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112 MONTPELIER, SATURDAY, 10, 1900. PRICE, ONE CENT. a ROW OVER A RAT. LEARNED LAWYER of peaoe to tbe Boer republics which would involve a perpetuation of the political and military independence that Lamson Hubbard GEN. BULLER THREATENS bscluteiyPure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome POWOfo NfW YORK, Spring Style, 1900.

ADAMS, The ClotHIer. WTTAl SAKfftO FEARS POISON. Stephen Van Wvck Believes His Ene mies Are Trying to Kill Him. Fishkill Landing, N. March 10, Van Wyck, a lawyer and Democratic leader, believes that for the last four months enemies have been attempting to peison him and his wife.

Ha is a first cousin of Mayor Vait Wyck, of New York. Mr. Van Wyck is about. 50 years old. Four months ago he said be and bis wife became sick and inquiry disclosed the fact that mercury bad been placed In their milk it stood ou the door step.

The couple noticed the trace of poison several times and moved to Newburg. After being there several weeks, he says, they again discovered poison their milk and food. The couple moved back to Fishkill Landing and enjoyed peace for some time. This week, however, they allege, the attempts to kill them have been repeated, and both were made ill from the effects of mercury placed iu their milk aud bread. Mr.

Van Wyck has issued a card offering $25 for the arrest and conviction of the person or persons guilty ef placing poison in their food. Mr. Van Wyck said his wife is the daughter of John Graves, of New Haveu, Conn. Mr, Graves amassed a fortune, being tbe first, to introduce gas in that city. Mrs.

Van Wyck is heir to considerable property in New Haven. Mr. Van Wyck uow uses condensed milk and buys bis groceries, la New York. PARKER DISAPPEARS. Post Office Authorities Say His Lucky Box Scheme Is a Fraud.

Boston, March 10. Henry Parker, of this city, who is wauted by tbe Uulted States authorities on a charge of using the mails lu a seheme to defraud in selling mysterious boxes, said to have wonderful good luck qualities, has aot been found. An official who was en duty at Parker's place of business was kept busy answering calls from customers who desired to purchase boxes, aud Postmaster Hibbard said that 20,000 letters addressed to Parker had accumulated at the postofilce during the past two days. As the pi ice of the boxes Is $1 each, it appears that considerable money is involved in tbe case. The warrant for Parker's arrest was Issued Thursday, and efforts were made te locate the mau.

AvUAttobis office gave the authorities iuformation that be might drop in at any momeut, but be did nrt appear. Failing to reach him, steps were taken to put a stop to the business, and an attachment was placed on the gooas and a keeper was placed in charge. This official found all sorts of people interested in the "Lucky box" question, and he could have done a thriving business bad he had the right to do so. Efforts are being made to trace Parker, who, the officials beiievo, has left the city. It is believed that he took warn-iug some days ago, when he learned that the postal authorities, prompted by the large quantities of mail addressed to Parker, were investigating his busi- 1 ness.

i Boer Position At tlelpmaker. BRITISH MAY CROSS ZUZULAND Into The Transvaal To Outflank The Boers at Biggarsbcrg. Geo. Joubert Seems to Have Left Active Service and Is ii Charge of War Office -at Pretoria. London, March 10.

The only important change In the general situation in South Africa is that Bailer is again on the move, Twelve thousand British are threatening the Boer positions from Helpmaker. British scouts encountered Boers at Waschbank Thursday It is quite possible an attempt will be made to traverse the neck of Zululand Into the thus effecting the double purpose of outflanking the Boers at Biggarsberg, where they are reported to be in large numbers, and threatening Vryheld and Utrecht. Jonbert appears to have left active service and taken charge of the war office at Pretoria. Pbktoru, Friday, March 9. The President has returned from Bloemfen- teln and General Joubert Is expected here shortly.

Fighting commenced In the direction ef Helpmaker this morning- London, March 10. The Daily Mail publishes the following dispatch from Pretoria, dated Thursday, March 8, via Lorenzo Morquez, which had been censored by the Boer government. "Conversations I have hsd with the highest state officials show that the Boers want some arrangement. They say that if England is waging war of conquest they will fight to a finish. Otherwise they believe that a plain statement ef the British iutentions will reveal a basis of negotiations, now that England's prestige is repaired.

