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Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04

Elijah Harding, IA, had his right
hand cut off in the carding machine
at the Cooper mill in Bennington re-
Gently.
Mrs. Julia A. Gibson, whose will was
probated in Cambridge. Mass. last
week, left $4,000 to the Congregational
church in Winooski.
D. H. Morse of Randolph has been
appointed by Gov. Stickney delegate
at-large from Vermont to the great
national breeders meeting to be held
in January at Salt Lake City.
A. c. Blanchard will build a five
story block. with room for three
stores and offices, on the site of his
building on Maine street in Barre,
burned last Thursday.
Chas. E. Paige has been awarded the
contract for building the Masonic tenn
pie in Rutland, on which $4,000 will
be expended. 1t will be four stories
high and will be built on land west of
the Bardwell house, given by the late
John W. Cramton.
Octave Tarrant, a Williston boy, who
was infatuated with Helen Bartimer,
16, daughter of neighboring family,
took five teaspoonfuls of paris green
recently owing to some troubles in his
love affair. His life was saved by
his mother, who administered large
dose of milk as an emetic.
]. G. Turnbull of Barton Landing,
owner of four creameries in Orleans
county, increased his product from
750, 600 pounds of butter in 1899 to
100000 pounds in 1900. Mr.. Turn
| bull will build a fifth creamery at
Troy in the spring. He gets the in,
crease in spite of opposition of CO.
operative creameries all around him
Miss Mary L. Titcomb of Rutland
sister of Fish Commissioner John w
1itcomb of st. Johnsbury, will become
| librarian of the new free library in
Hagarston, Nd, Feb. /. Miss Tit
comb was formerly librarian of the
Rutland free library and later secre
tary of the Vermont state library com
mission, So libraries being established
in the state during her term in this
office. In the past two years Miss
Titcomb has done special library worl
in the state, organizing and catalogu
ing the libraries in Newport, Wood
stock and Ludlow.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
BREACH OF PROMISE SUIT.
Miss Fannie Tomlinson Sues VIM. r.
Morgan of Bennineton-Both Promi-
nent in Society.

Miss Fannie Tomlinson of Bening-
ton has brought suit against William
K. Morgan, leading and wealthy citt-
zen, claiming damages in the sum of
$4,000 for breach of promise. In
her declaration she claims that they
became engaged on the first of June,
1898, that his promise to marry was
repeated twice and the marriage day
finally set for Oct. 18th last. He did
not appear and the day after trans
ferred all his proDel ~ to sister,
Harriet Elmnia Morgan. Two years
ago h sent Miss Tomlinson to Eu-
rope, where she remained for four
months. The transfer of the property
was made in Rutland before Joel c..
Baker, a notary public. Morgan has
not yet filed any defense as the law
gives him several days. The bring
ing of the suit has caused a great SEN
sation in Bennington as both are promi-
nent.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
Suing Young Husband for $1,5oo,ooo.
Mrs. Willard Hutchinson, 70, has


brought suit in New York against her
young husband, whose former home
was in Montpelier, for the recovery of
81, 800 900. Willard, who is 20 years
old, is a member of theatrical COM
pany playing in New Orleans. Mrs.
Hutchinson had had three ventures
in matrimony before she bestowed her
affections on Willard last February.
All of her former husbands were di-
vorced from her. The third husband,
who was married in 1894, was also
young enough to be her grandson and
was an actor. Mrs. Hutchinson al
leges that Willard obtained deed of
the property last April by fraud, claim
ing that her relatives were trying to
get possession of her property. She
first turned the entire property, valued
at $3,OO0,000, over to him, but after
ward he transferred one-half to her.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
LIFE PRISONERS PARDoNED.

