Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1902-11-28

amount taken is variously given at from
$500 to 500, 000
Fire caused a loss of $525.OOO by burning
the Wisconsin Central railroad company's
ore pier at Ashland, Wis, Saturday
Several firemen and dockmen were killed
when the pier collapsed.
George w. Ryer, a literary man of at
tainments who died in Brooklyn Friday,
wrote The Old Homestead" and THE
Sunshine of Paradise Alley" in collabora-
ton with Denman Thompson. Mr.. Ryer
was also the author of "Our. New Minis
ter"
A saloon in Mahony city, Pa. was
blown to pieces and adjoining buildings
wrecked by a dynamite explosion Sunday
morning. 1t is supposed that the ex-
plosion grew out of the coal strike, as
the proprietor's sons are non-unon men
and worked during the strike.
Major Walter Reed, who died in Wash
ington Sunday, was the army surgeon
who proved by his experiments in Havana
that yellow fever was spread by a GER
tain variety of mosquito. His measures
for the destruction of the insect result
ed in making Havana free from the dis
ease after 1t has existed there without a
break for three centuries.
The body of a boy IL to Is years old
with the skull crushed and three ribs
broken was found i'm the Contoocook
river at Antrim, N. H., Monday. The
body was fastened by cord to tree
and a heavy stone had been used to
sink it in the river The body was
little more than a skeleton, there being
only enough tissue to hold the bones to-
gether 1t is believed the boy was the
victim of foul play and the authorities
are pushing their investigation.
Robbers seized a mail wagon contain
Ing money, registered mail and bust
ness papers at the Masonic Temple in
Chicago Saturday evening. The pouches
were rifled, and 1t is claimed that there
were 1i5 registered packages, some con-
tanning valuable securities. and that the
total value of all taken was 100000. The
wagon was seized by a single robber
who drove rapidly to a secluded spot.
where he was evidently Joined by con-
federates.
Startling revelations will result. it is
expected, from the inquiry which is be-
ing made in the claims of William $.
Vanderbilt Allen, great grandson of Com
modore Vanderbilt, who, when appear
ing on Friday at New Rochelle before
commission appointed to adjudge him
insane, said he had been kidnapped
from the home of his sister, in Rye, n
Y, and detained for six years in "A sani-
forum at Westport, Conn. shut off from
all communication with the world and
his friends
Septimus Winner 76. composer of THE
Mocking Bird and hundreds of other
popular songs, died suddenly Sunday al
his home in Philadelphia. Mr.. Winner
was the author of 200 technical books
IN musical Instruments, and arranged
over 2000 compositions for the violin and
piano. He was a frequent contributor
to Grahams magazine when Edgar Al
Ian Poe was editor of that publica-
4
Bird" for S35, but the publishers years
later admitted having realized 5000. 90,
| from its sale.
1t is believed that Ernest W. Perry OF
| Burlington, and Albert G. Brewer of Rut.
land instructors in the Pentecostal col
| lege institute, recently established at
North Scituate r. l., together with 6
| student, Miss Elizabeth l.. Moon of Sara
| toga Springs. n. Y, were drowned Sat
| urday afternoon, while canoeing OF
| Moswansicut lake. All three went on
| in a canoe. and while some considera bl,
| distance from shore. a heavy squal
| swept across the lake. Nothing wa.
| seen of them afterward. but Slu1da'
the canoe and some of their personal ef
| fects came ashore.
Although the entire force of Inspector
| of the Massachusetts cattle commission
| has been working hard for the past tw,
weeks hoping to stamp out the foot an,
| mouth disease, II was admitted at Bos
| ton Monday that the disease has be
come almost epidemic in the state. Man!
| new cases have been reported in towns o
eastern and central Massachusetts. TIL
| inspectors, as soon as an affected herd Il
| discovered. at once. establish quarantine
| and no milk is allowed to be sent ava,
| from that herd. The last epidemic il
| England, some 20 years ago, cost tina
| country over s7,000,00O. while 1t took IS,
| 100000 to stamp out a similar epidemic II
| France. The great increase in the mum
Der of cases during the past week 1
causing apprehension among the state of
| f1cials.