Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-03-13

The receivers of the Dime Savings bank of
Willimantic, Conn, report that the claims amount
to S6S5 900, and the assets TO $42O,OO
Daniel A Walton of Seabrook, n. H., was at
tackled few days ago by two large eagles but
he escaped by running into his house.
Thieves entered the residence of Gen. Geo. S.
Field in Buffalo, n. y, ON Friday evening, and
stole iewelTy and money to the value of between
$4,000 and $1,000.
1t is thought that the total shortage in the
Fort Stanwix national bank at Rome, n Y, is
S4OC 900, and that the loss TO depositors will be
Is per cent
The London Athletic club will issue a challenge
to the New York Athletic club to send an Amer
lean team to compete in international sports at
London July 16.
Chas Desloury, 25, attempted to board a NOV
ing freight train at Mttneague, Mass, Sunday
night and fell under the wheels Both legs and
one arm were cut off and his skull fractured.
Philip j. A. Harper the retired senior member
of the firm of Harper Bros, publishers Of New
York died Friday at Hampstead, l.. l, He was
son of one of the three original founders of the
great publishing house.
The body of an old man chopped to pieces and
that of a 10 days-old child with its skull crushed
were found in barrel in an alley at Chicago sun
day by a rag picker The bodies were sent TO the
Hyde Park morgue and the mystery is being in
Nestigated
Mrs V. Kurtz, who died at South Danville, n.
Y recently. was a Christian scientist, and in
January she claimed to have had vision direct
ing her TO fast. She tasted 20 days and she said
she had been directed TO fast 20 days more. She
did So but after the expiration Of the fast failed
steadily in strength.
One of the reforms which the Republicans
have voted TO Introduce in New Jersey is to give
the clerk of chancsry and clerk or the supreme
court an annual salary of $4,000 each. Hereto
fore these offices have been under the fee system,
and the clerk of chancery has received $4,000 to
$4,000 a year, and the clerk OF the supreme
court a larger sum.
Stephen Powell, one Of the wealthiest men on
Long Island, was murdered Saturday night in
front of his no" e at Hampstead. he was
knocked down with some instrument which
crushed his skull. The motive was probably rob.
berry as he was known TO carry large sums of
nancy hut the robbers overlooked $500 which
he had in one pocket Three negroes are under
arrest charged with the crime.
The Kennebec river from Swan Island, near
Richmond 10 Ice boTo, a distance Of five miles, is
a mass of ice, logs lumber and wIeckage of
houses and bridges. There are over l5OOO,OOl
feet of lumber in the jam. The mass is packed
solidly, and in places is piled up 20 feet high.
should rain follow or anchor ice collect sufficient
ly TO block the passage OF water great damage
would be caused.
The appellate division of the supreme court at
New York gave a decision Friday affirming the
order of the lower court, which gave a decision
in favor of Ladaw and against Russell Sage Tor
81 200 damages and costs, amounting 10 about
$4,000 The case grows out OF bomb explosion
In Sage's flee, Laidlaw's claim being that sage
had shielded himself behind him QLaidlaw) and so
prevented his escape,