'President Kruger and President Steyn conferred Monday atxBloemfon-teln on tbe incorporation of tbe above representations in a cablegram to Lord Salisbury. The preservation of the Independence of the two republics Is a sine qua non." The Berlin correspondent of the Daily Mail says: "I learn that there Is dissension between President Kruger and General Joubert and that the latter has resigned. Probably President Kruger will assume the chief command. General Schalk berger and other prominent commandants are also likely to resign for similar reasons, aud because President Kruger Ignored their advice to make peaoe overtures after the first Boer victory. Tht Standard, which is in closer touch with the policy of the than any other ministerial organ, says this morning; "We have reason to believe that an authoritative statement will be shortly made by tbe government recommending the impossibility of conceding any terms BIG DEAL COMPLETED.

American Ice Company Buys Big Properties on the Penobscot Bangor, March 10. A big deal whereby four of the largest and best tee plants on the Penebscot have been acquired by the American Ice company, of New York, has been completed. The transaction Included the property of I. K. Stetson, tbe Orrlugton Ice company, D.

Sargent's Sons and the Arctic Ice company. The aggregate purchase price Is 811 1,000. AEV3ER.CAH SILVER TRUSS. 0 LIGHT, COOL. Em? to War.

9 pre, are oa Severest Hernia tor Back. No underarm pt. with Comfort. Never move. AMUrCTUKD At 02 Hals BUFPALO, N.

V. I HAVE the exclusive sale of the above Truss for this city. No ohaige for fitting. I guarantee them to give satisfaction or no sale. Lester H.

Greene, Druggist 25 Stat St- CRAMP'S BIG PLANT. Philadelphia Shipbuilders are Making Arrangements to Move to Canada. colling wood, March 10. The town has closed arrangements with the Cramps, the shipbuilders of Philadelphia, by which they sgree to establish here blast furnaces for the preduotion of Iron and ateel. The capacity of the plant will be 200 tons a day.

It is to cost not less than $1,500,000, and employ not less than 600 men continuously for 30 years. INDIAN CANNIBALS. In Dance They Did Not Stop to Kill Their Victims. Vancouver, B. C.

March 10. Three chiefs of the Alberta Bay tribe of Indians will be tried for their lives for eating human flesh. The crime was committed at a pottash a mouth ago wbeu the aucient death dance was lu progress. Two young bucks aud a young maiden stood near the fire naked. Ten Iodlaus danced around tbtm, biting pieces out of their arms aud legs and eating the' 1 bleediug morsels.

NO JURISDICTION. Locisvillx, March 10 Fields today handed down a decision that the circuit court has no jurisdiction to the cases brought to determine the governorship controversy. He holds that the constitution vests iu tbe legislature tbe power to decide contests for nice. ELOfinfirtfi led to the cestly and sanguinary con fltct." All the special despatches from Pop lar.Groye confirm the reports of the panic of the Boers. The Morning Post't correspondent says President Kruger shed tears at his Ineffectual attempts to rplly the Boers, who were completely paralyzed by Lord Roberts' masterly tactics.

They were too demoralized to heed him expostulate and declared that the, British canuou were everywhere." The correspondent of the Daily Xeie says "The Boers were seized with a panic, thus spoiling the whole plau, which had been beautifully calculated to destroy them utterly. "As the Sixth division emerged from a hidden position and appeared on the crest, with the mounted infantry in skirmishing order, the Boers thought the whole earth covered with soldiers, in their front and rear and on their flauks. Tbey did not wait to verify their supposition, but fled, seized apparently with a dread that they might share the fate of Cronje." London, March 9. The Ameer of Afghanistan has authorized his scents in London to publish the following statement of the piltcy of Afghanistan towards Great Britain aud Russia. After savlug that he had devoted much anxious thought to the possibility of Russia taking advautage of the Transvaal war to advance through Afghanistan ou India, his highness adds: "I have come to the conclusion that Russia feared Afghanistan, as a war with the Afghftnistaus would mean a general rising of all Islaam, which would spread through Russian-Asia.

Russia baa not troops enough to combat such a rising. Her hold on tbe Mussulman countries sha has conquered is iusecure. They hate her, and with 10 times her power, Russia could not fight Afghanis tan and India successfully. 'The Afghans prefer deafB to slavery, and their women and children are being taken bv the Russians." After saying he is willing to send numerous troops to Great Britain iu the Transvaal, but adding that the Afghans are unaccustomed to the sea, he adds: "But England's troubles are always my troubles, her strength is my strength, and her weakness is my weakness. England must remember that I am always ready to fight for her, on land, here or in India." The Ameer next refers to a letter from the Indian government reminding him that he had been faithful for twenty years, and advising retrenchment in purchases of arms, as otherwise parliament might become suspicious and take strong exception to such suspicious, saying It was necessary to keep the country strong enough to resist a Russian advance, v.

