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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
SPOTTER IN JAIL.
Anti-SalOOn Leagues EmplOye Got
Drunk at st. Adams

BY Not GuaRiBg Ills Capacity for Strong
Drink While Attempting TO Gst EYI-
dence---He Was N MOrreII Cure "Grad-
uate."
james Carrigan of Randolph was arrest
ed at st. Albans Sunday night, charged
with drunkenness and frightening people
in the street. He was fined So and costs
and given the alternative sentence of 10
days in Jail, which he is now serving. Car
rigan was sent to st. Albans by Rev. G..
w. Morrow, superintendent of the Yer
mont Anti-Saloon league, in response to
request from Rev. W. H. II. Avery OF
the local league at St. Albans, who wanted
spotter to ferret out dens of iniquity in
that place. Carrigan spent Sunday even
ing in the disreputable locality known as
'The Blocks" at st. Albans.
Here, according to his own story, he
Clipped in with others, sent out and had
bottles filled and partook thereof. Once
during the evening he slipped out long
enough to post DR.. Avery as to the source
of the liquor supply and the reverend hur-
rled to the sheriff's Office and complained.
Officers went to the place and found il
closed. Before they returned they had
gathered in Jim, who apparently, wasn't
able to gauge his liquid capacity very ac.
curately. Carrigan had a notebook in
which he had kept "tab'' of the places he
had visited, the parties names, ETC., also
several bottles that had contained liquor.
Tuesday, on his evidence, three men
were arrested, charged with furnishing.
They swore that all the liquor they had
Jim furnished himself and he was arrested
on a charge of furnishing His case was
continued and the states attorney is said
to be investigating to see if some of those
who set him to work cannot be held fol
conspiring to break the law.
A great deal of excitement has been
caused in st. Albans. The League has
been going at things there with club and
much i'll feeling has long existed, which
here receives its climax. Some of the
League officers defend the "spotter" sys.
tenn, while Others denounce it.
The Randolph Herald says "Carrigar
is an easy-going fellow. He formerly
drank heavily but took ''cure," re-
formed and has kept pretty straight fol
| several years. He is very impecuniou.
and has been helped considerably by hi
| friends here in his various ventures. Fl,
has been of late quite religious and TEN
| perance zealot. All these facts are wei
known TO Mr.. Morrow, and it would max,
the latter's ears tingle to hear the criticism
that is poured out here over his action il
| putting man like Carrigan again in tn,
way of taking to drink and perhaps ruin
ing him for the sake of finding out who il
selling rum in st. Albans. Why, tn,
worst drinker in Randolph has too mucl
respect for Jim Carrigan's past to offe
him glass of liquor. If this is the price
that must be paid to stop the liquor traffic
there will be an indignant protest from
every quarter"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08

The British war Office has made public
brief particulars of fight near Kimberly
on Tuesday of last week, in which the
British lost in killed 22 including Col
Scott Turner, and 29 wounded. Kimberly
is believed to be safe, and Gen. Methuen's 8
forces are on the way to its relief
Brigadier General Leonard Wood was
appointed by the President to be Major
General of Volunteers on Wednesday.
Coils. Kellogg, Carpenter, Bell and Kobbe
were also appointed brigadier generals
Gen. Wood now ranks above all the officers
in Cuba except Gen. Brooke. II Is believ-
ed In some quarters that Gen. Wood will
soon be made governor general of Cuba.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08

The supreme court has decided that the
state shall not pay costs for a search for
intoxicating liquor where nothing is found.
This decision is given in answer to a re-
quest from State Auditor o. NJ. Barber,
who refused TO audit bills where the search
was unsuccessful. Before Mr.. Barber be-
came auditor these bills were always audit
ed and paid. Mr.. Barber is an auditor
who audits, and his independent action in
stepping out of the rut will save the state
hundreds of dollars annually.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
Negotiating with a New Indus,rv.

