Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-11-25

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the United States treasury the 81 900, 00'
loan"
The Marquise des Monsters announced
from Rome that she had renowned tn,
| Roman Catholic church, to which she hat
! given 5000 900 for the establishment of
divinity college in the Catholic university
| in Washington.
Forepaugh e. Sells Brothers circus was
robbed of 100000 Saturday near Tarbo-
/ no, N. c. The circus played in Green
| Vile Friday, and 1T was found on arriva
| at Tarboro that the pay wagon had
! been broken into in transit. There are
| no clews to the robbery
Samuel Mellor Of Yonkers, N Y. wor
! the road race at Hamilton, Canada, or
| Friday, when he ran 10 miles. 16S yards
| in one hour. IS minutes and 43 seconds
| breaking the worlds record of the
course, made by John j, Caffrey of Ham
| iton in 1900.
-Four persons were killed and score
| of others were injured by a series of gas
explosions that completely destroyed the
plant of the Pyle electric headlight COM
| pany in South Chicago Ill, Friday. The
shock of the explosion was so severe that
buildings near by were badly damaged.
windows were shattered for blocks, and
persons walking in the streets were
thrown from their feet. Overpressure on
tanks containing gas is believed to have
caused the accident.
Twelve men. women and children were
suffocated and a baby was born in a fire
which swept through half the block OF
wooden tenements on the easterly side of
Troutman street, Brooklyn, about two
o'clock Sunday morning. Two others,
who were slightly injured, were taken to
a hospital. The fire started in a cellar
beneath a butcher shop and grocery store
The smoke poured up the halls and stairs
to the roof and spread in both directions,
setting abla2e the top floors. All those
who persisted were suffocated.
Gen. Louis Palma Di Cesnola, 70, the
noted archaeologist of the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art in New York city, died
Monday. He was an Italian who was an
officer in the Crimean war He came to
this country in 1860, served with dis
tinction in the civil war and was mus
tered out a brigadier general. While
United States consul at Cyprus he made
wonderful archaeological discoveries He
turned over to the museum in New York
years ago all of his Cypriote antiquities,
including gigantic stone figures of pagan
divinities and priests.
The Central Vermont railroad COM
panys freight steamer Mohawk was burn
ed in Long Island Sound about an hours
run from New London early Friday morn
ing The fire was discovered about mid
night by an officer in the pilot house.
The flames spread very rapidly and the
crew had barely time to lower life boats
i'm which 25 men and two women, wives
of the officers, escaped to the Fall River
line steamer Boston. Enoch Larson OF
Westerly, r. l., night Waterman on the
steamer, was lost. As he was the person
who should have discovered the fire. and
no trace of him could be found. 1t is sup
posed that he was overcome by the flames
and burned to death. The Mohawk was
a vessel of 2l50 net tons, PCS feet long,
and was built in Chester, Pa. in 1896
She was valued at about $500, 900, and her
cargo at about 100000. Later-Larson's
charred body was found in the ruins af-
ter the wreck was beached.
Col. w. C. p. Breckenridge 81, widely
known as the silver haired and silver
tounged orator of Kentucky" and for 10
years one of the most picturesque figures
in Congress. died Saturday night at Lex
ington. He was born in Baltimore but
his public career was associated with Ken
lucky. He was in command of the Ken
lucky cavalry brigade when II surrender
ed to the Union forces. He was professor
Of equity Jurisprudence in Kentucky uni
VersitS five years and in 1884 was elected
to Congress where he became one of the
leaders of the Democratic party. He was
readily recognized as a natural orator,
and his eloquence graced the halls at
Washington and gave a certain life to all
proceedings or debates in which he fig
ured. If there was stirring conflict on
the floor of the House the distinguished
and gifted Kentuckian was in the midst
of it. Col. Breckenridge lost his seat in
Congress in 1894, through the publicity
which acquired a breach
promise instituted against him by Mad
cline V. Pollard. He defended the suit,
but a jury awarded Miss Pollard a ver
diet of s15 900 damages.