The Ameer concluded with likening the British Parliament to Cabul Turkish baths, which reverberated with a babel of calls for towels, soap, and loud-voiced conversation, until the meaning of individual words, and even the words themselves, became lost in tbe confusion of sounds, and only inorea sed the gen oral uproar. EMBEZZLER SURRENDERS. Jersey Cur, N. March 10. A well dressed youogjman surrendered himself at the poliee.station this morning and announced that he was Robert J.

Graham, 37 years old, of Toronto, Oat. He said he was an embezzler of $2,000 from Li. Codu Jfc grain dealers, of Toronto, and wauted to give himself up. He spent the money on tbe T.udcrloin ta six wesUi. BLOW AT TRUSTS.

Columbus, March 10. The American Clay Maaufactunng company, better known as the Sewer Pipe Trust, has been refused a eertiflcate of incorporation by Secretary of State inney, because its articles," in his opinion, are In violation of the Ohio autl-trust law. Hi tnmt iiniim Tii'ii iimriMiin this huge flhtlng machine is to to France but powerful fleet that is to represent the Ship Owners Bring Suit Against Louisi ana Health Board. New Orleans, March 10. The Char-geurs Beuula Steamship company, of Pans, owner of tbe steamship Caroline, has filed a suit in the United States cir cuit court agsinst the Louisiana fctate board of health for a restraining order to prohibit any interference with the laud Ing and loading" of the Carqline, recently arrived from Rio Janeiro, where tbe bubonic plague is said to prevail.

Because the officers of the' board ef health shot at aud missed a rat, which they said should be killed before the ves- rel was allowed to land, the Carolina was stopped in midstream and her olH cers threatened with arrest aad being sent back to quarsntina in tow of a tug if they insisted eu lauding. GIVER UP FOR LOST. Flanet Mercury is Believed to Have Been Wrecked. Halifax, N. March 10.

It seems certain now that the steamer. Planet Mercury, chartered by tbe Elder-Dempster line, has gone tbe bottom with all her crew. Lloyd's agent at Yarmouth has found a nameplate of a lifebout with planet Mercury carved on It, and the Elder-Dempster people have identified tbe marks en the dead cattle as correspond' Ing to those loaded on their si earner at Portland. KENTUCKY MUDDLE. Frankfort, March 10.

It is re ported that Governor Taylor has order ed all State guards who recognize him as governor to cenie te the State capital immediately. Secretary of State Powers and Capt. Davis, two alleged suspects for whom warrants issued last night, have not yet been arrested. There are said to be In tbe executive building, soldiers guarding the building refused to allow the police to euter and search for tbeui. SHOTS EXCHANGED, Boer Headquarters, Biggarsbcrg, Friday, March 0.

Shots were exchanged this morning near Ltclptnakaar, with a small body of British, who retired hastily. Scouts report the British main advance coming from Ladysaiith towards Sunday's river. COPS TO CARRY CAMERAS. Chicago, March 18. Police officers in the Englewood district will be armed with cameras and thus prepared to take soap shots at pedlers and tramps.

When a vagrant or pedler is arrested the story of bis life will be attached to his picture and filed for reference. CUTTERS REFUSE. Cokcosu, N. March 10. Th granite cutters this moruiag voted to refuse tbe offer of the manufacturers of the minimum rate of 34 cents an hour and eight hours a day.

NEW BISHOP OF LIVERPOOL. London, March 10. Rev. F.J. Cha- vasse, principal of Wyclsffe hall, Oxford university, has been appointed Bishop of Liverpool.

LEGISLATOR DEAD. Msdfosd, March 10. Rep resentative Nicholas B. Keyon died to day of erysipelas, aged 62 years. His wife is dangerously ill with the same disease.

EARL GREENE COMING HOME. Telegraphs His Arrival at San Francisco on the Transport Grant. Lester H. Greene received a telegram this morning from Earl JT. Greene, his brother, from San Francisco, stating that he had arrived there on the transport Grant and that he was well.

No other Information was conveyed in the telegram. Mr. Green, has been hospital steward In the Third Infantry since the close of thy war, when he re-enlisted and went to the Philippines. He made application for release some time ago, and it is believed that this application may have been acted on favorably. He has seen hard service in the country's new possessions, and his letters from the seat of war, which have been published in the Evening Akous, have been read with a great deal of interest.

