Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-11-27
IN GENERAL.

The Baldwin locomotive works and the
Westinghouse electrical company, work
ing in conjunction, have completed an
lightning express electric locomotive that
has run 100 miles an hour in actual test.
Bradley G. Newell, the famous Vermont
healer, made his maiden speech In the
legislature Monday in opposition to bill
which provides that no one shall practice
medicine without a certificate from med
ical examining board. The bill was voted
down.
The heaviest snow storm known for
years ragged throughout Montana Wednes-
day. Over foot of snow fell, and the mer-
curry fell TO from 10 to 40 degrees below ze-
70. Tuesday there was heavy snow storm
in northern Minnesota, while heavy rain
occurred in the south part of the state.
A Concord, N. H., despatch gives list
Of 70 savings banks of New Hampshire
which have failed in the last 1S months
with deposits Of over ST., 200, 900, and says
that of this amount 100000 will be lost
to depostors. The money, it is said, was
lost In Western land investments.
John X. Gentry, 200 1-2, the fastest
harness horse of the orld, was sold at
auction in New York last week for $19,-
| 900 The purchaser was l.. G.. Tewksbury
of New York, who also owns Robert j.,
2:01 1-2, and Mascot, 2:04. VIM. Simp-
son bought John r. Gentry at auction last
February for $1,000.
Lawson n Fuller, New York's noted
horseman, succeeded recently In lower
ing the worlds mile record for skin hand
teams, reducing 1t from three minutes to
2.564 1t is interesting to note that of the
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time, five of them are Vermont horses,
having been raised on Mr.. Fuller's farm in
this state.
Richard Croker, the Tammany boss, ar
rived in New York from England last Sat
urday. Croker has said very little since
his return, but that little confirms the i'm
preston that his homecoming is for polit-
ical purposes, and that he is to take a
hand in the Reorganization of Tammany
for the Greater New York election. Wheth-
err he will resume his former open leader
ship or work behind the scenes is not yet
developed.
Now it is reported that the Gar during
his recent visit to Paris, tried to reconcile
France and Germany on the basis of terri
torial adjustment. The report does not
explain clearly how well he succeeded but,
as nearly as il can be understood, France
was entirely willing to make friends, pro-
vided Alsace and Lorraine were given
back to her, while Germany was equally
complaisant, provided nothing was said
about restoring the two provinces. Con-
sequently, II is not surprising that the bel
ligerent Powers show no signs of being
any more amicable since the Cars visit
than they were before.
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banks last Saturday, at the end of the
third week after the election, reflected the
release of boarded funds on even a larger
scale than was anticipated. Deposits in
creased nearly twenty-five millions. Re
viving business explains an increase of
over nine and half millions in loans, and
there remains gain of more than eleven
and a quarter millions in cash. The mag
nitude of these changes in the position of
the banks is unprecedented, but they
merely confirm previous estimates Of the
enormous sums withdrawn from ordinary
channels before election by savings banks
and individual hoarders who wanted TO
fortify themselves against the results of
possible Bryan victory.
Rev. NJ. j. Savage was formally installed
associate pastor TO Rev. Robert Collyer of
the Church of Messiah, New York, last
Sunday night. Rev. DR.. Edward Everett
Hale preached the sermon and in course
of its delivery INDUCED himself in some
enthusiastically plain talk. Ministers do
not find it difficult, he said, to preach the
word Of God, but they have also to con-
tend with corporations of priests, phari-
sees and professors, such as during the
Is years since the revision of the Bible by
a great body of eminent scholars, had re-
fused to accept their work, but stuck TO
the Bible of James III, and this notwith-
standing that the revisers found and ex-
plunged thousands of errors in that old
version. The excuse Of the Bible society,
that their charter said they must have the
Bible sin common USE" DIR. Hale charac-
terized as a mere prevarcation; modern
railways on the same principle ought to
run Stevenson's original locomotive.