Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-11-18

$50, making an average of 1886 a horse
1t is said that Mr.. Ehret was offered $780,
600 for his entire stable before the sale be-
gan.
The president has appointed William
Potter of Pennsylvania to be minister to
Italy; David p. Thompson of Oregon to be
minister to Turkey, and Edward G. Little
OF Kansas to be agent and consul-general
to Cairo, Egypt.
One non-unionist named Newman shot
and killed another named maynard, i'm
the bunk house of the Carnegie steel works
at Homestead Tuesday night. Newman
says he was assaulted while asleep and be-
lieving his assailant was a striker fired
and killed him.
Joseph Townsend and wife, aged 81 and
50, while driving across bridge at CALI
con, n. Y, were suddenly precipitated in
to II inches of water Their horse fell
upon them, pinoning them face down
ward in the water, where they were
drowned.
A number of large wooden manufactur-
ing companies in Rockville, Conn, have
ceived notice to cancel orders for good for
large amounts, owing to the result of the
recent election. The plans made by one
company for building new mill have been
abandoned.
Two weeks ago Kremln, owned by the
Allen farm at Pittsfield, Mass, lowered the
trotting record for stations to 2:0S4 at
Nashville, Tenn. A few days later Siam
bOul covered a mile in pos at Stockton,
Cal. Now Kremlin is ahead again, hav-
ing trOtted in 2:07a at Nashville Saturday.
Expert accountants find that w. H. Rus
sell, the embezzling treasurer of the LON
bard investment company of Kansas City,
stole 100000. Russell is now in Mexico,
free from arrest, ENLIGHTENMENT not being
extraditable. Lewis, the bookkeeper who
stole 1000, has been eXtradited, and will
be brought to Kansas City.
There is a prospect of long contin-
uance of the struggle between capital and
labor in the Lancashire cotton district.
Mills containing 100000 spindles and
employing $4,000 workmen are stopped.
One third of the industry of that country
is paralyzed and will remain so until the
question of wages is settled.
Henry A. Slade, the spiritualist, whose
career in London and subsequent trial for
fraud created a sensation IA years ago, and
who in late years has been the leading me-
hospital in Sioux City Saturday, suffering
from nervous prostration, bordering on in
sanity. He is without money and friend
less.
Two Swedes employed at the reservoir
in West Hartford, Conn, were waylaid at
the foot of the Talcott mountains at a late
hour Saturday night. One was shot and
is not expected to live. His companion
70 al ;,,to . 10
woods. Both men were robbed of their
wages. The Hartford police have discov-
cred no clue.
A mill collapsed in Oprau, Moravia
when POO hands were in the building
When the walls began to crack the men in
the basement and on the ground floor ran
out. The men and girls above started
down stairs. In the panic the stairway
collapsed and before anybody could strug-
gle out of the ruins the whole building
came down. Fifty were buried in the de-
bris and 30 or 40 were killed.
A striker at Homestead Penn, began a
row with two colored men who work in the
mill, last Saturday, and knocked one of
them down. The latter drew revolver
and fired, and in minute the air was full
of flying bullets. The negroes were pur-
Sueu 10 Inelr MONIES Dy q furious mon, ana
for a time the authorities were powerless to
check the riot. Three men were wounded
by bullets and dozen by flying missiles.
Fire destroyed the principal block, a
large tobacco warehouse and other build
ings, valued at $3.50, 000 at Winston, N. c.,
Monday. At the election the Democrats
carried the third ward, negro Republican
stronghold. After the fire negro was ar
rested for saying, 81 guess the d Dem
Gratis are sorry now that they cheated us
out of our ward" His arrest caused so
much excitement that military company
was called out to patrol the streets.
The Broadway Tabernacle society in
New York has accepted the resignation of
Rev. DR.. VIM. NJ. Taylor as pastor, con-
tinuing his salary of $4,000 until next
May and making him pastor emeritus for
life on a salary of 5000. The society has
carried a policy of $25, 900 on DR.. Taylor S
life, which will fall due next May, and
with the accumulated dividends will
amount to nearly S34, 900. All superan-
nuated ministers do not fare as well as DIR.
Taylor does.