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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
Death at ERsthampton, Mass, of Mrs
Helen smith BemIs.

Mrs. Helen Almira Smith, widow of
George w. Bemis, died Saturday at her
home in Easthampton, Mass. She was a
daughter of Manor and Linda d. Smith,
and was born in Dummerston, March %,
1884. When a young woman she was
employed in the hospital for the insane at
Worcester, and there met Mr.. Smith, who
was also an employe of the institution
Their marriage took place May 20, 1862.
A notice in the Northampton Daily Gaz-
cite of Monday says; MRS. Bemis en-
deared herself to the community as an earn
est and affectionate Christian woman, of
much refinement and dignity, and formed
many warm friendships She was in i'll
health long time, but bore her ailliction
with singular courage, never speaking of
her troubles, and making small demands
upon the sympathy of Others" Mrs.
Bemis leaves three brothers, Fred, of Troy,
N. Y, Frank, of Middletown, Conn, and
Charles d. of Brattleboro, and sister,
Mrs. G. NJ. Smith of Easthampton. Mrs.
Bemis was a member of the Methodist
church. Her husband died suddenly Feb.
10th last, from shock. The funeral was
held in the Methodist church at Easthamp-
ton, Monday.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

Marcus werd & Co. S Royal Irish linen station
cry at Clapp and Jones's.
Cottons are higher, but are still selling at
the old price. Buy now and save money.
T. w. BARNARD.
Beautiful framed pictures at low prices
CLAPP & JONES.
twenty-five cents buys a good turkey red
damask worth 80 cents yard. T. w. BARNARD.
wANrED--A competent middle aged lady to do
general homework. Good pay to the right per
SON. Apply to Mrs. F. i. Pierce Putney, VT
Subscribe for Standard Designs, S5 cents year
After April l. subscription price will be 81 year.
Subscribe now. r. w. BARNARD.
Waterman fountain pens the best Full as.
sortment at CLAPp & JONES.
Extra good value now given in table linens,
towels and napkins. T. w BARNARD.
Don't throw away good but faded garments.
Remember with one hours work and no muss,
if you use Putnams Fadeless Dyes, you can
make them new again. Sold by the Brooks
House Pharmacy
Have your pictures framed at Clapp & Joness.
Popular sheet music and books. Strings for all
instruments and musical supplies at Clapp &
Joness.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
ST. MICHAEL's CHURCH.
Services i'm Holy Week, and Visitation
OfBIshOp Hall.

The following services are appointed by
the rector for Holy Week and Easter day.
On the Sunday next before Easter, March
26 palm Sunday, $50 A. NJ. holy COM
munion; 1890 A. NJ morning prayer, the
sacrament of holy baptism and sermon
Up. NJ, evening prayer and lecture. Dur
ing the week following there will be daily
services at IL A. NJ. and $50 p. NJ. The
holy communion will be celebrated on
Thursday, and on Good Friday there
will be a sermon at the morning service.
On Saturday easter even) there will be
services at p. NJ. with holy baptism and
at 7.30 Bishop Hall will preach, and ad-
minister confirmation. On Easter day (Apr.
p the first service will be held at O'Clock
A. NJ, consisting of the high celebration,
with full musical service, the bishop being
the celebrant. The second service with a
second celebration at. 10. As Am. The bishop
will preach the Easter sermon. Services in
Christ church, Guilford, will follow at 8
p. NJ, and there will be evensong in ST..
Michael's church at 7.30 p. NJ. There will
also be an early celebration of the holy
communion on Easter Monday (Apr. 81,
at 7.30 O'Clock.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
WITH THE SOLDIERS IN CUBA.
CorpornI Tucker writes About Recent
ExperIences---Expects 90 BE Mustered
out In New York.