j. A. Stewart Of Clarendon, of the firm
of l.. & j. A. Stewart, manufacturers of
tin cans, with whom there has been corre-
spondence in regard to moving their busi-
ness to Brattleboro, was in Brattleboro
last week to look over the situation and to
confer with the street railroad company in
regard to occupying the Centreville fac
tory. The company has not decided to 90
to Rutland as has been stated in a Rutland
newspaper, but 1t has decided to 90 some
where and it will do no more manufacture
ing until 1t has secured new location.
The firm would come here If guaranteed
free rent and exemption from taxes for five
years, but the railroad company does not
feel like giving them the use of the floor
space needed, as the Stewards would buy
only IL to 10 horsepower. The business
Is not as large as was at first reported, and
only about 20 hands are employed. The
firm has invented and patented a can
which is sealed without the use of solder,
and people are negotiating with them with
Vaew to taking a large number of the
patented cans.
Should a contract be concluded the Stew
arts will increase their force about rs
hands, many of whom would be boys and
girls. The railroad company will make
the SteWarts proposition, but it wO Id pre-
fer TO nave in its factory firm which
would use more power and would employ
more adults. Geo. K. Crowell, 1t is ex-
pected, win also make the Stewarts prop
osition relative TO occupying part OF the
BrattleborO Jelly company's building ON
Flat street, but not In q way TO conflict
with the railroad company.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
The Pr.sid.a,,s Message,

The annual message of President Nc
Kinley is of unusual length, covering three
pages of fine type in the daily papers. 1t
is devoted almost exclusively to condensed
review of all the departments, affairs and
relations of the national government, and
has nothing that is new or radical in the
way of opinion or recommendation. In
this respect it may be said that its three
points of essential interest relate to the
national system of currency and finance,
to trusts, and TO the Philippines. The
President argues strongly that a change
and reform is needed in our currency sys-
tenn to make it more elastic, to enable the
secretary of the treasury to meet any sud
den emergency, and to put an end to the
present 'endless chain" way of redeeming
greenbacks in gold and then paying them
out again on demand, to be again redeem
ed in gold, and so on and on. The mes
sage condemns the action of trusts in Gre
ating monopolies and then using their con-
troll of the market to increase prices need
lessly, but the President appears to believe
that the remedy must come through uni
form state laws rather than by national
enactment.
On the Philippines question there is no
new deliverance. The President reaffirms
his declaration that the islands are ours
by an inviolable title, and that it is our du-
ty, and for the best good of the inhab-
itants, speedily TO subdue the rebellion and
establish good government. The report OF
the Philippines commission is quoted in
full justification of the policy of the ad-
ministration. Determination to give Cuba
immediate independent self-goyernment is
solemnly rearffimed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08

WRITE OR CALL FOR THEIR LAT
EST CIRCULARS AND DAILY MAR
KET LETTERS.
KNOTT & CLOSSON,
1877 St. Paul St.,
Burlington, Vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08

The memory of the late Bishop de Goes
BRAND of the Roman Catholic diocese of
Burlington deserves to be honored by
every nationality and every creed. He
was a member of a wealthy family of
France, but he turned aside from worldly
pleasures to enter the priesthood because
he saw in the work his greatest opportun-
ity for beneitng humanity. He inherited
a large fortune, and it was supposed by
some people that when he died recently he
left large estate. 1t now appears that
the only money which he left was the
paltry sum of $2.12, which was found in
his portmonaie after the funeral. He had
spent his entire fortune in helping the
people of his diocese build churches,
school houses, converts, etc. Bow
empty and meaningless seems life de.
voted wholly to the accumulation of money
in comparison to the noble record of this
devout man.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
SOME INTERESTING REMARKS

