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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-08
A Card.

We wish to express our sincere thanks for the
many expressions of sympathy from friends and
neighbors during the illness and death of our
loved one; also for the many beautiful flowers.
HENRY @. WEATHERHEAD.
CRATUS II. WEATHERF"'
EARL d. WEAT'
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-08

sentiment hostile to the liquor traffic,
which finds expression in action rather
than in speeches and resolutions, then and
there the law will be enforced"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-08
1T HAWZEYS
TANUARYSALE

Yard-wide Lonsdale bleach
ed cotton, 6 IA cents a yard.
Cotton flannel, S cents a
yard; 8 ounce cotton flannel,
s IL cents a yard.
Lot OF 8 cent Outing cloths
at g IA cents yard.
Lot 10 cent Outing cloths
at 8 IL cents a yard.
Lot of II 1-2 cent Outing
cloths at 10 cents a yard.
Clearing up prices through
out the store.
". l. HAWZET.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-08

The important intelligence comes from
Washington, apparently from authentic
sources, that a change in the government
at Madrid is imminent. 1t is said that
Canovas, the present prime minister OF
Spain, is near the end of his career; that
Spain cannot endure the financial strain
much longer; that the people are begin
ming to realize that the present policy in
Cuba is failure, and that a change of
ministry will be necessary if any other is
adopted. When the Liberal party comes
into power General Weyler will be recalled
and Marshal Campos will be sent back to
Cuba with an olive branch. Sagasta, the
Liberal leader, will be at the head of the
new ministry if change comes. His plan,
it is said would be to grant to Cuba full
measure of home rule, with complete au-
tonomy, and the Introduction of the broad
est reforms.
& 1t is not pleasant task to make public
a story like that which comes this week
from the village of Bondville in our neigh
DOIluH bennington tbuhNS tONH " w III
hall. We recall no revelation in the pub
lie prints more dreadful and repulsive than
this mans treatment of his two young
step-daughters. But more sensational and
incredible in its way than the outrage of
these girls under threat of death is the sto-
ry, unsupported as yet by definite facts,
but generally believed in Bondville, never
theless, that some miscreant has made free
use of chloroform upon young girls in that
region. We are accustomed to think of
the slums as furnishing the worst types of
moral depravity, but such occurrences
show free field in this respect between
the overcrowded districts of the great cities
and the wide spaces of remote country life.
There is moral here that he who runs
may read.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-08

With the New Year, New York abol-
ished prison labor, and is now waiting to
see how much mischief Satan will find for
its idle hands to do.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1897-01-08

$3.50. Misses full length leggns 95 cents and $3.50 Women
knee eggns rs Women full length Jersey leggns $29
and $l75.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
CAPT THoMAs COMPLAINED OF.

Rc.iaents or west sixty-nfth Street say Ne
Lcts Rad Boys Bother Them
Capt. Thomas Of tho West Sixty-eiehth street
station 10 in trouble. Eight residents Of West
sixty-Hfth street. headed by K C. Mueller.
whose house is at 166. complained recently to
Chief Conlin that bad boys from tho tenements
in Amsterdam and Columbus avenues took pos.
session Of tho street; that they yelled like In
dams, chalked the stoops, and broke windows.
Capt. Thomas said In Q reply to the Chief that
the oomplainants began It.; that an old man in
the block soused the boys with water and that
they were just paying him back; that the
wagons" they complained of as running over
their sidewalks were soap boxes on wheels, and
that the gist of tho whole matter was that the
Mueller brigade wanted the children living
in the m confined thereto. He objected
to their congregating in childish play, no mat.
ter how well conducted, because It encronched
upon the privacy Of the block"
This made Mr.. Mueller exceeding wroth. He
moved upon Mulberry street yesterday with a
and metaphorically wiped the floor with him.
He specified the wrongs the boys had done. from
stealing the front pillar of the porch next door
to running Off with his own canary bird and
dancing naked and grinning on the side walk
He said fatty that the Captain lied. and limited
that there. were worse things in his precinct
than bad boys. He and his neighbors would
minds to move. he wrote.
The City Vigilance League, through which the
war OF words has been conducted, has taken uI
the cudgel for Mueller and his flock.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
CoRxETIsr 1EONARD,s BLAST
II Caused Confederation, but May Have Saved
Some Lives In . Brooklyn Fire.