stain and Cromwell Convicted Of Bank
Robbery and Murder Served 10
Years for Crime They Did Not Com.
nit.
Gov. Powers and his council, at Au-
gusta, Maine, granted pardons Mon
uay to David l.. Stain and Oliver Crom-
well, who were convicted in 1888 of
the murder of ]. Wilson Barron, cash
Ter of the savings bank at Dexter,
Feb. %, 1878. Barron was found in
the bank vault bound and handcuffed
and in a dying condition. After his
death a small shortage in his accounts
was discovered, and there was always
more or less doubt about the charac-
ter of the robbery. Stain and Crom-
we'll were arrested nine years after
Barrons death, charged with robbing
the bank and numbering the cashier.
The arrest was based upon an al
legged confession secured by newspa-
per reporter from Charles f. Stain,
the son of one of the prisoners. He
accused his father and Cromwell of
committing at least-haf dozen muir
ders each, IN Massachusetts and
Maine, and then confessed that he had
taken part himself in the Dexter
crime. 1t was afterwards learned
that young Stain was in jail when
the Dexter bank was robbed and that
the two older men could not possibly
have committed some of the other
crimes of which he accused them.
The new evidence on the strength OF
which the pardon was granted show
ed that the men were in Medfield
Mass, 200 miles from Dexter, at the
time the bank was robbed. Both OF
the men had bad records.
Their trial lasted several days, and
the jury was out IL hours. An at
tempt to secure a new trial failed
The case, on account of it's peculiar
| features, has attracted attention
throughout the country.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
Glory for Barry scotchmen.

News has been received from Peter
Kerr, royal secretary, that clan Cor
don, No. ~, of Barre, has won the
$50 volumes of standard authors given
by the royal clan to any clan in Ameri-
ca making the largest gain in member
ship for the six months ending Dec. 81,
and that clan Gordon has beat out
McGregor of Quincy, and is now the
largest clan in America. The individ-
ual prize of 125 volumes given to the
clansman taking in the most names
for the six months has also come to
Barre financial secretary Robert Cor
don taking it with 80 names.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
tuberculosis in Vermont.

Secretary Bell says that fully per
cent. of the cattle examined for tuber.
culosis have been condemned and
slaughtered since July /, and further
states that in four herds just examin.
ed rs out of 225 were condemned
The board of agriculture has now
about 60 condemned cattle to kill and
a record of 80 killed last week and
Monday of this week. OF these Muir
ray Buck of Morristown lost %, Rich
ard Smith of West Enosburg 81, Mr.
Gillette of Hartford 26. In addition
IS were killed in Westminster and G
or in Irasburgh. Last year about
5000 cattle were tested and 800 killed
while the year before about 5000 were
tested and 160 killed. Last year end
ing July Is, about per cent. of the
cattle tested were slaughtered and
since that time about per cent. have
been killed.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
NATIVE OF CHESTER.
Death Of Daniel A. Head, President Of
the Home Insurance Company Of
New York City

bedtn oI bdHlel ~ TledluI TTesluSHh "
the Home Insurance Company Of
New York City,
Daniel A. Head, so, president of the
Home Insurance company of New York
city, who died at his home in West
Orange, N. j.. was born in Chester.
He prepared for college in Kimball
Union Academy, Meridian, N. H., and
graduated from Yale in 1S41. He
studied law in the office of Judge Dag
gett and afterward in the office of
Judge Washburn, and was admitted to
the bar in 1S43. He practiced law in
Vermont until 1854, and was cashier
of the bank at Ludlow some time. He
was a member of the lower branch
of the Vermont legislature in 1850,
and four years later a member of the
state senate. He practiced law in
Galena, ILL.,, in 1856. While he prac-
ticed law in Vermont he also acquired
a reputation as an insurance under
writer, and in 1856 was offered the
general agency of the Home Insurance
company in New York. He was af-
terward second vice president, first
vice president and president of the
company. He was closely identified
with developing Lewellen park in
West Orange, N. j., and was connected
with several societies. He married
in 1S43 Miss Sarah e. Washburn,
daughter of Judge Reuben Washburn
and sister of Gov. Peter Washburn of
Vermont. She died in 1894. He is
survived by a son and two daughters,
and by his second wife, who was Miss
Elizabeth Goddard
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04

Winona, town of $1,000 population
rs miles south of st. Paul, has been
placed under quarantine from a small
pox epidemic. From 500 to 700 people
in the town are i'll with the disease. 1t
is of milo form and only few deaths
r~~oceurred. The railroad COM
have e been ordered to run all
pan1es ugh the city at full speed,
trains inter- at all. DR.. John B. Oar
or nop was regimental surgeon of
hng'A United States Infantry in
the dppines, believes the United
thes in danger of a great epidemic
oSt5unt of the infection of the SOL
0Ltfeturning from the Philippines.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
Hermit Left 100000.