ExperIences---Expects 90 BE Mustered
out In New York.
Col. G.. II. Bond received another letter
this week from Corporal A. j, Tucker, one
of whose letters was published in The
Phoenix few weeks ago. 1t Is dated Ma
tanzas. Cuba, March IL, Corporal Tucker
saws a cablegram has been received at head
quarters stating that the Berlin will arrive
there in a few days to take the regiment to
New York to be mustered out. "The Der
lin. "he sys. as the boat ! understand Gen.
Alger had fitted up to impress the natives
with on his iunketing trip. think her
name has been changed" He tells about
visiting the San Carlos cemetery and says
that the graves of the notables are separate
from those of the common folk and are
marked by handsome marble monuments,
while those of the "plain people" are mark
ed by wooden or metallic crosses and wreaths
of beads. He visited the tombs where
vaults are rented by friends of deceased
persons. These tombs are about 20 feet
under the surface. When the rent ceases
to be forthcoming the bodies are taken
from the vaults and dumped into 'bone-
yard" without ceremony. Another place
of interest is cave on the San Juan river,
which is part OF an eAIlnct VOicdnO' olnce
Corporal Tucker has been in Cuba the mer-
curry on two or three days has dropped as
low as so above zero. On those days.
which seem comfortable to the Americans
the natives bundle themselves up or 90
shiverng about the streets. Corporal Tuck
er was one of 10 men who suppressed a
strike among the laborers few days ago
Their orders were: suppress the mob at
all hazards and take not less than five Cuban
lives for every one American. The strik-
ers fed to the woods without giving the SOL
diers an opportunity to carry out their ord
prs
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

Stockholders of the Central Massachu-
sets railroad have called for return of
the lease to the Boston & Maine, claiming
that it is illegal.
Another body was found late yesterday
afternoon in the ruins of the Windsor
Hotel. The dead now number 10 and the
missing about 40.
The Dupont powder works at Penns-
grove, N. j., were wrecked Wednesday by
explosions in five of the buildings. Three
men were killed and several injured.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
PRATT, WRIGHT & CO.'S BUSINESS
To BE Closed Out at n Marked-DOwn
saIe---s5O, 900 Worth OF Custom and
Ready Made Clothing and Furnishing
alta Discount of 25 to 80 Per Cent.

SaIe---S5O, 900 Worth OF Custom and
Ready Made Clothing and Furnishing
at Discount of ID to 30 Per Cent.
The advertisement which occupies the
18th page of The Phoenix today marks
the beginning of the end of a clothing firm
which has held prominent place in Brat
tleboro trade over 45 years. c. A. Harris
and W. H. Bracket, the administrators of
the estate of the late o. D. EsterbrOok,
who had been the sole owner of the Pratt,
Wright * Co. business the past ten years,
have decided to close out the FIRMS entire
stock, which represents an investment Of
$4,000. This is said TO be the largest
stock between Springfield and Montreal
In order to dispose of the stock as expe-
ditiously AS possible they have cut prices
% TO 80 per cent on every article in the
store.
The store will be closed on Saturday.
Monday and Tuesday, and on Wednesday
it will be opened with an extra force of
statesmen. The prices on all goods will be
marked in plain figures. The manage
ment of the business during the closing
out sale will be in the hands of K. j. Fen
ton, who has been the head clerk in the
store, and who is young man of excellent
ability. who has the entire confidence of
the administrators and of patrons of the
establishment
The reputation of Pratt, Wright & Co.
in the past is sufficient guarantee of the
quality of the goods which will be sold.
The firm has never bought cheap goods,
declining always to enter into competition
with low-pficed shoddy sales, and buying
only those things which were of recognized
merit. This statement applies to all de-
partments of the DISSATISFACTION cloth
ing, ready made clothing, mems furnish
ings, etc. The firm has built far more
than local reputation in its customs de-
partment, former customers from Califor-
mia, Texas, and in fact all parts of the
country, ordering clothing from former
measurements, while there has been
large sale far beyond the territory COM
monty known as tributary to Brattleboro.
A rare opportunity is presented to get
high grade goods at the price of inferior
ones, and customers will make purchases
with confidence, remembering the repula-
ton which Pratt, Wright & Co. won by
honest dealings and by handling high
grade goods, and that this sale is gen.
uine closing out one for the purpose of
closing up an estate.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
Advertised LETTERS.
IN, M9men-Miss Clara Maynard, Mrs. speocsr
na msh Dr n A. Epson a. b Hodgkins, R. H. May

The government per cent bonds sold
yesterday at 10s IA. They were oripinail
ly sold to the common people" at psr in
the expectation that they would be held
by them, and that thereby a livelier interl
est In the government, its credit and hon
est money would be scattered among The
people. But of the $20O,OO 600 issnad
over $40, 900, 900 is now held by the nation
al banks alone, and nobody knows how
much more by insurance and other trust
institutions. At present quotations the is
sue would have brought $4,000, 900 more
than 1t did.-[Springfeld Republican.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
Runaway Girls Caught in Brattlsboro.

