Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-11-11
A Queer Tale of the Ocean.

general looseness in the management of
the finances of the province.
Queer Tale of the Ocean,
A curious result of the protracted west
'erly gales on the Atlantic was made known
when the British steamship City of Belfast
came into port at New York Monday night
almost completely dismantled of her wood
work. The vessel passed Gibraltar Oct.
IL, and met succession of heavy westerly
gales, which so impeded her progress that
her coal supply gave out five days before
land was sighted The woodwork was at
tackled to keep the engines going, and all
the combustible deck fittings were put into
the furnaces. Wooden bulkheads were
knocked away and converted into fuel, and
when this supply gave out, the masts of
the ship, bowsprit, and derricks were used
to keep up steam. Every available splinter
had been consumed when the steamer
finally dropped her anchor off quarantine.
Hugh Rogan, aged rs, one of the pioneers
of Kenosha, Wis, recently drew $1,000
from bank and suddenly disappeared
Fire destroyed property covering five
acres at East Boston causing a loss of
100000. Several manufacturing concerns
were burned out.
There is large strike of labor union or
CARNATIONS in New Orleans, involving
many thousand men, and business in that
city is practically suspended.
Hobbs & Co.'s and Walther & Co.'S
wallpaper factories, Behr's sandpaper fac
tories, seven tenement houses and several
other buildings were burned at Brooklyn,
N. Y, Sunday night. Loss 100000.
The recent gales on the great lakes re-
tod in Lose nf 6Oznn UaScpS and
the drowning of no less than 25 seamen
The money loss will reach $3.50, 900, which
is the greatest ever known in the history of
the inland marine.
Private Iams has lost his case for dam
ages against the officers of the Pennsylva-
mia militia who strung him up by the
thumbs for alleged reasonable utterance
while in service at Homestead. The costs,
however, are to be divided between the
county and the defence.
Judge Bookstaver of New York has sign
ed an order for the examination of wit
nesses to the alleged transfers to the Irving
National bank during the night of Oct. 10,
of SOC, 900 of the accounts of the grocery
firm of C. Burkhalter & Co., who made an
assignment early the following morning.
Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage was absent
from his Brooklyn pulpit, Sunday, and
the report was circulated in the ne gspapers
that Mrs. Talmage had become insane.
Mr. Talmage and his wife arrived from
Birmingham, Conn, Monday, greatly in
censed over the false report.
Three masked men rode to the bank in
Spearville, Kan, last week. Two dis
mounted, and went inside the bank, where,
at the point of Winchesters, they com
PEELED the cashier to hand over $4,000.
nnaHa their GAL
Looping furiously from town.
Stanley NJ. Austin was sentenced at
Cleveland, O., recently, to serve seven and
and three years respectively in the peniten-
tiary on two of the counts for embezzle-
ment to which he had pleaded guilty He
falsified the pay roll of the Epson nut COM
pany and embezzled upward of $4,000.
The steam whaler Beluga, which has ar
rived at San Francisco from the Arctic,
brings the news of the destruction of the
whaling barque Helen Mac, Captain Thax-
ter, and the loss of 35 of her crew. only
five of the vessels men were saved. They
were picked up by another whaler after
drifting about in the ice for 4S hours.
A curious iron vessel was picked up by
the police in front of the offices OF the Car
maux mining company at Paris Tuesday
1t was taken to the police station and while
being examined exploded with terrific force,
killing four men. 1t is believed to be the
work of anarchists. The affair has caused
a revival of fears experienced during the
time of the outrages perpetrated by Raya-
chol and his accomplices.
Adam Worth, who, with four Others,
robbed the Boylston bank in Boston OF
100000 in 1869, has been arrested in
Belgium. Worth left this country almost
of M anI for a
most 25 years has been a resident of Lon
don, Eng, where he has kept fine house,
which from time to time has attracted the
attention of visiting Americans. He has
been known to Scotland Yard detectives
as "fence," receiver of and dealer In
stolen property, and has been almost con-
stantly under surveillance.
John Brisban Walker, proprietor OF the
Cosmopolitan Magazine, has recently sold
to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe railroad
company for 50, 500,0 900 piece of land in
Denver, Col, for which he paid $500 less
than ten years ago. AS usual with sue
cessful men, there was no luck about It,
Mr.. Walker was possessed of the ability tc
see the value of this property before any
one else saw it-that is ALL When ne
bought it the territory was detached
piece of land in front of the city with q
river channel between it and the land lalo
out as streets. Mr.. Walker built cause
way to connect his purchase with the main
land. The company was compelled tC
purchase this tract 1t could not get along
without it. Other real estate investments
in and about Denver have netted Mr.
Walker above 100000 or more, so thai
his total wealth is now reckoned at So
600. This is a good amount OF wealth t'
be gained in legitimate ways by compar
atively young man, who was publishing
small weekly newspaper in the city o.
Washington 10 years ago.