RELATIVE TO THE CoTToN MARKET, PAR
T1CULARLY APPRoPos IN VIEW OF
THE Discussion AS TO THIS
YEARS Production AND THE
GREAT ACTIVITY IN THE
DRY GOODS MARKET.
1--WE invite the readers of this paper to
look back during the past four or five
years and note that in this period IRON,
COPPER, COTTON, WHEAT and CORN
were selling under the cost of production.
"Iron that sold at S13. 90 a ton has since
sold at $37 so; copper that in 1896 was
around cents per pound has recently sold
at 90 cents; wheat in Chicago declined to
AZ "a cents per bushel and within two
years from that time sold at $1.S5 per
bushel; Corn sold as low as II cents per
bushel and later at 40 cents; in the New
York Cotton market the future options of
this staple within the past year sold as low
as cents and under, and at thin writing
have sustained an advance of only 2 1-2
cents per pound. IRON nearly tripled in
price; as did Copper, while Wheat increased
in value four times, and Corn doubled"
'It seems extremely logical to expect at
least that Cotton, our greatest staple prod
uct will sell at its average price for the
past ten years, or about 8 "a cents per
pound; moreover it is likely this price will
be made during the current Cotton year,
especially in view of the established GER
tainty that this seasons yield is very short,
and the equally certain fact that never in
the history of the world has the consump-
tive demand attained within 80 per cent of
what it is at the present time"
at seems reasonable to expect and 10
cent Cotton next July and August, when
the real "pinch" of the short crop makes
itself felt; there is more than a possibility
that the above figures will be made Be
FORE the coming Summer in the contract
market in New York, discounting the above
factors"
"The BANKING AND BROKERAGE
FIRM OF KNOTT & CLOSSON OF BUR
LINGTON, this State, was the pioneer
house in advising the purchase of the staple
at its lowest point, the first of the year: In
their published circulars last Spring they
estimated a decreased acreage that later
proved accurate, and insisted throughout
the season that, a late Spring, irregular
season, and improper cultivation, meant a
short crop, and as a result of accurate
knowledge from the planter himself THEY
HIT THE NAIL ON THE HEAD. AS
MEMBERS OF THE NEW YORK COT
TON EXCHANGE with direct private
wires, they offer excellent facilities for in
vestment dealings in the future options of
this staple, and solicit the patronage of
this state"
WRITE OR CALL FOR THEIR LAT
EST CIRCULARS AND DAILY MAR
KET LETTERS.
KNOTT & CLOSSON,
1877 St. Paul ST.,
RurlinUton VT
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
Fifty Girls Injured at n Fire in Reading

An explosion of gasolene caused the
destruction of the hosiery factory of Nolde
& Horst at Reading, Pa, Yesterday.
There we're 900 girls in the building, many
of whom fed to the roof and the fire es-
capes. The girls on the roof became
panic stricken and jumped to the ground.
Fifty were injured, many seriously. About
80 had bones broken or were severely in
jured internally. One woman who is
missing is supposed to have lost her life in
the fire.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
F. K. sARRoWs. FIX. BARR0Ws.
Ready for Holiday Trade !

W large and carefully chosen assorments of beautiful and USE
desirable for Christmas Presents ready for your
Many are inclined to put off purchasing gifts until the
aSt Weeetore Christmas when there always crus but we have
panhed to induce as many possible BUY THIS WEEK
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08

Three masked burglars entered the brew
cry of II. F. Bowler, in Amsterdam, N.
Y, Tuesday, bound the night watchman,
blew the safe open, and secured $4,000 in
stamps and $32.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08
Ono Killed, Others Injured I'm "A Quarry
at Fair Haven.

at Fair Haven.
William Bennen was instantly killed,
his head being cut off, Robert Williams
severely hurt, and two men named Pugh
painfully but not seriously injured in the
Lloyd & Jones slate quarry near Fair
Haven yesterday. The accident was
caused by the breaking of a cable, letting
a slate car or box fall some distance,
striking the men who were at work in
the quarry. 1t is reported that Robert
Williams arm is broken in two places and
his back badly injured. may, however,
recover.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-12-08

The subject of the lecture 10y Mr. Washington
at he auditorium next WEDNESDAY evening,
Dec. 13, will be
"SOIVing the Race Problem in the Black
Belt Of the South"
Tickets are now on sale at the Y M. @. A. rooms
at popular prices.
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Special Notices.
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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21
CURIOUS FACTS.

