Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-06-30

statement of the expenditures of the
recent naval review in New York harbor
shows that $4,000 of the S350,000 appro-
priation was used.
Six men were killed and seven fatally in
iured by an explosion while pouring mott
en- metal into a mold at the iron works in
Magdeburg, SaXony.
Two of the cowboy racers, from Chad
ron, Neb., reached the Worlds Fair en-
trance at Chicago, Tuesday, only 10 minutes
apart.
The factory of Turner & Seymour, hard
ware manufacturers, at Torrington, Conn.,,
was burned to the ground Sunday morn
ing, the loss being about $50, 900.
The village of Augusta, Mich, located
in the northeastern part of Calhoun coun-
ty and having a population of 600, was
wiped out by fire Wednesday morning.
A careful estimate of the property of
the late Senator Stanford of California in
dictates that its value is nearly $50, 900, 900,
on which there is an annual income of
about 81, 100000.
The Sycamore hotel, located on Green
Island, Lake George, was burned early
Tuesday morning. 1t was one of the
uneSJ lOlelo III lle anu Tic lOSS Is
estimated at 100000.
The great American Derby race at Chi
cago Saturday was won by j. f. Cushing
brown colt Boundless, in 2:36, lowering
the previous best time of 2:36t. 1t is said
that 100000 changed hands.
The level of the Mississippi river at New
Orleans Saturday was IFS feet above mean
low water and rising. This is 2.10 feet
above the highest flood level on record
and 40 feet above the danger line.
A City of Mexico despatch tells of a
woman who forced her eight-year-old
daughter into bakers oven. The woman
lighted a fire and the child was roasted to
death. She received life sentence, as the
law does not provide the death penalty.
An eight-yearol old girl at Norwich, Conn,
was burned to death Saturday evening, hel
clothes taking fire from gasoline stove
she was lighting. Her sister, aged IA,
was fatally burned in trying to put out the
flames, and a younger child was badly
burned about one arm.
Judge Goddard in the supreme court al
Denver, Col, has handed down his decision
| in the case of the people against 7
! Thatcher Graves, charged with the murder
of Mrs Barnaby, denying his application
for release on writ of habeas corpus, and
remanding the prisoner for trial at the
September term of the district court.
James Campbell, who has been in jai
at Boston for two years, was sentenced
Friday to four years in state prison on the
charge of stealing $500 for clerk in the
bank of the Republic in 1889. Campbell
has had long criminal career and has OPP
Grated in nearly every state in the Unior
and Canada, having served considerable
time in prison.
A monument to the memory of the five
anarchists, Spies, Parsons, Fisher, Lining
and Engel was unveiled Sunday afternoon
at Waeldheim cemetery at Chicago More
| than 25OO persons assembled at the buria
| ground. There was scarcely an American
among them, the exercises being mainly il
foreign tongues. The crowd was orderly
and made no disturbance.
The Russian eXtradition treaty went into
| effect Saturday. 1t is said in Washington
that over 50 Russian spies arrived in thii
| country a little more than month ago
and that they have already become familia
with all the ramifications of the Russian
revolutionary circles in New York and 9th
er cities. Arrests under the treaty ar,
| looked for within few days.