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

A fire in the post-office block at Ames
bury, Mass, Sunday, damaged property
valued at $50, 900.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, who is 81
years old, fell while rising from her bed at
Stamford, Conn, Monday and fractured
her hip.
1t is stated that Spain made inquiry re-
garding the attitude of Great Britain.
France and Italy in the event of war with
the United States. 1t is said the Vatican
is favorable to Spain.
Otto Wasmansdorff, of the Chicago
banking house of Wasmandorff & Heine-
man, which failed a week ago as result
of the closing of the national bank Of Hi
nois, committed suicide Sunday.
According to Frankfort, KY, despatch
Gov. Bradley intends TO resign his office at
an early date. He is reported to have said
that "the place was killing him, and that
he could not afford to stay in it until what
little health he had was lost"
The Hoffman House in Rockford, ILL.,,
was destroyed by fire Thursday night. The
fire started in the show window of a dry
goods store, due to the whiskers of Santa
Claus" figure becoming ignited from gas
jet. The loss is placed at $4,000.
The Sultan has been notified that the
agreement of the Powers upon the ques-
ton of the enforcement of reform in
Turkey is perfect, and they demand that
there shall be no delay on the part Of the
Porte in giving assent to the proposals.
The Anglo American treaty, under the
terms of which all future disputes between
the United States and Great Britain, not
involving the national honor of the two
governments, are TO be referred to an ar
bitration tribunal, will probably be signed
this week.
Alfred Holt, colored, charged with the
murder of Policeman w. A. White, was
taken from the Jail at Greensboro, Ky, by
mob, early Saturday morning, and hanged
to tree in the courthouse yard. This
made Kentucky's sixth lynching in as
many days.
Depositors in the Dime savings bank in
Chicago were notified Monday that 90
days notice would be required fol the
withdrawal of funds. President GrAnnis
of the Atlas bank was the active pow er in
the Dime savings bank, and it is stated
that much of its money was loaned to Gus
toners of the Atlas bank.
Jules Sanguilly, the naturalzed Ameri-
can citizen, charged in Havana with con-
spiracy against the Spanish government,
was tried and found guilty last week, and
Monday was sentenced to Imprisonment
for life. Sanguilly's counsel announced
that he would appeal from the judgment of
the tribunal to the supreme court a Ma
drid.
OF eight boys who were bitten by mad
dog in Baltimore on Dec. /, three have
since died-Robert Henry, aged years,
several days ago; Conrad Eppers, aged Is,
on Friday, and Robert Perry, aged IA on
Saturday. The first symptoms in all three
cases were nervousness and sore throats,
death finally resulting from violent spqsms.
All of the boys who were bitten were inoc-
ulated and treated at the Pasteur institute
| in New York.
Edward Winslow Lincoln, the father OF
the park system in Worcester, Mass, made
a curious bequest in his will. 1t was that
his body be cremated, and that his execu-
tor, in the presence of two members of the
park commission, should carry the ashe:
10 the summit of Newton's hill and there
scatter them TO the four points of the com,
pass. Mrs. Lincoln disregarded the re
quest and buried him in a cemetery in the
/ regular manner.
Burton NJ. Main, a phrenologist and hyp
notist of Sheldon, ILL.,, is under arres
charged with hypnotizing Miss Mary Whit
man of jamestown, n. Y, and then mar
rying her. The bride had no recollection
of the marriage, or events which followed
it until the next day. The groom was ar
rested on complaint of the girls parents
and she joins in the petition for release
from the man, whom she claims is very OBJ
| jectionable to her, though in his presenc,
she makes no complaint The bride wa
engaged to be married to another younl
man, and claims to have had no though
of marrying any one else.