Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1893-08-18

John collins, a Berwick, N. H., farmer,
drew S1700 from the bank, and while he
was at work in his barn his vest containing
the money was stolen.
A stranger stepped up to a receiving
teller's window in the First national bank
at St. Paul, Mimi, Tuesday, seized bag
containing $1,000 and fed.
The Gillian claims commission ask for
the payment of $3.50, 900 damages by the
United States government for the seizure
of the steamer Itata during the struggle to
overthrow Balmaceda.
The Coatsworth elevator at Buffalo, n
Y, having a capacity of l 200, 600 bushels
and valued at three-quarters of million
dollars, was burned Tuesday with about
dozen frame structures.
Francis II. Weeks, the New York law
yer who fled from this country after plum
dering the dozen estates of which he was
trustee of over 81 100000, has been seen
in Bogota, South America.
The failure of the miners strike in Eng
land seems already assured. The number
of men idle is now more than 300, 900, but
the miners of Scotland, Northumberland
and Durham will not join the strike.
A cloudburst made havoc in the Epres
district in Hungary Sunday. Fifty per-
sons and many cattle were drowned, 100
houses and several railway and other
bridges were demolished, and much of the
harvested crops destroyed.
The great strike at the Carnegie mills in
Pittsburg, which resulted so dsastrously a
year ago, is at an end. The employees
have drawn up petition asking the Car
negie officials to remove the ban and per-
nit them to return to work.
Recorder Smyth of New York has de-
MED the application of DR.. r. w. Buchan-
an of New York for a new trial and SEN
fenced him to be electrocuted Oct. ?. Blu
chanan is charged with poisoning his wife,
the case being similar to that of Carlyle
Harris.
At New Rigby park, near Portland, Me-,
Saturday, the stallion Nelson lowered his
record of 2:10, trotting in 300. Compe-
tent Judges called the track at least three
seconds slow. At Mystic park Nancy
Hanks failed to beat her worlds record OF
2:O4, trotting in 2:OS4.
George Makepeace Towle, the well
known lecturer, legislator, journalist and
historian, died of paralysis of the brain at
his home near Boston last week Wednes
day, aged 81 years. At the time of hi'
death he was engaged upon the third vol
ume of "The literature of the English
language"
Nelson Morris & Co.'s large fertilizinl
and beef packing establishment in Chica
go was burned Saturday. Loss $500, 900
The firm is the largest of its kind in tn,
world. 1t gained notoriety recently b,
sending one of its employees to prison TO
eating about one cents worth of pig
foot.
Typhoid fever has assumed almost cpl
demic form in St. Louis. The hospital
are crowded with patients and physician
in private practice report new cases daily
and the published list of burial permit
shows many deaths from typhoid. Santa
ry officials say the city is unusually cleal
and give no explanation of the disorder.
Commissioner Linehan was evidently il
error when he stated that $780, 900 of tn
funds of the Peoples Fire Insurance CON
pany of Manchester, N. H., had bee
sauandered. About $191, 900 of the miss
ing securities have been found. The CON
pany has voted to resume business with it
capital stock reduced from 100000
100000.
The Labrador mail steamer reports ha'
ing spoken Peary's steamer Falcon at d.
Wis inlet, northern Labrador, Aug. 2. Sh
had been storm-bound two days. Lieu
Peary had been engaged in visiting I'll
coast settlements to the north and was the
going to Disco, as he was nearly certain
, get dogs there. His plan had been serious
Nv disarranged through the unexpected d
, Law. When spoken he was over 1000 mile
from the point where he had planned
spend the winter.