Runaway Girls Caught I'm BrattlebOrO.
Chief Of Police Thompson and Patrick
Keefe of Bellows Falls came to Brattle-
boro Sunday morning in search of Mr..
Keefe's 14-year-old daughter Lizzie and a
girl named Kate Sweeney, % years old,
whom, it was alleged, lured the Keefe girl
away from home. The girls came to Brat
tleboro Saturday and engaged a room in
the Brattleboro House. Mr.. Keefe and
Chief-of Police Thompson telephoned
Chief-of- Police Hall upon their arrival in
Bratteboro, and the latter found the girls
at their room. He arrested the Sweeney
girl, but the Keefe girl stayed with her
father. The Sweeney girl was placed in
the lookup and was allowed the freedom
of the corridor, man who was already in
the lookup being placed in a cell. The
party left for Bellows Falls on the 1910
train Sunday night. The Sweeney girls
lachrymal ducts overlooked copiously dur
ing the day at the "iDjustice' which had
been done her. She said the man for
whom she had been at work in Bellows
Falls had failed and that being unable to
get her pay she decided to come to Brattle-
boro in search of employment. She said
she told the Keefe girl of her intention and
the latter Immediately decided to come
with her, as her father abused her at
home. She denied having urged the
Keefe girl to leave home. She said her
parents lived in New Mexico. The Sween-
ey woman was given hearing before JUS
tice G. H. Williams at Bellows Falls Mon
day. The evidence tended to show that
the Keefe girl and Miss Sweeney had been
together frequently and the latter had
often asked the girl why she did not leave
home and seek happiness and fortune in
the wide, wide world, but it was not
,proVed that the Sweeney woman induced
even, girl to leave the state and was dis
vas in -
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

We wish to say word in regard to the Monroa
Drug company, manufacturers of Putnam Fada
less Dyes. They not only make the best dveS 90,
the ma rket and give you the most for yonr Uoo W.
ey' but they actually pay the printer in advsnoa
The Brooks House Pharmacy are their agsnta
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

c. P. MILLER, Guilford, Vt. Terms: SlOl per
day, including book keeper and so posters. Or
ders can be left with s. W. Edgett & Co., 81 Main
street, Brattleboro, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
Miss Parks Private school

Summer term opens March a. Business High
school, and elementary courses Tutoring done
afternoons and evenings Is Chaplin street.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

To be entirely relieved of the aches and pains
Of rheumatism means a great DEAL and Hoods
Sarsaparllla does t.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24
strattOn Lumber Company's Schedule,

StrattOn LUMBER Company's schedule.
The schedule of assets and liabilities of
the Stratton Lumber company, which was
adjudicated as bankrupt March 3, was FL
ed with A. F. Schwenk of Brattleboro re-
fierce in bankruptcy, last Saturday. The
schedule shows that there are SO creditors
with claims ranging from 81 to over $4,000.
The liabilities of the company are $26, 48S.
The company owns real estate valued at
$37 ,905, of which $20,605 worth is in Yer
mont and SIT 300 is in Massachusetts,. 1t
also owns personal property valued at 500
925, consisting of lumber and lumber
merchandise, cash, books, live stock,
machinery and tools. The book accounts,
stocks and bonds, policies of insurance,
deposits in banks and elsewhere and un-
liquidated claims amount to $20,0S3. The
property claimed to be exempt amounts to
1877. The total valuation of these assets
is S79,2S9. The company owns mills in
Weston, StTatton and Peru, this state, and
in Everett and North Cambridge, Mass.
The company was petitioned into bank
ruptcy by the Black River National bank
of Proctorsyille, which holds two notes
against the company, one for 1896 and
one for $59S. The first meeting of the
creditors will be held in Towns Hotel in
Bellows Falls next Monday. 1t is expect.
ed that the company will be able to pay in
full all the claims against it. This Is one
of the largest bankruptcy cases which ever
came up for settlement in this county.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

