Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1903-10-30

The Siemens electric train at Berlin
Friday achieved the record speed of 1898
miles an hour The engineers declare
that a speed of 140 miles an hour is prac-
ticable.
over 40 cases of typhoid fever are re-
ported in the Mcknight district In Spring
field Mass. 1t is thought that all were
caused by drinking water from the So
called Mcknight spring.
Senator William Morris Stewart of Ne
vada 76, surprised his daughters AID
other relatives by being privately married
in Atlanta, Ga, Monday night to Mrs.
Martha II. Crow of Slough, Pa, who
was described as fair and forty.
G. S. Burnham, 65, retired farmer in
Hartford, Conn, was buncoed out OF
$4,000 on Monday. He met three strang-
ers who drew him into a three card monte
game, and he put up $4,000, while another
man advanced 100000 All the money
was put in tin trunk, Burnham being
given the key. The game was played in
the woods near West Hartford. Burnham
won, received the trunk and started
home, but on opening it found II empty
Mistaken by his companion for deer,
Herbert Cook, II, is dead in Bartlett, n.
H. as the result of being shot by rifle
in the hands of Martin Walker, 10. Cook
and Walkers younger brother separated
from Martin and hunted for small game.
Later Martin Walker came upon his com
panions at the foot of a mountain, and
thinking that they were deer fired two
shots from his rifle The hrst puliet
pierced Cooks brain, causing instant
death. The second grazed the younger
Walkers face, but caused no injury.
Rear Admiral Francis T. Bowles. chief
constructor of the navy, has resigned to
become president of the Fore River snip
e Engine company OF quincy MASS,
which has built some of the finest and
10 a
a salary of s65o0 a year from the govern
ment, While the ship building company
will pay him more than twice that sum-
Admiral Bowles was appointed TO the
naval academy from Springfield, Mass,
and is a nephew Of the present editor OF
the Springfield Republican, and grand
son of the founder Of that paper. He re-
ceived special instruction in constructive
work in foreign navy yards, had eharge
of the building of many Of our warships,
and was assistant advisor to Rear Al
nniral Hichborn, whom he succeeded as
chief constructor OF the navy in 1901.
William e. H. Leclsy. s5, the historian,
died Thursday from heart disease in Lon
don. He was born in Ireland, was edu-
Gated at Trinity College, Dublin. and II
was intended to have him become a
clergyman in the Irish Protestant church
but he abandoned the purpose and turned
to historical work. His fame rests large
~ on his " History OF England during the
Eighteenth Century" published in 1890
lie devoted 20 years to 1t and It's dlstlnc-
ton rests on its lucid style and its i'm
partially His other writings partoof
mainly of the character of essays. BY his
discussion of contemporary politics II
the work entitled Democracy and Lib
erty," published in 1896, his doubts as e
the outcome of certain tendencies OF moo
ern democracies aroused criticism II
America and Great Britain, and in re-
publishing the work his depreciatory es
innate OF Gladstone directed attention Il
many points in that statesman's career
open to attack. Mr. Lecky was by thi
time a figure in the life Of the House o.
Commons.