II Caused Conaternatton, but May Have Saved
Some Lives In . Brooklyn Fire.
Shortly after Cornetist John Leonard had re-
turned to his apartments on the top floor of
the four-story double fiat house in Thirty-sev-
enth street and Third avenue, Brooklyn, early yes
terday morning. after a hard nights work in q
Coney Island concert hall, he discovered that q
fire had broken out in the house, and he quickly
located it at the foot Of tho dumbwAiter In
stead Of starting an alarm In the usual way he
seized his cornet and blew such laundering
blasts through it that even the soundest sleeper
in the house was awakened and the whole neigh
borhood startled. A policeman on an adjoining
beat apparently realized from the peculiar notes
that some peril was impending, for he hurried to
the house from which they issued. Finding
and then went to tho rescue OF the occupants,
who were pouring down the stairways and
scampering down the fire escapes in their night
clothes.
There were about thirty persons in the build
ing and all escaped uninjured. Mrs. Larsen,
while hurrying downstairs with her two chill
dren, picked up her:pet dog and carried II to tho
second floor, where some ono took 1t from her
arms and dropped 1t into the street. In the
covered. The building, which ia owned by Con-
tractor Charles Hart, was damaged to the ex-
tent OF $4,000, and the losses of the tenants
amounted TO $1,000.
Musician Leonard's cornet was damaged be-
yond repair, but his appreciative neighbors will
gladly chip in and buy q new instrument for
him. How the fire started Is a mystery.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
BRooKLFN,s LAST BUDGEE
A scheno to Reduce nc which Mayer wurst,
Repudiates m Dtshoneat-

A Scheme to Reduce nc which Mayer wurstcr
Repadiates NJ Dtshonest-
Alderman Joseph R. Clark and some Of his az
s~ociates in tho Brooklyn Board Of Aldermen are
in favor Of making q considerable reduction in
tho budget of 1898 as prepared BY the Board Of
Estimate. SO as to reduce tho tax rate from
$500. as estimated, to $3.50 or $40. Their
view is that next year. when consolidation goes
into operation. the deficiencies would DO made up
by the issue OF bonds Of the Greater New York.
Mayor wurster and Corporation Counsel Burr
regard tho scheme as dishonest, and will oppose
it should 1t DO brought forward in the Board Of
Aldermen. Mr.. Burr made this statement yes
terday:
at would not be honest on the part Of the city
Of Brooklyn to deliberately fail to provide, as
the law requires. it's just proportion of the OK
penses of the greater city, by It's tax levy OF 1897.
Not only would It not DO honest, but in the end
nothing would be gained by such o course be-
cause power 10 given to the authorities Of
Greater New York II at the end OF 1898 II should
appear that Brooklyn had not raised its fair
quota Of the expenses Of the greater city through
such deficiency and to add 1t to the amount that
would have to be raised by tax upon the borough
OF Brooklyn in the year 1899. SO that II some
thing was saved this year the citizens of Brook
Ign, by such a course, in 1899 would have to pay
not only their fair proportion of the expenses Of
the greater city for tho year, but would have to
pay In addition the deficiencies that arose during
1898 by reason Of the failure to raise the proper
amount in the tax levy Of 1897"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
DON,r FLIRT WITH FIREMEN.
Here's n whole Engine Company Transferred
to Keep the Girls Away from Then.

Here's n whole Engine Company TRANSFORMED
to Keep the Girls Away from Then.
Three weeks ago Capt. John Eagan and his
eleven men. who were stationed in Fire Engine
House 81. at Fortieth street and Third avenue,
were all transferred by Chief Hugh Bonner to
different sections Of the city, Capt Eagan
going to command at Engine House SO. Park
avenue and 12Gth street. Individual transfers
are almost as common in the Fire Department
rs they are in the Police Department, and nevor
occasion much comment, but for o whole engine
company, officers and men, to be turned out ut
once was something of a staRgerer to the rank
and file.
1t develops now that tho men of Engine No.
d were transferred as a warning to the other
fremen in the city that President Sheffield of
the Fire Board means to break up the practice
Of having women hanging around the fro
houses flirting with the uniformed men. It
seems that in this respect the Fortieth street
engine house was the worst in the city, and that
afternoons and evenings the men could almost
always be found standing on the sidewalk talk
ing to women. They were good firemen and one
OF the best companies in the city, but they had
too many visitors for the dignity OF the depart
ment.
Bonner had a consultation some time ago and
tried to devise some plan by which women could
be kept away from the firehouscs. Complaints
kept coming in from people living near fire.
houses. None OF the complaints charged either
the men or the women with improper conduct,
or with doing anything but standing around and
talking. but the neighhors didn't Xix, 1t and sent
in their criticisms to Fire Headquarters.
Commissioner Lc Grange. who IL Chairman Of
tho Committee on the Uniformed Force, was not
consulted about the transfers. and was as much
surprised as anybody else. He inquired why the
Wholesale transfer was made. and was informed
that It had been done =" for the good Of tho ser
vice.
Now tho shopkeepers In tho neighborhood Of
Engine House 81 have got up a petition and
sent it to President Sheffield. asking that Capt:
post. Almost everybody in the neighborhood
has signed the petition. but so far Mr.. Sheffield
has not responded 10 it. There Is not much
chance of his putting the men back.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17