thai o oner 800 reward for any crse Of o...r,h
o " cured by Halls Catarrh Cure
We f. 80. CHENEY & CO., Props, Toledo n
for the last 1t1SSs yeaEs have known F. Cheney
aaiy ahi IN all business Transactions s perfectly
their firm 'u' any obligation made nv
WIZ Rfg g, Wholesale Druggists To,.,- =
gists Tois.d hiSSAN, q MARVIN, W6oessTIse d0, o.
b Iectly upon the blood and Internally, acting
ali dFussisis Price Is cents per bottle fs soe or
Hans fsus;,I testimonials free. Soid oy
Little Liver a PaSs is misery what are
People who have u vnsy viii positively cure III
' WORTH They are small and ee essI trsa al Of
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-03-24

as listened our Ieadei5'l wv np hi. hands
by all present. 'Agalrs. y he held
date speak more particularly 81 % form ent
experiences and what he saw in az, Vi f fns ~
places in England and Germany. INFORM or
The Young Mems club will hold BAN dr.
9uet at Towns hotel, Tuesday evening. on
March 20. E1.-Gov. w. p Dillingham; 70
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
GOVERNMENT REPOSITORIES.
Secretary of the Treasury Designates Ad-
ditional National Banks.

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The secretary
of the treasury to-day designated sew
eral additional national banks as gov
ernment repositories to receive internal
revenue receipts, and it is said will
continue to do SO until the total sum
SO deposited amounts to $4,000, 900 or
S40,000,0 900. Deposits, however, will not
be made with the additional banks un-
til the banks comprising the first group,
designated several days ago, have re-
ceived deposits equal to the amount
of bonds turned into the treasury by
them, as security, which approximates
7,600,0 900. 1t is expected the deposits
will begin to be made under the new
designations about Jan. 10. Any ma
tional bank owning or controlling
United States bonds, willing to deposit
the same in the treasury as security,
including those now receiving deposits,
is entitled to participate in this distri-
button of internal revenue receipts.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
MACRUM MUST EXPLAIN.
State Department Will Take Up the Case
of the South African Consul

Washington, Dec. 2S.-The case of
Consul Charles B. Macrum, the United
States representative at Pretoria, who
insisted on being relieved at the time
the South Africa war became most
acute, is assuming additional import
ance as Mr.. Macrum nears home. The
understanding at the state departm
is that he is not coming by way CT
the English ports, but is on German
ship which comes through the Mediter-
ranean and thence direct to this coun-
try, the trip, taking about six weeks
from Dec. 1S last, the date of his sail
ing from Lorenzo Marquee. In the
present aspect of the case, there is little
doubt that, unless the consul presents
ample explanation for his course. he
will not continue in the consular SER
vice
1t is reported that the mystery sur
rounding his departure had been cleared
up by letter from him to Representa-
tive Taylor of Ohio, who represents the
district from which Macrum comes, and
who secured his appointment as consul.
But Mr.. Taylor said to-day that he had
heard nothing from Macrum except in
directly through his letters to relatives.
These give no intimation of the cause
OF his return. but speak of the excite
ment incident to the war and the hur-
ried preparations on both sides. There
is nothing, however to show pro-
Boer or an anti-British inclination nor
is there any discussion of the political
aspect Of the war.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
PHILIPPINE COMMERCE.
Hemp Ports to Be Opened as Soon as
Properly Garrisoned

Washington, Dec 2S.-Assistant Sec
retary Meiklejohn of the war depart
ment, has written Il letter to Repre-
sentative Long of Kansas, defining the
policy of the department regarding the
commerce of the Philippines. with snc-
clal reference to the opening of ports
for the expectation of hemp Mr.. Long
had transmitted a letter of a constit-
uent stating that there is SO little hemp
in the country now that the price is
IA to 10 cents a pound as against a nor
maj price of or cents, while only
100 bales week have been shipped
to this country since the war began.
instead of 25,OOo bales per week as for
merly.
Prefacing his explanation with the
statement that General Otis has been
instructed to open the hemp ports as
soon as ne mad proper garrsonS. which
should be early in January. Mr. Meik!e-
john goes on to show that the CORES
pondeht mas an erroneous idea as to the
erect OF the war on the hemp ship
ments. He says the largest hemp ex-
portation from the islands in any one
year was in 1897, When exports aver
aged 1890 bales per month. During the
10 months of 1899. the imports of hemp
INTO the United States amounted to 49,
4I5 tons which shows, he adds, that
there never has been a year when so
much entered the U3fited States as in
this year. While its value has been A1
per ton less than 1889 or 1891
Mr.. Meiklejohn indicates that the cor
respondent picked out certain years of
agricultural depression in the wheat
states as the basis of his exceedingly
low quotations of past prices of hemp.
He declares the communications receiv-
ed by the department from manufac-
turrs and brokers indicate there is no
trust or combine controlling the hemp
market, as feared by the farmers. and
he concludes his letter as follows:
'The war in the Philippines is doing
everything compatible with the re-
quirements of the military situation to
develop the trade of the islands and is
confident the so-called hemp ports will
be open to trade in ample time for any
accumulation of hemp therein contain
ed to reach this country and be manu-
factured before the next wheat har-
raS.t'
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
CLEAR CASE OF LOOTlNG.
Affairs of Stahl and Straub, Brokers, Are
in "A Bad Way.

