Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1894-11-09
THE NEWS IN BRIEF.
More Horrible Revelations in the Lex
Ow Hearing.


When the Lexow committee, which is
investigating the Tammanv corruption in
New York city, adjourned Saturday night,
a recess to the 10Th inst. was announced.
The revelations of Friday and Saturday
were the most horrible yet made They
were, in substance, that keepers of houses
of i'll fame and abortionists have paid the
police and through them higher officials al
most fabulous sums for protection
The main witness was one Mrs. Herman,
who testified that for seven or eight years
she had kept four disreputable houses on
one street her profits had been from $1,000
to $500 a month, and she had paid the
police not less than $4,000 for "protec-
ton" and to "fX things on the numer-
Gus times when she had been arrested.
Besides her payments to the officials she
had regularly given the policeman on that
beat 81 three times a week. DR.. White
head, "a specialist in female Diseases
who was called Saturday, made still worse
revelations in regard to the connection of
the police and other officials with houses
where abortions are performed.
Like the Charlie Ross Case.
A kidnapping case which recalls the
Charlie Ross abduction is reported in con-
nection with the discovery of the child at
Scranton, Pa. Two years ago prominent
citizen of the Argentine Republic was rep
resenting his country in a diplomatic pro-
ceeding at Montevideo, Uruguay, when
his tive-years-old son was stolen. Detec-
tives at once began work on the case and
became satisfied that the boy had been
taken to this country. He was traced to
Philadelphia, and several months ago the
search was transferred to the coal regions.
1t resulted last Saturday in the arrest at
Scranton of two Italians, a man and woman
claiming to be married, in whose charge
the child was found.
Paid $4,000 for Brass Dust.
Meyer j. Cohen, Boston tailor, through a
friend bought of a stranger 40 pounds of
alleged gold dust, claimed to have been
secured in Siberian mines, where the
stranger said he had served IL years of a
life sentence before he escaped. The value
OF the dust was said to be $4,000, but the
swindler would take $500. Cohen paid
the money. The dust proved to be brass.
A company of Baltimore shipbuilders
and capitalists is being formed to build a
yacht to contest with the feetest yachts
of the world and to become the American
cup defender.
Impure drinking water is thought to be
the cause of an alarming outbreak of ty-
phOid fever in Wesleyan college at Middle
town, Conn. A. W. Clark, student in
that institution. died from the disease Sat
urday at his home in Newport, this state.
III lonely Wisconsin farmhouse there
were found, Monday, three children dead
and four others, besides their mother very
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fused to 60 near and for eight days the
father had nursed his family as best he
| could.
a passenger train was held up by three
masked men at New Albany, Miss, Thurs
day morning. The engine men were forced
to break open the express car and the rob
bers escaped with the contents of the safe.
| The express officials say that the packages
secured by the robbers contained only rail
road way bills and cheap jewelry, and tina.
no money was taken.
Corruption in the city government at
Toledo, Ohio. has reached such a stage,
that non-partisan investigation will be
made, after the manner of the LeXOw COM
mittee in New York. 1t is claimed that
over 81 100000 of the tax payers money
has gone into improper channels, and that
investigation will smirch many officials
hitherto above reproach.
The most severe earthquake shock
| since 1858 visited Mexico Sunday. 1t ex-
| tended over large part of the republic
| There were several shocks, lasting from
one to four minutes, and they came from
| different directions. Roofs of old build
| ings fell in, walls of large buildings were
| cracked and chimneys shaken down. Thir.
teen people were killed in the City of Mex
| leo.
The German embassy at Washington
/ repeats the statement given out in BerliI
| that the prohibition of American cattle by
/ the German government is not an act OF
retaliation, but mere sanitary measure
| This action, it is asserted, would hav,
been taken even if this country had no.
/ imposed discriminating duty on German
beet sugar and it is further stated that tn,
embargo will be raised al the first practi
cable moment, without reference to wha
/ Congress may do with the sugar question