Ypsilanti Smith, the old hermit, who
died last week near Terre Haute,
eight miles north of Springfield, Ohio,
and in whose cabin wealth to the
amount of 100000 was found,
although it was supposed he was a
pauper, turns out to have been con-
nected with a Cambridge, Mass, fam
lily. Ypsilanti Smith, in his balmy
days, was an honored member of the
Logan county bar, and a partner of
the late Judge William Lawrence. He
lived in Bellefontaine few years and
then moved to Troy, Miami county, o.
He was a man of high intellect and
great learning and was soon recog-
nized as one of the ablest members
of the bar of that county. He was
of an eccentric nature and after the
death of his wife he adopted the life
of hermit. In a small nut away from
the contact of those with whom he as
ISOLATED in early life he secluded him
self. Behind bolted doors and board
ed windows for 80 years he buried him
self in his books. He lived as scan
tily as a human being could. After
his death the fortune of 100000 was
found in an old chest in his hut. The
SSCuIlIlSS lnCluuSu 6ONSl hHuShI uOhus
which had not been touched in &c
years. SmlLh was native of West
ern New York and graduated from
Harvard college in 1849.
The discovery of diamonds in the
volcanic hills near Captain, Oterc
County, New Mexico. Las created in
tense excitement among mining men
The discovery was made by j. j. Blow
general manager of the Lindermar
Coal company, who picked up foul
gems in an ant heap. He took then
to a jeweler who pronounced then
genuine diamonds. Blow then dug
into an ant heap and at a depth of l:
feet uncovered a bed of precious
| StOnaS
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
Four Shot in New York Saloon.

fierce and bloody fight took place
Harlem, New York, early Friday.
lr men were shot. One died and
Their is dying. Two wounded men
taped and the police are looking for
ItheAn. One man is under arrest, and
the dead mans brother has sworn to
kill the prisoner, who is accused of
1 shooting him. The dead man was
George Price, printer and bartender.
! He was shot near the heart. The
wounded are: Edward Courtney, alias
Stats" shot in the abdomen; Thomas
Kepnedy, alleged proprietor of a pool
n, shot in one leg; Edward McGin-
3, alias Edward Mcmillan, sporting
In, shot in the left arm, Kennedy
Id McGinnis cannot be found. The
4'isoner is Miles Mcdonnell, 81 years
old, of City Island. He is known as
q gambler. The shooting took place
in the Onawa hotel, as the result of
an old quarrel renewed between Nc
Donnell and Kennedy, who were part
Apers in a recently closed gambling
gIse
Hiram Hitchcock, GO, the last of the
founders of the Fifth Avenue hotel in
New York city, died Sunday from
pneumonia. He was native of
Claremont, N. H., and opened the
Fifth Avenue house with Alfred Oar
ling and Paran Stevens in 1859. He
had travelled extensively abroad. He
received the degree of A. M. from
Dartmouth college. was one of the
trustees c Cu, u, 10 p1uou ton, and was
} -i0l " York. He
was one or promoters who built
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
Town Health Items.

Sick folks, who are afflicted with bad blood,
weak nerves, or rheumatism, should know that
we will refund the money on dollar ibottle Of
Smiths Green Mountain Renovator, If 1t fails to
benefit you. We also guarantee a so cent bottle
to prove satisfactory.
GEO. E. GREENE, Brattleboro, vt.
F. H. HOLDEN & CO., Brattletoro, Vt.
BROOKS HOUSE PHARMACY, Brattleboro, Vt.
NJ G. WILLIAMS, Putney, Vt.
L. j. STOCKWELL, West Brattleboro Vt
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
EASY TO TAKE.
Sure in Effect.

On going to bed take one or two Baxter's Man
drake Bitters Tablets and drink a cup of hot
water; it will make you sleep like child, give
you an appetite for breakfast, and make you
feel young all day. One or two tablets taken be-
fore eating will overcome habitual costiveness,
prevent h eadaches and fevers, effectually clean
and purify the blood, and restore the bloom and
vigor of useful health. We, the undersigned
druggists, agree to refund the money If they do
not cure constipation.
IaEO. e. GREENE, Brattleboro, Vt.
~ DEN & CO., Brattleboro, Vt.
Use PHARMACY, Brattleboro, Vt.
9oRT, West Brattleboro, Vt.
3, Putney,~Xt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
NEWS IN BRIEF.
KILLED BY A DESPERATE.
Northern Man Shot in Abbsville, s. c.
.Skpuel Between the Assallant and
,eriff Ended in Death Of Both.