Mr. Greene has not heard trom his brother for three months, until the receipt of the telegram, and was beginning to feel anxious. It Is expected that he will be here in about a week. Lester Greene has since received a telegram from Earl, saying that he was not coming home but was going directly back to Manila. He came to San Francisco with a number of soldiers who were ill and under his care.

Mlddlbbubt Mcttiiunss. Guard Duncan has returned from the Mary Fl.tcher hospital, Burlington, where he endured a successful operation for appendicitis. The funeral of the late Mrs. W. B.

Cooper-Guile was held on Friday morning. 1 Isaac B. Hubbard died on Thursday morning at tbe home of Mrs. Charles A. Piper, his daughter, aged 80 years.

Tne funeral oconrred on Saturday, the remains being taken to Rochester for HAS PASSED AWAY Hon. E. J. Phelps Yesterday at New Haven, Conn. He Had Suffered a Lotig time With Pneumonia and Had Been Unconscious For Several Hours.

New nAVEN, March 10. Hon, Edward J. Phelps, who has been grow ing weaker and slowly failing for sev eral days, died at 4.35 Friday a'terooou at his home In this city. Charles P. Phelps, his son, of ByCton, Mrs.

Horatio Loom is, his daughter, of New York, and the physician were with hiiu at the last. Ills death was due directly to an ab scess of the lung although he had been ill j.r seven weeks previous with pueu- mooia. Twelve hours previous to tbe tima he expired he lost couwioutoeis which he did not regain. The funeral services will be held In tll chapel on Sunday, at which ex- President Dwighr, of Yale, and Rev. Dr.

T. T. Munger, a member of the Yale eor- por-'ttiou, will officiate. The body will be taken to Burllngtoc, tbe home of Prof. Phelps, Sunday evening for interment, which will be niMle Mondav.

Since a week after tbe time Professor Phelps was first confined to his bed nearly wo months sgo he has hovered be tween life and death. Despite his ad vanced sgebis strong constitution prolonged his life much longer than his physicians at first believed possible. At tln.es wlieu tbe doctors thought that the paticut was gradually failiog Professor Phelps would rally and gain for a few only to fail again. Not uutil the FBrt othst week however, was it discovered that he was afflicted with an abseess of the luug. Edward John Phelps was born in Mid- dlebury, July 11, 1822.

He came of ancestors famous for their legal learning and promiucbce in American political life. He was graduated from Middlebury college In 1S40, and at once took up the st-idy of law with Horatio Seymour. He was admitted to the bar of Vermont in 1S43, and at once took a prominent position as a lawyer. Under the administration of President Fillmore he wa's second comptroller of the treasury, serving to the close of that administration. He was later delegate to the Vermont constitutional convention, and in 1S30 was elected president of the American Bar association.

He wrote extensively on constitution al and international law, aud in 18S1 was elected Kent professor of law at Yale, which professorship he held at tht time of his death. In April, 1SS5, President Cleveland ap pointed him minister plenipotentiary to Great Britain. He was appoiuted one of the international commissioners on the Bering sea controversy, and was also one of the Venezuelan arbitration commissioners. He was honored with the degree of doctor of laws by Middlebury college in 1870, by the University of Veimoutia 1887 and by Harvard in 1S37. Yale couferrei on him the degree cf master of arts in 1881.

In 1387 the Edward J. Phelps professorship of law in Yale law school was endowed in his honor by Junius S. Morgan. SEEKING SPANISH SHIP. Commander of tbe Minerva Believes She Has -Norfolk, March 10.

The Uulted States revenue cutter Onondaga bus sailed to seek the Spanish steamship Minerva, which was last sighted about two weeks ago by the British steamship Parana, The Minerva with about 40 men aboard was then adrift at sea without coal. A storm arose and compelled the Onondaga te put In hero for harbor. Her commander, Capt. Hamlet, believes the Miuerva foundered. The search will be prosecuted, however, since some seafarers believe the Spaniard ttaj have withstood the storm and drifted far north out of the track of vessels, s-; There are no traces yet of the wreck, and It Is supposed that the ill-fated craft sank immediately.

MOORE SET FREE. Santiago uc Chili, Msrch 10. Via Galveston. Thfl supreme court has revoked the sentence of Frederick T. Moore, ex-assistant teller of the National Bnnk of Commerce, of Boston, aud he has been set free.