Vienna, Austria, has 50O-year old
medical school.
Not single infectious disease is
known in Greenland.
Cairo, Egypt, has citizen who is
said to weigh $40 pounds.
One of the Buffalo newspapers runs
its entire plant by electricity furnished
from Niagara Falls.
Sicilian advocate charged with
fraud was recently sentenced to 1S9
years imprisonment.
1t is asserted that one hundred mil
lion people lived and died in America
before Columbus's discovery.
A woman died in London the other
day from perforation of the heart,
caused by n needle which had entered
her ear four months ago.
Near Grobogana, Java, there is a
lake of boiling mud about two miles in
circumference. Immense columns OF
steaming mud are constantly arising
and descending.
A retired Mississippi steamboat cap.
tain intends to make his will by talk.
ing into phonograph, and having the
receiving cylinder preserved so that in
case of contest it be produced in court
A Kansas family of eight brothers
and sisters boasts an aggregate age of
545 years, an average of 6Sl. The
oldest is seventy six, and the youngest
sixty. They lately had q reunion, all
well and active.
The butchers of Berlin have curl
Gus way of informing their customers
of the days on which fresh sausages
are made, by placing a chair, covered
with a large, clean apron, at the side
of the shop door.
A jar of wheat at Wisbech, England,
is known to have been sealed for sixty
years. 1t is i'll coed condition, and a
portion is to be sowed to test its vital
ity, the remainder again being sealed
up to await the lapse of another long
period.
The most singular ship in the world
is the Polyphemus of the British navy.
1t is simply long steel tube, deeply
buried in the water, the deck rising
only four feet above the sea. 1t car
ries no masts or sails and is used as
ram and torpedo boat.
The only place where ''black dia-
monds" are found is in the Brazilian
province of Bahia. They are usually
found in river and brought up
by divers. Others are obtained by
tunneling mountains. The largest
specimen ever found was worth
$40, 900.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21
lie Didn't Quite Understuud.

An old Irish laborer walked into the
luxurious studio of n famous artist,
and asked for money to obtain meal.
He explained that he had just been
discharged from the county hospital,
and was too weak to work. The ar.
tlst gave him shilling and he de-
parted.
One of four young ladies, ART
students, who were present, said:
"Mr. Longhair, can't we hire the
old man aud sketch him?"
The artist ran out and caught him,
and said;
''If you can't work and want TO earn
Eve shillings, come back to my rooms.
The young ladies want to paint you. "
The old fellow hesitated, so the ar
tist remarked:
1T won't tax long, and it's an easy
way to make five shillings."
81 know that" was the reply, "but
l was a-wunderin' how I'd get the
paint of afterward." - Pearsou's S
Weekly.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21
RECORD BRIDGE BUILDING.
A Wooden Structure Replaced by steel
M One Hour and rhIrty-two MInutes.

A Wooden Structure Replaced by steel
~ One Hour and rhirty-two Minutes.
A ecord-breaking feat in railroad
bridge building was performed on the
Rock Island line near Lincoln, Neb.,
the other day. 1t consisted of taking
out big wooden bridge and replsc-
ing it with a steel one in an hour and
thirtytwo minutes, and without
blocking traffic. The steel bridge
was seventy eight feet in length and
weighed eighty tons. 1t was shipped
from the factory in sections to Roke-
by, II station three miles from the
place where it was put in. Here it
was riveted together.
The old structure rested on con.
crete abutments put in after disas'
trous wreck five years ago. The
bolts and spikes of the old structure
were removed after the new one had
been suspended above. The new
bridge was brought TO the scene on
fiat cars, from which il was lifted by
a double drum friction engine on q
pole driver onto galley frames erected
over the track, these frames being
sway Sraced longitudinally and on
cross sections. To the galley frames
two pairs of double blocks were fas'
tened to each other aud these were
assisted in lifting the weight by a
pair of double blocks and one pair OF
single blocks, eighteen lines Of inch
cable being used on each corner,
Fasteniugs on the frames and iron
work were made by the use of clev'
ices aud yokes. When all was ready,
the windlasses were started. A loco.
motive was coupled to the snub cat
to prevent the weight from pulling il
over, and the bridge was lowered
easily and properly.
Some idea of the celebrity may be
gained by the time schedule. The
train left Rokeby at 7.45 in the morn
ing. Thirty-eight minutes later il
was at the scene. AT 8.57 the iron
work had been lifted clear of the cars
and the latter run out; at 9.15 the old
bridge had been torn out; at 9.33
the new bridge was in and at 9.57 the
track was pronounced 80. K" and
the flagman called in.
This is said by the railroad men to
be one of the greatest lifts ever made
with ropes. Thirty men, two loco
motives and a bridge car with wind
lasses were used.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21
The Great Trek.

