Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-09-27

Japan and China are fairly alive with
cholera germs. From official sources it is
learned that over 1000 people have died
in Japan from the plague
Louis A. Lee, the assistant teller in the
Hampden national bank at Westfield,
Mass, has been sentenced to five years in
Jail, the minimum term, for his recently
discovered defalcation of S4905.
Oliver Curtis Perry, the notorious train
robber now confined in Auburn prison,
n. Y, recently attempted to destroy his
eyesight by thrusting needles into his eyes.
He will probably lose the sight of one eye,
if not both.
A very rich deposit of aluminium was
recently discovered at Dover, n. H., by
workmen eXcavating for the foundation
for bank building The metal glistens
brightly in the sunlight. 1t is very rarely
found so rich
The p Cubans on trial at Wilmington,
Del, on the charge of "flibustering," were
acquitted Monday by the jury, and dis
charged by the court. The citizens of Will
mington Joined with the Cubans in cele-
brating their victory.
Dispatches from Madagascar say that
| Gen. Duchesne, with force of French
troops, surprised 5000 Hovas. After a
short engagement the Hovas fled, leaving
! so dead. On the French side one was kill
ed and only three were wounded.
The six-ton steel door of the Indiana
national banks money vault, in Indianap-
oils, was opened Friday The contents of
the vault, 100000 in currency, were
found to be intact, and the interior was not
damaged by the fire which destroyed the
building.
A passenger train was derailed by train
robbers near Waupaca, Wis, Thursday
night. The robbers exploded dynamite
cartridges in vain effort to open the safe
and they finally gave up the attempt The
passengers were badly frightened, but they
were not molested.
A Wichita, Kansas, despatch says tina
"terrible prairie fires are raging in thu
southern part of Oklahoma. Thousand
of acres have been devastated and the los
will be very heavy. The cowboys have or
ganized into fire brigades and are fighting
the advancing flames"
A tornado swept over Menominee, Mich.
Sunday night, blowing several million
feet of lumber into the lake and river
Much of it was driven across the bay
Shade trees were uprooted, dwellings un
rooted, store fronts broken, and wire
blown down. The loss is 100000.
Lillian Shafer, an equestrienne from st
Louis, and her companion, Edward Kern
of Chicago, while standing upright OF
horseback in hurdle race before 1000
people at the county fair at Findlay, Ohio
Friday, were thrown by one of the horse
stumbling. Both were fatally injured.
Federal officers in San Francisco are il
yestigating charge that "Little Pete ant
Leong Nam, notorious Chinatown slav
dealers" have succeeded lin smuggling 3
women, bought in Hong Kong for $50
each, into the United States, under tn
pretence that they were to work at the A
lanta exposition.
After weeks of wordy agitation the Fla
River weavers' union voted almost unan
mously Friday night not to strike for an az
vance in wages. Secretary Whitehead mac
@ the principal address of the evening. i
) presented figures showing that since u.s.
2 Fall River operatives had lost So, 900, 600
one form or another as the result of strike