Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1896-12-04

The stores of Green Brothers and G.. Z.
Adams at Fair Haven were entered by
burglars Friday night and a variety of
goods stolen, the estimated value being
5000. ,f
Burglars plundered several stores and
the post-office at East Rochester, n. y,
Monday night, securing booty of total
value of 5000. Two suspicious charac-
tiers have been arrested
President Cleveland has bought house
at Princeton, N. j., and will make his
home in the college town after the explra.
ton of his term next March. The value
of the house is about $45, 900. u.
The home of Luther Greenman, farm
er, was burned near Perry, N. Y, Sunday
morning and the entire family of five per
sons persisted in the flames. The fire is
thought to have started from a defective
fue.
Isaac F. Sawyer, 35, a lawyer of Boston,
is under arrest charged with numbering the
infant child of Mrs Minnie Hanson. Mrs.
Hanson says that Sawyer was the father of
the child, and that soon after its birth last
January he carried it away.
Peter Shaffer, wealthy planter of Fred
erick county, Md, who died recently, left
a large part of his estate, valued at $780,
600, to one of his former slaves, James
Dorsey. The latter has been living at
Springfield, Ohio, but his whereabouts are
unknown at present
DIR. William Fisher Grier, one Of New
York's best known physicians, was taken
violently insane Friday morning and, after
being placed in a straight jacket by three
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hospital. Dr. Grler had been working I'M
ceasingly for days and nights upon a med
ical book, and his mind gave way under
the strain. Medical experts consider his
recovery probable.
What will probably prove double muir
der occurred in little candy and fruit
store on Broadway, in the South Boston
district, Monday, when II. H. Holmes
shot w. II. Jordan, proprietor of the store,
three times, and the latter succeeded in
cutting a deep cash in Holiness throat be-
fore he fell to the floor exhausted from his
own wounds. The trouble resulted from
quarrel over an unpaid bill.
The work of improving the New York
and Erie canal will begin this winter, Civ
ing employment to 1000 men. BY a di-
rect vote the people of New York author
lied the expenditure of 50 1000, 900 on the
canals OF the state. The Erie canal will be
deepened to nine feet. This addition oe
two feet to the present depth will admit
boats 10 feet longer, with freight capacitt
enlarged one-half. 1t is probable that thy
seven locks at Lockport will be replaced
with an elevator lock, lifting boats 62 feet
to the higher level.
Peter Brosseau. commission merchant
at the Union stock yards In Chicago, was
held up and robbed of $4,000 on Hal
stead street car Monday morning. A man
named Matheusek, who stole the wallet
containing ths money, was arrested, but
two companions who aided him snatched
the pocketbook while Matheusek was
struggling with his captors, jumped from
the car and escaped. The poeketbook con-
tanned $4,000 in checks, nearly one-half of
which are made payable to bearer, and
$500 in cash.
Patrick Mcguire, the distinguished Dem
ocratic leader of Boston, died Saturday
| from the effects of a shock of paralysis
sustained Wednesday. He was born in
county Monhegan, ireland, in 1888, but
| came to this country at an early age and
learned the printers trade. He engaged
| In the real estate business successfully for
many years and in 1881 founded the Re.
! public, a weekly Democratic paper OF
which he was editor and proprietor. He
had been member of the Democratic city
committee since he was Fl years old, had
served three terms as a member of the
governors council and had been a dele.
1 gate to the last three Democratic national
| conventions