MORE PLAGUE CASES. Honolulu, March 10. Four new Cases of bubonio plague have developed since March 2, TROOPS COMING HOME. Gen. Otis to Send Three Battalions From the Philippines.

Washington, March 10. Adjutant-General Corblu makes public a despatch to Gen. Otis regarding the Invaliding home of three battalions of troops uow serving la the Philippines. Tbe cablegram was sent to Gen. Otis in cipher, March 1, by direction of Secretary Boot, and while the latter designated tbe regiments from which the withdrawal is te be made, the selection of tht battalions is lef to Gen.

Otis. The withdrawal has 10 particular significance, being made solely for the purpose of bringing back to tbe United States as many Invalided soldiers and officers as can be spared. Gen. Otis was asked to advise the war if he considered it necessary to have other troops replace those returning, The regiments designated are the Fourteenth, Eighteenth and Twenty-third Infantry. Adjutant-General Corbin says that the withdrawal proposed did not mean general movement for the reduction of the American forces In the Philippines.

"The regiments named," he said, "have been in the Philippines about two years. There are three battalions there of each of those regiments. The plan propesed is to reorganize those battalions. Two battalions in each regimeet will be formed of healthy men having mere than six months to serve. They will remain In the Philippines.

The remaining battalions will be formed of the Invalided men and officers aid the men having less than six months to serve, and these three battalions will be returned to the United States. This will really increase the efflcienoy ef Gen. Otis' force by withdrawing from the hospitals and the field a large number of sick soldiers who only hamper the movements of the rest of the command. BOER SYMPATHIZERS. Gretna Mennonites Threatened to Burn Queen Victoria In Effigy.

Winnipeg, March Grelna Mennonites, strong Boer sympathizers, attempted to burn Queen Victoria in effigy last night. A dozen Englishmen with rifles arrived on the scene and threatened to fire on the disloyal crowd if the effigy was lighted. The Mennonites ultimately dispersed. Altona MennOnites threaten to 'drive English-speaking people from the town. HOME FOR LEPERS.

New York, March 10. For the suppression and prevention of leprosy In tbe United States a bill has been drafted by Father L. W. Mulhane, of Ohio, and Dr. A.

Albert Ashrnead, of New Yorav The bill proposes tbe establishment of a national leper borne in Yellowstone Park and the appointment of a national commissioner of leprosy, A copy of the bill has been forwarded to the health boards of various cities for approval before submitting it to Congress. BANE STATEMENT. '-Niw York, March 10. The New York bank statement was a fine one today but It had little effect on the market. The reserve decline was (7,965,175 loans increase, specie decline, (5,448,300 deposits decline, 191,800 circulation increase, $357,000.

TVluch Depends Upon the doctor and a great deal on the drug and druggist I insist on having my supplies of the highest frade, I have a full supply of Sun-rie8 and Toilet Articles. TRUSSES Of various makes, perfectly fitted and warranted to give satisfaction. C. BLAKELY, Pharmacist, No 3 State St. Remember my new Location.

IF YOU Are going to paper It will par you to look at my new sample books from some of the leading Wall Paper Houses in the United States. I also carry in stock a fine line of low priced papers from 5 to 8 cents Serroll. Samples sent to your residence desired. N. J.

ALEXANDER, till Berlin St. 107-18 Paper Hanger. TWENTY-FIVE FINE ACCLIMATED HORSES for sale, weighing from 1 ,000 to 1, 600 lbs. Some good matched pairs in the lot. Both WORKERS AND DRIVERS.

C. V. KENT, ioitf Northfield, Vt. GOOD AS NEW And as fresh as ever. We have now in stock a full line of FRESH GOODS.

Your orders for them we solicit. Fancy Groceries a Specially. We always have the best Dairy Butter, Prints, 5-lb. boxes and tubs. Prices right.

Remember 1-8 barrel Spotless Flour given with every $35 purchase. BROOKS BERRY, Leading Cash Grocers. a tT. to USES Fl 4i Where Democrats Will Meet. Big Battleship Kearsage to Visit France, fiifiriirl 2: The Convention Hall in Kansas City, where the Democratio National Convention will gather on July 4 to make nominations for president and vice president.

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C. GLEASON. The Navy Department has decided that during the Exposition as one of a small FOR SALE BY OPERA HOUSE BLOCK. United States at the world's naval rendezvous at Havre. The picture we present is from a snsp shot at the big battleship, which has just gone into commission..