Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-05-19


The reports of the inspectors show that 500
men persisted in the Pennsylvania mines last
year.
The White Star line has gwen an order for the
largest steamer built II win be 500 feet long
and cost S2,5O0,OO0
Mrs. Ellen Augusta Corne |, wife of exGov
Cornell, died at Ithaca, N Y, on the 18th inst
She had been in poor health nearly two years.
Maj A R. Hale aged 20, for over 2l years den.
titled with many well. known hotels in New Eng
land aud Florida, died at New London Conn,
Sunday. G- =
The New York Herald, which has heretofore
Bennett, is to be run by a stock company, Mr.,
Bennett, however, retaining controlling inter
est.
Protracted drouth has caused such damage to
the grain crops Of Italy that that country will be
compelled to import this year ll35OO,0OO bushels
of grain in excess Of the ordinary amount i'm.
ported =
In the annual athletic games at Cambridge Sat
urday between Harvard and Yale, Harvard
scored e. points in the IL events to IS for Yale.
The only record broken was by Bloss of Harvard
in a running broad jump, - feet inches.
j. L. Sullivan, the ex-champon pugilist,
saulted a one-armed veteran, named Lizotte, on
train near Biddeford, Me Sullivan was arrested
and placed in jail He gave bonds for his appear
ance for trial and settled the action for damages
by paying a large sum.
The racing season was opened in New York
Monday when 3 900 people witnessed the Brook
lyn handicap, which was won by Diablo There
were IS starters and the event worth S25 900,
of which $4,000 vert to the winner. Lampght-
err the favorite, was second
The government of Nicaragua has healthy
voune rebellion on its hands and the revolution
lists seem to be having the best OF II thus far
News came last week that they were in possession
of the canal and our government at once sent a
gunboat to Greytown to protect our interests
Two six yearold girls were burned to death the
same day last week, near Amherst, Nova Scotia,
under precisely similar circumstances. Both
were playing in fields where fires were lghted 10
burn up old grass: both went 100 near the nIes,
their clothing ignited, and both were burned 10
Gen. C. Armstrong founder and superintend;
ont of the Normal institute at Hampton, dled
Thursday night Of last week, aged 50. Ever since
| the war he has devoted his life TO the manual
| training of young colored people and Indians OF
| both sexes. He often had as many as lOOO uhder
| his care.
The supreme court. Monday, through Justice
| Gray. sustained the decision Of the New York
| courts in favor of the constitutionality OF the
| Gearv exclusion act, which provides tnat all
| Chinese who are not properly registered shall be
returned to their native country. Justice brewer
! dissented s,,,. -
Joseph Francis the inventor of life-6oats ana
life cars and the first man to use iron 10 thelr
| construction died at OtseRo Lake. n y lasI
week. aged 90. His life saving appliances were
in general use in Europe long SeiSfe they s his
| adopted by the United states. FracIicahy al ii'0
life was spent in boat ouhdihg, ..
The will of the late Joseph S, Spinney, who lelt
an estate valued at $4,000, 600 has been hled IoI
| probate IN BIOOhlyns -
| Email henuests TO relatives and friends, ana or
ders the residue TO be divided Rtween MS slsUeT'
| The Wesleyan university OF Mlddleto"h' Oohh''
! and the Seaman's Friend society.
Hon. O. c. Moore. representative from the sec
! ond district of New Hampshire 70 the olht Oo1
Dress and from 1864 TO the time OF DIS deStn, Gu
ftor and manager of the Daily and weekly itie ,
| aranh Of Nashua die last week FRIDAY 10 tna'
eity aged A He was a leading editor, polticiian
and orator in the Republican party ana heiu iii
portant official positions ue
A the outcome of an investigation Oy Lne
rand iury of the recent lynchng OF a Ies no
taIen from jail at Chattanooga Tenn, anu l. .,f
ed for assaulting an old woman ~ r;TSSIaaSer.
have been returned. FIVE OF .he Ing
Iii he tried for murder and 81 as accessorlsIi
S Sln ~ the men indicted are prominent cItl
So one beine a wholesale merchant ana one d
policeman ...,o,,s ooss :,
ot,a treasury department has curious case U
dido which has arisen at Buffalo, \; l. Nat til
w w - 20 Unmarried in great quantities. oy PIP
a. a. koo ,inaniss into Buffalo from Canada ny
pefaIo t5as companies claim that the hatuIal : a.
nomnanies should pay duty on le ~ t,h 20 o. i h
Natural gas and the ques ION Is "nat Wv ~ s,,I
and how il is to be scheduled-as hlihei"i SUI
stance. or something else, ~. Vol, .,
svndicate has been formed al New i III y
huild and equip line between NiaSa an'ri I,o1ve
ouhonx, Tor the transmission or elecllc pow
A loanS ,ad Inv the Niagara Falls Power COMPANY
kt,,,r r. eaters of Niagara river passing lhlouki
htai nits into tunnel which mas JUST ~ "a .
"iatsd The tunnel is 20 rect IN lS,'s ~ -
Rit n, diameter The Niagara Falls Sohlpan;;
~ sWnended nearly Sb.OOO'OOO IN US
and consumed nearly three years W w Seat an
e~n.c 10 furnish electricity lor nsn Station
lot