Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-12-18

on imports as compared with Novem-
Der, 1902. The value of the merchandise
imported was 1921, 059 upon which duties
amounting to $3S,06202 were assessed.
The amount of duties assessed during No
vember, 1902, was s61,l26,35.
Business men in Bennington and Rut-
land believe they have been victimized by
an alleged concern known as the Inter-
national Registry company of New York,
which wrote insurance policies providing
for payments in case of sickness or acci-
dent. The company was not licensed to
do business in Vermont no definite infor
nation in regard to it can be secured, and
the men who wrote the policies and took
the cash have disappeared.
despatch from Fort Wayne. Ind,
Sunday recorded the death in that city of
Judge james Cheney, who is said to have
been born in Vermont in 1877 but the
town of his birth was not named. He
was associated with Jay Gould in finan-
cling his affairs in Ohio, Indiana and Ill
nois and assisting in constructing the
Wabash and Erie canal. He was re-
garded as the wealthest man in Indiana
and his estate is estimated at $25, 900, 0O0
John w. McGeary, 40, who was the
Democratic representative from Burling-
ton in the legislature of 1896 and who in
troduced the measure known as the Nc
Geary bill di ed in Burlington Monday from
Il
shock a month ago while in Virginia
but was recovering when appendicitis
with complications developed. He was
native of Louisville, N. Y, but at the age
of II went to Keene, N. H., to enter the
employ of the Cheshire railroad He had
been a successful travelling salesman for
the Standard Oil company the past 20
years.
The Hon. John l.. Bacon Of White River
Junction was in Washington Thursday as
president of the national convention of
| Insurance commissioners to appear before
the Senate committee on postoffices and
post roads in the interest of a bill which
| has been introduced in the Senate look
| ing toward the denial of the use of the
United States mails to the insurance COM
panies, which purport to do the business
| of insurance, but which do not comply
with the laws of the home state. The
| bill was introduced at the instance of the
| convention of which Mr.. Bacon is pres
| ident.
| Sheriff Suloway arrested Ira G. Brown
at ST. Johnsbury Thursday and charged
| him with cracking the safe of the North
| Congregational church and stealing all
| contents of the Sunday boxes. Brown
| at first stoutly denied his guilt but later
admitted all. He entered the church in
daylight Wednesday and smashed the
| handle and combination lock on the safe
| with an axe and secured about $50 in the
| collection box. He then started out
around town and bought a lot of goods
paying out pennies and silver for pur-
| chases. He is IS years old and is now
in Jail awaiting appearance and sentence
| in Caledonia county court now in session.
| A. p. Murray of Shrewsbury, who was
arrested last week Wednesday charged
with criminal assault on Leah Carter, 49,
and placed under $1,000 bonds for appear
ance in the Rutland city court Monday OF
this week, died suddenly at his home Fri
day night He was not attended by a
physician during his illness, but two
physicians saw the body and their opin-
ion was that he died from appendicitis
There is a strong suspicion among Muir
rays neighbors that he committed sui
eide. 1t is said that he was intoxicated
when he was arrested and the officer
found a number OF essence of wintergreen
bottles in his coat and in his buggy