Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-09-24

IeNts lual many deaths placed under the
head Of enteritis and entric fever were
really from yellow fever. There were -
deaths from dysentery and entertis, this
showing being due 10 the lack Of nulri-
tiOus food. The inspector says: Unless
the laws are 50 amended as to admit GER
tain food products. none but the favored
few will be- able to obtain nutritious food.
Even al the present time all fresh meats
command prices above the reach of the
lower class, while breadstuffs are proper
tionately higher. | have mt had suffi.
cient time 10 push an investigation of the
number Of cases of beriberi among the
Cinnamon here. 1t is certain that no city
can show more inviting presence to cpl
demic disease than the city of Havana"
The Chinese newspapers say that the
band of 20 pirates which has committed
many acts of violence on the Chinese coasts
during the past year has been captured by
the commander and crew of the Chinese
gunboat sent out from Canton. They
were taken before a military tribunal at
Sau Ling, near Canton, condemned TO be
beheaded, and at once executed.
Plans will soon be presented to Con-
gress for proposed ship canal 10 extend
from the southeastern corner of Lake
Michigan TO the western end of Lake Erie,
near Toledo. This canal would cut off
about 1000 miles of travel, the distance
around to Chicago through the straits of
Mackinac, and would also add six weeks of
navigation at each end of the season. The
cost of the canal is estimated at So, 600, 600.
Employees of the Massachusetts state
board of lunacy and charity, who were &C
cused of lobbying at the state house last
winter, were eXonerated Monday by the
board when its report on the recent inves-
tigation was made public. The board says
the evidence was insufficient TO sustain the
charges, and its report lays stress on the
work done at the state house last winter
by the reformers in charity methods &C
cusing them of "log-rolling'' or trading in
the interest of charity measures.
Seattle is excited over a report Of new
gold discoveries of marvellous richness on
Mount Baker, one Of the highest peaks of
the Cascade range. The news was brought
to Seattle by the conductor of the Seattle
and International railway from Sumas.
His engineer had deserted the train. 1t
was through this engineer, j. C.. DOolittle
that the discovery was made. Prospectors,
grub-staked by the engineer, are said TO
have discovered free-millng gold lodges
that assay as high as $4,000 TO the ton.
They tried to keep the report quiet until
they had located on all the good claims,
but the story leaked out, and mad rush
has begun from the northern counties of
the state 10 Mount Baker.
On account of the Dingley tariff law,
Lever Brothers, limited, of Birkenhead,
England, one of the largest soap manu-
featuring firms in the world, have decided
to build in this country a factory and a
whole village for their employees. The
product of their British factory, which
formerly had large sale in this country,
has been excluded y the Dingley law, and
to regain lost trade the firm will produce
the same brands of soap here. II. w.
Lever, the president of the corporation, will
come to this country in October to select a
suitable site for the American factory and
village, which will probably be situated in
New Jersey or on the New York shore of
the Hudson river. The main factory of
the firm employs 2500 persons, who, with
their families would compose a village of
about 5000 inhabitants.