in a Bad Way.
Philadelphia, Dec. 27-The committee
appointed by creditors to investigate the
accounts Of Stahl g. Straub, brokers. who
failed on Nov. 20, report that not a dol
lars worth of available resources was
found. The total liabilities amount to
$1,221, 30S and the total assets to 1927 ATS,
leaving a deficiency of s293,S29. There is
S3S7, 1864 due depositors and customers.
Judge Mcpherson in the United States
district court to-day appointed Frank
NJ. Crawford received for Stahl & Straub,
fixing the security at 5000. Counsel for
the creditors asked for restraining or
der to prevent the transfer of securities
and to have the firm adjudicated an in
voluntary Lankrupt.
Charles Fl. Vollum, the expert account
ant in charge of the brokers' books, said
at a meeting of the creditors to-day:
This is the cleanest case of looting
have met with in 30 years.
An official at the banking rooms said
to-day, in referring to StahPs methods:
He ran three separate accounts on Sc
curities in the care of the firm. paying
interest on stocks, dividends on the same
stocks and further interest into the firm,
and this was apparently one of his ways
of binding the eyes of his partner. Some
one emptied the safe, that is evident. The
next thing to find out is who carried off
the goods
The heaviest creditor is Frank NJ.
Crawford, the receiver, in the sum of
$6S 000.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
NO MORE BODIES RECOVERED.
Believed, However, That There Are 9th
ers in the Rraznell Mine.

Brownsville, Pa, Dec. 2S.-No bodies
were discovered at the Brazneil mine
to-day, but the chances of adding a
few more dead to the present number
are so strong that the inquest will not
be begun until next Wednesday. Five
or six feet of debris remain to be re-
moved from the bottom of the shaft
and it is expected two or three bodies
will be found. To-day small dog was
taken down to assist the workmen.
He has been in other wrecked mines in
the district and was of great service
in finding bodies. He trots along until
he catches a scent, then stops and
digs until his master arrives. 1t may
be another day or two before all the
debris is turned over and removed.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
REOUlSiTl0N ISSUED.
Sheriff Curran Will Go to Michigan for a
Forger.

Spectal Dispatch to the Standard.
Helena, Dec 2S.--Sheriff D. 7. Curran of
Missoula county arrived from Missoula
last night and presented at the executive
office an application for a requisition
upon Governor Pingree of Michigan for
Burt Norton who is wanted to answer
to the charge of forgery. The requisition
was issued. 1t is based upon warrant
sworn to by David Dickson before Jus
tice of the Peace William Hayes of He'll
Gate township Missoula county, charging
Morton with forgery in raising check
for 81 cents to $124 and passing it on
Dickson, who is a saloon keeper near
Iron Mountain.
1t appears Morton was employed as a
cook by John Lynch at Iron Mountain;
that Lynch gave him a check on the
Western Montana National bank of Mis-
soula for S4 cents This Morton cleverly
raised to $l24 succeeded in getting Dick
so9 to cash it Nov. 25. and fled the coun-
try. going first to Butte, thence to Mich
igan, where he was captured at Iialama-
ZOO. When he left Iron Mountain he ask
ed that his mail be forwarded to a certain
address in Butte This is understood to
have assisted the officers in eventually
locating him.
The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-12-29
The Pan-American Exposition.

tee of the pan-American exposition has
received letters from the governors of In
dana, Colorado Montana, Oregon, Wash
inston, Maine, Wyoming, Michigan. Flor
ida and West Virginia stating that they
will call the attention of the general as
sembles of lleir respective states to the
pan-American exposition and use their
influence to have their states repre-
sented. In these states the legislature
canot take action in time to have state
buildings erected. The exposition man
ayers hope to have these states repre-
sented by commissions.