Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-12-08

Seventeen thousand more Scottish miners have
Joined the strikers, making ll1OOO who are idle
Scarlet fever is epidemic ct Montreal Twenty
four deaths occurred from the disease last week
The number of Worlds Fair awards will be cut
down from 10000 to $500. There were in all co.
900 exhibitors.
The United States debt statement shows a net
increase in the public debt less cash in the treas
ury, during November, of S61lG,13S47.
The New York Locomotive machine works of
Troy, n. Y, were burned Monday night causing
a loss of 100000, with insurance OF 100000.
fire in Baltimore on Saturday evening de
stroyed four large business buildings South
Paca street, causing loss estimated at 100000
The 5000 Oneyville, Rhode Island, worsted
weavers have rejected the compromise offered by
the mill owners. An attempt is being made to
open the mills
Mrs Fryer better known as Pauline Cush-
man. noted female scout of the Rebellion, died
in San Francisco, Saturday, from the effects of a
dose OF morphine.
The validity of the will of the late Joseph Walker
of Portland Maine. has been decided and the
S2j9OOO which he left to charitable and education
al purposes will be distributed
The grip is prevalent in Washington and there
are more cases in the vicinity of Pittsburg, Pa.
than in 1890. The disease yields more readily to
treatment than in former years
H. c. North a commission merchant of Denver,
was sand-bagged and robbed of $3.50 and gold
watch, Saturday, in an alleyway within few feet
of a crowd of men who were reading the bulletins
at a newspaper office.
Incompetent non-union employees caused a bad
freight wreck on the Lehigh valley road at White
haven, Pa, Saturday, in which three men were
probably burned to death and the town damaged
100000 by resulting fire.
Representatives of the Krupp gun factory are
making efforts to sell TO the government the l6-
inch rifled gun manufactured at the Krupp works,
in Germany and exhibited at the Worlds Fair at
Chicago. The price asked is S25O,OOO
Col Ainsworth, who was indicted for man
slaughter for being partly responsible for the
Fords theatre disaster in Washington, in which
HID fhaa nan
atty as defect has been found i'm the indictment.
II is probable that the Harvard annex will be
incorporated with the university at an early date,
the $3.50 900 endowment required by the Harvard
corporation having been raised In this case the
Young women graduates will receive their de-
grees.
The quarantine at Brunswick, Ga, was removed
Friday and the railroads have resumed their reg
ular schedules. Nearly one-half the people OF
this little city have been attacked with yellow
fever during the summer, and while many died
the death rate was smaller than usual with this
scourge.
Fifty. six indictments for murder were returned
by the grand jury at Chicago. Forty of the per
sons indicted are at present in jail. In 10 cases
the defendants We're released on bail: rms Is the
worst record in the history of the city. FENDER
CAST who shot Mayor Harrison, is the youngest
murderer indicted
Clarence Murphy, the receiving teller OF the
Salem Mass. savings bank, has been living eX-
travagantly for some time The trustees began
an investigation of his accounts saturday, WINE
it was in progress Murphy suddenly leIt ms
counter, Selling S50Oas he passed out lie JUMPED
from a rear window ana escaped. IL now ap'
pears that there is deficit of $4,000 In his ac-