AT the outbreak of war between
France and England in 1903, Cape
Colony belonged to the Netherlands,
says Alleyne Ireland in the Atlantic.
In 1906 Louis Napoleon was made
King of the Netherlands, aud in the
same year England attacked the Cape
as it was then French possession.
The Colony capitulated on January
10, 1906. The British occupation
was made permanent by convention,
signed in 1914, between Great Britain
and the Netherlands, by the terms ol
which England paid $50, 900, 900 for
the cession of Cape Colony and of the
Dutch colonies of Demeiara. Berbice,
and Essequibo, which now form the
colony OF British Guiana.
1t was hoped that the Dutch and
the English in the Cape Colony would
live together in friendly intercourse,
and that eventually by interlnarriage
a fusion of the two races would be
effected. This hope was doomed to
disappointment, for an antagonism
gradually developed between the old
and the new colonists which led to
the establishment of two republics
beyond the Dor der OF the colony. The
first step toward the formation OF
these republics was the emigration,
during 1886 and 1887, of about 5000
Dutch farmers from the Cape Colony,
movement which is generally re-
ferred to as the Great Trek. These
men went out of the Colony and es-
tablished themselves in the vast him
tel land.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21
kANsAs,s WORST PRAIRIE fIRe.
Thoughtlessly Set by an Army Oficci
who Has Since Isecome Famous.

who Has since Become Famous.
The greatest prairie fire known IN
Kansas was in the year 1869, aud IL
was set by an officer of the United
States Government This officer /;
now in Washington, and, during the
Spanish War, his name was more fre
quently in the papers than any other
One day in 1869 he and a party o.
officers from Fort Hays were return
ing from wild turkey hunt in tht
canons of the Saline. The wind was
blowing a hurricane, and when q stor
was made on the high prairie some
ten miles north of Hays this officer
deliberately touched match to the
dry, crisp grass in order to make a
spectacle. When the other officers
saw what he was about to do they
made desperate effort to stop him,
but the deed had been done and the
red flames were reeling across the
prairie like frightened antelope.
That fire swept from where it had
been started clear across Kansas into
what is now Oklahoma. The streams
and roads offered no obstacles to ii
whatever. While going south it had
also turned to the east, and left trail
of ruin across Rice, Reno, Kingman,
Harper and other counties. Thou.
sands of settlers were burned out,
losing their houses and their feed,
their horses and cattle.
If the man who set that fire had
been known to the settlers all the
troops on the plains would not have
been enough to stay their vengeance.
As it was, he suffered remorse beyond
description. When the officers at
Hays would bring him papers telling
of the damage done he would groan
and curse himself roundly. He left
Hays for some other post in the fol.
lowing year, aud, SO far as we know,
his name was never connected with
the gigantic prairie fire of 1869. Kan
sas City Journal.
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1899-12-21
Resigned the vies.pr..idsney.

1t would probably puzzle most peo-
pie to tell how president or vice.
president could resign. After writing
his resignation, what shall he do with
itp This law, which was passed by
Congress in 1892, lays down the mo-
dus operandi: "The only evidence of
a refusal to accept, or of resignation
of the office of president or vice.presi-
dent, shall be an instrument in writ
ing declaring the same and subscribed
by the person refusing to accept or
resigning, as the case may be, and de.
livered into the office OF the Secretary
OF State" President John O.
Calhoun resigned on December 28,
1882, and his resignation is now on
file at Washington in the Department
of tho Secretary OF State. Boston
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