Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-23

y reward of $4,000 is offered for E. L.
Wentz, son of a Philadelphia millionaire,
who is possibly being held for a ransom
in the Virginia mountains.
Robert f. Levin of Planfield, n. H.,
a second year classman of the Baltimore
Medical college, fell after a hard rush in
foot ball game against the Annapolis
"middies" on Wednesday, and died in
five minutes, the cause being given as
cardic syncope.
The Maryland Trust company and Union
Trust company of Baltimore, went into
receivers hands Monday because of en-
barrassment of the former concern in
making a 100000 loan to the Vera
Cruz and Pacific Railroad company.
Thirty-two Welsh miners were held by
the immigration authorities, and the fed
elal authorities declared that the com
ing of the men formed link in the chain
of evidence connecting the Ellsworth
Mining company with an alleged evasion
of the Contract Labor law. Secretary
Cortelyou planned to prosecute the COM
pany.
AS the result of the breaking of a trav-
cling crane on the new Wabash bridge
over the Monongahela river at Pittsburg,
Pa, Monday, eight men were killed and
four were injured. The crane fell on
barge loaded with iron, under the bridge,
and sank it with the men at work on it.
OF the killed seven bodies have been re-
covered and one is missing.
Elmer f. Leavitt was arrested in Bos-
ton Tuesday charged with the theft of
$50 900 from the Boston National Union
bank last November Leavitt was treas
urer and a member of the shoe firm of
Iamkin & Foster, which failed some time
ago. and has since been reorganized. In
the settlement the individual liza bilities
were not discharged and last week two
attachments of $4,000 We're each filed
against Leavitt in the MiddleseX Nat
ional Union bank and the National EN-
change bank of Boston.
Dan Patch $50 broke the worlds pac-
ing record to wagon in an exhibition mile
at Lexington, KY, Saturday and came
within quarter of a second OF equahng
his own sulky record. The previous pac-
ing record to wagon was 2,0119, made by
Little Boy on the Memphis track. Dan
Patch clipped two and quarter seconds
off this record and went the mile in l.59A.
Patch was accompanied in mis- round or
the track by two runners driven by
Hudson and Mcguire. His time by quar-
tiers was .3OA, .59la, 1.29, 1894 His third
quarter was made in 291A seconds. The
track was fast and the weather condi-
tions were perfect.
Albert f.. Bell, "A mail pouch robber and
forger who was under $4,000 bonds and
VINO is alleged to have obtained $500 900
by rohbing a mail pouch containing 1900
checks at Germantown Junction, escaped
at Philadelphia Monday from United
States Marshals Baker and Davis who
had brought him from Denver, where he
was arrested while i'll in hospital. The
prisoner seemed very tractable, and when
the train reached the Pennsylvania sta
ton the marshals went into the toilet
room of the parlor car, leaving Bell alone
He calmly walked out of the car without
interference, mingled with the crowd on
the platform and soon disappeared. The
marshals hunted three hours for him and
then notified the police of the disappear
ance Bell was also known as f. H.
Crosby and Mrs Sharp as Mrs. Crosby
at Asbury Park, where it was discovered
that checks deposited by him had been
raised. At Springfield ILL.,, he is wanted
for mail robberies In various other cities
he has been known as Hammond ana
Crawford. He is suspected of robberies
in st Louis, Buffalo and other cities.