Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1892-11-25

There was a grand rush of the Home
stead strikers to get back to work Monday.
Great excitement prevails at Truro, n.
S., in consequence of rich discovery of
gold, about 40 miles from that place.
Two men were killed and dozen injur-
ed by an explosion of % kegs of powder in
mine near Steubenville, Ohio, Monday.
A path 200 yards wide was cut through
Red Bud, H., by cyclone last week Thurs
day. Thirty-ive houses were destroyed.
One man was killed and 10 persons injured.
The Georgia Legislature has passed reso-
lutions calling on the incoming Congress to
carry into effect the provision of the Dem
ocratic national platform for the repeal of
the 10 per cent tax on state banks.
r. II. Coleman of Lebanon, Pa, as pres
ident of the jacksonville, Tampa and Key
West, Fla, railroad has been sued by
Wayne MacVeagh, consul for Receiver
Young, to recover S1,800,000 in bonds,
which it is alleged that Coleman hypothe-
Gated to his own use.
G. Z. Bagley, an express messenger on
the Rock Island road, took two packages
containing Sl50,000 from his safe, left the
train at Davenport, Iowa. and buried the
treasure. Two hours later he was arrest
ed He at once confessed aud the treasure
was recovered.
A census bulletin shows that out of a
total railway mileage for the world of &c.,
2S1 miles the United States have no less
than 163,507 miles, or AIS per cent of
the whole, and that the railway mileage of
the United States exceeds by 3493 miles
the entire mileage of the old world
GERS and men make up the United States
regular army, according to the report of
| the adjutant- general. OF these COPS are
! II, 1877 in the infantry. The remainder are
| employed in miscellaneous services.
A proposition to dam the Delaware river
| is meeting approval. There is an available
power equal to $4,000 horse power for
every ten feet of fall in the river. The
| fall between Easton and tide is 152 feet.
! This immense power may soon be harnessed
to scores of busy wheels in the county.
The first estimate of the amount lost by
Chicago through the irregularities in the
water Office was made Friday, $500, 900 be-
ing the amount for 1892. The books, ac-
cording to the expert accountant, are in a
condition of hopeless decentralization, ow-
ing to the erasures and lack of system.
The image of Diana, recently brought
to Chicago from New York and set up on
the dome of the agricultural building at the
worlds fair grounds, is to be taken down
The women declare it is indecent and the
artists say it is out of proportion and not
at all like the model submitted by St. eau
dens.
The grand jury which has been consider
ing the Borden case at Taunton, has beer
dismissed until Thursday, December l. Il
is thought that the officers have struck {
new clew which it is desired to have follow
ed before the jury act on the case. 1t il
rumored again that more than one indict
ment may follow.
Another dividend of five per cent in ia
vor of the creditors of the Maverick nation
al bank of Boston will be declared by tn,
comptroller of the currency in a few days
This will make the aggregate dividends paiC
50 per cent on claims proved, amounting
to about S6j0,000, and will be the last div
idend but one which viii be declared.
The dispatches received at Seattle shov
that the recent storms in Washington wer
the most severe ever experienced in tina
section. Fatalities are reported at Skagit
Sedro, and Stillaguminish Mt. Vernon
Laconner, Hamilton and other towns ar
under water four or more feet deep. Sew
eral railroad washouts and big landslide