Between the Assallant and
neriff Ended in Death Of Both.
John Density, notorious gambler,
pshot and mortally wounded William
Kyle Of Adams, Mass, with As cali
bre revolver in the Miller hotel in
Abbeville, s. c., Saturday night. Kyle
was one of the several men playing
cards, and Density on entering the
room began to insult him and to apply
Avile epithats to him. When Kyle re-
monstrated Density fired the fatal shot
He then backed out of the room de-
elaring he would kill any one who at
tempted to follow him. He was fol-
lowed to the house of his father-in-law
by two policemen, but he held them at
bay. Sheriff Kennedy and several cit
liens soon surrounded the house.
When Kennedy summoned the desper-
ado to surrender he stepped out doors,
and saying, We'll, we will all go to
hell together" began firing. Both
Kennedy and Density emptied their
pstols. Kennedy fell, killed almost
INSTANTLY by bullet near the heart.
bne bullet struck Density in the chest
I'd another in the leg. He was over
oYered while trying to load his re-
liver. Density never spoke after be-
ng shot and died in an hour. Kyle
lived only few hours. Kyle had just
finished experimenting the erection of
cotton mill, and was to leave for the
iorth Monday. Density leaves a wife
md child. He was formerly United
states marshal and is said to have
Tiled several men. He was acquitted
Pcently on the charge of numbering a
9gro. Density was under the infiu-
zee of LIQUOR.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04

Major Billiard and Capt. A. s..
Fleury, of the United States customs
service captured four Cinnamon Sat
urday as they were walking into town
on the northern division of the Cen
trail Vermont, coming from Montreal.
An attempt was made to burn the
Berwick hotel in Rutland early Tues
day morning. The fire was eXtin-
guished with small loss, but the hotel
was filled with smoke. KEROSENE had
been scattered in the partitions where
the fire started.
In speaking Of the present occupa-
ton of some of the famous college
athletes, the Boston Sunday Journal
says: stephen Chase, Dartmouth, 90,
hold the worlds record in the hurdles,
and has completed in both Europe and
America. While in college he was
characterized as the running wonder
of the age He defeated the cracks
of Europe as easily as his competi-
tors in the intercollegiate matches.
He went into business after leaving
college and is now ops-or the proprie-
tors of a leather .heard factory in Pas
sumpsic, vt.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
CENTRAL VERMONT RAILWAY 90.
Southern Division.
corrected to Oct. Z, 1901
GOING SOITTu


Trains leave Brattleboro as follows:
$3.50 n, Daily for Springfield and New York.
1850 A. ~, for Millers Falls Palmer ana New Lon
don. Connecting at Millers Falls with Fitch
burg division Bottom Maine X r., at Palmer
with Boston & ALBANY X. R. at Wilmant ic and
at New Loudon with N. ", N. H. & H. r.. r.
9:l0 NJ, for Sprir gheld and New York.
1925 A. NJ, for Millers Falls and points on the
Fitcbburg division Boston & Maine R. R.
2:12 p. NJ. for Springfield and New York.
1875 p. NJ, for Springfield and New York.
1895 for MilleIs Falls and stations on Fitch
burg division Boston & Maine R. R., Palmer
and New London and New York via Norwich
Line.
GOING NORTH.
Trains arrive at Brattleboro as follows:
i1:07 A. NJ, from New York via Norwich line and
New London.
1907 A. NJ, from Springfield.
f., 0 p. M, from Boston via Mers Fails
1881 5:45 and 1905 p NJ, from Springfield, New
York. UO:O5 p NJ, runs Daily
9:55 P. n from New London, connecting from
Palmer, Miers Falls and T. termediate stations.
EY-Snbject TO change without notice Trains
run week days only except otherwise noted
E. H. FlTZHUGH. Vice President and General
Manager, ST. Adams. Vt.
S. W. CUMMINGS, G, p A, St. Adams.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
100 Years Old.

