Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-12-07
ONT PHGNIX BRATrLEBORO FRIDAY, DECEMBER T. 1894
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
In the Financial World.

III the t1nanClal world
Government Estimates of Expenses---
the Public Debt---Stewart Syndicate's
Gold Payment.
The annual estimates of appropriations
for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1896,
have been sent to Congress by the secre-
tary of the treasury. They aggregate
$40, 435 ,070. The amount asked for pen
sions is Sal, 5S1, $40.
The debt statement issued Monday shows
a net decrease in the public dert, less cash
in the treasury, during November of S3l,-
IA, 551.G0. The interest bearing debt in
creased 81 100, 10; the non-interest bear
ing debt increased 81, 1922, 1850, and the
cash in the treasury increased S37, 167, AGO.
The Stewart syndicate has completed the
payment of gold into the New York sub
treasury for the new S50,000,O0O bond is
sue, making the last deposit of over ST.
10000 Monday.
\ Water Power of 100000 Horse
Power.
Duluth, Mimi, is planning for the great
est water power in the world. +. 5. Jeni-
son, civil engineer, is the protector, and
he is backed by Chicago capitalists. The
of the st. Louis and CloQuet rivers into a
canal which will carry them to the high
bluffs overhanging Duluth. 1t has been
estimated that 100000 horse power can be
secured by the fall of nearly 700 feet, which
is five times as great as that of the falls of
Niagara. The available horse power would
he six times greater than that of any other
place in the ord.
Traffic.
The Canadians are determined to i'm
prove their canals for quick water connec-
ton between the great lakes and the sea.
| The latest announcement is that Minister
Foster has arranged in England for a loan
of S12 100000 for canal enlargement and
| general improvement Of the Dominion
waterways. One of the improvements is
to be the deepening of the $500 canal to
| 20 feet. Americans must give their canals
renewed attention, or Canada will capture
the best of the lake traffic.
Ex-Judge HarIan's Sad Condition.
EX-Judge James f. Harlan. a brother of
| Justice Harlan of the United States SUI
| preme court, went to the city almshouse at
| Louisville, Ky, Saturday. He undertook
| this as a last hope OF curing himself of the
! liquor habit. He has been a prominent
| lawyer and ID years ago served a term upon
/ the bench of the law and equity court.
He had large practice and was regarded
as one of the abest men at the bar, but his
habit of drinking grew upon him until he
is now a wreck.
The Company May Lose 100000.
The contract under which 10000 acres
In, -
and leased to the COnsolid ,tcd Land ~
Water company of Chicago, of which John
| V. Farwell is the head, has been annulled
by the state land board. bitches anC
other Improvements valued at 100000 vii
be lost by the company unless the court.
revoke the action of the board
The Commercial bank in Lamont, Iowa
was robbed Friday morning. The burglar.
secured over $4,000 in money, vauabl,
jewelry, diamonds and watches.
Hundreds of barrels of apples and pota
toes are buried under the snow in town
around Nashua, y. II. The snow came 81
early, and, having remained, will cause {
loss to many belated farmers.
The Granite Cutters national union ha
given the prescribed notice to the Grant,
Manufacturers association of New Eng
land of desire to change the existing
agreement after its expiration, March l
1895.
The post-otiice at Hoboken, y. Y, wa
robbed in broad daylight Monday of S735
worth of postage stamps, which were take
from a vault in the private Office of tn
postmaster. The thief had duplicate key
to the office and vault.
Kate Quirk, a servant employed in tn
Kendall House, Watkins, n. Y, an
Charles y. Richards, saloonkeeper wer
found in the woman's room at the hott
Friday with their Threats cut. The woma
was dead and the man fatally injured
Richards jealousy is believed to hav
prompted the murder and suicide.
A train on the Delaware IL Hudson raj
road was deraled mile and a half mort
of the Port Henry, n. Y, tunnel, Monday
and the mail and express car was throw
into Lake Champlain. Richard Quinn
the express messenger, and Samuel Rouse
mail agent, were drowned and other train
men were injured and narrowly escape
being drowned.
John Burns, a member of Parliament
and representative of amalgamated labC
in England, arrived in New York Monda,
and was welcomed by representatives
l. the different trade unions. He is accom-
2 panied by David Holmes, a London labC
: leader. They are on their way to DenvC
' to attend the annual congress of the Anne
, lean Federation of Labor.
: Pierre John Gulick, 81 years old,
\ Springfield, Mass, member of the Soph
= more class of Harvard college, was foun
dead in his room in one of the dormitorie
of the college at Cambridge, Friday, hayir
shot himself through the head with a r
d vOlver. He is supposed to have been sutfe
i ing from melanchOlia. He was the son
n a missionary and was preparing himself fC
d that work. One of his brothers, DR.. G
n lick, is the head of the Christian trainir
It school at Springfield.
Six hundred feet of ocean piers at T
coma, Wash, plunged into the bay la
Thursday night, and at least two perso
went down in buildings and were browne
u The ocean piers settled for distance
). 1900 feet, and it was feared that the b
II grain elevators, coal bunkers and buildn
= of the Northern Pacific railroad would c,
Y lapse. 1t was first claimed that a gre
e. tidal wave had swept into the bay, or til
u a subterranean landslide had occurred.
appears, however, that the land where t
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