destroyed by fire Tuesday morning, involv-
ing a loss of about half million dollars.
One Of the Ogdensburg x Lake Cham
plain railroad grain elevators at Ogdens-
burg, n. Y, with 4j0, 900 bushels Of grain,
was destroyed by fire Tuesday morning,
involving loss of about half a million Of
dollars
At Chicago Wednesday mind reader
named johnson performed an extraordi-
nary feat, similar 10 that which resulted
fatally to Bishop in New York some time
since, and nearly paid for it with his life.
The Washington Signal office says snow
was reported Thursday morning from Fort
Assinaboine, Mont. This is the first snow
Of the season in the United States. Tenn
perature ranging from % to 30 degrees
prevails from North British America south
ward over Montana. Snow ~ a depth of
from four to six inches fell at places in the
northwest territory above Montana, and
about half an inch fell over north Montana.
The wrangle at Chicago over the worlds
fair site has been settled finally, the orig
inal decision of the committees in favor of
the combined site Of jackson park and the
lake front having been confirmed. This
site is made available now by the addition
Of enough land about jackson park to rem
der the filling in Of the lake front not a
necessity for the accommodation Of the ex-
hibitiOn