Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-08-30

The Union steamboat dock and ware
house in Milwaukee, Wis, together with
other buildings, were burned Thursday.
Loss about 100000.
Another whiskey trust has been formed
in New York under the name of the
American Spirits Manufacturing company.
Its capital is 35,0000 900.
The men in charge of the New York
building which collapsed recently, causing
several deaths, have been held in the sum
of $500 for trial on the charge of man
slaughter.
Three burglars blew open the safe in the
post-office and general store of Z. 4. Phil
lips, at Rush, Missouri, Monday night,
and took money, papers and stamps, val
ued at $4,000.
EX-Gov. Luzon b. Morris of Connecti-
cut was stricken with apopleXy in his office,
in New Haven, last week Thursday, and
died without recovering consciousness. He
was IS years old.
A wild man covered with hair has been
frightening the people at Colebrook, Conn.
A posse of 300 armed men searched for
him, and found the hut he occupied, but
they did not see the lunatic.
A number of Chinese soldiers at TENT
sin, China, revolted recently and killed
over 100 persons in the city. They as
sembled at the gates of Ii Hung Changes
palace and raised clamor for their ar
rears of pay.
Three hundred persons were poisoned
while in attendance at a Lutheran church
festival at Tracy, Ind, Sunday and many
more cases of poisoning developed the fol-
lowing day. The cause is not definitely
known.
Daniel J. Mcleod, a carpenter, met his
divorced wife on the street at Maiden,
Mass, Sunday and asked her to return to
him. Upon her refusal, he shot her, in
ficting a serious but not fatal wound, and
then shot himself dead.
: The charred bones of Howard Pietzel
| have been found by detectives in small
frame cottage in Irvington, suburb of In
| dianapols. Holmes and the boy occupied
the cottage for week in October last.
| They remained for week, when both dis
| appeared. a.
Six of the largest tobacco manufacturers
in the country have formed a combination
to fight the tobacco trust, and to make
cigarettes. The companies are the Loril-
lard of Jersey City, the Liggett & Myers,
Drummond and Christian Pepper of St.
Louis, Scrotten of Detroit and Sorg of
Middletown, Ohio.
A Union Pacific express train was held
up near Brady's Island, Neb., one morn
ing last week, the express car blown open
with dynamite and the safe emptied of its
contents. The fireman escaped with the
engine and gave the alarm at Gothenburg
and the robbers beat hasty retreat. None
| ne ie
said the robbers only got about Sl30.
r. despatch from Port Townshend, Wash
ington, says CONSERVATION has been caused
by the appearance of an army lieutenant,
with a squad of men, with instructions to
all settlers on Government reserves to va
cate the same before September 10, or be
removed by troops. The move is the out
come of recent order of the war depart
ment. 1t is estimated 1900 settlers will
lose their homes.
Some English ladies resident in China
have organized a society to put a stop to
the practice of binding the feet of young
girls. 1t is custom of unknown antiquity,
and like all such usages, no matter how
inhuman or absurd, is perpetuated with
the most fanatical determination. The
Manchus do not bind their feet. That
portion OF lhe Chlnese people VINO cling 10
the habit are as much devoted to it as the
Jews are to circumcision, or the Christians
to baptism. They think that the habit of
tight lacing prevailing among the Ocei-
dental women is much more censurable,
as well as physically injurious, than that
of binding the feet. The most obscure
social customs have commonly rational
origin, and the theory of this one may
have been to keep the women at home.
With the free use of their feet it was nc
doubt thought that they would have gone
gadding about gossiping with their neigh
bors and neglecting their domestic duties.
1t is on the same principle that the wings
of wild birds are clipped in captivity, SC
that they cannot fly away.