Two or Their Employees and Two Alleged Re-
ceiveru Arrested.

Two or Their Employees and Two Alleged Re-
ceivers Arrested.
Stephen Hart, 1s years old. Of % Fast Broad
way. and Charles Wuest, 10 years old, Of 232
Monroe street, were charged with grand lar
ceny in Centre Street Court Yesterday by w. J.
Barnes of the firm of HunninghaD & Linde-
mann, window-shade dealers at $40 Broadway.
Max Fishmnn of 430 Grand street and Herman
Rappaport Of 124 Attorney street, both dealers
In window shades, were also arraigned on o
charge of being receivers of stolen goods.
Hart and Wuest were employed by tho firm
rs shipping clerk and errand boy respectively.
1t was charged by Barnes that they had sys-
tcmatically robbed the firm OF costly shade ma
tcrial, and that the loss amounted to over
1000. The boys.Said that Rappaport and Fish
man induced them to steal and bought all OF
the goods from them. They declared that tho
two men had rented a basement in Attorney
street, to which the stolen goods were taken
in order that suspicion might not be aroused by
frequent calls at their stores. When Detectives
Summers and Lynch, arrested Fishman and
Rappaport. ~they-say they found seven rolls of
shading valued at $40 in FishnIan's place, and
three rolls valued at $50 in Rappaport's store.
Rappaport and Fishmun pleaded not guilty
and declared that the story of the boys was
false. They said the stolen goods had been
bought without their knowledge by their en-
ployees. Magistrate deuel. held all hands for
further examination next Wednesday,.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17

The Health Board Sues the Nassau Railroad
Company. which Maintains IL.

The Health Board Sues the Nassau Railroad
Company, which Maintains IL.
The burning of soft coal by the Nassau Electric
Railroad Company of Brooklyn in it's power
house at Second avenue and Fortieth street
caused an action to be brought yesterday by the
Health Department in the Second District Civil
Court against the company, with a view Of hav-
ing the nuisance abatcd. For several weeks
complaints have been made to the Health Com
missioner by persons living in the neighborhood
OF the power house. 1t was stated that washed
clothes hung out to dry were made black by the
smoke from the power house chimney and that
1t was also impracticable to keep windows open
for any length Of time. Health Commissioner
Emery, In speaking yesterday or his action in
the case. said:
The railroad company claims that It Is about
to install understanding devices at its power
houses, and that IL is compelled to use bitumi-
nous coal in order to get sufficient heat with
engineer and a chemist from the Department of
Health, made on July Is, 1897, at the two power
houses, showed that the understanding device
was already in operation at the Thirty-ninth
street station, but that the smoke nuisance con-
tinped. At the First street station chem
which were being used for tie purpose. as
was stated by the employees. of securing a moro
eficient combustion Of the coal and n lessening
OF the smoke, but here again tho device was APP
parently Intellectual, as the smoke continued.
In a conference had on July Is. Mr.. Youge,
was the intention of his clients to continue the
experiments with smoke-consumtng devices for
me purpose Of lessening the evil, and that he
believed 1t could be- successfully DONE"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
e roUeHr ron 1rKrrnNr.
KnselEsa = Man Dovn IN Chicase rsr suesrsnr
at tire Pres,dent,s soiaier Record.

