Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-10-16
IN GENERAL.


pointed receivers for as many embarrassed
business concerns by Justice MacLean in
the supreme court of New York.
A gang OF masked men looted the little
town of Peryear, in Henry county, Tenn,
early Wednesday morning. They set fire
to several buildings before they left.
A class of Ia members passed examna-
tions yesterday and we're formally admitted
to the Vermont bar this morning. A. p.
Carpenter of Nottingham is included in
the list.
While sorting japanese rags in paper
mill at Westbrook, Me-, an operative found
a small metallic object, at which he picked
with penknife, and he lost three fingers
and thumb in the explosion that bllow-
ed.
The grand jury at New Orleans has in
dicted II directors of the Bank of COM
merce, which closed up last month with
loss of $4,000. The cashier was also
indicted for swearing falsely to bank state
ments.
Two railroad trains came in collision,
head on, near Swansea, Florida, early We'd
nesday morning The baggage master and
mail clerk were caught in the wreck and
burned TO death. None of the passengers
were seriously injured. A flagman is miss
ing, and is believed to be in the ruins.
Gold imports from London continue,
and about $S,000,0O0 is now a1oat or I'M
der order for this country. The bulk of
this will undoubtedly be boarded until af-
ter election, and there will probably be in
creased importations for the same purpose.
Gold is being drawn out Of the treasury
in moderate sums, but the reserve stands
at 1924 100000, so that the treasury is in
very strong position.
The two desperadoes who robbed the
Sherburne bank and murdered three per-
sons have been positively identified as j.
II. and Lu Kellihan, g and % years old.
Their parents live at Rock Rapids, Ia,
and admit that the boys are their children.
The Jail where Lu is confined is well
guarded, and there is no danger of lynch
ing.
II the trial of the electric motor which is
now being made on one of the sections of
the New York city system Of elevated rail-
roads is successful it is believed that all
the elevated lines in New York and Brook
Ign will discard steam for electricity. Presi-
dent Uhlman, of the Brooklyn elevated
road, believes that steam locomotives as a
short line or local railroads, are as surely
doomed as the use Of horses on the street
cars.
Wheat was again active and higher in
New York on "Wednesday. The opinion
is growing that this country Is to be the
controlling force in the worlds wheat mar
ket for the coming year, as we have a big
surplus, while India, Russia, Argentina
A
steamer load OF wheat has already been
shipped from San Francisco to India, and
four other steamers had been chartered
for wheat cargoes with Calcutta options.
Three strangers entered the town OF
Meeker, Col, Tuesday andmadetheirw way "a
the store OF Hugus & Co., where the bank OF
Meeker is located They held up the
clerks on duty, also the bank cashier, and
| looted the bank, but as soon as they
reached the street in the effort to escape
they were met by citizens, and hot battle
ensued, in which the robbers were killed
The robbers killed the president of a bank
in Delta, Col, which they robbed year oil
so ago.
The hurricane which came up the At
lantic seaboard Sunday, but went whirline
| out TO sea before 1t struck New England
wrought strange transformations or. ths
New Jersey coast. In some places new
bays have been formed, and new bars il
others. The waters have receded hundred
of feet in some instances and advanced a
much in other places. There is reason 4
believe that the conformation of the SCI
bottom near the coast has been great,
changed and that fresh shadows exist nov
where deep water was found before.
1t will be news % many people that tn
government continues to coin silver dollar
at the rate of considerably more than
million a month, yet such is the fact. Sec
rotary Carlisle reports that from Jan.
1896, TO Sept. 80, 1922, 5l2 standard sill
yer dollars were coined. Only the pur
chasing clause of the Sherman act having
been repealed, the government is free u
coin the bullion which it has accumulated
About 2, zoe, 900 silver dollars were coinet
in September and as many more will b
coined this month. The silver dollar /
rapidly taking the place of the treasur
notes which were issued to pay for tn
bullion. Bryan to the contrary notwith
standing, this country is not suffering
from lack of silver, nor is the silver dol
lar a subject of unjust discrimination b.
the treasury department.
1--WE think with shudder of the mas
sacre of St. Bartholomew" observes tn
New York Evening Post, "that is, tn
slaughter of his own subjects by a soveI
eign on account of their religion, 800 year
ago. We are witnessing today precisel
the same thing, on scale compared I
which St. Bartholomew seems mere stree
riot. Nothing like what is now going o
in Turkey has happened since Tamerlant
1t far out-does the Greek horrors, for tn
Greeks resisted, arms in hand, and die
fighting and killing their tyrants. TIL
present victims fall like sheep and oxer
and nearly a thousand have fallen fo
every Greek who fell. 1t is something az
palling when one thinks of it as occurrin
in the presence of Christian Europe, whic
has !, 1000, 600 of men under arms and coul
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