Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-02-19

A despatch to the Daily Mail from Cape
Town says that the Transvaal republic has
demanded S322, 900 indemnity on account
of the raid Of DR.. Jameson.
William Kennedy was sentenced in the
superior criminal court at Salem, Mass,
Wednesday morning to life Imprisonment
for the attempted poisoning of Albert F.
Learoyd at Danvers, Nov. 6. Kennedy
took his sentence calmly, though he turn
ed pale when it was first announced.
The second motion for a new trial for
Thomas NJ. Bran, the convicted murdele r
of Capt. Nash of the barkentine Herbert
Fuller, was denied last Saturday by Judges
Webb and Colt in the United States circuit
court at Boston. The decision was to the
effect that the alleged new evidence was
only cumulative.
One Of the passenger elevators in the
St. James Hotel, San Antonio, Texas, got
beyond the control of the conductor We'd
nesday. 1t went up at full speed, crashed
through the roof turned over and fell down
the air shaft, distance of five stories.
The elevator conductor and guest were
in the machine at the time. Both were
fatally hurt.
A mob Of indignant residents of Elm
hurst, a small town % miles west of Chi
cago, burned TO the ground Monday morn
ing, large shed recently erected there by
Barney Zacharias, a Chicago gambler, in
which pool selling, faro, roulette and stud
poker have fourished for several days.
Almost every day four or five hundred
sports from Chicago visited the resort.
The new elevated structure, extending
from 10th street to l49th street, in New
York, which, together with the Harlem
drawbridge of the New York Central rail
road, has been under construction for the
past three years, was opened Monday for
operation, and the first trains were run
over the new tracks. The draw at the
Harlem river is the largest in the world.
The New York and New Haven, the New
York and Harlem and the New York Cen
trail will all use the new approach.
The first session of the National Con-
gress of Mothers was opened at the Airing
ton hotel in Washington Wednesday morn
ing. Many distinguished women occupied
seats upon the platform, among them being
Mrs. Adlai f. Stevenson, wife of the vice
president, and Mrs. William L. Wilson.
At II 80 o clock a recess was taken TO wait
on Mrs. Cleveland at the White House.
The reception continued for an hour. A
steady stream of visitors shook hands with
Mrs. Cleveland in the blue parlor, the mum
Der being estimated at 1900.
Anthony Comstock of New York has
unearthed big fraud conducted by Jesse
l.. McDaniels, alias G.. w. Baird of Balti-
more McDaniels was arrested Wednes-
day night, charged with violating the laws
of the United States against using the
mails for promoting a lottery. The pris-
oner has been selling tickets in all sections
of the country purporting to be issued by
the Royal Havana lottery" which is OPP
Grated under protection of the government
of Spain. McDaniels had, however, no
connection with the Havana company: his
tickets were clumsy forgery, and his
scheme made it impossible for any pur-
chaser to win a prize. Eleven thousand
of the "fake" tickets were found in his
possession.
Benjamin o. Flower, formerly editor
and treasurer of the Arena Magazine pub
fishing company, and S. Seldom Smart, the
former business manager of the company,
have been arrested in Boston charged with
of S2700 from II. d. Camp
bell of Lynn. The complaint charges
that the money has been embezzled during
the last six months. Both men are charged
with the same offence. The Arena com
pany passed into receivers hands some
time ago. The case arises out of the sale
of stock of the Arena Publishing company
to II. d. Campbell & Co., who are binders
and have for some time done the binding
of the books and magazines of the Arena
Flower and Smart both claim
to know nothing of any fraudulent issue
or sale of stock.