at the Pres,dent,s soiaier Record.
WARRINGTON, July 16.-Ambrose B. Dowesse,
an old soldier with lanky limbs, battered clothes
and dropping spirits, who claims Canton, O,
as his home, knocked q big, strappinE man
down in the streets Of Chicago n few days ago
for casting aspersions on the soldier record Of
President Mckinley. Being an 'old friond''
Of the President, Mr.. Dewesse thought he ought
to communicate with him directly and inform
him Of tho drubbing he gave the Chicago man.
So, after running through a saloon and down q
dark alley to avoid being captured by the Chi
cago police, Mr.. Dcwcsse made his way TO the
railroad freight yards, where he fell in with
the owners Of q lot Of cattle that were being
shipped. East, and they permitted him to rido
to Washington as n'cnttlo guard. Mr.. Dowesse
landed in Washington this morning, and after
strolling about the town two hours, started for
the White House. He told the guard at the
door that ho was an old Canton friend of the
Mckinley family and he would like to see the
President Tho guard, however, cloud not
break his instructions to admit no visitors on
Cabinet day, and Mr.. Dewesse was told that
he ~ would %a6t have TsT II to u SSnle snsk ,s sops I 9TH nd day;
o1iceseekor," he exclaimed, and won't bother
the President, on this point: But Id like to
caeo. Bill Mckinley. Is an old friend Of mine
l always call him Bin and / know no would see
HI IL you WUulu USu MIN I an AZ inc door. w ny,
my dear fellow, / knew Bill Mckinley twenty.
ivo yoars ago, worked with him in the cam
paign, and spent my time and money to secure
his ele stion TO Congress against Wallace. May
30 Son, want TO hear something about my work
in Bills behalf"
The guard said no was doing nothing just
thon and didn't mind hearing tho story, 30 tho
old veteran continued:
when Bill was a candidate for Congress
against Wallace I went into Lawyer Clnrk's
office In Canton one day-you know where
Clark's ONCE In, down there just opposite tho
Court Houso-and. ] saw Bill sittin' up there
with his feet cooked against tho window. I
says to Bill:
.:Bfl, you win be defeated IL you don't got
Wallace In putin in some good licks. Thom
pottery people are agin' you, too, and we must
..fhen Bill said so to me: Dutch 1n thS Always
calls mo Dutch, yon. arc always. too muck
alarmed about me. Ill win by the biggest ma
jority l ever got
Now, this goes to show just how me and Bill
stand" said Mr.. Dewesse, as he walked away,
promising to return again tomorrow and tell
the President about tho fight
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17

Ne His win. apa Tseir Pars NJ up oue-rwe
others Rinnry overpswer Min.

No. MS win. aue Thetr Pats Ne Up One-rwe
others Finally overpswer Min.
Policeman Joseph @. Kelly Of the East Thirty
ntth street station and Bernard Hudson, q part
~ blnd e~x-convict, wero both well battered AZ
q result Of a fight in the basement at 2l2 East
Twenty-cighth street at 2 o'clock yesterday
morning. Two Of Kolly's teeth were knocked
out, his lip was out, and his head was badly
bruised. Hudson, who has only one good eve,
out has q reputation as a scrapper, had his
mead In bandages. A surgeon had used four
teen stitches to close a long cash in his scalp.
Tho policeman said in court that he had had
q battle for his life. While he was on post, he
said, he hoard q woman's screams In the
Twenty-eighth street basement Going in
there he found Hudson beating his wife. Whom
he tried to arrest him Hudson turned and
struck him. Mrs. Hudson grabbed him around
tho body, holding down his arms, and Hudson
seized his night stick and struck him on tho
head, knocking OF his helmet. As no broke
away from the woman, four other mon, who had
S %aa tb ,nsS .h 70 t ISo% f,d pitched Shei upon him and no
hudson sat. upon him. and, as he tried to
draw his revolver, the other men held his arms.
hudson, he said, pulled out a pistol and thrust
the muzxlo into his mouth, cutting his lip and
breaking of two teeth.
tho basement door, and Policemen Ticho and
pulleu hudson on Kelly and. after u struggle,
handcuhed the one-eyed man and took him tc
the station. All OF the policemen denied that
they had dubbed Hudson, and declared that
he got his injury by falling against q sewing
machine during the fight.
Policeman Kelly began his complaint in court
by saying that the prisoners photograph was in
the Rogues' Gallery at Police Headquarters.
THAT don't make any difference" ir terruptod
Magistrate. Crane. MANY an honest mans
picture is In that gallery. Anyhow, you have
no right tn keep throwing It In a mans face
about his photograph being there. suppose q
man went wrong once, don't you think 1t is pos
sible for him 10 reformf'
The Magistrate, after reading tho affidavit,
said:
This is q serious matter. Hero is q blind man
severely used. l want to know all about II,
and shall adjourn the examination until Mon
day so as to get all the facts in the matter. l
will hold the prisoner for felonious assault"
Hudson was locked up. His wife, who was in
court, bore marks on her face that seemed to
show that she had been in a recent fight, as
Kelly set forth. She did not testify. but she
told the court attendants that Kelly was drunk
when he entered the basement. and that his club
was taken from him because he threatened to
beat her husband. She said her husband did
not attack Kelly first.
Hudson Is a beggar by occupation. The POI
lice say he lost his eye durir z q fight about
four years ago when he lived in East Twenty
second street. He declared he received the in
jury which destroyed his eye by slipping in front
OF u house on East Twenty-second street. He
sued the owner OF the house and got $4,000 dam
ARCS.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
o'KEEFE AND HERLIHY SWAP JOBS.

