Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1901-01-11

Eight men were suffocated to death
in fire in the Harvard hotel in Min
neapolis Sunday morning.
Cadet Edward N. Johnston from
Oregon, of the first class at West Point
ranks as first man in all the subjects
of his ClaSS-engineering, ordnance,
and gunnery, law, and HISTORIAN I'M
usual distinction:
The Beers have released the mem
bers of the Liverpool regiment cap
tured at Helvetia, Transvaal, on Dec.
20; Gen Kitchener reports that the
Beers have reappeared on the railway
north of ~Bloemfontein; defence meas
uTeS against attack continue to be
taken at Cape Town.
1t is reported from Sian Flu that the
Empress Dowager has ordered Gen.
Feng Use Tsai, commander in the
province of Yum Yam, to proceed with
his army to the Yang-tse Valley, and
from that section to move northward.
His force is said to consist of $4,000
men, armed with modern weapons.
Gen. Macarthur has ordered the de-
portation from Manila to Guam of
Generals 3icarto, Delpilar, Hizono,
Llanera ard Santos and nine regi-
mental and four subordinate officers
with eight civilians including Mabilni
Nortarcos, assistants of the insurrec-
tionists; also Oalso has been ordered
deported.
Lii Hung Chang has suffered a re-
lapse, and his illness may delay the
peace negotiations in China. A
meeting of missionaries in Pekin
criticised the joint note of the powers.
Count Won Waldersee has given no.
tice to his staff to cease hostilities,
but commanders in the field have
failed as yet to hear of these instruc-
tions.
John Bardsley, who died at Phila-
delphia Saturday, was convicted in
1891 of Incorporating 500 900 of the
city funds and 100000 of state funds
while he was city treasurer, and SEN
fenced to Is years imprisonment; to
pay fine of $4,000. He was par
doned in 1896 as it was always be-
lieved that he was more of a scape-
goat than deliberate embezzler.
Isaac Golf, "a, who broke through
the ice while fishing near PASSPORT,
Me-, Friday, struggled an hour and a
half in the icy water, while the mer-
curry above registered IL below zero.
Several times he drew himself on to
the treacherous ice, which repeatedly
broke under his weight, but finally sue
ceeded in drawing himself out very
much exhausted. A number of persons
witnessed his struggles from the bank
of the river, but were powerless to aid
him.
Capt. G. w. King, quartermaster
and supervisor of the government
work at Fort Morgan, Ala, is under
arrest, charged with receiving $4,000
from contractor. He had agreed to
not reject unsuitable material which
the contractor expected to furnish for
the government work. He was de-
tected by a secret service officer, who
found on Kings person $1,000 in
marked bills which he had just taken
from the contractor. King is a vol
unteer officer, from Iowa, and he en-
tered the service in 1898.
Startling revelations regarding the
system of blackmail levied upon vice
and crime in New York have been made
by a man who has long had promi-
nence as a successful gambler. His
story, which is in the nature of a vol
untary confession, has been told to
w. M. X. Olcott, former District At
torney. Proofs have been furnished,
and more will be forthcoming If de-
manded. 1t is computed that a cor
ruption fund of $5,600,000 was col
lected last year. OF this vast sum
one-half was the result of the levy
made upon gambling houses and kim
bred establishments.