Mrs. Honora McCarty, the Oldest
person in Bennington county, if not in
the state, saw the light of the third
century in which she has lived on
Tuesday. Authentic information es-
tablishes the date Of her birth in Ire
land about 1892, and she well remem-
bers incidents that were connected
with the OrDonnell rebellion a few
years after. After the death of her
husband in Ireland over fifty years
ago, she came to America, and since
then has lived in South SALISBURY
with a son and grandson.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
Brutal Nurses.


fhe jury in the inquest into the
Cause of the death of Louis H. billiard,
a patient in the insane pavilion of Bel
levue hospital, New York, rendered
a verdict declaring that Hilliard came
to his death from asphyxiation and
fractured ribs caused by Jesse r.
Davis, Edward G. Dean and Clinton l.
Marshall, nurses. The jury also cen
sured the Bellevue hospital authori-
ties for laxity of methods. Despite
the protests of assistant district attor
ney Mcintyre, Davis, Dean and Mar
shall were released in $4,000 bail each.
London had a small financial panic
Saturday. The London and Globe
corporation suspended, and it's collapse
caused the failure of IL other bank
ing firms.
Mrs. John Hubbard, owner Of
truck garden near Middletown, Conn,
was buncoed out of $4,000 recently by
two strangers who worked the famil-
lar green goods game.
A mail pouch containing 100000 in
negotiable paper and an unknown
amount of money was stolen from the
Wyandotte (Mich.) passenger station
pine time Thursday night.
Capt. Hank Half, skipper of four
lerica's cup defenders, has been en-
led by Thomas w. Lawson of Bos-
ton as commander of the yacht which
he is building for the trial races next
summer.
Denmark has been notified by it's
minister at Washington, Mr.. Swenson,
that the United States government has
offered $3,2400O0 for the Danish An
titles and will not give more. Nego-
tiations for the purchase of these is
lands have been in progress the past
two years.
Mrs. r. o. Deason of De Soto, ILL.,,
whose husband died several months
ago from the effects of injuries receiv-
ed in his initiation into the Knights of
the Royal Arch. has been awarded
$4,000 damages by the court. The
order is composed of liquor dealers.
In the CEREMONY a paddle was used,
having on one side a blank cartridge.
The user Of the paddle accidentally
I1turned Lne side with the cartridge at
tached and the wad was imbedded in
hQeason's thigh. He died two days
- from blood poisoning.
Cudahy, the millionaire
Apaha, has received a sec.
jon from the men who
on. The letter con
says in substance
ithdraws his offer
for the arrest and
of the three ban
RpQther of his
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04

The destruction of the world famous
Palisades, opposite New York, has
been stopped temporarily and, it is
hoped permanently.
The Cape government has called
upon the loyalists in 81 districts, in
Guiding Cape Town, to assist the mil
itary to repel invasion by the forma-
ton of paid defence force.
A London despatch says news has
been received there from Pekin that
an armistice has been proclaimed, and
it is reported from Washington that
Minister Conger has been instructed
to act in harmony with the Chinese
request that military expeditions by
the allies in the empire be suspended.
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
China Agrees to Powers, Note.

The Chinese plenipotentiaries in Pc
kin have been ordered by the emperor
to sign the preliminary joint note of
the Powers and to ask for a suspension
of hostilities. The emperor's instruc-
lions are to agree fully to the note, but
to endeavor to get the best terms pos
sible. The emperor desires the court
to return to Pekin by the end of Feb
ruary.
1t is asserted that the emperor has
ordered the immediate decapitation of
Yu Hsien, formerly governor of Shan
81, who was previously degraded and
banished.
Private advices from the Province
of Shan-Si say" telegraphs the Shang-
hal correspondent of the London
Standard, that while the court was
sojourning at Tai-Yuen-Fu, the EN-
press Dowager secretly appointed a
new emperor, with the title Tung Hsu.
He is a 15-year-old boy, who was taken
to Sian-Fu in the Imperial yellow
chair. This explains the permission
given to Emperor Kwang Su to return
to Pekin. Emperor Kwang Su has no
titled the reform party that he is re-
turning to the capital and will need
their assistance"
Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-04
Hundreds III With Small Pox.

was one promoters wi
Madison Square Garden.
Arizona republican., 1901-04-04
A GOOD TnIi1a.

German Syrup Is the special prescrip- tion of pr. A. Boschee, celebrated German physician, and Is acknowledged to be one of the most fortunate discov- cries in Medicine. It quickly cures Coughs, Colds and all Lung troubles of the severest nature, removing, as it does, the cause of the affection and leaving the parts in a strong and healthy condition. It is not an eXperi- mental medicine. but has stood the test of years, giving satisfaction in every case, which its rapidly increas- Ing sale every season confirms. Two million bottles sold annually. Bos- chee's German Syrup was introduced in the United States in 1868, and Is now in every town and village in the civil ized world. Three doses will relieve any ordinary cough. Price 7s cents. Get Greens Prize Almanac. Wakelln's Pharmacy and T. F. Hudson.