"Poliee Reasons, the Alleged Caase-Wast the
Clarendon Hall ..sniy Dinner" tho Real Ono =
Police Captains O'Keefe of the Fifth street
station and Herlihy of the Delaney street squad
got orders on Thursday night to change places.
They went on duty in their new stations yester-
day morning. At Headquarters "polico roa-
sons" was tho only explanation advanced.
okeefe, who was deposed from the Acting In
spectorship some months ago. incurred as Cap.
tan in Fifth street the displcasure of President
Moss for falling TO deal sharply with the Clarcn-
don Hall silly Dinner" show.
1t was thought by some that this was behind
me transfer, hut there is no proof that Mr.. Moss
even knew OF it. IL is certain that the Chief has
!ately shown signs Of being much worried over
the attitude of Mr.. Moss, who seems to know of
more mischief and disorder hiding in town than
have heard OF.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
rwEx1Y-sEcoND,s LAST DAY.
Col. Bartlett ana AIT. -Gea. rIhnshass TX.
change Compliments.


STATE CANT PEEKsKILL. N. Y. July 16.-The
Twenty-second's last day in camp has been an
ideal one ana has been devoted to hard work.
The loss of one days work by the rain necessi-
tated longer drills the other days. but notwith-
standing this loss, the regiment will leave camp
with an excellent record on the inspectors
books.
The non-commissioned officers had q group
picture taken on Sunday, In which was Corporal
Mcdonnell, who was killed by lightning. This
being the last picture OF the Corporal two copies
of 1t have been made and one will DO given to
the mother of the dead guardsman and the other
to his lancee. Miss Emily Merrigan.
Col. Bartlett commanded the regiment at tho
evening parade tonight, which was one of tho
finest seen here in years. Among the visitors to
Twelfth Regiment and former, Col. John I.
Camp of the Twenty second. Col. Bartlett and
his officers paid an official visit to Adjt. Gen.
Tillinghast tonight, and the Colonel took &C.
casion to say this was the most pleasant tour OF
duty the regiment had ever had in camp, owing
to the courtesy and kindness of tho post officers.
The Adjutant-General thanked. the Colonel on
behalf Of the Governor, the National Guard. and
the post officials.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
Arrival In Port or a Treneb Yachting Party.

The 3OO-ton schooner yacht Velox. which is
now lying oil Tompkinsville, brought to his
country u party OF gentlemen who will stay here
long enough to sec Niagara Falls and some OF
NC interesting places In the neighborhood OF
SSew YORK. The gentlemen are guests OF nj:
the yacht. Among them are M. Reverdin, a
weil-known Swiss architect; DIR. Vigues of the
Saipetrlere in Paris. a formor friend OF DIR. Char
col; VI. Basquin, q manufacturer of Lecauteux.
ahd Capt. LcclercQ of the French army, who ID
fiaIioned at Maroilles. The party sailed from
Islands, and bermuda arrived the other day in
return to France.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-07-17
TO RAISE POSTAL CLERKS, PA,
Postmaster Van Gotta Suggestion Likely 70 No
Carried but

Postmaster Van Gotta Suggestion Likely % No
Carried but
Postmaster Van Colt, In q communication to
the Post Onice Department at Washington. has
suggested that all postal clerks who have boon
in the service for ono year shall receive a salary
OF 500 q year instead of 5000. as at present,
and that clerks now receiving 500 shall get
$500 a year. In recommending this increase
the Postmaster urges that 1t take effect dating
from this month.
II have made this recommendation" Post
master Van Colt said yesterday. because / be-
lieye the men are entitled to tho increase. be-
iieve that a mans salary should be large enough
TO overlap his expenses. The proposed increase
would raise the tone OF the service and enhance
tho efficiency of the men. When q man Is easy
in his mind about money matters. IL leaves his
brain clearer and he does better work. / think
my suggestion will be favorably acted on"