Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1900-07-27

Mrs. Potter Palmer, one of the United
States commissioners to the Paris exposi-
ton, is advertising a reward for a neck
lace of diamonds and emeralds which was
stolen in Paris recently. The necklace was
valued at 81, 900.
Lyman G. Allbee, 81, died at Fitchburg,
Mass, Sunday from CHAMBERS contracted
from valuable horse which he treated,
and his son, Wallace, Is, is at the point of
death with the same disease. 1t is suppos-
ed that some of the virus entered Mr.. ALI
bees system through slight cut or bruise.
John Bohnenengal, German, of Hazel
ton, Pa, has invented a noiseless and
smokeless powder A shell loaded with
the powder was fired at a target so yards
away recently. The only noise was the
falling of the plunger on the shell. The
bullet went clearly through the target, an
inch broad.
Count De Castellane, who married Anna
Gould, the New York heiress, and Count
Orlowski fought duel with swords in the
outskirts of Paris Saturday, and the latter
was seriously wounded in the neck. Or
louski challenged Castellane with response
bility for a newspaper article and challeng-
ed him to fight.
"a ucSDhJCu havana Says LudI H6l-
low fever has broken out in the barracks
of the Seventh cavalry and the First in
fantry in Pinar del Rio. There have been
nine deaths during the present month, and
II cases are now under treatment in the
hospitals, Gen. Lee ordered the camp
moved into the country.
One of the boldest and most mysterious
abduction cases in the history of the state
of 10 IaIa knDl ,,l,
when pretty Miss Edith Cole, 10, the belle
of the town, was taken from her grand
mothers home by two men in broad day
light, forced into closed carriage, where
a woman awaited her, and spirited away.
William K Vanderbilt, jr., made a run
from Newport, R. l., to Boston and return
Saturday in less than four hours, actual
time. The distance by rail is so miles,
and by road about 10 miles more. At one
point the machine went for a short distance
at the rate of 60 miles an hour. Wander,
bilt's automobile, which is the fastest owned
in America, was bought in France, and its
total cost was about $4,000.
2. G.. Scholes and A. G. Gilmore, two
Chicago men, have devised mechanism by
which telegraphic message written with
ordinary spelling on a machine that has q
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ordinary typewriter will be printed if trans
mitted over a telegraph wire by another
typewriter in the Office to which it is sent
hundreds of miles away. The instruments
have bsen tested over a circuit of 265 mile,
of wire belonging to the Central Union Tel
ephone company, connecting Bloomington
Springfield and Peoria.
Alfred E. Grow, 40, a wealthy resident
of New Rochelle, N. Y, was fatally in
jured, and his wife and son, Harold, 18
were instantly killed by terrific naphths
explosion in their 80 foot launch in Echo
Bay, near New Rochelle, Monday. They
were returning home after witnessing tn,
regatta of the Larchmont Yacht club. The
explosion blew the launch to fragments
Grow was in an exhausted condition when
he was picked up. The bodies of his wife
and son were found, horribly mutilated
The feet had been blown off both bodies. Il
is supposed that the naphtha leaked, and
ran under the flooring, where it was ex
ploded by the fire from match or cigarette