Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-08-19

one of the men who was employed by
the Pinkertons as Waterman and who
was badly injured in the fight at Home
stead has brought suit against the agency
for $50, 900 damages.
Lizzie A. Borden is now in the Taunton,
Mass, Jail, charged with the murder of her
father and stepmother, who were killed in
such a mysterious way at Fall River, Mass,
as recorded in The Phoenix last week.
The walls of large glass factory in pro-
cess of erection at Hartford City, Ind,
fell last Friday, in consequence of a heavy
storm. Seven men who were propping up
the walls were buried in the ruins and five
of them killed.
The trouble resulting from the employ
ment of convict labor in the Tennessee
mines has broken out aga II, and large bod
les of armed miners are burning the stock
AIDES, driving out the convicts and terroriz-
ing the country.
A building which was being erected at
the iron mines at Ogden, y. j., collapsed
last Friday, and 20 men were buried in
the ruins. One was instantly killed, two
more have since died, and two are not eX-
pected to recover.
The Christian Alliance camp meetings
at Old Orchard beach, Maine, last Sunday
were attended by 10000 and the collection
was the largest ever received at similar
gathering, over $4,000 being given for
missionary purposes.
Riot held sway among the striking
switchmen of the Erie and Lehigh valley
! railroad at Buffalo, n. Y, on Sunday.
| The strikers set scores of fires among the
cars, wantonly destroyed other property
and made attempts to ditch trains.
Two small boys at Lansing, Mich, met
fate last Saturday similar to that of the
| three lads at Medford, Mass. While at
play they crawled into an ice chest, the
clasp fastened the lid and they died from
suffOcation before they were found.
Two electric cars were coming down a
steep grade between North Andover and
Lawrence, Mass, few evenings ago when
| the forward motorman lost control and the
car jumped the track and was overturned
Two persons were killed and Is others bad
ly injured.
Nancy Hanks trotted a mile in 300 a
Grand Rapids, Mich, on Thursday of las
week and on Friday Flying Jib paced {
mile in 2:0St. In the running races a
Monmouth. near New York, on Saturday
hlluCcI, a lOloGs MOll VIC tastes
race on record, the time being 1871.
Last Fridays New York Mail and Elk
press contained leading editorial propos
ing a railroad fare of 81 to Chicago during
the worlds fair for all workingmen in tn
United States living within 1900 miles o
Chicago, and showing how the railroad
can carry the business with margin o
profit.
Representative John G. Warwick, tn
Democrat who succeeded Mckinley in til
10th Ohio district, died at Washington o.
Sunday. Mr.. Warwick was lieutenan
governor of Ohio in 1888. He was Dor
in Ireland, but came to this country at a
early age and amassed fortune of nearl
a million.
The southern suburbs of st. Louis hav
been most successfully worked by burglar;
three men having in four nights entere
over 80 houses, securing money and iewe
ry valued variOusly from $4,000 to 500
600. The residents of that section are /
terror, many families keeping some men
Der on guard all night.
The body of Charles W. Riggin, boa
SWANS mate of the United States steamC
Baltimore, who was murdered in the rio
at Valparaiso, lay in state in Independent
hall at Philadelphia on Saturday, and o