Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1895-07-05

The grand jury at Chicago on Saturday
indicted - members of the so-caled ''city
hall pay roll stutfing gang" which is al
legged to have defrauded the city out of
100000.
The lease of the Concord & Montreal
road to the Boston e Maine system went
through as per program on Saturday, thus
completing the latter's monopoly of north
eastern New England.
Prince Bismarck is seriously ill., His
son, Count Herbert Bismarck, and other
members of the family have arrived. The
prince is so years old and has been in good
health until recently.
Prof. Mark w. Harrington, chief of the
weather bureau, has been removed by the
President. There has been friction be-
tween Prof. Harrington and Secretary Nor
ton, his official chief, for some time.
Three of family of six named Tesch
died Monday from poison at Saltwater,
Okl., and three others are not expected to
recover. The poisoning was malicious, rat
poison having been put in a bag of flour.
1t is claimed the much talked of Pacific
cable will be built by British capitalists.
1t will run from Auckland, New Zealand,
to Norfolk Island in the Southern Pacific,
thence to Fiji, next to Tanning Island, and
then over 5000 miles to Vancouver. Its
total length will be 1914 miles and it will
cost S7,595, 900.
Articles have been filed with the Illinois
secretary of state for the incorporation of
the Transcontinental company, with cap
ital stock of S200,000,000 The company
! proposes to construct and operate an electric
railway from Chicago to Jersey City. The
incorporators and first board of directors
are all Chicago men. 1t is understood that
the road will be elevated.
The inland passage from Jacksonville,
Fla, to New York, a distance of 1900
miles, has been made by the torpedo boat
Gushing. The discovery of feasible in
| land route for small vessels is regarded by
| the navy department as of great i'm
| portance, since in case of blockade by a
foreign fleet, it will be possible to send
torpedo boats and attack the enemy's
flank unexpectedly.
According to information published in
the Japan Advertiser, all the Cinnamon
remaining in the territory acquired by
+ Japan in the recent war must discontinue
binding their feet and cut off their pigtails.
This edict will also apply to all Chinese
living in Japan. The Chinese express
great alarm at the announcement and are
preparing, it is said, to leave Japan in
immense numbers if such a law is en-
forced.
The miracle of the Red sea which en-
abed the children Of Israel to escape from
Pharoah, has happened again, according to
a report madeby Maj. Gen. Tulloch to the
British government. He has been survey
ing the route of the exodus and saw the
miracle with his own eyes last spring. A
wind arose so fierce that within few hours
it had driven the entire waters of Lake
Menzahleh ont of sight beyond the horizon,
leaving all the sailing vessels resting on
the sandy bed. This answers to the de-
sCription in the Bible.
A writer in the Forum-Charles F.
Thwing, president Western Reserve Uni
versity-says that the financial manage
ment of the colleges in the United States
has on the whole been abler than the
management of the banks of the United
States. The University of California, for
instance, never made a bad investment but
once, and that of only S22, 900. eve then, -
says member of the board of regents,
"bought bonds of that amount which had
been pronounced good by the supreme
court of the state; the same bonds were
subsequently pronounced unconstitutional
by another supreme court"