Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-01-18
A Big Strike.
The MOtdrmen aud Conductors I'm
Brooklyn, N. W, Quit Work and 600
Miles of Road Are Tied Up.

Monday. Six hundred miles of trolley
lines were tied up. The strike was great
inconvenience to the public. The elevated
roads had more passengers than they could
carry.
The motormen and the conductors re-
ceive 81 day, but during slack hours many
of them are temporarily laid off and their
wages are locked in proportion though
they are required to be constantly within
call and ready for duty. The men ask for
an increase of pay from 50 to $2.2 under
these conditions, but they are willing to
forego this increase if due allowance is
made for the time they are laid off, but are
really on duty. Their request looks rea-
sonable, but the traction company says it
cannot afford to grant it..
To Test the COnstitutIonaIity of the
Income Tax Law.
Lewis II. Hyde has begun suit i'm the
United States Circuit court in New York,
against the Continental Trust company, of
which he is a shareholder, to test the con-
stitutionality of the income tax law. The
bill of complaint shows that the trustees of
the company deem it ineXpedient to enter
into a suit with the government in this
matter, and consequently Mr.. Hyde, as a
shareholder, is seeking to restrain the di-
rectors from voluntarily paying what he
claims to be an unconstitutional tax. The
questions raised are entirely distinct fro II
the Moore suit.
HypnOtIsm and Crime.
The hypnotic murder in Kansas that has
been exciting such wide attention through
out the country, as having been the first
case wherein the defence was involuntary
homicide, has assumed new phase by reas
son of the action of the Kansas supreme
court. The jury having acquitted the
man who confessed to having committed
the crime while under hypnotic influence,
and having convicted the hypnotizer of
! murder in the first degree, the higher court
| has now come to the condemned mans
rescIe, and has granted him a new trial.
SwindIed EngIIshmen out of $4,000,
900.
Dispatches received at Yankton, South
Dakota, indicate that the British losses
through the swindling operations of j. T.
NJ. Pierce may reach SS,000,000. at is
asserted that receipts by Pierce at his
London Office were limited only by his
ability to issue forged bonds, mortgages
and other paper. He often exceeded 500,
| 600 a week, and it is alleged in London
that he received no less than 100000 dur
| ing his last week there
A Cable to Hawaii.
The Hawaiian minister of foreign af-
fairs, Francis NJ. Hatch who arrived at
San Francis on the steamer Australia on
Saturday, intends to meet the business
men of San Francisco and urge the i'm
portance of immediate action on the cable
question. He says the lIawaiians do not
| nj tt.il
only as a last resort.
Hundreds of Families in Distress.
Reports from about half the mining dis
tricts of Ohio show from 1900 to 1900 fam
lilies in need of assistance. Gov. McKin-
ley will not issue general appeal for aid,
but will allow the cities to give aid. Co
lumbus citizens raised $500 Saturday night
and sent a carload of provisions and cloth
ing to Jacksonville.
FIlIbusterIng Expedition.
The steam yacht Lagonda, of New York
has been seized by the United States Gus
toms authorities at Fernandina, Florida
on suspicion that she was engaged in fill
clustering expedition in connection with al
uprising in one of the Central American
states. Fifteen cases of cavalry arms anC
Announcements were found on board.
On with the Investigations.
Senator Lexow has introduced in tn
New York senate resolution directing
that the special senate committee, whicl
has been investigating the New York pc
lice department, be empowered to investi
gate the other New York city department
on request of the mayor
The San Jose scale, an insect no large
1,aV, fh.al iaF ranfa & i1 IL
r stroying fruit trees on Long Island.
4 Tie law and order league of Bridgeport
r., Conn. has entered 800 complaints againS
a liquor dealers and keepers of disorder
Y houses.
fire at Toronto, Canada, last wee
+ Thursday ragged four hours and destroye
. 10 wholesale houses, causing loss of 500
d 600 to 81 100000
The four oil companies which combine
+ in Toledo and Cleveland last month I
:, fight the Standard, have been absorbed b
that gigantic trust.
/. A yellow substance covered the snow /
= Kentucky and Illinois Saturday morning
n 1t could be gathered in handfuls and woul
q turn water inky black. The phenomena
IS has not been explained.
New Hampshire farmers have asked IL
e legislature for a law giving owners fu
If value fer tuberculous cows killed by IL
ri state commission. 1t is estimated thu
ID there are 1000 affected cows in the state.
Charles Ibbotson of Portland, Conn
ID became violently insane last week at Sar
If nae Lake, n. Y, where he was stayiI
t. for the benefit of his health. His faith
10 started to see him, but at Utica, n. Y, |
* also became raving maniac.
~ The home of John II. Baldridge, ne
jefferson, Iowa, was destroyed by fire {
l., Sunday night. The weather was intens
D. ly cold, and nine children from three to
he years of age had their feet and hands fro
is en-. They are in critical condition.
is A favorable report was ordered Mond
d. by the Indian committee of the House
the bill opening up to settlement under t
c- homestead laws the Wichita Indian res,
IT. walton in Oklahoma, consisting of abe
or 100000 acres. 1t is proposed to sell t
ais land for $1.25 an acre.
lit Jacob Rosenberg, Is years old, Abrahi
ed Bersom and Joseph jacobson were asphy
Ter lated by Illuminating gas in room in
fiat in New York city, Friday. The 70,
. was heated by a small gas stove, which
!. is supposed, became accidentally ov
= turned and eXtinguished