Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-10-02
No reduction is to be made in the wage

No reduction is to be made in the wages
of the operatives of the Fall River mills.
Two freight trains colided at Mount ain
Park, Pa. few days ago and 100 cars
were destroyed.
Indiana's wheat crop will reach at least
IS ,000,0 600 bushels this year, and is the
largest since 1879.
England and Germany have applied for
about five acres of space in the world 5
fair buildings for their exhibits.
There were two big fires at St. Louis on
Sunday, the Plant mills and the Mansur-
Tibbetts agricultural implement warehouse
being destroyed.
The examination in the Searles will case
has been suspended for two weeks. Searles
has not made a good witness, showing a
lack of candOr.
Jacob Brown has confessed at Minneap-
oils to a murder committed eight years ago.
a man by the name of Grey is now in
prison at Chester ILL.,, sentened for life for
the crime.
During the summer vacation the land
ladies of New Haven formed a boarding
house trust, and as result the 1900 stu
dents of Yale college have to pay watering
place prices.
S. Guickenhemer Il Sons siX-story
wholesale grocery and liquor store, one of
the finest buildings in Savannah, Ga, was
destroyed by fire last Friday, causing loss
of 100000.
1t is said that the government rain
makers set off their explosives at Corpus
Christi, Texas, last Saturday, when a few
floating clouds were in sight, and in 10
minutes a heavy rain fell.
The Americans have beaten the Eng
lishmen at their own game, Lord Hawke
crack team of cricketeTs being defeated
at Philadelphia this week by a team of
crack players from that city.
R. G. Dunn & Co., in their weekly trade
review for last week stated that there was
continuance of the general improvement
in trade, and that all the great industries
of the country were doing well.
Six men were badly bruised and injured
Monday by falling 80 feet in a 'cage" when
being lowered into the excavation for a
new sewer at the corner of Green and
Washington avenues at Brooklyn.
A work train with force of 80 Italians
was run into by freight train at Nc
Kim's siding, Butler county, Pa, last
Thursday and the engineer of the freight
train and nine of the Italians were killed.
The most death-dealing sentence in the
legal annals of South Carolina, except in
cases of instruction, was passed at Lau-
rens last Friday, ten negro men being sem
fenced to be hanged for the murder of an
other negro.
An explosion in an oil house on North
Delaware avenue near Race street at Phil
adelphia on Monday caused a large fire,
which destroyed property valued at half a
million. Eleven men were injured during
the progress of the fire.
The prairie fires have caused great dam
age along the line of the st. Paul and Du-
luth railway in Minnesota. Hundreds of
cattle have been burned, and many home
steads destroyed. The forest fires in Wis
consin have been checked by heavy rain
falls.
Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Tennes-
see, Missouri and Kentucky were visited
by earthquake shocks during last Sunday
night In st. Louis and other places peo-
pie were rolled out of their beds. The
damage was principally confined to the
cracking of buildings.
II. f. Cobb of the Boston grocery firm
of Cobb Aldrich & Co., died at his sum
mer home in Westboro, Mass. last Sunday,
at the age of 81 years. By strange coin
cidence he died in the same room in which
he was born, and in the same room in
which his father was born.
The board of health in New York raid
ed a number of wholesale fruit houses i'm
New York few days ago and destroyed
large quantities of grapes which had been
sprinkled with a preparation of copper to
prevent their destruction by worms. 1t
appears now, however, that the solution
was one which had been recommended by
the government experts, who state it would
take deposits of several sprayings taken
from a ton of grapes to make poisonous
dose for a single person.